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121. Association of nurse workload with missed nursing care in the neonatal intensive care unit. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/association-nurse-workload-missed-nursing-care-neonatal-intensive-care-unit
     September 27, 2017 - Association of nurse workload with missed nursing care in the neonatal intensive care unit … Association of Nurse Workload With Missed Nursing Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. … This study examined whether nurse workload in the neonatal intensive care unit affected the quality of … Association of Nurse Workload With Missed Nursing Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. … September 10, 2009 Intensive care unit nurse staffing and the risk for complications

122. Value of human factors to medication and patient safety in the intensive care unit. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/value-human-factors-medication-and-patient-safety-intensive-care-unit
     December 01, 2010 - Study Value of human factors to medication and patient safety in the intensive care unit … Value of human factors to medication and patient safety in the intensive care unit. … This commentary illustrates the role of human factors in medication errors in the intensive care unit … Value of human factors to medication and patient safety in the intensive care unit. … July 23, 2014 Often overlooked problems with handoffs: from the intensive care unit to

123. Clinical Decision Support Optimizing Necrotizing Enterocolitis Prevention Implementation in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit | Digital Healthcare Research
     digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/clinical-decision-support-optimizing-necrotizing-enterocolitis-prevention
     January 01, 2023 - Decision Support Optimizing Necrotizing Enterocolitis Prevention Implementation in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit … Technology Clinical Decision Support System Care Setting Intensive Care Unit … Decision Support Optimizing Necrotizing Enterocolitis Prevention Implementation in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit … Decision Support Optimizing Necrotizing Enterocolitis Prevention Implementation in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit … Decision Support Optimizing Necrotizing Enterocolitis Prevention Implementation in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

124. Guide to Implementing and Sustaining a Program To Prevent CLABSI and CAUTI in the Intensive Care Unit Setting (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/implementation-guide.pdf
     April 01, 2022 - Guide to Implementing and Sustaining a Program To Prevent CLABSI and CAUTI in the Intensive Care Unit … Guide to Implementing and Sustaining a Program To Prevent CLABSI and CAUTI in the Intensive Care Unit … Setting Overview This guide will help your team navigate resources that enhance previous Comprehensive Unit … designed to help overcome challenges with persistently elevated infection rates in the intensive care unit … The tool can be completed by unit leadership and shared with unit staff after completion or unit staff

125. Intensive care unit nurse staffing and the risk for complications after abdominal aortic surgery. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/intensive-care-unit-nurse-staffing-and-risk-complications-after-abdominal-aortic-surgery
     December 02, 2020 - Study Classic Intensive care unit nurse staffing and the … Intensive care unit nurse staffing and the risk for complications after abdominal aortic surgery. … Intensive care unit nurse staffing and the risk for complications after abdominal aortic surgery. … October 19, 2022 Operating room to intensive care unit handoffs and the risks of patient … Accuracy and safety of medication histories obtained at the time of intensive care unit

126. Understand the Science of Safety for Perinatal Safety: Facilitator Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/labor-delivery/perinatal-care/modules/teamwork/understand-sci-fac-guide.html
     July 01, 2023 - providers will provide a higher quality of patient-centered care on the labor and delivery, or L&D, unit … In another example from a team working on a L&D unit, hierarchy issues plagued the unit, disrupting the … abilities of the unit nurses and doctors to work together effectively. … How did the team implement independent checks in its unit? … programs will contribute greatly to the success of the CUSP in the L&D unit.

127. CUSP Toolkit, The Role of the Nurse Manager, Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/modules/nursing/nursing-notes.html
     December 01, 2012 - Oversee Unit-Based Operations Slide 7. … Nurse managers lead their unit staff in preventing patient harm in their unit, empowering nurses to be … Ask: How does the nurse manager on your unit maintain unit-based operations? … They work closely within their unit to inspire, motivate, and engage administrators, unit staff, and … the unit team

128. 050-Dec-Implementation-Notes (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/050-dec-implementation-notes.docx
     October 01, 2024 - Type of Decolonization Would Work Best in My Unit? … Select and adapt the protocols for your unit. … and to provide feedback to unit personnel. … your patient but also the other patients on the unit. … These reports are promptly shared with each unit via the unit champions.

129. Development and evaluation of I-PASS-to-PICU: a standard electronic template to improve referral communication for inter-facility transfers to the pediatric intensive care unit. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/development-and-evaluation-i-pass-picu-standard-electronic-template-improve-referral
     June 14, 2023 - template to improve referral communication for inter-facility transfers to the pediatric intensive care unit … template to improve referral communication for inter-facility transfers to the pediatric intensive care unit … This study evaluated the usability of the I-PASS-to-PICU (Pediatric Intensive Care Unit) tool, which … template to improve referral communication for inter-facility transfers to the pediatric intensive care unit

130. ICU Assessment (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/icu-assessment.docx
     April 01, 2022 - O O O Is alcohol-based waterless product stocked in your unit? … O O O Are antiseptic soap and water stocked in your unit? … O O O Is chlorhexidine antiseptic stocked in your unit? … O O O Are central line dressing change kits stocked in your unit? … insertion and/or maintenance products stocked and used in your unit?

