American Nurse

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Takeaways: When ambulatory care services can’t meet patient needs, they frequently transfer patients to the emergency department. A quality improvement project team proposed creating an advance practice provider ambulatory intermediate care clinic within ambulatory services to address the issue of unnecessary transfers.

Outpatient Clinic 71

Outpatient Clinic APRN Patient Satisfaction Leadership 71

American Nurse

APRIL 6, 2023

They’ve been shown to reduce door-to-treatment time by bringing specialized healthcare providers, compute tomography imaging, and thrombolytic therapy to the patient’s front door. According to the American Heart Association, someone dies from a stroke every 3 minutes and 33 seconds, and 64% of these strokes occur outside of the hospital.

Telemedicine 81

Telemedicine Communication Continuing Education Education 81

American Nurse

MARCH 6, 2024

A project aimed at increasing referrals and decreasing costs Takeaways: Incorporating nursing referrals to pharmacists as part of routine patient care can help reduce polypharmacy, pharmacy and healthcare costs, and adverse drug–drug reactions. The application then feeds data to the patient’s electronic health record (EHR).

Telemedicine 98

Telemedicine Health Insurance Health Literacy Promotion 98