Preadmission testing in a children's facility.
NURSES IN A SAME DAY SURGERY (SDS) UNIT used their hospital's quality model to identify a long-term problem, establish a project, analyze the problem, and make recommendations for changes to improve patient care. THE PROCESS included conducting a review of the literature, collecting data about procedure delays and cancellations, making a site visit to another children's hospital, and presenting pertinent findings to the OR committee. THE NURSES initiated a pilot program to bring surgical patients into the SDS area for a preadmission testing visit. DELAYS AND CANCELLATIONS decreased, and satisfaction among nurses working in the SDS unit increased as a result of this program.
Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, Kansas City, MO, USA.
Kathleen
K
Sexton
Michelle
M
Redfearn
D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures; D002648:Child; D003625:Data Collection; D003955:Diagnostic Tests, Routine; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008923:Missouri; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010343:Patient Admission / Q000592:standards; D010371:Pediatric Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013527:Perioperative Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011787:Quality of Health Care