This session will discuss the impact of providing education to home healthcare staff through virtual huddles that are recurring, structured, and brief. Our home healthcare agency has utilized virtual education huddles to expand communication, drive patient safety, and facilitate survey...
Through our case study – Audience would be able to know challenges faced in organizations to provide evidence-based learning resources to frontline staff and how OPENWHO learning platform was beneficial in training and creating awareness on important patient safety standards...
In healthcare, pressure injuries are a serious problem that cannot be overlooked. Pressure injuries carry a psychological, financial, and physiological burden to patients and a financial burden to healthcare organizations. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality developed a toolkit...
The purpose of this project is exploring opportunities for decreasing bleeding post percutaneous coronary intervention with the overall goal to decrease patient length of stay and mortality and increase patient satisfaction and safety. The data documents Good Samaritan University hospital’s...
This quality improvement project utilized a Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) framework to implement a new process for unplanned inpatient hospital discharges in the ambulatory hematology oncology space aimed at supporting patient transitions. Problem: When Hematology/Oncology clinic patients were admitted inpatient, there was...
An interdisciplinary care model was implemented in January 2020 to improve cardiopulmonary resuscitation care outcomes. Through consistent collaboration of a Physician Champion, a Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS), a Registered Nurse Quality Specialist, and Quality Data Abstractors, implementation of evidence-based strategies...
Most care delivery in the US is provided in ambulatory settings, yet quality improvement and patient safety efforts are heavily weighted towards inpatient settings. It is estimated that 5% of outpatient encounters result in an adverse event, however, efforts to...
UMass Memorial Medical Center (UMMMC) identified a gap in an effective system to identify, plan, and coordinate care for pediatric behavioral health patients who board in the hospital, as they have complex needs behaviorally and/or socially. These patients experience an...
The study evaluates the process of providing hospital-grade breast pumps to NICU mothers at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center, identifying inefficiencies and barriers in the current system. Problem: The problem tackled at UCLA Ronald Reagan Hospital’s NICU involved challenges NICU...
A multifactorial project focused on reducing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTIs). This comprehensive approach included daily audits by the nursing department to prompt early removal recommendations, enhanced electronic health record (EHR) processes for specimen collection and Best Practice Alerts, staff...