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1181. Burnout Among Health Professionals and Its Effect on Patient Safety | PSNet
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      December 22, 2018 - and physicians on 54 ICU teams from 48 different hospitals, evaluated the effect of individual and unit-level … Importantly, the study controlled for unit workload and workload predictability. … When measured at the unit level, emotional exhaustion (a component of the overall burnout score) was

1182. Insulin Administration: Pen vs Vial – Similar, but Not Interchangeable | PSNet
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      December 20, 2023 - A microsystem refers to a small, functional unit within a healthcare organization in which patient care … is delivered. 11 This unit can be a specific department, a clinical team, or even a single healthcare … chain problem by sending discharge prescriptions to an outside pharmacy for delivery to the inpatient unit

1183. Childrens' Hospitals' Solutions for Patient Safety. | PSNet
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      January 09, 2024 - Reducing three infections across cardiac surgery programs: a multisite cross-unit

1184. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      June 23, 2021 - observational-study-postoperative-handoff-standardization-failures Standardized handoff protocols from the operating room to the intensive care unit

1185. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      January 01, 2023 - leadership-style-and-patient-safety-implications-nurse-managers https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/do-leadership-style-unit-climate-and-safety-climate-contribute-safe-medication-practices

1186. Teamwork Training | PSNet
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      September 15, 2024 - training may depend on baseline perceptions of safety culture and readiness for change within a given unit … Successful organizational approaches to improving safety, such as the  Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety

1187. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      July 05, 2023 - Omissions, mortality, and length of intensive care unit (ICU) stay were reported in a 2019 study.

1188. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
      psnet.ahrq.gov/node/867702/psn-pdf
      September 01, 2021 - Based on principles and methods from the Comprehensive Unit- based Safety Program (CUSP), the toolkit

1189. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
      psnet.ahrq.gov/node/849134/psn-pdf
      May 17, 2023 - infections-patients-inevitable-conditions-or-medical-malpractice https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/missed-nursing-care-critical-care-unit-and-during-covid

1190. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      May 18, 2022 - reports findings from a 14-site multidisciplinary collaborative evaluating pediatric intensive care unit

1191. Misconnection Leading to Arterial Thrombosis | PSNet
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      January 29, 2021 - Intensive care unit staff frequently must provide care for several patients at the same time, which leads … may occur in a patient with low blood pressure in the emergency department or in the critical care unit … Infusion systems in the intensive care unit are often complex and an explanation of how the lines are … Inexperienced staff need adequate supervision especially in high-stake environments such as the critical care unit … Intentional intra-arterial injection of midazolam in a patient with status epilepticus in the Intensive Care Unit

1192. In Conversation With… Nicholas G. Castle, MHA, PhD | PSNet
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      August 01, 2012 - did find the lowest scores in areas of the survey that reflect staffing issues and transition between unit … What we'd really like to do is look at the patient safety culture of a particular unit and the outcomes … RW : Brian Sexton's work shows that the differences in culture from unit to unit in hospitals are greater … Is your sense that there are a lot of differences unit to unit in nursing homes as well? … There may be directors of each unit, but compared with the hospital setting, there is not a hierarchy

1193. The Role of Bar Coding and Smart Pumps in Safety | PSNet
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      September 01, 2008 - Drug libraries may be unit specific, with unique rules for individual clinical areas such as pediatrics … 11 ) An obstacle to universal dissemination of BCMA is the lag in availability of bar-coded single-unit … which requires some institutions to repackage and bar code those drugs not yet available in the single-unit … With this technology, the nurse will not have to hunt around the unit looking for the paper medication … So when we rolled out barcode technology, we decided to not roll it out on the oncology unit, in order

1194. Check the Wristband | PSNet
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      August 03, 2009 - was reported to AHRQ WebM&M by this circulating nurse, who noted, “I went to the surgical day care unit … I had to take the patient off the OR table and return her to the surgical day care unit.” … Here, it would have been useful for the RN, the nurse anesthetist, and the unit clerk to meet and work … out a unit reminder system.

1195. PCA Overdose | PSNet
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      April 01, 2017 - She remained alert and oriented and, while in the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU), she began receiving … nursing staff called a “code” and the patient was resuscitated and transferred to the intensive care unit … Thrombosis June 28, 2023 Interdisciplinary communication in the intensive care unit

1196. Medication Safety in Nursing Homes: What's Wrong and How to Fix It | PSNet
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      August 01, 2012 - did find the lowest scores in areas of the survey that reflect staffing issues and transition between unit … What we'd really like to do is look at the patient safety culture of a particular unit and the outcomes … RW : Brian Sexton's work shows that the differences in culture from unit to unit in hospitals are greater … Is your sense that there are a lot of differences unit to unit in nursing homes as well? … There may be directors of each unit, but compared with the hospital setting, there is not a hierarchy

1197. Delay in Initiating Antibiotics Results in Fatal Error | PSNet
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      August 02, 2015 - meningococcemia, the attending started antibiotic therapy and transferred the patient to the intensive care unit … resulted in the ordering of empiric broad-spectrum antibiotics and admission to an intermediate care unit … It applies anytime an attending is not physically present in a patient care unit to personally evaluate … November 14, 2018 A randomized trial of nighttime physician staffing in an intensive care unit

1198. Back to Basics | PSNet
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      July 13, 2010 - infusions can be used safely throughout the hospital (i.e., they do not require admission to a step-down unit … or intensive care unit) when the system of care allows for adequate training and supervision of those … Implementation of a safe and effective insulin infusion protocol in a medical intensive care unit.

1199. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
      psnet.ahrq.gov/node/47282/psn-pdf
      August 08, 2018 - educational initiatives, and a whiteboard system to enhance the reliability of insulin therapy in the unit

1200. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
      psnet.ahrq.gov/node/46135/psn-pdf
      July 11, 2017 - The participating ICUs introduced a multifaceted intervention structured around the Comprehensive Unit-based