159 Search Results for Reducing Hospital Length of Stay
Sleep deprivation is frequently a direct result of the need for intensive care, constant surveillance and monitoring that combine to limit the opportunities for uninterrupted sleep in the intensive care unit (ICU). The problem is multifactorial, with Continue Reading...
The Use of Biomedical Devices to Improve Patient Outcomes
Abstract
There have been tremendous advancements that have been made in the field of biomedical devices. All the advancements have been aimed at improving patient outcomes and preventing infec Continue Reading...
Evidence-Based Practice Project: Reducing Rate of Psychiatric Readmission
The purpose of the evidence-based practice project is to examine ways to eliminate psychiatric readmissions. More specifically, literature is reviewed to examine evidence supp Continue Reading...
In the U.S healthcare environment, the clinical practice guidelines are the effective healthcare protocol to enhance patient’s safety as well as achieving evidence-based practice. The clinical guidelines provide recommendations to the best avai Continue Reading...
Does taking Metoprolol before cardiac surgery reduce the incidence of post-op atrial fibrillation
Abstract
Postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF) remains a prevalent supraventricular arrhythmia. PoAF has associated effects such as deterioratin Continue Reading...
pneumonia is a recurrent mechanical ventilation complication affecting almost 25% of ventilated patients. This type of pneumonia is referred to as ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and it accounts for up to 90% of nosocomial infections among the Continue Reading...
Critical Appraisal Tool WorksheetTemplateEvaluation TableUse this document to complete the evaluation table requirement of the Module 4 Assessment, Evidence-Based Project, Part 4A: Critical Appraisal of ResearchFull APA formatted citation of selected Continue Reading...
Strategic Leadership and Future Delivery Models
The issue of life expectancy at birth is a relatively novel one. Before the 19th century for instance, the United Kingdom -- the country with the longest time-series of measured life expectancy -- had Continue Reading...
Cognitive and Psychomotor Disturbance:
This is the other long-term psychological effect of surgery on children particularly those who undergo heart transplant surgical operations. Similar to the post-hospital distress, cognitive and psychomotor di Continue Reading...
EBP is to facilitate strategy to eradicate short cycle return to second readmission of psychiatric patients on hospital beds. Doing so will assist health care providers in addressing the issue of bed shortage. Reduction of readmission rates allows m Continue Reading...
Quantitative Research Critique and Ethical Considerations Part IIMy PICOT question focuses on hospitalized patients suffering from surgical site infections and generating a comparison of different interventions (including training and reducing stress Continue Reading...
Nurse burnout is a common occurrence. This can exacerbate an ongoing problem that is seen in hospitals, nosocomial infections. Nosocomial infections remain prevalent for patients with extended hospital stays like those in intensive care units. An inf Continue Reading...
A study conducted by Ledgerwood et al. (2013) on the effects of tracheotomy tubes that have suction above the cuff established that the tubes have the capability to reduce VAP incidents. The amount of time spent in ICU and on the ventilator was als Continue Reading...
Hygiene as a pivotal method of preventing infection in a health care setting
Hand Hygiene as a Pivotal Method of Preventing Infection in a Healthcare Setting
Carpetti, G.M., Sandri, F., Trridapallli, E., Galleti, S., Petracci, E., & Faldella, Continue Reading...
The US Health Care system: beliefs, Values and health
The health care system is a wide area that spans over the medical aspect, the financial aspect, the ethical field, the management aspect, the political angle and the individual aspect of it where Continue Reading...
Elective Delivery
The Publication and the Issue that it Presents
The article entitled Born too early: Improving Maternal and Child Health by Reducing Early Elective Deliveries was published on NIHCM Foundation, Transforming Health Care Through Evi Continue Reading...
Quality of care provided by nursing practitioners at the emergency departments.AbstractOver the previous couple of decades, overcrowding in emergency rooms has now become progressively typical. Longer wait durations in the emergency room are linked t Continue Reading...
