Quality Improvement, An Issue of Nursing Clinics

Drs. Leming-Lee and Watters have created an issue that provides state-of-the-art content on quality improvement, with clinical reviews on topics such as application of evidence-based practice, the Virginia Mason production system, Lean 5S methodology, charting to stop it, reducing pressure injuries, improving stress-induced hyperglycemic management, telemetry utilization, nurse-driven CAUTI prevention protocol, patient-centered pathway and discharge tool, diabetes self-management education, and barriers to the implementation of pediatric overweight and obesity guidelines.

\n Format: Hardback
\n \n Publication date: 08 March 2019
\n Publisher: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
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Drs. Leming-Lee and Watters, in collaboration with Dr. Steve Krau, Consulting Editor, have produced an issue that offers cutting-edge content on quality improvement. Clinical reviews on various topics have been contributed by top authors, including:
Quality improvement: Application of evidence-based practice
The application of the Virginia Mason production system to improve large-scale quality outcomes in an acute care hospital
The application of the Toyota production system Lean 5S methodology in the operating room setting
Chart it to stop it: A quality improvement project to increase the reporting of workplace aggression
Reducing pressure injuries in the pediatric intensive care unit
Improving stress-induced hyperglycemic management in the ICU setting
Evaluation of telemetry utilization on medical-surgical floors
Implementation of a nurse-driven CAUTI prevention protocol
A quality improvement project to test the effectiveness of a patient-centered pathway and discharge tool on heart failure patient engagement
Diabetes self-management education provision by an interprofessional collaborative team: A quality improvement project
Increasing effective patient-triage nurse communication using a targeted history question
Barriers to the implementation of pediatric overweight and obesity guidelines in a school-based health center
Nurses will gain the current knowledge they need to improve patient outcomes.

\n Weight: 412g\n
Dimension: 160 x 237 x 16 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780323655156\n \n