Contents
- Attribution
- Objectives
- Introduction
- Main Menu
- Part One: Traditional Practice and Recommendations for Change
- Multiteam Survey
- Challenges in the ED
- Driving Patient Care
- Nursing Study
- Perceived Role of Nurses
- Perceived Role of ED Nurse
- Protocols Survey
- Catheter Removal Survey
- Obstacles to Change
- Aseptic Technique Survey
- Two-Person Survey
- Training and Observation
- Status Quo
- Ownership
- Cryptic Handoffs
- Problematic Expectations
- Assumptions Questioned
- Quality Improvements
- Recommendations
- Part Two: Removing the Obstacles to Practice Change
- Obstacles
- Misconceptions Addressed
- Indications
- HICPAC
- Inappropriate Reasons
- Beneficence
- Nurse Champions Survey
- Nurse Champions
- Changes in Training
- Communication
- Handoffs and the Joint Commission
- Report on a Bad Day on the Floor (sample handoff)
- Organized Data
- Standardized Handoffs
- Sample Handoff
- Questions
- Hard Data
- Soft Data
- Data Drive Change
- Case Study
- Conclusion
