The framework for how we collaborate, communicate, & develop professionally to provide the highest quality care to those we serve.
What is Saddleback Memorial's Professional Practice Model?
100
"To be a leader in providing patient centered, compassionate, high-quality nursing care, focusing on the unique needs of all patients and their families."
What is our Nursing Vision?
100
Daisy Awards, Applause Cards, Employee/Team of the Quarter Awards, write ups in SaddleUpdate /Magnet and other newsletters, unit Certification wall plaques
What are examples of ways that Saddleback recognizes its nurses for exemplary performance?
100
Measure and indicators that reflect the impact of nursing actions on outcomes - i.e. take away nursing practice and the measure would be significantly impacted.
What are Nurse Sensitive Indicators?
100
A way of providing nursing care that is guided by the integration of the best available scientific knowledge with nursing practice.
What is Evidence Based Practice?
200
Represents our core practice to deliver patient/family centered care.
What does the sun in our PPM represent?
200
Our chief nursing officer who retains the ultimate responsibility for nursing practice at Saddleback Memorial.
Who is Kathy Dawson?
200
The structure where nurses can participate in shared decision making.
What is Shared Governance?
200
Falls with injury, Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers (stage 2 and above), CAUTIs, CLABSIs
What are our Nurse Sensitive Indicators?
200
The model, containing five stages of knowledge transformation, we use as a depiction of how we move new knowledge into practice.
What is the ACE Star Model?
300
The clinical excellence, transformational leadership, compassion, recognition and quality we use in the provision of patient care.
What do the sun's rays in our PPM represent?
300
A document, updated annually with input from clinical nurses, that outlines goals and objectives for moving the practice of nursing forward.
What is the Nursing Strategic Plan?
300
Unit Partnership Councils, Nursing Practice Councils, Nursing Recruitment/ Retention & Recognition Council, Nursing Research & Evidence Based Practice Council
What are councils in our Shared Governance structure?
300
Gallup RN survey questions
What is one of the ways Saddleback uses to measure RN satisfaction?
300
A format used for developing answerable, researchable questions for finding and evaluating evidence.
What is a PICOT question?
400
The strength and foundations of our nursing practice: ethics, evidence-based practice, safety, technology and professionalism.
What does the mountain in our PPM represent?
400
Directly via email or phone call, by interactions during rounding, at staff meetings and other forums, indirectly through the nursing chain of command.
What are ways clinical nurses can communicate their concerns /opinions to the CNO and other nurse leaders?
400
Continuing education programs, tuition reimbursement & scholarship programs, specialty training programs, Nursing Leadership Academy, FutureTrack courses for managers
What are examples of how Saddleback supports lifelong learning for its nurses?
400
Total Patient Care (ICU, NICU, LDRP)
Adaptable Care (ACS)
Colalborative Care (ED)
What are the Care Delivery Systems used at Saddleback?
400
Population/patient, intervention, comparison, outcome, time
What is are the components of a PICOT question?
500
Our commitment to a healthy work environment, positive interdisciplinary relationships and wholeness.
What does the ocean in our PPM represent?
500
Foster Best Practice and nursing PI councils, oversee the development of PerfectServe for nursing, provide sponsorship of infections to zero zone, achieve improvements in HCAPHS
What are examples of goals/objectives in the 2017-2018 Nursing Strategic Plan?
500
The nursing council that promotes evidence-based practice and excellence in nursing practice, defines nursing practice standards & policies and translate the PPM into actual patient care.
What is the Nursing Practice Council?
500
Nursing Reference Center, Up-to-Date, Pub-Med, Ovid, CINAHL, nursing journals, Micromedex, Lexi comp, Care Notes, Elsevier Clinical Skills
How can staff access current literature, professional standards and other data to support their practice?
500
1. Discovery research
2. Evidence summary
3. Translation into guidelines
4. Practice integration
5. Process and outcome evaluation