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Block Charting For Hemodynamic Unstable Patients, Tasha Walker
Block Charting For Hemodynamic Unstable Patients, Tasha Walker
Student Scholarly Projects
Practice Problem: The intensive care unit poses many challenges for nurses. Nurses are placed in a position to decide on dosing and administration, which could conflict with their scope of practice, and documentation needs to coincide with orders. The accuracy of nursing documentation plays a vital role in measuring the outcomes, and failure to document accurately could result in noncompliance with scope of practice or a medication error.
PICOT: For intensive care nurses (P), how does block charting of vasoactive medications (I) compared to current documentation practices (C) affect the accuracy of nurses' documentation (O) within 4 weeks?
Evidence: Nursing …
Interfacility Transfer Of Pediatric Patients To A Comprehensive Children's Hospital, Kim Zaky
Interfacility Transfer Of Pediatric Patients To A Comprehensive Children's Hospital, Kim Zaky
Student Scholarly Projects
Practice Problem: Secondary transfers to pediatric centers have increased by 25% due to the regionalization of specialty care. Low pediatric volume and the lack of access to pediatric subspecialty confounds the need for transfer requests to comprehensive children’s hospitals. Referring hospitals rely on pediatric teams to determine the level of service and mode of transportation decisions due to a lack of comfort in caring for and managing pediatric patients.
PICOT: This project was guided by the following question. In pediatric patients transferring from other healthcare facilities to a comprehensive children’s hospital (P), does the implementation of a nurse-led pediatric illness …
Formal Unit-Based Shared Governance To Improve Nurse Engagement, Tracey A Larsen
Formal Unit-Based Shared Governance To Improve Nurse Engagement, Tracey A Larsen
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Practice Problem: Nurse engagement is a key driver of nurse satisfaction and nursing retention. Shared governance is an evidence-based practice proven to increase nurse engagement through shared decision-making and results in higher work satisfaction.
PICOT: The PICOT question that guided this project was (P) in an ambulatory nursing clinic (I) what is the effect of a shared governance unit-based committee (C) compared to current practice (O) on nurse engagement (T) over 10 weeks?
Evidence: An exhaustive literature search resulted in 61 peer-reviewed articles. Eleven studies were included after filtering for duplicates and keywords and evaluating for strength and quality …