Article C2463
Author(s): L. Douglas Smith Jr, DNP, APRN, ACNP-BC, CCRN, CNRN, SCRN, Haley Hoy, PhD, ACNP, Sage Whitmore, MD
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Topics: Gastrointestinal
Population: Adult, Geriatric
Role: Staff
Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes
This article describes a quality improvement clinical practice change project that improved nutrition practice in the ICU by implementing a volume-based feeding (VBF) protocol to answer the following question: For ICU patients who require enteral feeding (EF), does the implementation of a VBF protocol, compared with rate-based feeding (RBF), increase (1) the percentage of delivered EF volume and (2) the percentage of EF days on which patients receive at least 80% of the prescribed volume? Knowing that unit culture impacts nutrition delivery, we also sought to determine whether implementing a nutrition-based project affected (1) staff awareness of the importance of nutrition and (2) the emphasis placed on nutrition delivery.Learners must complete the entire activity and the associated evaluation AND read Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes. No partial credit will be awarded.
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