Toolbox

SCCM is dedicated to providing its members with resources to better manage their ICU. This exciting new resource for administrators and clinical managers/directors offers ready to use tools, products, resources, and other valuable information.

This Toolkit is designed for: 

•  ICU Directors and Managers
•  Hospital Administrators
•  Quality Improvement Professionals
•  Human Resource Managers

GUIDELINES


Critical Care Delivery: Defining Clinical Roles and the Best Practice Model
Crit Care Med 2001 Oct;29(10):2007-2019

RESOURCES

Talking Money with Hospital Administrators: A Guide for ICU Clinicians Who Want to Change the System

Critical Care Statistics in the United States

CPOE System Requirements for Intensive Care Use

CPOF System Requirements for Intensive Care Use


PRODUCTS

• Resource Guide for the Intensivist-Directed ICU
  Designed for hospitals making or considering the transition to an intensivist-directed ICU. Essential for planning and managing a successful intensivist model.   
• Patient and Family Support Brochures
  These brochures are designed to assist healthcare practitioners with the difficult task of explaining in easy and understandable terms of the complexities of critical care.
• Improving Care in the ICU
  Provides a variety of solutions to common challenges in operating a high-quality ICU.
• Clinical Practice and Administrative Guidelines Notebook 
  Developed by the American College of Critical Care Medicine (ACCM) and approved by the Board of Regents and SCCM Council, the Guidelines Notebook provides a collection of administrative and clinical practice guidelines. A sampling includes: Guidelines on Critical Care Services and Personnel: Recommendations Based on a System of Categorization of Three Levels of Care; Guidelines for Intensive Care Unit Design.
• ICU Design Video & Book
  This video and book combination provides a complete resource detailing ICU Design Award Citation submissions.
• Critical Care Unit Design & Furnishing
  A thorough how-to guide to redesign your ICU and make it patient friendly, functional, efficient, and comfortable.
• Fundamentals of Disaster Management
  This valuable book will help you create your institution's disaster plan.
• Critical Care Units; A Descriptive Analysis
  Update to the landmark 1991 Groeger Survey. Highlights staffing patterns, effects of nursing shortage and more.
• Compensation of Critical Care Professionals
  Compare salary, benefits and working conditions of critical care professionals across the country.
• Job Descriptions & Contracts in Critical Care
  Find out how you can ensure that your job description accurately reflects your responsibility by reviewing this valuable resource.

To order any of the above products, please contact Customer Service at (847) 827-6888. You may also order online through the SCCM Bookstore.  Be sure to login to receive member pricing. 

 

  SCCM Pod-36 CC: Rapid Response Systems
Marie R. Baldisseri, MD, an intensivist from the University of Pittsburgh, discusses her article from the June issue of Critical Connections, titled "Rapid Response Systems: Have They Made a Difference?" Dr. Baldisseri is an associate professor of critical care medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

  SCCM Pod-33 CC: Patient Safety and CPOE
Brian Jacobs, MD, project director of Integrating Clinical Information Systems, or ICIS, at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, discusses how efforts in computerized physician order entry relate to patient safety. The ICIS system is a computer-based system implemented throughout the hospital through which all medical orders are entered and documented electronically. The system, believed to be the most comprehensive in any pediatric hospital in the United States, is expected to reduce medical errors significantly.

  SCCM Pod-38 CPOE and Error Detection
Terry Clemmer, MD, FCCM, discusses computerized physician order entry and error detection in the intensive care unit. This podcast was recorded during the Society's 35th Critical Care Congress and released to complement the Excellence in Quality and Safety in Critical Care conference to be held September 21 to 23, 2006. Dr. Clemmer is the director of critical care at LDS Hospital in Utah and professor of medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine.

   SCCM Pod-53 Reducing Medication Errors in the ICU
Yizhak Kupfer, MD, discusses his lecture, to be held during the 36th Critical Care Congress, "Reduction of Medication Errors in the Intensive Care Unit." Dr. Kupfer is an associate professor of medicine at SUNY Downstate School of Medicine and is the director of the medical intensive care unit at Maimonides Medical Center in New York, New York.