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Giving Team Members a Voice

A Food and Nutrition team creates an environment where employees feel free to voice their opinions and ideas—and can expect action to be taken on their input.

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IV bags and tubing.

Provide Care With Secondary Tubing

By using secondary tubing , which can be just as safe as primary tubing for many IV uses, this team saved a bunch of money.

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Why This Matters
  • When not medically necessary, primary tubing is wasteful.
Test of Change
  • Switching from primary tubing to secondary tubing, whenever appropriate
Tags: Affordability, Patient Safety, Quality, Service, Outpatient
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Irvine Medical Center RN Jennifer Nanasca

How to Improve Telemetry Monitoring

By tightening up processes and communication, this telemetry team improved the way it monitors patients.

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Why This Matters
  • A patient deprived of oxygen for 4 to 6 minutes can suffer brain damage.
Test of Change
  • Creating reminders for staff to check monitors
Tags: Clinical Outcomes, Patient Safety, Quality, Inpatient
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