NQMC Update Service: June 9, 2014 ▲ Spanish Society of Intensive and Critical Care and Units Coronary

NQMC Update Service: June 9, 2014

Spanish Society of Intensive and Critical Care and Units Coronary

• Continuing medical education, teaching, and research: does the hospital have duly updated basic protocols?

• Continuing medical education, teaching, and research: percentage of professionals on the staff who obtained continuing medical education credits in the last 36 months.

• Internet: does the hospital have continuous availability of online access to electronic sources of scientific information?

• Nursing care: is a protocol for intrahospital transport in effect?

• Nursing care: percentage of aspirations performed following the recommendations.

• Nursing care: percentage of crash cart reviews performed according to protocol.

• Nursing care: percentage of cuff-pressure measurement controls within the recommended range.

• Nursing care: percentage of duly completed registers.

• Nursing care: percentage of enteral feeding tubes requiring removal due to obstruction.

• Nursing care: percentage of errors in medication reported.

• Nursing care: percentage of falls occurring.

• Nursing care: percentage of families informed by nursing staff.

• Nursing care: percentage of hand washes carried out.

• Nursing care: percentage of monitored patients who present an adverse event due to inappropriate alarm management.

• Nursing care: percentage of vascular catheters accidentally removed.