Quality Improvement: Implementing Nurse Standard Work in Emergency Department Fast-Track Area to Reduce Patient Length of Stay

The average length of stay of a fast-track area of a large urban hospital was excessively long, which affected the patient experience and the rate at which patients left without being seen. One approach to reducing average length of stay is to create nurse standard work. Nurse standard work was a defined set of process and procedures that reduce variability within a nurse ’s workflow.

Source: Journal of Emergency Nursing: JEN - September 5, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Dorothy Williams, Lawrence D. Fredendall, Gregory Hair, Jim Kilton, Cassie Mueller, Joshua D. Gray, Christian Graver, Jaeyoung Kim Tags: Research Source Type: research