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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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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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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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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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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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Its a frequent tactic of physicians: claiming that quality data are imperfect, invalid, or otherwise misleading.
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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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When Christiana Hospital in Newark, DE, first instituted its hospitalist program in 1994, the hospital experienced a big drop in length of stay, especially with the uninsured patients who had no particular physician watching over them, recalls Thomas Mannis, MD, senior medical advisor for case management and head of the division of hospitalists.
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Editors note: This is the second of a two-part series on improving care of obese patients in the ED. This months story addresses complications of surgical treatment for morbid obesity you may be seeing in your ED. Last month, we covered special considerations for assessment and supplies.
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Here are key recommendations from the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance for preventing and controlling influenza in health care facilities:
