Patient acuity tools in the hospital setting

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McLellan, M., & Connor, J. (n.d.). The Cardiac Children’s Hospital Early Warning Score (C-CHEWS). Journal of Pediatric Nursing., 28(2), 171-178.

Incesti, S., Bender, S., & Delunas, L. (n.d.). Development of a patient acuity model for an inpatient rehabilitation unit. Rehabilitation Nursing., 40(3), 133-138.

The Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale for children: A prospective multicenter evaluation. (n.d.). Annals of Emergency Medicine : Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians., 60(1), Annals of emergency medicine : journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians. , 2012, Vol.60(1).

Brennan, C., Daly, B., Dawson, N., Higgins, P., Jones, K., Madigan, E., & Van Der Meulen, J. (2012). The oncology acuity tool: A reliable, valid method for measuring patient acuity for nurse assignment decisions. Journal of Nursing Measurement., 20(3), 155-185.

Lovett, R., Reardon, M., Gordon, B., & McMillan, S. (n.d.). Validity and reliability of medical and surgical oncology patient acuity tools. Oncology Nursing Forum., 21(10), 1709-1717.

Gravel, J., Manzano, S., & Arsenault, M. (n.d.). Validity of the Canadian Paediatric Triage and Acuity Scale in a tertiary care hospital. CJEM : Canadian Journal of Emergency Medical Care = JCMU : Journal Canadien De Soins Médicaux D’urgence., 11(1), 23-28.

Improvement in falls rate and prevention of falls on the surgical floor

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Here is how to access 22 references on improvement in falls rate and prevention of falls on the surgical floor.
Go to Woodruff Health Sciences Center (WHSC) Library webpage: http://health.library.emory.edu
Click on PubMed.
Paste this url into your browser: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/1HuA1sy0j55QI/collections/52512629/public/

Improving nursing communication with patients on the surgical floor

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For the PubMed search, search terms were the following:
hospital staff nurses AND communication AND patients AND (surgical floor OR intensive care units).

Here a few references from this  search that provide links to the full text. Below these references is a link to a PubMed collection of 33 references.

Norouzinia R, Aghabarari M, Shiri M, Karimi M, Samami E. Communication
barriers perceived by nurses and patients. Glob J Health Sci. 2015 Sep
28;8(6):65-74. doi: 10.5539/gjhs.v8n6p65. PubMed PMID: 26755475; PubMed Central
PMCID: PMC4954910.

Garon M. Speaking up, being heard: registered nurses’ perceptions of workplace
communication. J Nurs Manag. 2012 Apr;20(3):361-71. doi:
10.1111/j.1365-2834.2011.01296.x. Epub 2011 Oct 13. PubMed PMID: 22519614.

Slade. J. (2016) Team Concepts.  Building a safe unit culture with CUSP. Nursing Managment. 47 (12_) 8-12. doi.10.1097/01.NUMA.0000508266.49722.7d

Here is how to access PubMed collection of 33 references.
Go to Woodruff Health Sciences Center (WHSC) Library webpage: http://health.library.emory.edu
Click on Pubmed.
Paste this url into your browser: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/1HuA1sy0j55QI/collections/52512309/public/

Encouraging patients to ask about hand hygiene

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Here is how to access 13 articles on encouraging patients to ask about hand hygiene (AKA the “it’s okay to ask” campaign).
a. Go to the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library homepage: http://health.library.emory.edu
b. Click on PubMed.
c. Then paste this links into your browser:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/1HMKnKhQm_d5i/collections/52594031/public/

Rounding decreases call light use

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PubMed collection includes 13 articles that state that rounding decreases call light use. Here’s how to access the collection.
a. Go to the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library homepage (http://health.library.emory.edu)
b. Click on PubMed.
c. Then paste this link into your browser: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/1HMKnKhQm_d5i/collections/52135288/public/
d. The references will appear in Pubmed. Click on a reference and you will see a Find it at Emory to the right of it-which will tell availability for full text. If you are not able to access the full text, send article citation(s) to Ask a Librarian (http://www.healthlibrary.emory.edu/about/contact/ask.php;this link is on WHSC Library homepage); our staff will get article for you and send it to you.

Scheduled turning for pressure ulcers

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Evaluating optimal patient-turning procedures for reducing hospital-acquired pressure ulcers (LS-HAPU): Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. (n.d.). Trials., 17, Trials. , 2016, Vol.17.

Hsiao, R., Mi, Z., Yang, B., Kau, L., Bitew, M., & Li, T. (2015). Body posture recognition and turning recording system for the care of bed bound patients. Technology and Health Care., 24 Suppl 1, S307-S312.

Behrendt, R., Ghaznavi, A., Mahan, M., Craft, S., & Siddiqui, A. (n.d.). Continuous bedside pressure mapping and rates of hospital-associated pressure ulcers in a medical intensive care unit. American Journal of Critical Care., 23(2), 127-133.

Ostadabbas, S., Yousefi, R., Nourani, M., Faezipour, M., Tamil, L., & Pompeo, M. (2012). A resource-efficient planning for pressure ulcer prevention. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine : A Publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society., 16(6), 1265-1273.

Pressure Sores. Hagger, Christina [BA (Hons), MBA, PhD]. [Consumer Information Sheets] 2010

Having more than one person work together to insert an urinary catheter

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Relevant systematic reviews and guidelines do not mention having more than one person insert an urinary catheter.

Following are citations and links to full text for three items in which two people worked together to insert catheters:

Galiczewski JM, Shurpin KM. An intervention to improve the catheter associated urinary tract infection rate in a medical intensive care unit: Direct observation of catheter insertion procedure. Intensive Crit Care Nurs. 2017 Jun;40:26-34. doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2016.12.003. Epub 2017 Feb 22. Excerpt: “CAUTI rates decreased from 2.24 to 0 per 1000 catheter days.” Three comments are available on this article. To view them, go here, and then copy and paste this url into the browser so that the Find it & Emory button will be available: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/1HMKnKhQm_d5i/collections/58794408/public/.

Fletcher-Gutowski S, Cecil J. Is 2-person urinary catheter insertion effective in reducing CAUTI? Am J Infect Control. 2019 Jul 16. pii: S0196-6553(19)30575-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2019.05.014. [Epub ahead of print]. Excerpt: “The results of this study indicate implementation of the 2-person urinary catheter insertion protocol with a checklist decreased the risk of CAUTI for our patient population.”

Breiter Y et al. 9-186 – Catheter-associated urinary tract infection reduction in the emergency department as a result of dual personnel urinary catheter insertion. American Journal of Infection Control. 2016;44:6(S88-S89). (this is only an abstract; 201 patients underwent dual personnel urinary catheter insertion; none developed a CAUTI)

Heudorf U. Grünewald M, Otto U. Implementation of the updated 2015 Commission for Hospital Hygiene and Infection Prevention (KRINKO) recommendations “Prevention and control of catheter-associated urinary tract infections” in the hospitals in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. GMS Hyg Infect Control. 2016 Jun 30;11:Doc14. doi: 10.3205/dgkh000274. eCollection 2016. Excerpt: “demonstrations were always performed by two persons (the second to hand the sterile materials to the first).”

Updated 8/23/2019 ldt