title: No-Pass Zone: Multidisciplinary Approach to Responding to Patient Needs.
abstract: A nurse's need to juggle multiple priorities often leads to delays in responses to patient call lights, which may result in the patient's needs not being met quickly. Low patient satisfaction scores related to hospital staff responding to patient needs created urgency for this system to implement the No-Pass Zone, a multidisciplinary team approach to responding to call lights. A successful implementation of this intervention resulted in patients' needs being met more quickly as indicated by improved Hospital Consumer Assessment of Health Care Providers and Systems performance postimplementation.
authors: WellSpan Gettysburg Hospital, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (Mss Lee and Crouse); and WellSpan York Hospital, York, Pennsylvania (Ms Gipson).
authors: Tracy L
authors: TL
authors: Lee
authors: Marlene
authors: M
authors: Crouse
authors: Kelly
authors: K
authors: Gipson
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D006747:Hospital Communication Systems / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D020380:Needs Assessment; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000592:standards*; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D010414:Pennsylvania; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D011930:Reaction Time