Publications by authors named "Julie Kaszuba"
Article Synopsis
- Patients with diabetes face special challenges during hospital stays, which can complicate their treatment for other illnesses.
- An interprofessional team initiated a performance improvement project to enhance care for these complex patients using a comprehensive education plan and collaborative support.
- Strategies outlined include peer accountability and active engagement from unit nursing leadership to foster better diabetes management in hospital settings.
We studied prolonged length of stay (LOS) in the acute care setting on a medical-surgical vascular unit, related to loss of functional mobility status after lower extremity amputation, and implementation of the Amputee Mobility Protocol (AMP) as a standard of care for all patients pre- and post-lower extremity amputation who were admitted to the medical-surgical vascular unit. A comparative pre-post observational study evaluated the effect of AMP on level of functional mobility and LOS after lower extremity amputation in the patient population on the medical-surgical vascular unit. Data was collected retrospectively from patient chart reviews from November of 2004 to March of 2005 for the pre-AMP group and through concurrent patient chart reviews from November of 2005 to March of 2006 for the post-AMP group.
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