Reducing IV Infiltrates in the Neonatal Population

<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p> <p>The objective of the CNL project is to improve the quality of care provided to our patients. The project focuses efforts to reduce IV infiltrates by auditing all running IV lines, IV management monitoring and auditing infiltrate grading and documentation to find commonalities that could be causing infiltrates.</p> <p><strong> </strong>The project is focusing on the neonatal population at a children’s hospital in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). This NICU is an 80 bed unit that houses both critical care patients and intermediate care neonates.</p> <p> Auditing was a major component to the project and helped with identifying common causes so changes could be made. Other methods that were used included staff education and training on proper infiltrate grading, documentation and IV management.</p> <p><strong> </strong>March’s data shows a total of 32 infiltrates including: twelve grade 1, five grade 2, fourteen grade 3 and one grade 1, showing that the infiltrate rate per 1000 patient days was 9.66 and our goal was 1.70 for grades 3 and 4. Off of this data the NICU is not meeting the goal of the 20% reduction from the baseline. Poster boards and the facility’s current policy on IV management were utilized for staff training and educational. </p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science in Nursing (MSN)

Level thesis:degree_level

Project/Capstone - Global access

Year dc:date.available

2016

Author dc:creator

• Miller, Stephanie L

• IV infiltrate
• decrease infiltrates rates
• neonatal population
• auditing
• Critical Care Nursing
• Maternal, Child Health and Neonatal Nursing
• Pediatric Nursing

Repository record dc:identifier

https://repository.usfca.edu/capstone/321

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.usfca.edu:capstone-1335