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Hendrich Fall Assessment Tool

June 4, 2008 | Video/Toolkit

Staff at Seton Family of Hospitals in Texas developed a risk assessment protocol, identifying populations at risk and using prevention tools such as alerts and patient-care rounding, which has enabled the staff to consistently meet its goal of just two falls per 1,000 patient days.

Time to Turn Prototype

June 4, 2008 | Video

To improve the frequency and consistency of turning patients, a visual indicator was developed that could easily and immediately be seen by all front-line staff.

Flowchart Setup Report

June 4, 2008 | Video/Survey/Poll

In order to improve the process, a new role was created for a resource nurse and the traditional charge nurse role was eliminated.

Explanation of Patient Race, Ethnicity and Primary Language Categories

June 4, 2008 | Toolkit/Video

The current race and ethnicity categories used by the Office of Management and Budget are the recommended standard, yet given the United States' increasingly diverse population, the Expecting Success program used an expanded list of categories.

Sample TCAB Team Structure

June 4, 2008 | Video

The goal of this section of the tooklit Transforming Care at the Bedside is to identify a unit to serve as the hospital's pilot for TCAB¿one that can learn from the process, be a model for other units hospitalwide and includes nurses who can become champions for quality improvement.

County Health Rankings

February 10, 2010 | Report/Video

University of Wisconsin/RWJF project ranks counties on how healthy people are and how long they live.

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