Ruth participated with other trustees and CEOs in a panel at the WSHA Patient Safety Conference May 2. IHI President and CEO Maureen Bisognano led the conference to focus on best practices for boards and CEOs and celebrated Washington state’s leadership in patient outcomes.
Connect with us on our spring newsletter, celebrating Nurses Week and discussing two expert strategies to improve healing connections.
A short video emphasizes the self-management aspect of presence, and authentic connections, as well as how to ask the questions that allow patients/families to design an outcomes-focus on their priorities or what matters most to them.
I-PASS process as developed by Boston Children’s, was correlated to reduction of medical errors from 32% to 19%, and physicians spent more time with patients (225 minutes per 24 hours instead of 122 minutes) and less computer time as well (370 rather than 408).
I=Illness severity
P= Patient Summary
A=Action list for the next team
S=Situation Awareness and contingency plans
S=Synthesis and Read Back of information
Karen Cheung shared this in te Top News on Fiercehealthcare based on a press release. http://childrenshospital.org/newsroom/Site1339/mainpageS1339P878.html
I would recommend that the handover would be a part of interdisciplinary team rounds: It will engage the patient and/or family and will also keep everyone posted and on the same page as to the medical team’s plans!
http://www.hhnmag.com/hhnmag/HHNDaily/HHNDailyDisplay.dhtml?id=7370004058
I recommend this short video about the implications and financial impact of implementation of the IOM’s Report on Nursing and the Action Coalitions. The “upfront investment in clinical staff” makes the difference in quality and safety. Know the preparation (BSN entry, for example), certifications, and advanced degrees of nursing personnel because they will be the advocates that avoid pressure ulcers, readmissions, falls, infections in the new world of value based reimbursement.
Right Care, Right Time, Right Place, Every Time. (HFMA.org)
Again Intermountain Health in Utah leads the way with patient flow improvements by using excellence in interdisciplinary team conferences and communication. They created 11 virtual beds, reduced care hours to 6.78 in severity adjusted average LOS, and enhanced patient satisfaction! Congratulations Intermountain Health! Although they did not use the RROHC team as consultants, they accomplished (as far as we know from this article) at least 4 of the RROHC 10 best practices and these made a large positive impact!