Executive Summary Grand Canyon University: Nursing Leadership and Management
Executive Summary Hourly rounding is when nurses will check on their patients once an hour to address patient needs such as eating, positional changes, pain management, and bathroom assistance. Additional assessments that nurses can do in this time are visual scans of the room to ensure safe pathways that are free from clutter, properly functioning medical equipment, and the patients personal items and call button are within reach. Hourly rounding can lead to positive patient outcomes, patient satisfaction, and better time management for nurses (Shepard, 2013). The purpose of the quality improvement initiative. Hospitals can be a very stressful experience for patients due to painful procedures, surprising diagnoses, and being placed in a dependent role. This puts patients in a physical and emotional vul
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