1. Quality improvement: Adherence to nurse-driven heparin protocols
- Author
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Amy Seitz Cooley, Danielle Feil, Ryan Sentz, Alison Sabados, and Chelsea Laughner
- Subjects
Adult ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Quality management ,MEDLINE ,Hospitals, Community ,Assessment and Diagnosis ,Emergency Nursing ,Critical Care Nursing ,Teaching hospital ,Medication Adherence ,Clinical Protocols ,Medicine ,Humans ,Intensive care medicine ,Hospitals, Teaching ,Retrospective Studies ,Advanced and Specialized Nursing ,Practice Patterns, Nurses' ,Adult patients ,Practice patterns ,business.industry ,Heparin ,Retrospective cohort study ,LPN and LVN ,Quality Improvement ,Clinical trial ,Nursing Evaluation Research ,business ,medicine.drug - Abstract
This study assessed the impact of process standard work, a quality improvement tool, on staff adherence to nurse-driven unfractionated heparin (UFH) protocols in adult patients at a community teaching hospital.This was a retrospective quality improvement project, and statistical analysis was performed by a senior research specialist at the facility.In total, 109 venous thromboembolism or cardiac UFH anticoagulant protocols were included in the final analysis, accounting for 445 activated partial thromboplastin time results.There was no change in adherence to a nurse-driven UFH protocol among adult patients after the implementation of process standard work.
- Published
- 2019