Admin/ Leader
Issues...
Staff safety
Bedside staff now demand safety from aggressive and dangerous patients as well as injury from lifting and moving.
Staff retention & burnout
Your staff require power, understanding, time, reduction of ‘busy work’’, team spirit, safety, and reward.
Staff attraction/cutting edge care
Potential new-hires look for their new place of employment to offer something special like high standards of care, forefront initiatives, and cutting edge tools.
Staff education
Your staff are comprised of new and experienced, young and old. You need education solutions that can speak to all sectors AND offer flexibility and convenience to allow for busy schedules and limited time.
HCAPS/Patient & Family satisfaction
Patient and family reviews are now being completed by a younger generation that value humanity, dignity, respect, and autonomy in addition to top quality care. PFAC committees keep a watch on administrator actions and reactions and are a window into your world of patient-centered care policy implementation.
Risk/Complications
Risk and complications can arise from action and inaction, for example, bedrest may at first appear to reduce the risk of falls and worse outcomes, but it actually increases the risk of muscle-wasting resulting in more falls, pressure injury, hospital-acquired pneumonia, blood clots, and more.
Policies/Procedures/Committees
Committees are only as good as their oversight. Policies and procedures resulting from meetings often miss their mark, often from assigning every goal equal weight.
Outcomes/Statistics
In the end, your outcomes and statistics are how the world will measure your success and failure. The input into these statistics often come from measurements that do not align with their goals. For example, passive range of motion is not nearly as valuable as active range of motion and the former can lead to more complications and collateral injury while the latter can speed healing and promote associated therapies. Some hospitals weigh these two standard of care measurements equally resulting in good internal metrics but poor external metrics.
Costs/Value
Budgets are often spread across various cost centers and can get lost when tallying the bottom line. Funding is sometimes attached to a particular cost center which fosters this behavior. Integrating the goals and outcomes across cost centers can often benefit multiple segments and result in not only a respectable revenue report from one cost center but also overall cost saving.
Scroll to the bottom to find our Cost Saving Analysis for different hospital sizes and our QVAC packet.
Reputation/Status
Communities and organizations weigh your reputation. Consistent friendliness, high standards, and true patient-centered care help build that reputation and status and certification centers such as Magnet may then echo it for you.
How we can help...
Confidential Internal Audit- Bring in an expert for a confidential audit of your patient-centered policies and procedures to strengthen your unit. Integration of your efforts, metrics, outcomes, committee alignment, cost burden, and staff satisfaction are the focus of this customized review. Receive a private detailed report including implementation recommendations to harmonize your goals of excellence in patient care, workflow, cost optimization, unification of silos, and future direction. Complete this needs assessment form.
Staff Education
DelTrain™ VR is an immersive empathy experience for Adult or Pediatrics that transports the user into the body of a delirious patient where they witness authentic hallucinations and are exposed to bedside behaviors that contribute to delirium. The learner then becomes the virtual caregiver and conducts delirium scoring and bedside procedures.
BE the patient in your very own on-demand simulation lab.
A+O x 3™: A novel educational method of interactive scenarios, virtual reality (VR), in-person & remote learning, and free exclusive tools. A+Ox3™ Topics:
• Delirium prevention • Ventilator weaning • Restraint use
• Sedation reduction • Early mobility • Nurse safety
• Family engagement • Patient environment
Reduce harm, improve metrics and earn the A+O x 3™ certificate! Instructors available for Grand Rounds and other talks.
Patient-Centered Initiatives
The Exersides Refraint is a clinically proven, safe & effective patient mobility device designed to enable safe active range of motion, minimize agitation, and protect against tube and line dislodgement. Ensuring patient & nurse safety, the Exersides® Refraint® embodies patient-centered care for ventilator weaning, family engagement, and bundle elements. Available for adults and pediatrics.
With HDmedical products, you can unlock risk reduction behavior, reduce costs, and improve your institution’s status, as you improve quality and safety, while offering more humane patient care. Your staff will also benefit when they have more impact which improves morale and increases staff retention.
Show off your quality improvement leadership!
