A new framework published in JAMA Internal Medicine offers a systematic approach to this challenge. Researchers described the ...

The checklist, which asked questions about prophylaxis, medication reconciliation and urinary catheter placement, was uploaded into neuroscience ICU patient charts as an automatic prompt. The ...

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 ...

Transfer Summer Orientation is an important experience at the beginning of your UB journey. Your orientation will get you started with understanding academic responsibilities, planning for ...

The Parent & Family Checklist highlights some important things to keep in mind as well as some links to resources that will help your student have a great start to their River Hawk experience. Student ...

In addition to empowering clinicians to customize checklists for each patient, the study shows that critical care nurses are ideal candidates to be independent checklist prompters during rounds.

A checklist for cardiac ICU physicians, who often treat both cardiac and noncardiac conditions, may improve outcomes among patients admitted to a cardiac emergency care setting, according to a ...

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, ...

Purdue’s New Student Task List (NST) provides a centralized checklist of steps for new and transfer students to take before they begin classes at Purdue. Your task list contains a variety of important ...

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 ...

Ensuring successful integration of nurse practitioners into intensive care units includes orientation programs and leadership teams.

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.