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This project highlighted the ability for stakeholders and innovators to work together in an interprofessional, multidisciplinary way to rapidly create an overflow unit. While this innovation was designed to address COVID-19, the lessons learned can be applied to any other emerging infectious disease or acute care capacity crisis.

In-hospital patient falls are a persistent problem in health care, resulting in increased length of stay and nonreimbursable charges.

Although fall prevention programs have decreased inpatient fall rates, our hospital averages 30 falls per month.

This was a quality improvement project, including a simulation and debriefing. We performed a thematic analysis on the debriefing responses and tracked the inpatient fall rates over 8 months.

We developed and implemented a low-cost simulation to allow bedside clinicians to experience the physiological changes experienced by patients, which contribute to inpatient falls.

Fifty-one clinicians participated in the simulation; each expressed an increased understanding in the physical limitations of patients and shared at least 1 technique to help prevent falls for their patient population. The fall rate was reduced by 23.17% in the succeeding 8 months.

Clinicians' awareness of patients' physiological changes can be increased by a low-cost, rapid simulation, resulting in fewer falls.

Clinicians' awareness of patients' physiological changes can be increased by a low-cost, rapid simulation, resulting in fewer falls.

Patterns of frequent emergency department (ED) use correlate with a variety of care needs. Health care systems should address these needs in collaboration with community health partners.

Approximately 600 patients frequent a local ED for nonemergent needs. Approximately 15% of those patients are homeless.

A program consistent with the Corporation for Supportive Housing's Frequent User System Engagement (FUSE) model was developed and implemented in a community setting. Eleven participants were enrolled in this pilot program.

Eligible candidates enrolled in the program received coordinated multidisciplinary care and stable housing.

ED visits, primary care provider visits, and number of diagnostic tests and costs changed significantly over time.

The FUSE program is equipped to address the needs of the whole person, resulting in a meaningful impact on overall health while decreasing frequency of ED visits.

The FUSE program is equipped to address the needs of the whole person, resulting in a meaningful impact on overall health while decreasing frequency of ED visits.

Nursing policies and protocols exist to promote high-quality, safe, and effective nursing practice; however, there is little evidence demonstrating how nurses actually use them to inform their everyday, routine practice.

The purposes were to explore the extent to which nurses use nursing policies and protocols to guide their routine practice, and identify barriers and facilitators affecting the frequency with which nurses use nursing policies and protocols.

Licensed nurses (N = 235) providing direct care to inpatients and outpatients in a large medical center participated in an 18-question online survey.

Most nurses access policies and protocols once a month or more; the greatest barrier to more frequent access was length of the policy or protocol.

Organizations should make policies and protocols succinct, current, and easily accessible. Talabostat order Studies are needed to determine how policies and procedures can best meet the needs of stakeholders, including health care organizations, staff, and patients.

Organizations should make policies and protocols succinct, current, and easily accessible. Studies are needed to determine how policies and procedures can best meet the needs of stakeholders, including health care organizations, staff, and patients.

Consensus guidelines for pain, agitation, and delirium (PAD) in mechanically ventilated patients recommend maintaining a light level of sedation.

Consistent attainment of target PAD assessments in mechanically ventilated ICU patients is often challenging.

This is a single-center, prospective study.

In the intervention group, a pharmacist provided weekly feedback to nurses on their success in achieving target PAD assessments compared with a historical cohort without feedback.

Overall, 478 patients and 205 nurses were included. The odds of having weekly Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale (RASS) score, pain score goals, and Confusion Assessment Method for the ICU (CAM-ICU) negative assessments at goal between the intervention and control groups fluctuated over time without a discernible trend.

The provision of weekly feedback to nurses on PAD nursing assessments by a pharmacist did not impact the achievement of PAD goals among critically ill mechanically ventilated patients.

The provision of weekly feedback to nurses on PAD nursing assessments by a pharmacist did not impact the achievement of PAD goals among critically ill mechanically ventilated patients.

The evaluation of the quality of nursing care by patients and nurses is important for improving care.

The aim was to determine patients' and nurses' perceptions of the quality of nursing care in surgical clinics and influencing factors.

The sample of this cross-sectional, descriptive, and comparative study consisted of 503 surgical patients and 308 surgical nurses. The data were collected between February 2018 and June 2019.

Characteristics of patients such as age, gender, complications, and nursing care scores, and the characteristics of the nurses such as being satisfied with the current clinic, their work experience in the clinic, and the number of daily surgical interventions affected the perceptions of care quality.

The study revealed that the patients' perceptions of the quality of care were lower than those of nurses, and some factors belonging to the patients and nurses negatively influenced the quality of care.

The study revealed that the patients' perceptions of the quality of care were lower than those of nurses, and some factors belonging to the patients and nurses negatively influenced the quality of care.