Comparison of Postprocedure Cardiac Catheterization Recovery Instructions on Participant's Perceived Comprehension and Satisfaction.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of education timing on patient satisfaction and perceived knowledge comprehension of recovery instructions in cardiac catheterization patients.

Design: This prospective quasi-experimental single-blinded study was blinded to the participant.

Methods: This study was conducted between January and August 2022 in the cardiac catheterization laboratory of a New York metropolitan community hospital.

Implementing an OR Contact Precautions Decision Algorithm to Promote Interprofessional Teamwork for Infection Prevention.

Perioperative nurses use aseptic and sterile technique along with standard cleaning and disinfection practices to prevent surgical site infections. At our hospital, OR team members identified a clinical problem: the lack of a systematic approach to determine the type of postprocedure cleaning required between procedures involving patients with multi-drug resistant organisms or Clostridium difficile. Facility leaders developed a project to design and implement an evidence-based decision-making algorithm to help perioperative nurses rapidly identify the appropriate environmental cleaning procedures for these ORs.