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HOSPITAL QUALITY: March 2009
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THIS IS A BLOG STARTED BY A QUALITY MANAGEMENT EXECUTIVE FOR THE PUPOSE OF SHARING THOUGHTS ABOUT HOSPITAL QUALITY, PATIENT SAFETY, PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT, AND US HEALTHCARE ISSUES. How many quality related meetings do you participate in, monthly? Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets. Director, Quality and Patient Safety- Education: University of Massachusetts Amherst (B.S.)- The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth College (M.S.). A professor o...
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HOSPITAL QUALITY: The Will to Win - The Virtues of Six Sigma
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THIS IS A BLOG STARTED BY A QUALITY MANAGEMENT EXECUTIVE FOR THE PUPOSE OF SHARING THOUGHTS ABOUT HOSPITAL QUALITY, PATIENT SAFETY, PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT, AND US HEALTHCARE ISSUES. How many quality related meetings do you participate in, monthly? Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets. Director, Quality and Patient Safety- Education: University of Massachusetts Amherst (B.S.)- The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth College (M.S.). Education: Un...
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T Sheets Blog: T-Sheet Answerman on POA
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Sunday, July 11, 2010. T-Sheet Answerman on POA. As a family, we love the Chick-fil-A restaurant chain. From a fast food perspective, it is hard to beat. The food is great, the restaurants are very clean and the people are friendly. There are times that I say “thank you” more than I really should, just to see if the team member helping me will return their trademark “my pleasure.”. So why are the Chick-fil-A restaurants so successful? What about your emergency department? And for all of this, the patient...
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T Sheets Blog: January 2010
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010. 8220;Close but No Cigar”. Documenting little things like. Location of pain (e.g. RLQ for abdominal pain, precordial for chest pain, mid-thoracic for back pain, etc.). Severity of symptoms (e.g. mild, moderate or severe). Status of the illness (e.g. acute, or acute exacerbation of a chronic condition like asthma, COPD or CHF). Another problem somewhat related to the specificity issue is the use of chronic medical conditions as the primary diagnosis (i.e. reason) for the ...When ...
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T Sheets Blog: May 2010
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Monday, May 10, 2010. Happy Nurse’s Week. Expertise. A resident finishing his Primary Care training and moonlighting in the ED once said in passing that “nurses make good money for the education they receive.” He really pissed me off. What made my bachelors degree any less valuable than the one received by another person in business? I mean, how many times have you prevented an injury to a patient when a new class graduated from medical school? Along with the educational, professional, and scope of pract...
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T Sheets Blog: July 2010
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Sunday, July 11, 2010. Hot Topics: New Alert Templates. We are currently working on several new templates to address hot buttons in healthcare. The new templates include protocols for Sepsis, Stroke, and STEMI. All content for these templates was developed based on evidence-based practice, along with guidelines and recommendations from key professional organizations for each topic. The sepsis protocol orders are also designed so that the physician can check and time the orders they want initiated. Th...
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T Sheets Blog: Sepsis or …… Is it hot in here?
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Sunday, July 11, 2010. Sepsis or …… Is it hot in here? What labs do I need to draw (an article in Dark Daily, a Clinical Lab and Pathology News site described a Methodist North Hospital Lab developed POCT for lactic acid that can identify patients at risk in as little as 10 minutes)? What do I need to monitor? What antibiotics will have the best results? What other med’s and supportive measures do I need to consider? What’s my timeline? How do I measure my success or failure? Sepsis Alert program study.
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T Sheets Blog: August 2009
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Thursday, August 27, 2009. Nurses- Degree or not Degree. That is the question. By Karl DeFord RN/ENS. Shakespeare; Impressive right? During my last year as a Biology major some of us were sitting in the student union discussing job prospects and it wasn’t real good. One person mentioned that there was a 2 year nursing program starting and the starting salary was…hold on to your hats …8.00/hr! So, what is the answer? Tell me what you think! Monday, August 17, 2009. The Code Talker #1. Is it a single probl...
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T Sheets Blog: November 2009
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Monday, November 23, 2009. Don’t Be a Tool. Use Ours. So I just turned 43. I know. I am picking out my favorite colors of daisies now. I have also, tentatively of course, picked out a cemetery. If they would just clean up all of the graffiti that I have placed on the head stones, it would be a nice place. Someone should really do something about the mess. I couldn’t look, but I had to. I mean I became an ER nurse, right? And this long, uninformative introduction brings us back to the T-Sheets. Specif...
