Improving Patient Outcomes with Gastro-Intestinal Tube Guidance for Nurses and Providers

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Identifier Improving_Patient_Outcomes_With_GI_Tube_EBP-Poster_2023
Title Improving Patient Outcomes with Gastro-Intestinal Tube Guidance for Nurses and Providers
Creator Sax, Debra; Hadley, Sunnie
Subject IEvidence-Based Practice; Intubation, Gastrointestinal; Patient Safety; Enteral Nutrition; Clinical Audit; Clinical Protocols; Practice Guidelines as Topic; Patient Care Team; Treatment Outcome; Quality Improvement; Poster
Description Acute Care nursing staff placed a Cortrack enteral feeding tube blindly at the bedside and the patient subsequently developed a pneumothorax. Institutionally, there was vague guidance for nurses from existing GI Tube policy and limited education for nurses on feeding tube placement. Furthermore, the Enteral Feeding tube team was not available afterhours when tube was placed. A multidisciplinary team was created with the goal to develop a comprehensive GI Tube Guideline to define GI Tubes used in our institution, to provide evidence-based guidance for nurses and providers on insertion, removal, and routine care of GI tubes, and to align EPIC orders and LDAs with our GI tube nomenclature. A Comprehensive Guideline for the Care of Gastro Intestinal Tubes was created that clearly defines the GI tubes used in our institution, provides guidance on the nursing scope and role descriptions of who can insert and remove GI tubes, and gives clear indications for maintenance of GI tubes. As a result of the collaboration from our inter-disciplinary team, evidence-based practices on GI tube insertion, care and maintenance were updated, Cortrack tubes and Clog Zapper were removed from nursing supply rooms, and GI tube guidelines and education were approved.
Relation is Part of Evidence Based Practice Posters - 2023
Publisher Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Date Digital 2023
Date 2023
Type Text
Format application/pdf
Rights https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/
Language eng
ARK ark:/87278/s64qgm7b
Setname ehsl_ebp
ID 2237427
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s64qgm7b
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