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March 27, 2024 - The medical team was preparing the patient for discharge the following day. … When the nurse raised the bed, unbeknownst to her, the tubing for the SCDs caught on the bed wheel lock … the wheel and brake of the bed. … During the reenactment, the staff realized it was possible for the tubing to catch the brake and unlock … This reactive change may be limited to just one hospital and likely did not result in more systemic changes
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January 31, 2024 - drug tray by a previously assigned anesthesia nurse, who then signed
out to another nurse at shift change … , and the anesthesiologist’s failure to read the label and identify the
medication immediately before … The handoff at a provider change is a safety prompt that encourages
medication reconciliation and individual … At shift change and perhaps without a proper handoff, a different nurse took
the tray with the prepared … sequelae, but the patient was distressed by the
experience and the error was avoidable.
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August 26, 2020 - With the benefit of hindsight, it seems obvious the interests of the patient, the family
and the healthcare … the family. … operation in the
evening distracts attention from the care of other patients in the operating suite … Systems Change Needed/Quality Improvement Approach
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Several system improvements … The different teams of physicians should
have followed through on their preoperative multidisciplinary
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April 07, 2022 - The patient-to-nurse ratio is
2:1.5
According to the EC3 team, one benefit of the initiative is that … assigns a score from 1, indicating the
most urgent, through 5, indicating the least urgent).5
The … evidence base for existing patient care pathways
Discussing how to change the ED-focused culture to … of
critical care, the EC3 director of operations, the emergency medicine director of operations, the … Getting Started with This Innovation
To get started with the innovation, the EC3 leaders suggest the
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March 01, 2019 - emergency room or change the volume or type of patients. … The fact that a given practice—whether it's a change in workflow or a computerized reminder—worked in … Leaders must be provided data along with the skills of interpretation and change management that allow … This onboarding, as well as ongoing educational efforts focused on systems thinking, change management … While reports alone do not drive necessary change ( 13 ), the information serves as the substrate for
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May 31, 2023 - the involvement of the patient in the
assessment and prevention planning process. … Using the program toolkit, nurses work with the patient,
the patient’s family, and the available support … Under the program, nurses complete the assessment with the input of the
patient and the patient’s family … Stakeholders (i.e., patients, families, care provider teams) willing and able to work together
Support … Implementing teams should recruit and train nurse
champions and establish processes for auditing and
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March 02, 2022 - View more articles from the same authors. … Measuring psychological safety and local learning to enable high reliability organisational change … Improving the implementation and adherence of the surgical safety checklist: a quality improvement project … in the operating room. … October 6, 2016
Reliability of a revised NOTECHS scale for use in surgical teams.
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March 15, 2007 - (ERCP) the following morning. … The
physician evaluating the patient in the morning realized that no basal insulin was ordered and instituted … actual glucose level and the magnitude of change during the
observed time intervals. … details of the algorithm. … change.
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November 01, 2005 - Throughout the care in the hospital, the patient's refusal to take lactulose had been entered into the … communication is a critical element of patient safety and should be an ongoing priority for all patient care teams … Patient care teams need to have a thorough and realistic understanding of how their particular EHR system … Patient care teams should be actively engaged in the design (or redesign) of EHR features that present … Infused, Not Ingested
November 1, 2005
Leading successful rapid response teams
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June 01, 2011 - ability to get things done, everything depended on the attitudes and the values of the people at the … through in health care, and we're trying to figure out how to change it. … While the team adjusted the table, it swung loose and the patient fell to the floor but sustained no … The hospital developed a report of the event for the manufacturer. … Departments are separated and teams resist scrutiny.
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January 05, 2021 - internal capacity necessary to continue to drive change. … Hospital and system-level teams should review the data regularly to allow for
modification and refinement … to each hospital’s culture of
safety, organization, and readiness to change. … At the initiation of the HEN 2.0 contract, LifePoint established the NQP as the framework to not only … use of
interdisciplinary care teams, bedside shift reports, prioritizing patient engagement) and providing
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August 01, 2005 - rapid response teams? … Nurses who have actually participated in urgent response teams tell me that the outcomes for the patients … only 16% of hospital CEOs listed patient safety among their top three concerns in 2004—no significant change … response teams and the use of evidence-based strategies to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia. … blueprint to guide culture change in the nurse practice environment.
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July 31, 2023 - Safety, Radiology Quality and Safety, and the Center for Evidence-Based Imaging (CEBI) teams, identified … The focus of working group meetings is subject to change, and it may be
expanded or altered based on … input from data and information technology teams to
identify target patient populations. … For instance, duties conducted by grant staff were transitioned to operational teams. … Identify drivers of change to ensure patient safety and to minimize patient harm.
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October 01, 2009 - The resident came to the floor, told the nurse she was “stupid” and confidently explained that the case … The attending then called the operating room to cancel the case. … Case: Difficult Encounters (5)
The following day, the CMO reviewed the nurse's intervention with the … today than in past
A few senior physicians have lost privileges
Safety innovations (rapid response teams … , time outs, etc.) have helped
Teamwork training has helped change culture
But more change is needed
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August 01, 2012 - , so the two teams opted to keep the gastrostomy tube for gastric venting and to place a nasojejunal … The patient’s spouse then called the surgery clinic to change the follow-up visit; he revealed that his … transhepatic PEG tube, which contributed to the change in the original management plan. … A third systems solution might be to minimize the number of teams that offer percutaneous enteral tube … risk of adverse events, care teams should implement tactics to minimize the risk of adverse events.
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May 01, 2015 - Trauma teams have benefited from review of previous cases by
identifying defects in teamwork (7), just … like professional sport teams that routinely use video to review their
past performance. … illustrating technical procedures,
video is used for dissemination of best practices, such as bedside shift change … Structured, routine post-action reviews, either by individuals or by teams, are also becoming more
prevalent … appd001
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become available, individuals and teams
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April 01, 2006 - Teach students that the improved communication and teamwork skills that will support cultural change … RW: A lot of discussion in the patient safety world is about how to change the culture of physicians … I have personally seen a change, just in working with the committees that I'm on. … The technology will change the role of the pharmacist, to a greater focus on drug information provision … I was in New Zealand to give a talk, and because of the time change I couldn't sleep.
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February 01, 2006 - Transitions in Care
Shift change over
Two or more workers exchange mission-specific information, responsibility … Practices of high reliability teams: observations in trauma resuscitation. … stage
Clinicians content with diagnosis of urinary tract infection for explanation of mental status change … change was due to urinary tract infection. … for this patient
Post-turnover
Clinicians did not reconsider diagnosis of UTI with mental status change
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December 01, 2013 - reduced hospital admissions is the use of teams of nurse practitioners (NPs) (or physician assistants … [PAs])
and physicians in managing SNF patients.(13) Such teams often have more time dedicated to the … These fundamental
staffing principles are necessary but not sufficient to change behavior and improve … Teams of physicians and nurse practitioners (or physician assistants) can be highly effective in
managing … Early
learnings have led
to adoption of
cross-continuum
teams in other
states and regions
as well
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March 01, 2017 - RW: How does the digitization of a health care work environment change the kinds of issues that we've … Change the ability to improve care, improve safety, and improve quality? … The effect of that system change is to reimagine even what the work is. … , between teams
and teams. … change.