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Pbpa Creating Pathways To Ensure Patients Are Using Their Inhaled Medications Effectively, Suzan Michelle Collins, Heather Blake, Chandler Blodgett, Sue Vermette, Martine Eon
Pbpa Creating Pathways To Ensure Patients Are Using Their Inhaled Medications Effectively, Suzan Michelle Collins, Heather Blake, Chandler Blodgett, Sue Vermette, Martine Eon
Operations Transformation
Problem: Patients do not consistently know how to prepare, use and/or clean their inhalers effectively.
Impact: When patients do not consistently know how to prepare, use and/or clean their inhalers effectively they are in fact, not receiving the benefit from their prescribed medication.
They experience poor patient outcomes and overall poor patient experience.
- Increased calls to provider offices for unresolved, worsening symptoms and/or complications. (Thrush, hoarseness, cardiac symptoms etc.)
- Increased same day office visits.
- Patient crowding in Urgent Care and/or Emergency Department.
- Hospital Admissions.
- Increase in emotional and financial stress from missing school and/or work.
- Increase in referrals to specialists …
Strategies To Improve Interdisciplinary Communication In An Acute Care Inpatient Pediatric Unit, Sarah Thompson, Haley Pelletier, Barbara Bush Children's Hospital-Inpatient, Maine Medical Center, Suneela Nayak, Ruth Hanselman, Stephen Tyzik
Strategies To Improve Interdisciplinary Communication In An Acute Care Inpatient Pediatric Unit, Sarah Thompson, Haley Pelletier, Barbara Bush Children's Hospital-Inpatient, Maine Medical Center, Suneela Nayak, Ruth Hanselman, Stephen Tyzik
MaineHealth Maine Medical Center
Interdisciplinary patient rounding has been shown to improve patient and family satisfaction as well as reduce patient length of stay and readmission rates. In an acute care inpatient pediatric unit, baseline metrics demonstrated that 100% of the time, nursing was not included in these rounds thus resulting in sub optimal communication.
The goal of this performance improvement project was to attain increased nursing participation. Data collection demonstrated several reasons for lack of participation and corrective actions were instituted. After undertaking this KPI goal and utilizing operational excellence, 95% of the time, nurses were called to morning rounds with the medical …