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A Performance Improvement Nursing Fellowship To Enhance Timely Access To Care, Cheryl Reinking
A Performance Improvement Nursing Fellowship To Enhance Timely Access To Care, Cheryl Reinking
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Projects
This scholarly report describes a Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) project that advanced the performance improvement (PI) knowledge of frontline nurses to improve timely access to acute care during a 6-month PI/Lean management nursing fellowship. Patient flow issues delay access to care and result in negative patient quality outcomes and safety failures. Patient experience, confidence, and satisfaction in healthcare organizations erode when timeliness and efficiency are deficient. The project site is a 443-bed, two-campus, not for profit community hospital in Northern California. This project included the implementation of a PI/Lean nursing fellowship program as an evidence-based intervention to address patient …