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At Medical City Dallas Hospital, there is a healthy competition between two hospitalist groups who compare their outcomes with those of the other group and all the physicians in the hospital, says Beverly Cunningham, MS, RN, director of case management.
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Its a frequent tactic of physicians: claiming that quality data are imperfect, invalid, or otherwise misleading.
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Winning physician buy-in, one of the toughest challenges in any process improvement (PI) endeavor, was the key to success in a PI project undertaken by Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, MD.
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This is the first in a two-part series on high-alert medications in the ED. This month, we give specific practice changes to avoid errors.
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Do you want to increase satisfaction scores, improve patient care, and boost staff retention all in one shot? Consider switching to a team model of nursing.
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An elderly woman presents with a chief complaint of constipation, with few symptoms of acute abdomen. Would you suspect appendicitis in this patient?
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Have you ever had to leave a trauma patients side to obtain needed supplies? At University of Utah Hospital Clinics in Salt Lake City, a trauma pack is used to keep the trauma nurse in the trauma bay with the patient.
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If information is power, and data are information, then home health managers may be the most powerful people in the world. Or should we say, home health managers are the most overwhelmed people in the world?
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Do nurses at your agency complain they are overworked and understaffed? If so, you may have a bigger problem than retention on your hands compelling new evidence suggests poor nursing conditions put patients in danger.
