Transitions of Care: Perspectives of Patients Living in Long-Term Care
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Source: Journal of Nursing Care Quality - May 22, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: Departments Source Type: research
Evidence-Based Quality Improvement Training Programs: Building Staff Capability and Organizational Capacity
No abstract available (Source: Journal of Nursing Care Quality)
Source: Journal of Nursing Care Quality - February 19, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: CE Test Source Type: research
Exploring the Professional Responsibility Concern Process: An Alberta Perspective
Conclusion:
Themes from related literature identify patient safety culture, leadership qualities, communication, positive nurse factors, speaking up, and whistle-blowing as important aspects that facilitate, or are related to, the ability for nurses to express professional responsibility concerns. Alberta has a well-developed system of reporting such concerns; however, the lack of research and literature on these topics requires additional focus in nursing internationally. (Source: Journal of Nursing Care Quality)
Source: Journal of Nursing Care Quality - February 19, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Evaluation of Methods to Measure Production Pressure: A Literature Review
Conclusions:
There were several strategies identified to minimize the impact of production pressure on the occurrence of medical errors. These strategies can be categorized as administrator, educational, or workflow related. (Source: Journal of Nursing Care Quality)
Source: Journal of Nursing Care Quality - February 19, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Methods and Processes Used to Collect Pressure Injury Risk and Prevention Measures in the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators® (NDNQI®)
Conclusions:
Findings provide insight on how to improve the reliability of hospital-acquired PI risk and prevention measures that includes clarification of the data collection guidelines. (Source: Journal of Nursing Care Quality)
Source: Journal of Nursing Care Quality - February 19, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Meaning of Courtesy and Respect: Nurse and Patient Experiences
Conclusions:
Informants' stories contributed toward a better understanding of what it means to treat patients with courtesy and respect; and they created context for interpreting HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) numerical results. Further research is warranted. (Source: Journal of Nursing Care Quality)
Source: Journal of Nursing Care Quality - February 19, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Improving the Patient Experience Following Total Knee and Total Hip Arthroplasty: A Practice Development Project
Conclusions:
An interprofessional team of clinicians made sustainable improvements in the experience and outcomes for the surgical patients with THA and TKA. (Source: Journal of Nursing Care Quality)
Source: Journal of Nursing Care Quality - February 19, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Reducing Missed Appointments for Patients With HIV: An Evidence-Based Approach
Background:
High rates of missed appointments for routine HIV care are associated with unsuppressed viremia, increasing morbidity.
Local Problem:
The Clinic no-show rate ranged between 30% and 35%, and only 69% of patients were considered retained in care within a 24-month time frame.
Methods:
The Woodward Risk Prediction Tool was completed on all patients to stratify patient risk for missing the next appointment.
Interventions:
All patients were offered text message along with standard phone message appointment reminders, and patients who missed appointments were called within 24 hours to reschedule. Medium-ris...
Source: Journal of Nursing Care Quality - February 19, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Reengineering Skilled Nursing Facility Discharge: Analysis of Reengineered Discharge Implementation
Conclusion:
This research revealed that discharge processes are similar across settings and that evidence-based programs such as RED can be adapted to the SNF setting. (Source: Journal of Nursing Care Quality)
Source: Journal of Nursing Care Quality - February 19, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Zero Harm During Transition in Care From the Emergency Department to Medical/Surgical Units
Conclusion:
This transitions project met multiple objectives. In addition, throughput efficiencies were realized. (Source: Journal of Nursing Care Quality)
Source: Journal of Nursing Care Quality - February 19, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: Articles Source Type: research
The Advanced Practice Nurse Will See You Now: Impact of a Transitional Care Clinic on Hospital Readmissions in Stroke Survivors
Conclusions:
The results suggest the APRN-led clinic may impact 30-day hospital readmissions in stroke/transient ischemic attack survivors. (Source: Journal of Nursing Care Quality)
Source: Journal of Nursing Care Quality - February 19, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Developing a Process for Criteria-Led Discharge: Selection of Patients for Efficient and Effective Discharge (SPEED)
Conclusions:
This review has provided greater understanding of the complexity of discharge in acute medicine settings. Implementing CLD to optimize timeliness of patient discharge might offer a solution for selected patients. (Source: Journal of Nursing Care Quality)
Source: Journal of Nursing Care Quality - February 19, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Improving Sepsis Bundle Implementation Times: A Nursing Process Improvement Approach
Background:
Early recognition of sepsis in the emergency room (ER) has been shown to improve treatment intervention times and decrease mortality.
Local Problem:
Failure to recognize early signs and symptoms of sepsis in the ER has led to poor sepsis bundle completion times.
Methods:
A comparison of preintervention and postintervention data was performed to determine whether sepsis bundle implementation times, mortality, and length of stay (LOS) improved.
Interventions:
An ER Nurse Sepsis Identification Tool, leadership buy-in from key stakeholders, and systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) education wer...
Source: Journal of Nursing Care Quality - February 19, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Integrating Safe Patient Handling and Early Mobility: Combining Quality Initiatives
Conclusions:
Successful integration of Early Exercise and Progressive Mobility and SPHM was achieved at the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Health Care System. (Source: Journal of Nursing Care Quality)
Source: Journal of Nursing Care Quality - February 19, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Implementing and Evaluating the Impact of a Nurse-Led Oral Care Initiative
Background:
Nursing interventions in oral hygiene have been shown to be important for health promotion and illness prevention. This medical center advanced a registered nurse (RN)-led oral health initiative to introduce and standardize oral care practices.
Problem:
To examine the impact of the oral health initiative, we conducted an evaluation of documentation trends among RNs and the effect of the initiative on patients' oral health during hospitalization.
Approach:
We used a single-group pretest-posttest design and drew a sample of all inpatients who were admitted to the medical center from October 1 through Dece...
Source: Journal of Nursing Care Quality - February 19, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: Articles Source Type: research
