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Registered Nurses Participate in Presenting Their Patients During Morning Rounds What began as an exploration of how to ensure that nurses and other staff had ready access to patient charts evolved into a way in which registered nurses could take a more active, visible role during rounds.	Promising practices from the field	06/04/2008
Redesigning Equipment to Reduce Time Wasted and Increase Time Spent at Bedside The goal of this intervention is to reduce the amount of staff time spent hunting for and gathering supplies and equipment and increase the amount of time spent at the bedside with patients	Video, Toolkits, Promising practices from the field	06/04/2008
Improving Nurse-Physician Communication Through the SBAR Model SBAR, which stands for Situation, Background, Assessment and Recommendation, is a tool used exclusively to guide staff on the best way to communicate a large amount of information in a succinct and brief way when a patient's situation is escalating.	Promising practices from the field	06/04/2008
Receiving, Prioritizing and Filling Interpreter Services Requests By overhauling the way they receive, prioritize and fill requests, UMMHC has decreased wait times for interpreter services on campus and off.	Video, Toolkits, Promising practices from the field	06/04/2008
Implementing Shift-to-Shift Walking Rounds for Nurses Staff replaced the organization's standard shift-to-shift nurse report meetings with a five-minute huddle, followed by two-person, nurse-led rounds that involve those going off shift to inform their replacements about all of the patients for whom they will provide care.	Toolkits, Promising practices from the field	06/04/2008
Creating a Documentation System for Meeting Inpatient Language Needs Staff at Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minn., augmented the electronic medical records used by nurses and other frontline staff to indicate how and when interpreters offered their services during critical points in care.	Toolkits, Promising practices from the field	06/04/2008
Consolidating Discharge and Prescription Forms for Heart Failure Patients Since implementation, the core measures data for patient discharge at Del Sol Medical Center had consistently reached 100 percent.	Promising practices from the field	06/04/2008
Using Data to Improve Interpreter Scheduling Staff enlisted interpreters to keep data logs for analysis in order to better meet the language service needs of the medical team, as well as patients and their families.	Toolkits, Promising practices from the field	06/04/2008
Improving Staff Satisfaction and Patient Care by Creating an Electronic Change-of-Shift Report Patients often have complex needs that must be seamlessly communicated from one nurse to another at every shift change. Staff at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center created a simple, electronic reporting system that nurses update with pertinent patient...	Promising practices from the field	06/04/2008
Better M.D.-R.N. Collaboration Through Unit Meetings Identify ways to better coordinate patient care by engaging an interdisciplinary team, including physicians and nurses.	Video, Promising practices from the field	06/04/2008

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