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Charge Nurse Attributes Saving a Patient to RQI Training PROVIDER STORY Harrison Medical Center staff are improving their competence and confidence in CPR skills thanks to the immediate, objective feedback RQI manikins provide. “Codes are so chaotic and stressful, but knoing that ou’re giving good compressions and ventilations reall helps ith Harrison Medical Center, located in that stress level.” Bremerton, Wash., is part of CHI ranciscan — Health, one of the larest health care Heidi Dix on, RN Charge Nurse, Post-Anesthesia Care Unit sstems in the et ond, Washinton Harrison Medical Center reion. The ed facilit has receied an A rade from The eapfro rop for CHALLENGE the past for ears and incldes Harrison Medical Center’s education department had comprehensie stroe and heart care always sponsored basic life support S and adanced incldin openheart srer and cardioascular life support S trainin classes but an early a leel III trama center. uality improement study usin a local fire department’s feedbac maniin reealed that clinicians’ sills could use improement and additional consistency The hospital needed a more effectie feedbacdrien PR trainin proram SOLUTION or arrison edical enter the merican eart ® ® ssociation’s Resuscitation uality Improement RQI proram tacles two traditional PR trainin challenes—infreuency of practice and lac of instant feedbac on PR uality Performin PR is not part of many health care proiders’ reular practices Some rarely perform it other than durin their biannual trainin ithout practice PR compression and entilation sills derade and oerall PR effectieness is reduced—often hain a neatie effect on patient outcomes RI maniins proide the direct feedbac and reularity of practice employees need to improe and maintain hihuality PR sills oer time RI’s “low-dose/high-frequency” trainin is reuired eery three months which can initially be seen as timeconsumin but is easily proen otherwise “During our initial launch we brought the RQI stations into the deartents and aroached it as a fun actiity” said eidi Dion R chare nurse postanesthesia care unit and RI champion “Once eeryone saw how uicly they could learn RI it really helped with that resistance” or more information, isit s at www.RQIPartners.com CONTINUED ON BACK SOLUTION CONTINUED Implementation went smoothly Yelena atson R S SR SE clinical education coordinator proed on paper RI’s cost alidity ensurin leadership’s full support “e no loner pay employees to sit throuh four hours of S or two days of S classes pay instructors to teach the classes or pay the administratie fees that support these instructorled classes” said atson RESULTS Increased taff Coetence and Confidence—ith seen ® ® Resuscitation uality Improement RI carts stationed on RQI Cart hospital units in emerency departments in operatin rooms and een a unit that traels amon its clinic locations the oraniation Resuscitation Quality Improvement: recently completed its first uarter of RI trainin • roides a hihreliailit platform for In addition to compression freuency and depth Dion learned that simlationased master learnin each person has an ideal position for performin PR “nowin what implemented throh lodose, position enables you to proide the best compressions maes a hue hihfreenc alit improement difference” she said “Some employees I wored with had a hard time sessions that measre and erif C passin until we altered their stance een minutely—somethin we competence and aard a ne AHA wouldn’t hae nown without RI’s direct feedbac” eCredential pon completion hile it’s too soon for hard data atson and Dion hae heard • pports master of Hihalit encourain feedbac from employees many of whom hae newfound C sills throh feedacdrien confidence in their PR sills—includin Dion herself he recently delierate practice saed a atient s life who eerienced cardiac arrest shortly after a • ills sessions last approimatel colectoy mintes per arter hile conitie “I felt secure in the uality of my compressions and I new when I learnin actiities last p to mintes needed to switch out because my compressions weren’t as ood” per arter said Dion “nd I wasn’t hyperentilatin the patient with my rescue • Administrators ill hae analtic data breathin because that’s another piece of RI feedbac odes related to all actiities performed. are so chaotic and stressful but nowin that you’re iin ood Tracin of performance and related compressions and entilations really helps with that stress leel” continos alit improements The patient had an ecellent outcome and was dischared home initiaties related to resscitation can neuroloically intact— direct proof that RI saes lies “o ee not e traced and monitored. only coetence but confidence in your CR sills you should be • imlation stations deploed at doing it uch ore often than eery two years” said atson locations conenientl accessed Dion added that without a feedbac deice the PR learnin cure stdents, alloin sills modles to e doesn’t delier the same results because it lacs immediate obectie completed drin the normal shift feedbac “ith RI you almost become entirely retrained on PR • Comprehensiel addresses the because now you’re doin it at the riht rate and depth—it’s lie a competenceased reirements for whole new ball ame” accreditation as estalished The oint Commission or more information, isit s at www.RQIPartners.com © I artners, C D
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