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Standardizing Patient Handoffs In The Icu – Implementing The “I Put Patients First” Tool., Wislande Joseph
Standardizing Patient Handoffs In The Icu – Implementing The “I Put Patients First” Tool., Wislande Joseph
Master's Projects and Capstones
Abstract
Background. Ineffective patient handoff can result in poor nurse communication, increasing the likelihood of adverse events including medication and documentation errors.
Context/Problem. In one 20-bed ICU unit in a northern California community hospital, 48 patient handoffs were observed over 2 weeks. Only 29% occurred at the patient’s bedside; 39.5% used a standardized handoff tool; and 54% included the patient and/or family. These findings indicate significant quality gaps in the unit’s ICU patient handoff processes.
Intervention. The educational intervention consisted of one introductory and two follow-up teaching sessions related to best practices for handoff processes followed by implementation …
Decreasing The Fall Rate On A Medical Surgical Unit With An Enhanced Fall Algorithm In The Electronic Medical Record, Natali Sokolovski
Decreasing The Fall Rate On A Medical Surgical Unit With An Enhanced Fall Algorithm In The Electronic Medical Record, Natali Sokolovski
Master's Projects and Capstones
This paper summarizes the quality improvement falls prevention project on a Medical-Surgical unit with an Enhanced Fall Algorithm incorporated in the Electronic Medical Record conducted by two Clinical Nurse Leader students of the University of San Francisco.
This project addresses the patient falls events in a San Francisco-Bay Area Hospital on a Medical-Surgical unit. The aim is to decrease the rate of falls on a Medical-Surgical microsystem unit by 50% with an Enhanced Fall Algorithm incorporated into the Electronic Medical Record by June 2021. The patient population consists of general medical surgical patients where many of the patients have an …