Purposeful Hourly Rounding on the Medical Unit

<p>The purpose of this study was to show that the implementation of purposeful hourly rounding in a clinical setting will effectively decrease call light usage thereby improving patient satisfaction. Rounding of patients will be done hourly by CNA’s and RN’s. During rounding, pain, toileting, Positioning and personal needs of the patient will be addressed. In a spot analysis of half the unit (MUB) the total numbers of call lights were 3362 for a 30 day period. The median calls per day were 112 which averaged out to 4.67 calls per hour. A review of what need each call light represented showed that 68.64 % of call lights were initiated to fulfill at least one of the 4 Ps (Pain, Potty, Positioning or Personal needs) that could be preempted with purposeful rounding. n order to fulfill the needs of the patient, an RN spends approximately 4 minutes per call light. This equates to 2.49 hours in an 8 hour shift are used in just answering call lights. Call lights represent the unmet needs of the patient and the purpose of this study is to proactively eliminate most call lights through purposeful rounding in an attempt to free up nursing time and increase patient satisfaction.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science

Level thesis:degree_level

Master's Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Nursing

Year

2012

Author dc:creator

• Charlson, Katie

Contributors dc:contributor

• Eira Klich-Heartt, RN, MSN

• Nursing

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholar.dominican.edu/nursing-masters-theses/30

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholar.dominican.edu:nursing-masters-theses-1029