Articles: checklist.
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There is high prevalence of mental and behavioral disorders in general hospitals, thus triggering psychiatric risk situations. This study aimed to develop a psychiatric risk assessment checklist and routine for nurses, the Psychiatric Risk Evaluation Check-List (PRE-CL), as an alternative model for early identification and management of these situations in general hospitals. ⋯ It is possible to develop a model for detecting and intervening in psychiatric and behavioral disorders at general hospitals based on nursing team observations, through a checklist that takes these observations into account and a routine inserted into daily practice.
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Nursing in critical care · Jul 2015
Introduction of a new ward round approach in a cardiothoracic critical care unit.
Francis (2013) described inconsistent ward rounds and failures to conduct ward rounds properly as contributing factors to the poor care seen at the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust. He suggested that the absence of a nurse at the bedside had clear consequences for communication, ward round efficiency and patient safety. He recommended that nurses should be actively involved in ward rounds and linked this to high quality patient care. ⋯ Nurses' full participation in ward rounds is essential to ensure effective communication and enhance patient safety.
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J Trauma Acute Care Surg · Jul 2015
The impact of a multidisciplinary safety checklist on adverse procedural events during bedside bronchoscopy-guided percutaneous tracheostomy.
Bedside procedures are seldom subject to the same safety precautions as operating room (OR) procedures. Since July 2013, we have performed a multidisciplinary checklist before all bedside bronchoscopy-guided percutaneous tracheostomy insertions (BPTIs). We hypothesized that the implementation of this checklist before BPTI would decrease adverse procedural events. ⋯ Therapeutic/care management study, level IV.
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To determine if a knot-tying checklist can provide a valid score and if the checklist can be used by novice surgeons in a reliable manner. ⋯ The knot-tying checklist provides a valid score for basic surgical knot-tying and can be used by novice and experienced raters. Its use supports peer assessment of performance in a surgical skills laboratory setting.