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Optimizing Sepsis Management Through Enhanced Protocol Compliance In The Emergency Department, Camila Sanchez

Master's Projects and Capstones

Problem: The purpose of this quality improvement (QI) project revolves around increasing overall staff nurse compliance, enhancing their sepsis education resources, and usage of their provided education and bundle. This goal was created to produce more positive patient outcomes at Hospital X, along with its improved management of sepsis. Hospital X is an acute care facility located in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Context: The unit that was studied during this QI project was the emergency department of Hospital X. This unit provides level I trauma services in addition to other types of emergency care and contains 44 beds. Not …

Optimizing Sepsis Management Through Enhanced Protocol Compliance In The Emergency Department, Oscar J. Castillo

Master's Projects and Capstones

Problem: The Quality Improvement (QI) Project focused on improving early sepsis management and sepsis bundle adherence among Emergency Department (ED) nurses to decrease sepsis mortality rates and avoidable length of hospital stays (LOS).

Context: A group of Clinical Nurse Leaders (CNL) students evaluated sepsis protocol compliance at Hospital A's ED, which provides critical care for patients with various medical conditions. The CNL students concentrated on patients identified with sepsis for the QI Project.

Interventions: Limitations and time did not allow for the implementation of interventions. Recommendations offered to management included increasing sepsis training biannually and intravenous placement skills, offering sepsis …

Improving Early Sepsis Recognition: Resocializing Intensive Care Unit Nurses In A Large Hospital On The Inpatient Sepsis Bundle Checklist, Elizabeth Rose Maykel

Master's Projects and Capstones

Problem: In order to lower sepsis morbidity and mortality rates through early recognition and treatment, this quality improvement project sought to raise sepsis awareness and bundle compliance within the Intensive Care Unit.

Context: Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) students completed a microsystem assessment of the Intensive Care Unit at Hospital X in Northern California. This unit cares for patients with sepsis, organ failure, respiratory failure, different types of shock, acute kidney injury, and traumatic brain injury.

Interventions: The implemented intervention included a refresher huddle on sepsis bundle awareness. Though the intervention was ineffective, the students did offer recommendations …