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1241. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)
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      July 08, 2022 - After returning to the medical unit, flumazenil 0.2 mg was given due to somnolence, with subsequent … positive airway pressure (BiPAP) and given a fluid bolus before being transported to the intensive care unit … completed due to persistent agitation, yet by the time the patient was evaluated back on the medical unit

1242. In Conversation with... Susan McGrath, PhD and George Blike, MD about Surveillance Monitoring | PSNet
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      April 26, 2023 - That is very different than in the ICU [intensive care unit] or in the operating room, where it’s one … We had to decide where to put the unit, where the supplies would go, how it would be configured, and … On a typical general care unit, patient vital signs are assessed intermittently every 4–8 hours. … In contrast, patients on a general care unit are considered lower acuity. … It may be helpful to remind clinicians that the status quo in a general unit is intermittent vital signs

1243. Diagnostic Excellence in the ICU: Thinking Critically and Masterfully. | PSNet
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      July 27, 2022 - June 30, 2010 Patient safety and collaboration of the intensive care unit team.

1244. Feeling safe during an inpatient hospitalization: a concept analysis. | PSNet
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      May 20, 2020 - March 27, 2013 A relational leadership perspective on unit-level safety climate.

1245. Coming Up Short: Maintaining Safety in the Face of Drug Shortages | PSNet
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      November 01, 2012 - The Case A 1-month-old preterm infant in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) was receiving the … Practices (ISMP) reported in 2008 that at least 17 heparin errors occurred in the neonatal intensive care unit … Impact of a drug shortage on medication errors and clinical outcomes in the pediatric intensive care unit

1246. Handoff Communication. | PSNet
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      October 16, 2019 - checklists improve the reliability of patient handoffs in the operating room and postanesthesia care unit

1247. Unexplained Apnea Under Anesthesia | PSNet
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      December 01, 2005 - similar results.( 13 ) Administrative medication errors in the operating room and intensive care unit … resolved, anesthesia was discontinued, and the patient was transported safely to the post-operative care unit … other patient information are instantly communicated from hospital information systems to the bedside unit … Medication errors at the administration stage in an intensive care unit.

1248. Mismanagement of Acute Decompensated Heart Failure with Hypertensive Emergency | PSNet
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      May 01, 2018 - Cardiology was consulted and recommended to transfer the patient to the cardiac intensive care unit ( … For a patient with only one “ICU level need” (i.e., a titratable infusion), a stepdown unit may have … Admission to a cardiac stepdown or critical care unit would have allowed more active blood pressure management … Was the overnight nursing supervisor or the charge nurse on the receiving unit empowered to raise questions

1249. Good Night's Sleep Gone Wrong | PSNet
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      September 01, 2015 - She was transferred to the hemodialysis unit where she underwent hemodialysis and was then admitted to … The patient was transferred to the medical intensive care unit for close observation and hemodialysis … August 20, 2018 Effect of work-hours regulations on intensive care unit mortality in

1250. Antimicrobial Stewardship. | PSNet
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      October 24, 2018 - June 16, 2019 Infection Control in the Intensive Care Unit.

1251. Operationalizing Patient Safety at Academic Medical Centers | PSNet
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      August 01, 2010 - Richard Shannon : At Penn, we picked four medicine units: the medical intensive care unit and three … But the 26-bed unit in Pittsburgh where we did this effort has now gone 35 months without a central line … results—every member of this team gets a daily report on whether or not there's an infection on their unit—begins … across what we call the customer–supplier relationship between the cath lab and our inpatient medicine unit … Allergy August 31, 2022 Effect of work-hours regulations on intensive care unit

1252. Two Cases of Retained Vaginal Packing: When Writing an Order is Not Enough | PSNet
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      September 01, 2003 - At the handoff to the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) nurse, the OR nurse stated that there was packing … If care providers wait to tell the patient until after the ward or unit nurse receives another handoff … Thus , the receiving nurse should not delegate the responsibility to the ward or unit nurse (tertiary … Nurses may need additional training to perform digital vaginal exams, particularly if they are on a unit … Partnered pharmacist charting on admission in the general medical and emergency short-stay unit—a

1253. An Inadvertent Bolus of Norepinephrine. | PSNet
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      December 04, 2016 - The next day, the patient's blood pressure stabilized, and she was transferred to a stepdown unit, and … Doroy, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, RN-BC Nurse Manager, Medical Intensive Care Unit UC Davis Health Ai Nhat Vu PharmD … Errors in preparation and administration of intravenous medications in the intensive care unit of a teaching … Medication errors involving continuously infused medications in a surgical intensive care unit. … Unwritten rules for safety and performance in an oncology day care unit: Testing the resilience markers

1254. Another Fall | PSNet
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      June 01, 2010 - The patient showed continued improvement and was transferred from the ICU to the step-down unit. … patient’s repeat fall: the floor nurses were not aware of the patient’s previous fall in the step-down unit … impairment, weight-bearing limitations, allergies, and falls history, etc.) to be transmitted from unit … to unit or provider to provider.

1255. Preventing PICC Complications: Whose Line Is It? | PSNet
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      October 01, 2017 - Quality (AHRQ), infections were reduced by 40% with application of the bundle through a comprehensive unit-based … Triple-lumen peripherally inserted central catheter in patients in the critical care unit: prospective … education program on decreasing catheter-related bloodstream infections in the surgical intensive care unit

1256. Where's the Feeding Tube? | PSNet
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      September 01, 2003 - After many weeks in the intensive care unit (ICU), he was transferred to a rehabilitation unit with improved … prefer to start with small-bowel feedings in patients at high risk for aspiration, especially when unit

1257. “This is the wrong patient's blood!”: Evaluating a Near-Miss Wrong Transfusion Event | PSNet
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      July 01, 2017 - container before the person who obtained the sample leaves the bedside. 5.12 The ABO group of each donor unit … blood cell units. 5.14.5 The recipient’s historical records for ABO group are reviewed before every unit … issued. 5.23 At the time a unit is issued, two people verify the recipient ABO group and the donor ABO … red blood cell transfusion could therefore be estimated at 1-4 per 10,000,000 for each red blood cell unit

1258. Interruptions and multitasking in nursing care. | PSNet
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      September 28, 2010 - September 27, 2017 Improving nursing unit teamwork.

1259. Another tragic parenteral nutrition compounding error. | PSNet
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      June 10, 2018 - April 14, 2010 Patient safety and quality in the pediatric intensive care unit.

1260. Safe intrahospital transport of the non-ICU patient using standardized handoff communication. | PSNet
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      March 18, 2010 - December 31, 2014 Structured interdisciplinary rounds in a medical teaching unit: improving