Guest Editor: Jami Zipf
Director Trauma Services
Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center, Johnstown, PA, USA
This focused issue on “Performance Improvement in Critical Care Nursing to Improve Outcomes” is edited by Dr. Jami Zipf, Director Trauma Services, Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center, Johnstown, PA, USA.
This edition showcases examples of Performance Improvement initiatives that have perfected the treatment of the most severely injured patients. This special edition highlights the progression of performance improvement; where we started, where we are now, what the future holds, and how some are leading the way in identifying unique solutions. This issue explores opportunities in all populations, pediatric and adult, utilizing not only process or system changes in individual settings, but also at regional and national levels.
Preface
Performance Improvement in Critical Care Nursing to Improve Outcomes
Jami Zipf
Review Article
The evolution of trauma performance improvement
Matthew Mowry
Editorial
Pediatric Solid Organ Injury Management: The Role of Initial Hematocrit in LEAN Times
Marianne Miller, Christine Perlick
Brief Report
Shawna Morrissey, Russell Dumire, Thomas Causer, Andrea Colton, Emma Oberlander, David Frye, Kosie Shepherd-Porada, Linda Frye
Review Article
E. Cuauhtémoc Sánchez
Nursing workload of trauma victims: an integrative literature review
Lilia de Souza Nogueira, Cristiane de Alencar Domingues
Case Report
Judith Ruiz-Aguilar, Rodrigo Diaz-Ibañez, E. Cuauhtemoc Sanchez-Rodriguez
Original Article
Dawn Marie Drahnak
Brief Report
Allison Andersen
Mini Review
Trauma system performance improvement: a review of the literature and recommendations
Kathleen D. Martin, Warren C. Dorlac
Brief Report
Knowledge retention of the traumatic brain injury guidelines at a Level 1 trauma center
Kimberly M. Gorman, Russell D. Dumire
Review Article
Probiotics in the Critical Care Unit, Fad Fact, or Fiction?
Heather A. Vitko, Jordan J. Troxell
Mini-Review
Theresa M. Snavely