We encourage attendance at hospital and unit-based safety and quality programs, participation in workgroups aimed at reducing hospital-acquired conditions (unplanned extubations, ventilator-associated pneumonias, central line-associated bloodstream infections, central-line associate venous thromboemboli, pressure injuries from hospital devices, and catheter-associated urinary tract infections). Additionally, the program provides access to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement QI and patient safety online modules. The curriculum is self-driven, self-paced, and often completed during research blocks.
Our division is rich with current and evolving quality improvement activities:
- Acute management of patients with mediastinal mass
- Awake ECMO
- Bereavement follow up program
- Delirium and unplanned extubations
- DKA transition to subcutaneous insulin
- Development and implementation of sedation protocol
- ECMO follow up program
- Extubation readiness testing
- House Officer Clinical Quality and Safety Council
- Improving sepsis outcomes
- Multidisciplinary handoff of surgical patients
- Noise pollution and delirium
- Standardized management of patients after airway reconstruction
- Use of inhaled nitric oxide
- Foley catheter utilization and CAUTI reduction
- Rapid Response Team
