Clinical Nurse Specialist-Driven Practice Change: Standardizing Vital Sign Monitoring.

Purpose: The purpose of this project was to standardize vital sign (VS) monitoring throughout a patient's stay in the hospital, including at admission, following transitions to different levels of care, reassessment of abnormal VS results, daily monitoring, and before dismissal. The population of focus was adult general and progressive care patients.

Description Of The Project: Standards for VS monitoring, documentation, and provider notification were established.