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161. 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

162. 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

163. 053-Dec-Guide-Readiness (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/053-dec-guide-readiness.docx
     October 01, 2024 - more than 2 days after unit admission through 2 days after unit discharge. … admission through 2 days after unit discharge. … stay through 2 days after unit discharge, if the patient remains hospitalized. … with a positive blood culture during their unit stay, divided by the total number of unit patient-days … the unit, if shorter than 5 days)

164. Quality Improvement in Action Facilitator Guide (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/qi-action-notes.docx
     April 01, 2022 - The unit performance improvement team has not been very active due to staff turnover, so the unit leadership … Seven ICU nurse interns are in training on this unit. … Other gaps identified in the unit are a lack of a CLABSI and CAUTI champion, unit culture, and senior … Are reasons true indications or unit culture? … For example, you can do this in a unit staff meeting.

165. Clinical Decision Support Optimizing Necrotizing Enterocolitis Prevention Implementation in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit | Digital Healthcare Research
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     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

166. 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

167. Assemble the Team and Engage Leadership for Perinatal Safety (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/hais/tools/perinatal-care/modules/teamwork/assemble/assemble-team-facilitator-guide.pdf
     May 01, 2017 - Having a strong unit team in place will help your unit reduce clinical errors, improve patient outcomes … The L&D unit team’s performance will be influenced by the— • Environment, • Hospital unit and context … Emphasizing unit team members’ involvement in improving the L&D unit lends not only to the success … They work closely within their unit to inspire, motivate, and engage administrators, unit staff, and … staff and support unit-based initiatives by ensuring close working relationships among unit team

168. Targeting the fear of safety reporting on a unit level. | PSNet
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     December 13, 2023 - Commentary Targeting the fear of safety reporting on a unit level. … Targeting the Fear of Safety Reporting on a Unit Level. … Targeting the Fear of Safety Reporting on a Unit Level.

169. Monitoring for Perinatal Safety: Electronic Fetal Monitoring: Facilitator Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/labor-delivery/perinatal-care/modules/strategies/safe-electronic-fac-guide.html
     July 01, 2023 - A unit-established process could specify patient, nurse, and unit criteria for use of intermittent auscultation—for … Finally, unit staff should disclose any unintended outcomes related to EFM use using unit policy for … Slide 18: Unit Next Steps Say: The next steps for your unit include the following: Decide whether … Interest and enthusiasm of unit staff for implementing. … Support implementation of Key Safety Elements through— Unit policies and procedures.

170. 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?

171. Evaluation of medication-related clinical decision support alert overrides in the intensive care unit. | PSNet
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     July 02, 2019 - Evaluation of medication-related clinical decision support alert overrides in the intensive care unit … Evaluation of medication-related clinical decision support alert overrides in the intensive care unit … Evaluation of medication-related clinical decision support alert overrides in the intensive care unit … Prospective evaluation of medication-related clinical decision support over-rides in the intensive care unit … automated system for real-time medication administration error detection in a neonatal intensive care unit

172. 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

173. Staff Roles and Training forYour Pressure Ulcer Prevention Program (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/pressure_ulcer_prevention/webinars/webinar3_pu_staffroles.pdf
     January 01, 2014 - • Plan how to orient and monitor temporary staff. 11 Assigning Unit Champions • Number of Unit … • It is best to have long-term Unit Champions and backups. 12 Qualities of Unit Champions • … • Track unit pressure ulcers. … Champions meet with unit staff on all shifts (or just the unit-level improvement team) … Team: Roles and Duties Strategies for Unit Team Roles Assigning Unit Champions Qualities of Unit

174. Engage the Senior Executive Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2012 - These meetings are a great opportunity to share unit-level data and discuss team-wide unit improvement … unit physicians to join their CUSP teams. … Adaptive work requires unit-wide cultural adjustments. … Unit team members should work together to create new policies for solving unit-wide problems. … While unit teams and unit-level managers can easily meet to discuss potential threats to safety, without

175. 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.

176. Impact of opioid administration in the intensive care unit and subsequent use in opioid-naïve patients. | PSNet
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     April 06, 2022 - Study Impact of opioid administration in the intensive care unit and subsequent use … Impact of opioid administration in the intensive care unit and subsequent use in opioid-naïve patients … Impact of opioid administration in the intensive care unit and subsequent use in opioid-naïve patients … and hospital discharge diagnosis and its impact on length of stay, up-triage to the intensive care unit … July 14, 2010 Implementing and validating a comprehensive unit-based safety program.

177. Interventions to reduce medication prescribing errors in a paediatric cardiac intensive care unit. | PSNet
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     November 16, 2022 - Interventions to reduce medication prescribing errors in a paediatric cardiac intensive care unit … Interventions to reduce medication prescribing errors in a paediatric cardiac intensive care unit. … Interventions to reduce medication prescribing errors in a paediatric cardiac intensive care unit. … , 2022 Human factors analysis of latent safety threats in a pediatric critical care unit … May 13, 2009 Medication errors in a neonatal intensive care unit.

178. Quality and safety in the intensive care unit. | PSNet
     psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/quality-and-safety-intensive-care-unit
     January 19, 2011 - Review Quality and safety in the intensive care unit. … Quality and safety in the intensive care unit. J Intensive Care Med. 2006;21(4):199-210. … Quality and safety in the intensive care unit. J Intensive Care Med. 2006;21(4):199-210. … of Sepsis May 31, 2023 A systematic review of teamwork in the intensive care unit

179. 4. How do we implement best practices in our organization? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/pressureulcer/tool/pu4.html
     October 01, 2014 - What role will the Unit-Based Team play? What role will the Unit Champions play? … staff, and Unit Champion. … Care Team, and the unit staff. … A Unit Champion may be anyone who works on the unit, including nurses (RN, LPN) and nurse aides. … However, as you organize the unit work, you should think beyond the unit in two ways.

180. 4. How do we implement best practices in our organization? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/es/patient-safety/settings/hospital/resource/pressureulcer/tool/pu4.html
     October 01, 2014 - What role will the Unit-Based Team play? What role will the Unit Champions play? … staff, and Unit Champion. … Care Team, and the unit staff. … A Unit Champion may be anyone who works on the unit, including nurses (RN, LPN) and nurse aides. … However, as you organize the unit work, you should think beyond the unit in two ways.