title: Expansion of the seizure monitoring program. A collaborative approach.
abstract: This article discusses an interdisciplinary total quality management (TQM) project that planned for the expansion of the seizure monitoring program on a neuroscience unit. The processes of education, bed management, and patient care were evaluated by a TQM group of staff nurses, unit leader, attending physicians, clinical nurse specialist, and technicians. Each participant identified actual and potential problems and their effects on the participant's area of care.
authors.affiliation: Preceptorship Programs, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Shindollar
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Castillo
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Buelow
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers; D002641:Chicago; D004569:Electroencephalography; D006757:Hospital Units / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000592:standards*; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration; D011367:Professional Staff Committees / Q000458:organization & administration; D012640:Seizures / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000451:nursing / Q000503:physiopathology; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000458:organization & administration