ACIST CVi Angiographic Imaging System
The ACIST CVi is an angiographic imaging system used to diagnose diseases and treat over 15 million patients globally. The ACIST CVi is able to simplify a contrast injection using all procedure ranging from smal Continue Reading...
Bed and Chair Alarm in to Help Reduce Falls in Short-Term Care Facility
In long-term care facilities (e.g., assisted living centres and nursing homes), a fall is one of the single most devastating category of unpleasant events. In consequence, there Continue Reading...
Healthcare Practices in Nursing Today
Over the last 50 years, health care systems all over the world have experienced rapid and significant changes. Some of these changes have been the result of innovative developments in medical science and techno Continue Reading...
1. Assess the data needed to design the program and collection method.Opioid use disorder has become a growing concern in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have declared it a public health epidemic due to the rise in a Continue Reading...
How Registered Nurses can Help Prevent Urinary Tract Infections
Background and Context
Concepts, models and theories
Today, catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) remain one of the primary causes of nosocomial infections in the United Continue Reading...
Staffing shortages in nursing are a consequence of poor nurse retention and nurse satisfaction. Being a nurse requires a lot of dedication, patience, and ability to keep updated in a constantly evolving world. When hospitals and other medical facilit Continue Reading...
2010; McCarthy et al. 2009; Zimmerman 2004). These studies have also shown that a reduction in boarding numbers and crowding can eliminate or reduce these problems.
After all of these considerations, the fourth step in Rosswurm and Larrabee's (1999 Continue Reading...
IntroductionThe question of introducing a quality improvement plan to treat hypertension in urgent care is crucial, given the current state of hypertension control in the United States. Mills et al. (2020) argue that hypertension is mostly preventabl Continue Reading...
Develop a financial strategy for using global nursing strategies to increase fiscal responsibility. Include the positive and negative financial impact of bringing foreign healthcare providers into a financial organization. Examples such as physicians Continue Reading...
nurse to patient ratios within large clinical settings has been well document. The data gathered from this somewhat obvious problem has created avenues of research that delve into many different aspects of knowledge and understanding. The clinical p Continue Reading...
Quality Improvement ProposalHand hygiene compliance among healthcare providers is a critical issue in nursing organizations, particularly in acute care settings such as hospitals. Non-compliance with hand hygiene protocols can lead to the spread of h Continue Reading...
Nursing Culture: Overcoming Barriers to Change
Introduction and Theoretical Framework
This program of study continues personal research and professional practice in the field of nursing within the area of public and private health systems. In an er Continue Reading...
Application of Statistics in Health CareStatistical application plays a significant role in healthcare, from monitoring patient outcomes to improving quality of care and promoting patient safety (Han & Roh, 2020). Healthcare professionals across all Continue Reading...
Application: Systems Theory
Healthcare organizations provide nursing services centered on multiple theories. For instance, the Open Systems Theory established in 1978 by Katz and Kahn considers the healthcare organization as social systems divided i Continue Reading...
Quality of Care Provided by Nurse Practitioners
Cost and quality of healthcare access are two inter-related concepts that are central to the healthcare debate in the United States of America. The study will compare the effectiveness of quality and Continue Reading...
Another group demonstrated that when insulin infusion was initiated in patients in the operating room before sternotomy and continued until the third postoperative day that there was improved glucose control. There was a 57% decrease in mortality ra Continue Reading...
Learning Objectives:
In support of the Terminal Objective, several key learning objectives will drive the content and curriculum for nurses undergoing the present training course. Primary among them, the training course is designed to create a sta Continue Reading...
CAPSTONE PROJECT CHANGE PROPOSAL Benchmark Capstone Project Change ProposalBackgroundMonitored anesthesia care (MAC) has become more widely used to avoid the complications of general anesthesia (GA) (Sammour et al., 2021). Monitored anesthesia care Continue Reading...