Most people speak highly about the staff in ICU and the care they received even if they could not always remember their names. The overall care they received was extremely good but they often did not see the same nurse or doctor twice, sometimes this made it difficult to build a trusting relationship. That is why continuity of care very important when I make assignment I try to give the same patient to the nurse who took care of the patient previous day.
Outcomes: Enhances patient, family and caregivers satisfaction.
I do meet the needs of the patient care beyond my unit area
• When there is need floated to the tele monitoring dept, SICU and MICU.
• Serve as resource person to tele-monitoring nurse in recognizing and interpreting the rhythm.
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Scientific Inquiry
I keep my skills up to date by reading the current journal articles on Evidence based practice and share the information with my peers. I uses the theoretical and evidence based knowledge of staff and patient experiences to make the plan of care to provide quality of care with better patient outcomes. Before administering each loading dose antiarrhythmic drug like Tikosyn I always check the patient’s labs values. I brought to the attention of the resident of low levels of K and Mg. Which I could able to replace iv.
Outcomes: Patient Qtc was only prolonged but had no Lethal Arrhythmia. Patient can able to go home as planned.
Electronic charting systems have made big impact as they allow the data to be electronically processed allowing for the deteriorating patients to be recognized immediately and diverted the adverse outcome with timely interventions.
Different technologies are being adopted with the aim of improving the clinical response to the deteriorating condition of patients recently we using in our unit Non Invasive Hemodynamic Monitoring device called Cheetah. By embracing this technology not only bring the incidence of ICU infection rate low but also reduce the length of ICU