A standardized checklist for transferring neuroscience intensive care unit (ICU) patients to hospital services can help improve medication reconciliation and decrease patient time with a urinary ...

Orientation should not be an afterthought, but, rather, preplanned – and often lasting about the same length of time as it did to hire someone. It takes very little to make a new employee think that ...

Key strategies for successful integration of nurse practitioners (NPs) into critical care units include defining and implementing the role of NPs, providing options for orientation, and supporting ...

Pronovost helped the hospitals set up a program in 2003 that required ICU medical staff to follow a checklist of basic hygiene practices, such as hand-washing and wearing sterile gowns, to see if ...

BALTIMORE - A simple checklist for doctors and nurses in intensive care units can cut a patient’s ICU stay in half and perhaps save lives, a study shows.

This checklist was developed by physicians at the University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City. The checklist covers 15 areas of care, including skin condition, nutrition, stress ulcer prophylaxis, ...

Checklist Prompters Support ICU Rounds Study in American Journal of Critical Care finds that a single checklist prompter can reliably assess whether multidisciplinary ...