Joint Commission, Policy and Procedure Manuals were put in place to protect the patient. The patient safety is paramount in very setting. It does not matter if nurses are at some health fair, offering free Flu shots or in the operating with the physician performing an exploratory laparotomy. The QSEN Safety and Evidence Based Practice if properly followed ensures the safety of the patient. Based on EBP it is mandated at my job that all central venous line dressing should be changed on every Wednesday. This ensures that all patients are treated the same in every department and area of the hospital, as stated in Masters “it results in effective patient care with better patient outcomes” (Masters, 2017, p. 256). Team work and Collaboration is
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Every Tuesday at a set time, our ICU head physician holds a rounding session with members of the interdisciplinary team on each patient in the unit. There are questions asked as to the status of the patient’s nutritional state, physical state, discharge planning and so forth. The nurse for each patient plays the part as the advocate for the patient since most are either intubated, confused, or without any family present. If the patient is coherent we walk into the patient room and they are involved in the conversation. A lot is accomplished during these rounding sessions as each member of the interdisciplinary is able to ask pointed questions to better care for the patient. “The ultimate purpose of teamwork and collaboration is to achieve high-quality patient care” (Masters, 2017, p. 336). Each establishment must ensure that, the nurses if not the general staff have current available data on
Every Tuesday at a set time, our ICU head physician holds a rounding session with members of the interdisciplinary team on each patient in the unit. There are questions asked as to the status of the patient’s nutritional state, physical state, discharge planning and so forth. The nurse for each patient plays the part as the advocate for the patient since most are either intubated, confused, or without any family present. If the patient is coherent we walk into the patient room and they are involved in the conversation. A lot is accomplished during these rounding sessions as each member of the interdisciplinary is able to ask pointed questions to better care for the patient. “The ultimate purpose of teamwork and collaboration is to achieve high-quality patient care” (Masters, 2017, p. 336). Each establishment must ensure that, the nurses if not the general staff have current available data on