Development of a Comprehensive Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Program in a Cardiac Transplant Intensive Care Unit: A Quality Improvement Initiative

Conclusions With the significant growth of ECMO patients, policies, protocols, and management guidelines are essential to provide safe care to these patients. There was a statistically significant improvement in the self-efficacy of both the ECMO specialists and bedside nurses. This was shown to directly correlate to an improvement in professional practice behaviors and ultimately improve the quality of patient care provided to ECMO patients.
Source: Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing - Category: Nursing Tags: Clinical DIMENSION Source Type: research