Magnet Showcase: New Knowledge, Improvements, and Innovations

NK03: Integrating Evidence-Based Findings into Practice:  Miami Valley Hospital     

Provide one example of how clinical nurses used evidence-based findings to implement a practice new to the organization.

Clinical nurses implemented a new hospital elder life program (HELP) to minimize and prevent delirium. In the first year, the pilot unit achieved a decrease in variable cost per case and length of stay for the target population. 

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Provide one example of how clinical nurses used evidence-based findings to revise an existing practice to improve care.

MVH/MVHS clinical nurses and advance practice nurses revised the comfort management tool to reliably assess sedated and intubated patients using the CPOT scale. 

NK04EO: Nursing Innovation: Miami Valley Hospital

Provide two examples of an improvement that resulted from an innovation in nursing.

Interoperability of Alaris Pumps with EPIC – a “guardrail” for patient safety. This led to a 32 percent reduction in IV infusion medication error rate post-implementation. 

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The Maternity 1 unit council created and implemented a group mother-baby discharge class for parents to attend which provided uninterrupted, standardized group learning. Implementing this class facilitated readiness to discharge, as evidenced by a 7 percent reduction in the average LOS on Maternity 1 post-implementation!

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