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Quality Tips

With so many factors influencing care, how do you start developing a more coordinated, safer approach in your unit? The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) has developed this brochure to provide you with ideas on how you can inspire positive change. Even small adjustments can significantly improve quality of care and patient outcomes.

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Tip #1: Start A Conversation:

Examples of Conversation Starters

Quality Healthcare

SCCM Membership

PedsCCM and the PICU List

Tip #2: Improve Nursing Care Through Certification

American Association of Critical Care Nurses Certification Corporation

Tip #3: Improve the Skills of the Non-ICU Specialist:

FCCS

Tip #4: Standardize ICU Practice:

American College of Critical Care Medicine Guidelines

Tip #5: Reduce Medication Errors and Detect Adverse Drug Events:

FDA

Tip #6: Improve the Physical Environment:

ICU Design Video and Book

Guidelines for Intensive Care Unit Design

Tip #7: Measure Your Progress:

JCAHO

VHA

Tip #8: Be More Visible:

Press Releases

Media Kit

Tip #9: Advocate for Better Care:

Talking Money with Administrators

Public Affairs Web page

Tip #10: Implement a Multiprofessional Team Approach (with an intensivist):

Resource Guide for the Intensivist-Directed ICU

The Leapfrog Group

IOM Report: Transforming Health Care Quality 200