Date of Award
Fall 12-2021
Degree Type
Dissertation/Thesis
Degree Name
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)
School
Leadership and Advanced Nursing Practice
Committee Chair
Dr. Nina McLain
Committee Chair School
Leadership and Advanced Nursing Practice
Committee Member 2
Dr. Mary Jane Collins
Committee Member 2 School
Leadership and Advanced Nursing Practice
Abstract
Healthcare professionals are always seeking methods to improve patient care and patient outcomes and increase efficiency while reducing errors. By improving communication through the implementation of interdisciplinary communication, improved care quality, fewer variations in care, and enhanced collaboration among the healthcare team may be an outcome (Hoke & Falk, 2012). While anesthesia is involved in patient care throughout the perioperative period, their expertise may impact the patient’s outcome and quality of surgical care. With the involvement of anesthesia in interdisciplinary rounding, the patient may be optimized, and the plan of care may be more appropriate and individualized.
The potential for poor outcomes, longer hospital admissions, and postoperative complications may be higher without anesthesia involvement in the plan of care before surgery. The project focused on the advantages and disadvantages of preoperative interdisciplinary rounding on surgical patients and how higher-quality decision-making is established by anesthesia involvement in these interdisciplinary rounds (Sroka et al., 2018). An interdisciplinary rounding tool was chosen from evidence-based practice and assessed by a panel of experts in a survey. The population chosen as the panel of experts were also asked to assess the best practice recommendation on anesthesia involvement in interdisciplinary rounding on surgical inpatients preoperatively.
This project’s goal was to establish a best practice recommendation on anesthesia involvement in interdisciplinary rounding on surgical inpatients preoperatively with the implementation of a rounding tool. The survey consisted of 7 questions about the advantages and disadvantages of anesthesia involvement in interdisciplinary care and the effectiveness of the rounding tool implementation. The panel of experts agreed that the implementation of this best practice recommendation would improve patient quality of care throughout the entire perioperative period.
Copyright
Davis, 2021
Recommended Citation
Davis, Elizabeth, "Best Practice Recommendation on Anesthesia Involvement in Preoperative Interdisciplinary Rounding on Surgical Inpatients" (2021). Doctoral Projects. 153.
https://aquila.usm.edu/dnp_capstone/153
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