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The document outlines the implementation of Hourly Safety Rounds at Massachusetts General Hospital, emphasizing their evidence-based approach to enhance patient care. It details the benefits of these rounds, including reduced patient falls and improved satisfaction for both patients and nursing staff. Key elements for success include consistent scripting, involvement of the care team, and regular review of safety metrics. The document also introduces the '7 P's' framework used during rounds to address patient needs effectively.

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What are the benefits of safety rules?

Benefits of good health and safety reduced costs. reduced risks. lower employee absence and turnover rates. fewer accidents. lessened threat of legal action. improved standing among suppliers and partners. better reputation for corporate responsibility among investors, customers and communities.

Why are safety rounds important?

Separate from daily patient rounds, they performed at the bedside to identify quality and safety concerns early in a patients hospital stay. Safety rounds help prevent harm events because they allow multiple sets of eyes to assess the patient with the bedside nurse.

What are the benefits of rounding?

Rounding provides an opportunity for leaders to collect and pass on recognition for clinicians and staff who have been helpful. This in turn creates increasing momentum for better service, higher retention and improved quality, all of which can lead to stronger financials and growth.

What is the hourly rounding protocol?

This protocol involves the staff nurses and patient care technicians alternately rounding on patients on even and odd hours consecutively. As staff enters the room, they focus their assessment on the 4 elements of the hourly rounding namely Pain, Potty, Position, and Placement as shown in the checklist.

Why is hourly rounding important?

Hourly rounding makes my patients safer by preventing patient falls. Hourly rounding makes my patients safer by preventing hospital-acquired pressure ulcers. The education I received included the current research that hourly rounding decreases patient call light use.

Why is patient rounding important?

By facilitating early identification of health concerns and potential safety issues, patient rounding enables timely interventions and contributes to improved care outcomes. Patient rounding also enables healthcare teams to: Monitor infection control practices and identify early signs of hospital-acquired infections.

What are the 5 Ps of hourly rounding?

Purposeful hourly rounding consists addressing the 5 Ps (Pain, Potty, Position, Possessions and Personal Page 4 International Journal of Nursing Care, July-December 2019, Vol. 7, No. 2 19 needs), assessing for a safe environment and setting expectations.

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