Purposeful hourly rounding is a systematic, evidence-based process driven by nurses and designed to anticipate the needs of hospital patients (Kelley, 2017). Various types of patient rounding promote safety and increase patient satisfaction. Nurses’ responsiveness to patients’ needs is critical in preventing adverse outcomes. However, challenges in our current healthcare systems, such as short staffing, increased workload, and acuity levels, make implementing and sustaining patient rounding difficult.
This course aims to educate nurses in the acute care setting on purposeful patient rounding, the benefits and strategies for sustainability, and quality agencies that focus on patient rounding and safety.
Purposeful hourly rounding is a systematic, evidence-based process driven by nurses and designed to anticipate the needs of hospital patients (Kelley, 2017). Various types of patient rounding promote safety and increase patient satisfaction. Nurses’ responsiveness to patients’ needs is critical in preventing adverse outcomes. However, challenges in our current healthcare systems, such as short staffing, increased workload, and acuity levels, make implementing and sustaining patient rounding difficult. This course aims to educate nurses in the acute care setting on purposeful patient rounding, the benefits and strategies for sustainability, and quality agencies that focus on patient rounding and safety.
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Outline:
Section 1: Introduction
About This Course
Learning Objectives
Section 2: Patient Rounding Overview
Allison
Patient Rounding
Difficulty with Implementation
Back to Allison
Benefits of Patient Rounding
Make Patient Rounding Purposeful
Agencies That Focus on Patient Safety and Rounding
Implementing Other Types of Patient Rounds
Strategies to Overcome Barriers
Section 3: Clinical Vignette
Allison Ends the Day
Section 4: Conclusion
Course Summary
Course Contributor
References
Zeliha has extensive experience in critical care nursing in acute care hospitals, including cardiac intensive care (CICU) and medical intensive care units (MICU). She has served in various roles, including educator, preceptor, charge nurse, and advanced critical care life support (ACLS) instructor. She has extensive experience as a code nurse for a 900-bed hospital. Zeliha has been a lung transplant coordinator for around five years and was responsible for pre-transplant care, waitlist management, and post-lung transplant care. Zeliha has worked on cutting-edge transplant organ procurement initiatives such as Ex-Vivo Lung Perfusion (EVLP) and has managed patients in a hospital that performs around 100 transplants annually. Additionally, Zeliha has served as quality chair council for the heart and vascular services and has worked on several quality initiatives for the service line, such as infection control, cardiac education, nursing resiliency, and nursing onboarding. She has served on various leadership councils in the CICU. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Saint John University in Rochester, New York. She has a Master of Science in Nursing and a Master’s in Clinical Nurse Leadership (CNL) from Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina. She is also certified as a Critical Care Nurse (CCRN).
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