Cardiac catheterization

The learning objective to be addressed in this essay is to be more adept at filling out a fluid balance chart and understand its importance. I intend to use the Driscoll (2007) reflective cycle as I find the root process of interrogating and assessing events the most helpful at being reflective. The fluid and electrolyte balance monitoring and management are essential and highly significant to nursing care as highlighted by Jevon and Ewens (2007). Patients suffering from a negative fluid balance

“Continuous quality improvement is a philosophy that encourages a healthcare team to continuously ask: ‘How are we doing?’ and ‘Can we do it better?’ More specifically, can we do it more efficiently? Can we be more effective? Can we do it faster? Can we do it in a more timely way? Continuous improvement begins with a culture of improvement for the patient, the practice, and the population in general” (NLC, 2013). Having a continuous quality improvement initiative is a to construct a design to

fellowship, but even after they go through all those years of school there is still a chance they won't be able to get through their internship, their attendings might not find them suitable for the job or they mess up, only the best of the best get into cardiac surgery.

This study focuses on whether the use of reminders assists in decreasing the use of urinary cathethers and the occuruence of catheter associated urinary infections. UTI risk increases by 5 percent with the use of indwelling catheters. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that patients receive catheters if indicated but over 41% of physicians have ignored this and nursing staff have ignored evaluating when the catheter should be removed. Besides noncompliance with the

catheters to empty bladders dates to over 3500 years ago, and Foley indwelling catheters have been used over the past 80 years (Roger, Feneley, Hopley, and Wells, 2015). The catheter was first initiated for the use of male, intermittent self-catheterization purposes, it was rigid, and implied for urinary retention (Roger, Feneley, Hopley, and Wells, 2015). Roger, Feneley, Hopley, and Wells (2015) continue to explain that urinary incontinence was not a pertinent medical need to address, and it wasn’t

evidence-based practice and standards of care, UTI’s does still continue to be an ongoing problem today. In one of the large hospitals in my area had recently developed a poster and video approach with special focus on alternatives to urinary catheterization, removing catheters early, and the reinforcement of sterile technique prior insertion and foley catheter care were used to educate nursing staff and improve outcomes. The purpose of this paper is to educate nursing on

Identify the need or problem you intend to solve through your capstone project Nurses lacked knowledge in the use and was unaware of the importance of the underlying evidence- base recommended criteria’s indicated on the nurse driven protocol to remove inappropriate UC’s. A nurse driven indwelling catheter removal protocol is an evidence base tool recommended by infection control organization and experts for the early removal of unnecessary or inappropriately placed urinary catheters (UC). Evidence

safety promotion has been issued and many researches have been conducted to improve patient’s quality of life. In this article, Saint et al. (2005) hypothesize that using a paper-based urinary catheter reminder can reduce the incidence of urinary catheterization, and consequently this will enhance the patients’ safety. Critique Part 1 Research Questions or Hypotheses The background and significance of this study are properly presented in the introduction. The research question is presented

2017). Anticipating the above changes appropriately will aid in understanding what leads to urinary retention in older adults, the resulting need of catheterizations, and the CAUTIs that can follow. Having a foundation to build on, it would be beneficial to explore what nurses can do prevent urinary tract infections in patients who require catheterization. Current Nursing Care The first step nurses can take to decrease the incidents of CAUTIs in older adults is avoiding unnecessary use of catheters

In order to reduce Hospital Readmissions and Hospital Acquired Conditions financial resources need to be managed carefully, as leaders we have to understand that by investing in nursing training and in departments like Infection Control we will save money at the and most important we will provide better care to our patients. In our hospital the Vascular Access team came up with the initiative of creating the "PICC Police", they not only monitor the timely dressing change of their lines and competence