Emergencies Clinical Trial
Official title:
Stocking of a Busy Emergency Department
Verified date | October 2016 |
Source | Lehigh Valley Hospital |
Contact | n/a |
Is FDA regulated | No |
Health authority | United States: Institutional Review Board |
Study type | Observational |
Stocking of essential supplies in an emergency department (ED) is crucial in order to
efficiently and effectively take care of patients. When equipment and supplies are not
available to patient care providers, an imbalance in the delivery of care is created. The
amount of time nurses spend away from the bedside obtaining supplies has only been
superficially studied; however, one study proposed that the majority of nurses spend 5 to 20
percent or more of their time during a shift. This results in 30 minutes to two-and-a-half
hours of a twelve hour shift being lost to retrieving supplies that are not available.
Cabinets and drawers have recently been eliminated in the rooms and stock is kept in "supply
towers" that contain all the necessary supplies to adequately take care of patients with the
exception of medications, or stationary supplies. Towers are restocked every morning by a
stocking technician by taking the towers to the stock room, resupplying them based on
previously established PAR levels, and utilizing a standard chart that describes exactly
what supply, and how many to stock within a specified area of the cart.
During their shift, the stocking technician must also respond to pages concerning low stock
levels.
Hypothesis:
Nurses spend a significant amount of time away from the patient bedside during their shift
looking for supplies.
Status | Completed |
Enrollment | 565 |
Est. completion date | December 2013 |
Est. primary completion date | December 2013 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | Accepts Healthy Volunteers |
Gender | Both |
Age group | N/A and older |
Eligibility |
Inclusion Criteria: - Nurse is an employee of LVHHN, and is working at the CC site. - Nurse is working a full shift (7a-7p, 7p-7a, 7a-3p, 3p-11p, 11p-7a). - The nurse being observed is working in Pod 1, Pod 2, Pod 3, or Pod 4 at the CC site. - The supply needed is related to a procedural task for patient care. Exclusion Criteria: - The nurse is working at LVH-M or LVH-17. - The nurse being observed is working in the express care area or trauma bay. - The supply being obtained is a supply that is not maintained in the cart (Appendix 2). - The nurse is scheduled for a shift less than 8 hours. |
Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Prospective
Country | Name | City | State |
---|---|---|---|
United States | Lehigh Valley Health Network | Allentown | Pennsylvania |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
---|---|
Lehigh Valley Hospital |
United States,
Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
---|---|---|---|---|
Primary | time nurses spend away from patients bedside | The average time nurses spend away from the bedside searching for supplies for patient care during an ED stay (an expected average of 2.5 hours) | Outcome will be assessed for one year as the average time nurses spend away from the bedside searching for supplies for patient care during an ED stay (an expected average of 2.5 hours) | No |
Secondary | Supplies searched for | This is the type of supply that the nurse was searching for that was not available at the bedside. | Outcome will be assessed for one year as the type of supply that the nurses are searching for that was not available at the bedside searching for supplies for patient care during an ED stay (an expected average of 2.5 hours) | No |
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