Caring for COVID's emotional long haulers.

14 strategies to safeguard nurses' mental health.

Reducing Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infections via Cost-saving Diagnostic Stewardship.

We conducted a quality improvement project at our large, public, tertiary-care, academic hospital to reduce the standardized infection ratio (SIR) of hospital-acquired catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs). Our diagnostic stewardship program, based on education and audit and feedback, significantly reduced inpatient urine culture orders and CAUTI SIR.

Lean methods to improve operating room elective first case on-time starts in a large, urban, safety net medical center.

Background: Delays in first cases contribute to multiple operating room (OR) inefficiencies and decreases in OR productivity.

Methods: Lean process improvement methods were used to redesign the existing workflow for elective first cases of the day in a large, urban, public hospital. First case start times were prospectively recorded from May 2, 2016 through December 29, 2017.