Table 3 Examples of Mentors and Projects
From: The impact of an innovative curriculum to introduce patient safety and quality improvement content
Project Title | Project Setting | Project Category | Mentor Role |
|---|---|---|---|
Perioperative Anti-Platelet and Anticoagulation Management Task Force Targeted at reducing readmissions in the Department of Medicine | Peri-operative care | Readmission reduction | Professor of Anesthesiology/Critical Care Medicine |
Nursing Role and Work Flow Assessment | Inpatient | Safe Nursing Practice | Senior Director of Nursing of Ambulatory Services |
Rapid Access to Tertiary Care: A Clinical, Financial and Operational Model | Emergency care | Disaster care | Assistant Director of Nursing |
Early Sepsis Management | Intensive Care Unit | Sepsis management | Clinical Nurse Specialist |
Prevention for Positives (Healthy Prevention Behaviors for HIV Positive Patients) | Outpatient | Health Prevention | Nurse Manager |
Reducing Avoidable Hospitalizations | Outpatient | Readmission reduction | VP/COO & Sr. Director Quality/Safety, Johns Hopkins Home Care Group |
Implementing the Central Line Checklist in the Operating Room | Operating Room | Infection prevention | Director of Nursing |
Reducing length of stay for Hospitalist patients | Inpatient | LOS reduction | Senior Director of Quality |
Evolution in postoperative Pain management | Surgery | Pain management | Associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care |
Implementation of a Transitional care unit for the Department of Neurosciences | Post Anesthesia Care Unit | Implementation | Director of Nursing |
Investigation of Potential Safety Issues with Acetaminophen use in Surgical Patients | Surgery | Medication Safety | Education Lead, Department of Surgery |