Assignment 21: Annotated Bibliography 3

Simpsons SQ, Peterson DA, O’Brien-Ladner Ar. Development and Implementation of an ICU Quality Improvement Checklist, AACN Adv Crit Care, 2007

This article covers the improvements made in ICU care, the main thing that has allowed a decrease in fatalities was implementing a checklist for nurses and other personnel who interact with the patient. “The checklist augments our daily, multidisciplinary quality rounds and informs all personnel when important items have been missed.” This article is highly reliable for it came from the National Institute of Health’s Website and is an approved peer reviewed journal. I will use this article to help me, think of other possible ways to improve patient care and to use examples of ways that patient care has already been improved.

Assignment 19: Capstone Update

For the past week I have been gathering more information as to what patients and other health care personnel believe would be efficient ways to improve the quality of patient care. One thing Northside is doing that they believe will help is they are moving out patient rehab to a new building, and giving the old gym to the cardiorehab department allowing them to be able to do more. Another thing I have noticed is especially with geriatric patients having students around seem to improve their mood. When they see a high school student interested and participating they become interested and as a student we can ask questions and keep a conversation going that the professional personnel may have a hard time doing because they are focused on getting results. This dynamic allows the professional to treat and the student to communicate and help put the patient at ease helping with quality of patient care by improving efficiency and comfort for the patient. I have also begun constructing my website where I am going to attach this blog to as well as the annotated bibliography and others part of the capstone project.

Assignment 18: Annotated Bibliography 2

LYING-IN-HOSPITALS. (2001) Oxford Illustrated Companion to Medicine 477

The Oxford University book highlights the problems with lying prostrate for long periods of time while being in the hospital. As how it increases your chance for sepsis, which is the widespread of bacteria throughout the entire body. Commonly is  Pneumonia in older   patients whom are restricted to the bed after surgery or other  illness, especially if always lying prostrate on their back. “In 1846 when working at the Allgemeines Krankenhaus in Vienna, Semmelweiss noted that the maternal mortality in the ward attended by students was far higher than in that staffed by nurses. He suspected the difference was due to the students coming directly from the dissection room and infecting the parturient women they examined.This is from the Oxford University which is a world renowned leading medical university known for both its research and excellent care. This article talks about the negative effects of  staying prostrate for long periods of time in the hospital and the increase of infection that has been confirmed. Which I will use to support my ideas for improvements in patient care.