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Quality Of Care Improvement: A Process To Standardize Handoff Communication Between Anesthesia Providers And Post-Anesthesia Care Unit Nurses, Maria Chernyak, Courtney Posten
Quality Of Care Improvement: A Process To Standardize Handoff Communication Between Anesthesia Providers And Post-Anesthesia Care Unit Nurses, Maria Chernyak, Courtney Posten
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Introduction: Transition of care is the process in which sending provider teams and receiving provider teams release the care of the patient from one provider team to the next utilizing a communication process. Review of the literature has identified several different protocols in place to systematize communication among providers, however, there is no standardized instrument or process that encompasses the post-anesthesia transfer of care process. Our project goal is to develop a standardized evidence-based handoff communication instrument to be utilized during the transition of care process between anesthesia care teams to the post-anesthesia care (PACU) teams to improve quality of …
Launching A Checklist Aimed At Sustainability To Reduce Blood Specimen Labeling Errors, Gina Marone Dr
Launching A Checklist Aimed At Sustainability To Reduce Blood Specimen Labeling Errors, Gina Marone Dr
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Critical actions carried out by health care providers to prevent health care errors include accurate patient identification and blood specimen labeling. With a goal of zero harm, improperly identified blood specimens drawn by nurses employed in the acute care setting and Emergency Department at Albert Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia were tabulated and revealed labeling errors. The Nursing Department launched a rapid improvement nurse education plan that resulted in decreased specimen errors compared to baseline counts and suggested the need to sustain error reduction strategies. This initiative was followed by the creation of a policy- and evidence-based checklist and its associated …