Weekly Falls Review Team: Nurse-Driven Interprofessional Initiative to Decrease Patient Falls in the Acute Care Setting Patricia G. Shaffer MSN, JD, RN Director, Professional Nursing Practice patti.shaffer@christushealth.org CHRISTUS St. Michael…
Incremental Changes in Culture, Workforce, and Products Reduce Hospital-Acquired Pressure Ulcers in the Intensive Care Setting Barbara Twombly BSN, RN, WOCN1 Amy Stuck MSN, RN2 Kathleen Blechertas PT, WCC3 Kathleen…
Comprehensive Pressure Ulcer Prevention Program Improves Outcomes for At-Risk Patients Michael Kingan MSN, RN, CWOCN1 Kathleen Srsic-Stoehr MSN, MS, RN, NEA-BC2 Anne Marie Foley BSc, RN3 Stefanie Lescallet BSN, RN4…
War on Wounds in the Adult Intensive Care Units Janet Nowland MS, RN, CWOCN1 Jocelyn Wickey BSN, RN2 1Team Leader, Wound Care Team Janet.Nowland@sjmc.org 2Project Specialist St. John Medical Center…
Utilizing a Resource Nurse Model to Improve Nosocomial Pressure Ulcer Rates Gale Danek PhD, RN, NE-BC1 Betty Jax MSN, ARNP, RN-BC2 Peggy Guin PhD, ARNP, CNRN, CNS-BC3 1Administrative Director, Nursing…
Introduction NDNQI® invited 11 hospitals to share their stories of successful nursing quality improvement in this chapter. Hospitals were selected by two methods. First, regression analysis was used to rank…
Using NDNQI Reports for Quality Improvement Effective quality improvement (QI) involves a series of steps or phases. Once a problem is identified, the QI team examines potential causes, then selects…
Evaluating and Improving Nursing Quality Nurses have always been instrumental in improving patient safety and the quality of health care. As the nursing profession was born, Florence Nightingale used data…
Documentation systemsCompleting forms fully and concisely Documentation refers to the preparation and maintenance of records that describe a patient’s care. If you document with attention to detail, you’ll clearly show…
End-of-life careCaring for the dying patient and his family The experience of dying is unique for each patient and family. Nurses must discover what each dying patient and his family…
