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The project was featured at this year's poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN).
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One step that helped dramatically decrease flash sterilization at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, OH, was daily planning between the OR and central processing, according to Roberta R. Timmerman, RN, CPN, MSN, perioperative services education nurse specialist, Nationwide Children's Hospital.
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Press Ganey's report Hospital Check-Up Report: Physician Perspectives on American Hospitals includes a discussion of what surgeons don't like. (For information on accessing the report, see the note at the end of this column.) I thought it was a good report, but it needed some balance. I thought I would do some research on what surgeons and other staff like! (The glass is always half full.)
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Surgeons are disproportionately represented in attendance at a course on disruptive behaviors offered by the Center for Professional Health at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN.
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Although ED nurses at Saint Louis University Hospital didn't wind up caring for victims of a recent chemical exposure directly the only patient they received went directly to the intensive care unit nurses did the following to prepare for patients:
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Police officers spraying pepper gas at protesters. Anarchists throwing urine at police officers. Worrying about the possibility of food served at parties stored at the wrong temperatures causing food poisoning. Filling prescriptions on the fly for out-of-town delegates.
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If a patient presents with sharp, stabbing chest pain, this doesn't necessarily mean a myocardial infarction. Your patient might have pericarditis, which can be life-threatening if myocarditis or cardiac tamponade develops.
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There are two distinct differences seen on an electrocardiogram (EKG) that can tell you whether your patient has an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) or pericarditis, says Dee Fontana, RN, MSN, ACNP-BC, ED nurse manager and nurse practitioner at University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago.
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More than 1.2 million Americans were hospitalized for pneumonia in 2006, with 71% of those cases admitted through the ED, according to a new analysis using data from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project.
