Quality Improvement Initiative in Pediatric Critical Care

Miranda Marie Schmidt

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Quality Improvement Initiative in Pediatric Critical Care

Miranda Marie Schmidt

Published in American Journal of Pediatrics (Volume 8, Issue 2)

Received: 14 March 2022 Accepted: 6 April 2022 Published: 14 April 2022

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Abstract

In a large academic pediatric medical center the formation of specialty care teams in the pediatric critical care setting led to the improvement in quality delivered to patients who had tracheostomies. Through frontline staff participation and interdisciplinary leadership – the team developed and strengthened processes that led to implementation of improvement strategies aimed at reducing hospital acquired pressure injury and decannulations. During this two-year time 150 nursing surveys and comprehensive literature reviews were completed to identify best practices and essential learning needs of the staff. The outcomes of these reviews helped to create improvement strategies which included developing educational initiatives focused on to support specific pathophysiologic issues impacting morbidity of patients leading to the quality metric goals. Upon completion of the educational and training initiatives led by the specialty care team, the incidence in tracheostomy decannulations and pressure injuries reduced significantly. Conclusions from this work highlight the importance of frontline staff as pivotal leaders in process change management and quality improvement changes. The teamwork among the interdisciplinary members allowed for enhanced collaboration in improving patient care outcomes and remains an active forum for evaluation of improvement in patient care. The efforts of the specialty care team provided sufficient data to support the implementation of specialty care teams that align efforts with that of organizational goals and aimed at reducing patient harm.

Published in	American Journal of Pediatrics (Volume 8, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajp.20220802.14
Page(s)	70-76
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Pediatric Critical Care, Nursing Education, Quality Improvement, Tracheostomy Decannulation, Pressure Injury Prevention

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Miranda Marie Schmidt

Center for Professional Excellence and Inquiry, Stanford Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Palo Alto, United States

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