Reducing Employee Injury Rates with a Hospital-wide Employee Safety Program.

Introduction: Despite the well-known dangers of working in the healthcare industry, healthcare organizations have historically accepted workplace injuries as business as usual. In 2017, Children's National Hospital began our Employee and Staff Safety program to drive down the employee injury rate and address this disturbing industry trend.

Methods: With guidance and support from executive leadership, we created an Employee and Staff Safety program that aligned employee safety work with existing patient safety and quality improvement efforts.

Collaborative Partnerships: Raising the Professional Practice of Nursing.

The journey to Magnet® provides the ideal platform to demonstrate the impact of nursing and how strong interprofessional partnerships advance care and problem solving in an increasingly complex healthcare arena. Nurses in Magnet organizations use collaborative partnerships to forge innovative solutions, improve nursing care across the continuum, advance health in populations, effect desired change, and improve outcomes.

Strategies for establishing an endowed chair in a service setting.

To advance care for patients and families requires that providers and administrators in clinical settings place a high priority on the scientific domain of nursing. New knowledge intended to benefit nursing care is most effectively and efficiently achieved when a vibrant and well-supported nursing research program is embedded within a health care system. An endowed chair in nursing research is an esteemed strategy acknowledging the contributions of nursing science, providing credibility to a researcher and research programs, and demonstrating commitment to the infrastructure for nursing research.

Financial literacy as an essential element in nursing management practice.

Grooming nurses at all levels of the organization to master health care executive skills is critical to the organization's success and the individual's growth. Selecting and executing next steps for nursing leadership team development is critical to success. Leaders must make it their responsibility to provide nurses with increased exposure to quality, safety, and financial data, thereby allowing nurses to translate data while achieving and sustaining successful outcomes.

Cardiopulmonary monitors and clinically significant events in critically ill children.

Cardiopulmonary monitors (CPMs) generate false alarm rates ranging from 85%-99% with few of these alarms actually representing serious clinical events. The overabundance of clinically insignificant alarms in hospitals desensitizes the clinician to true-positive alarms and poses significant safety issues. In this IRB-approved externally funded study, we sought to assess the clinical conditions associated with true and false-positive CPM alarms and attempted to define optimal alarm parameters that would reduce false-positive alarm rates (as they relate to clinically significant events) and thus improve overall CPM performance in critically ill children.

Effect of a dedicated percutaneously inserted central catheter team on neonatal catheter-related bloodstream infection.

Purpose: To evaluate whether the establishment of a dedicated percutaneously inserted central catheter (PICC) team is associated with reduced risk of catheter-related bloodstream infection (CRBSI) in the neonatal intensive care unit.

Subjects: Participants were extremely low-birth-weight infants admitted to a level IIIC neonatal intensive care unit.

Design: A before- versus after-intervention study design was implemented.