131. Surveys on Patient Safety Culture (SOPS) Hospital Survey 2.0: 2024 User Database Report Part I (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/sops/databases/hospital/2024-hospital-database-report-ptI.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - Respondents Unit/Work Area Number Percent Multiple Units, No Specific Unit 22,461 8% Medical/Surgical … Units Combined Medical/Surgical Unit 22,076 8% Medical Unit (Non-Surgical) 6,101 2% Surgical Unit … Teamwork In this unit, we work together as an effective team. … (Item A1) 86 During busy times, staff in this unit help each other. … (Item A3*) 50 This unit relies too much on temporary, float, or PRN staff.

132. Monthly Team Checkup Tool for MRSA Prevention (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/118-monthly-team-checkup-tool.pdf
     October 01, 2024 - questions related to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) prevention with respect to your unit … Question 1 [Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Only]. …  The unit does not currently have a senior executive for the MRSA Prevention Program. … In the past month, how many people permanently left the CUSP team, unit, or organization? … In the past month, how many people joined the CUSP team, unit, or organization? Question 17.

133. Assemble the Team, Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/modules/assemble/team-notes.html
     December 01, 2012 - The Unit-Based CUSP Team . Slide 4. CUSP Team Members . Slide 5. Unit Team Characteristics . … initiative at the unit level … Having a strong unit team in place will help your unit reduce clinical errors, improve patient outcomes … Depending on the unit type and staff composition, the engagement of unit team members may need to be … Emphasizing unit team members’ involvement in improving the unit lends not only to the success of the

134. Rapid Response for Perinatal Safety: Facilitator Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/labor-delivery/perinatal-care/modules/strategies/rapid-response/rapid-response-fac-guide.html
     July 01, 2023 - Identify ways to apply key safety elements to your unit procedures for rapid response to urgent maternity … The key safety elements provide a comprehensive starting point for each unit to consider as it establishes … Likewise, a unit must be ready to disclose any unintended outcomes. … Interest and enthusiasm of unit staff and administration for implementing. … Support implementation of unit systems: Staff training/communication. Simulation.

135. Tools & Resources for Decolonization | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/mrsa-prevention/toolkit/tools-resources-decolonization.html
     October 01, 2024 - Which Type of Decolonization Would Work Best in My Unit? … Universal Decolonization: is a strategy wherein: All patients in a specific hospital unit are treated … nasal decolonization for 5 days and decolonized with CHG bathing daily throughout their stay in the unit … strategy wherein: Only targeted patients at higher risk for MRSA infection in a specific hospital unit … Tools & Resources for Decolonization: Protocols This section provides sample unit and nursing protocols

136. Nursing Practice Guide (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/abate/nursing-protocols/nursing-practice-guide.pdf
     March 01, 2022 - practice with peer group • Multidisciplinary approach to problem- solving: project/QI champions, unit … leadership, infection prevention, executive leadership, and physicians • Unit leadership reviews … customized unit adherence data at regular intervals • Facility leadership reviews customized … unit- specific adherence data for all participating units at regular intervals • Utilize creative … is accurate and timely: • Process to identify patients with devices • Patient arrival to unit

137. Nursing Practice Guide (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/abate/nursing-protocols/nursing-practice-guide.docx
     March 01, 2022 - discuss practice with peer group Multidisciplinary approach to problem-solving: project/QI champions, unit … leadership, infection prevention, executive leadership, and physicians Unit leadership reviews customized … unit adherence data at regular intervals Facility leadership reviews customized unit-specific adherence … address and escalate patient refusals Refusals are escalated via standard pathway to charge nurse, unit … practice patterns and timely followup Patient outlier concerns and documentation questions sent to unit

138. 159-Which-Type-Decolonization-Work-Best (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/159-which-type-decolonization-work-best.docx
     October 01, 2024 - AHRQ Safety Program for MRSA Prevention Which Type of MRSA Decolonization Will Work Best in My Unit … Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Decolonization: · is a strategy wherein: all patients in a specific hospital unit … days and decolonized with chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) bathing daily throughout their stay in the unit … drains. · is appropriate for use in hospital units with high MRSA acquisition rates, regardless of unit … nasal decolonization for 5 days and decolonized with CHG bathing daily throughout their stay in the unit

139. Targeted implementation of the Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program through an assessment of safety culture to minimize central line-associated bloodstream infections. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/targeted-implementation-comprehensive-unit-based-safety-program-through-assessment-safety
     November 20, 2015 - Study Targeted implementation of the Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program through … Targeted implementation of the Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program through an assessment of safety … The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) reduced central line–associated bloodstream infections … Targeted implementation of the Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program through an assessment of safety … , 2020 Reducing three infections across cardiac surgery programs: a multisite cross-unit

140. The effect of a checklist on the quality of patient handover from the operating room to the intensive care unit: a randomized controlled trial. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/effect-checklist-quality-patient-handover-operating-room-intensive-care-unit-randomized
     April 03, 2013 - effect of a checklist on the quality of patient handover from the operating room to the intensive care unit … effect of a checklist on the quality of patient handover from the operating room to the intensive care unit … center, introducing a checklist for patient handoffs between the operating room and the intensive care unit … effect of a checklist on the quality of patient handover from the operating room to the intensive care unit … checklists improve the reliability of patient handoffs in the operating room and postanesthesia care unit