2. Objective
• To discuss Emergency Room (ER) Project
• To discuss Troponin I project
• To discuss Prevent Falling Down Project
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3. Emergency Room (ER) Project
• The overall goal of the project was to compose health care in ER fit with
hospital mission and vision.
• FOCUS PDCA has been adapted to improve health care in ER.
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Find
• problem in ER mostly related delaying in health care provided in ER
which is directly increases the boarding time more than 3 hours.
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Organize
• Organized team was being formed in ordered to review the process and
identify the reason of delaying
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7. Clarify
• Clarifying existed problem by comparing the expected outcome with actual
performance.
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9. Understanding
• study conducted over one month to evaluate the waiting time and summarize
the problems in ER as well validated data.
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11. Selecting
• To prioritize the performance improvement in ER, we matched the
problem with priority matrix of indicators.
• 1. Minimize rate of patients wait more than 3 hours
• 2. Reporting urgent and emergent lab and radiology result
• 3. Adherence to policy triage cases and physician documentation.
12. PLAN
• The overall goal of the project was to compose health care fit hospital
mission and vision.
• to reform ER structure and extend number of beds.
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13. DO
Supportive services director was responsible to achieve the objective.
Redesign ER structure to fit the extension number of beds.
4 beds were added to be totally 11 beds.
Also pediatric clinic is opened in ER at time off OPDs
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14. CHECK
• After expansion, the waiting time indicator showed decrease in percentage
to the half. For instance, in January and February the percentage of
waiting time indicator was 6.6 and 7.39, respectively.
• Regarding patient complain, it showed decrease in 1st quarter in 2016
comparing with 4th quarter 2015.
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15. Act
• The project has been already finished
• It is under monitoring
16. Point of Care-Troponin I
Find
• Data obtained from CAREWARE system showed that turnaround time was
more than 1 hour for patient coming to ER.
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17. Organize
• The team involved from head of LAB, ER, head nurse, supportive
maintenance, and CQI.
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18. Clarifying
• existed problem by comparing the expected outcome for TAT with actual
performance
• The expected outcome should match hospital policy to reflect hospital vision
and mission. According to hospital policy (LAB-QM-POST-7), the expected
TAT is 1 hour.
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20. Understanding
• Collected specimens were sent to lab without prioritizing Troponin I. In lab,
the technician did not know which sample should be prioritize as it is
emergent.
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PLAN
• The overall goal of the project was to compose health care fit hospital
mission and vision.
• Objective: to avoid delay in result and to report panic value within 1 hour for
troponin
22. DO
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• In the literature, the easiest method is applying Point of Care (POC) in EMS
to avoid result delaying. For instance, study showed that the result of
troponin was available on average in 15 versus 83 minutes for the laboratory
result
(A.J., J., J., & J., 2005).
23. • Supportive maintenance was responsible to provide POC kit.
• Head of laboratory revised POC policy.
• Lab technician will educate ER nursing staff how to use the kit.
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24. prevent Fall Down Project
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To do a comprehensive assessment for all patient admitted
To prevent patient fall during hospitalization
Improvement done using FOCUS PDCA.
• Find
• Received OVR Monthly regarding patient fall down, and this is against
target indicator.
• should be no incidence as it is one of international patient safety goal.
26. Organized team.
CQI director
Risk mngt & PT coordinator
ICU head nurse
ECU head nurse
Nursing Educator
Radiology supervisor
Physiotherapy supervisor
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27. Clarifying
• Morse Scale was revised carefully.
• There was error in printed scale which mean the result scale for patient at
high risk for fall will be low risk and vice versa.
• Morse scale lacking assessment for change in elimination status which is
the most reason leading for fall.
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29. • In pediatric scale; error in printing humpty dumpty scale.
• There is no process to check equipment may cause fall for reason such as
wheel chair, IV stand, or beds.
• Medications may cause fall integrated in the Morse scale without
sensitivity consideration.
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30. Understanding
• Lack proper Assessment as well no clear intervention to prevent fall is the
major cause of fall in the hospital.
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31. PLAN
To Implement valid fall assessment tool
To implement comprehensive fall prevention program involving
intervention
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32. DO
Fall prevention policy completely changed to new comprehensive program.
Assessment tool was changed from Morse scale to Johns Hopkins Fall risk
Assessment Tool (JHFRAT). (CQI Director).
Educate the staff how to implement JHFRAT (Nursing educator)
Set comprehensive intervention for scale (Head nurses).
Prepare checklist for equipment checking (OPD head nurse)
Check equipment either daily or weekly (Nurses and end users).
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Why this is important lecture, well, at first you know that after 2 month we will face JCI. So, one of the question may ask you is, tell me about 1 project in hospital. Or tell me about your departmental project.
So, thru this presentation, you will know what is hospital project as well you will learn how to do project in your department.
Mainly, thru this lecture we will present 3 project in the hospital.
The hospital mission emphasize the commitment hospital to improve quality by providing excellent preventive and curative medical service to patients through adopting national and international standards.
FOCUS-PDCA it is a simple, logical, and systematic approach to accomplish incremental improvement of an existing process, or to redesign an existing process or design an essentially new process or in problem solving.
And this is against hospital policy. In particular policy #EMS.2 “Holding patient for observation” according to this policy it is clearly stated that observation hours for patient in ER should not exceed 3 hours.
from head of ER, head nurse, supportive maintenance, administrative, and CQI.
- The purpose of project explained in detail to members. They enhanced to be logical, creative, and empowered to make contribution.
Each member has a unique role in the project. For example: the role of head nurse was to provide Data regarding the total number of patient have visited ER per month. Supportive maintenance restructures the design of ER. CQI represent facilitate the team member requirement.
The expected outcome should match hospital policy to reflect hospital vision and mission.
This graph shows the percentage of patient waited time exceeded 3 hours.
- submitted data by the ER head nurse.
Reviewing the trend of visiting ER showed increasing numbers of patient from month to month.
increasing number of patients visit ER at the same time the availability of beds just 7 beds definitely that will impact waiting time.
And Increasing in waiting time definitely will impact other aspect of health care.
For instance, starting from triage room, we found non-adhere to hospital policy in triaging patient. Non-adherence to policy could be result from increasing patients’ numbers coming to ER. Deficiency in physician’s note was significant in triage form. Moreover, our study showed that delay in urgent and emergent lab result as well radiology report
As I mentioned before the goal of this projects was……………..
And to achieve this goal we set our objective which is ………………………..
Second project conducted based on data from ER study and also , it was received 3 OVRs for delaying to release + Troponin I result. One of these OVRs, patient signed DAMA and discharged without treatment which mean it is affect patient safety.
Exceed more than 1 hours indicates that delay in proper intervention could impact lifesaving.
chart shows the percentage of sample taken duration more than 1 hour to release the result.
Under this circumstance, delay to analyze the result definitely will delay of releasing result and that will impact patient safety, in particular for urgent and emergent patient.
Point of care is small machine through it you can test troponin beside the patient, it is almost the same process of taken Glucocheck
All members were responsible to achieve the objective and each member has unique role.
As you see in this figure, the number of fall higher than expected
The scale which used to assess the patient was revised carefully.