Journal of Nursing Care Quality

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July/September 2023 - Volume 38 - Issue 3

  • Staci Reynolds, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, CPHQ
  • 1057-3631
  • 1550-5065
  • 4 issues / year
  • 1.728

In this issue: Opportunities exist for health care systems to utilize virtual care platforms to help improve quality of patient care.  Authors provide an overview of a new model of care delivery through the use of a virtual discharge (VDC) protocol between bedside nurses and a virtual nurse team.  Using telehealth technology, virtual nurses delivered remote discharge education to patients on a 30-bed orthopedic unit, providing 269 VDC sessions and over 100 hours of discharge education. Patient satisfaction communication scores improved significantly and patients maintained a low 7-day readmission rate.

A team implemented an evidence-based peripheral intravenous catheter (PIV) care bundle and decision making algorithm to reduce PIV dwell time, phlebitis, and other complication.  Results showed a significant reduction in PIV dwell time from 3.6 to 2.9 days (p<.001) and phlebitis decreasing from 14.8% to 4.9% (p<.05).  

Staci S. Reynolds, Editor​

Virtual Discharge: Enhancing and Optimizing Care Efficiency for the Bedside Nurse

Perpetua, Zachary; Seitz, Shannon; Schunk, Jessica; More

Journal of Nursing Care Quality. 38(3):234-242, July/September 2023.

Virtual Discharge: Enhancing and Optimizing Care Efficiency for the Bedside Nurse

Implementation of Evidence-Based Practice in Peripheral Intravenous Catheter Care

Hontoria-Alcoceba, Rocío; López-López, Candelas; Hontoria-Alcoceba, Virginia; More

Journal of Nursing Care Quality. 38(3):226-233, July/September 2023.

Implementation of Evidence-based Practice in Peripheral Intravenous Catheter Care

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