Executive Summary Team 03

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Executive Summary Team 03

• Cheri Bixler
• Tim Curran
• Alexis Garcia
• A.J. Joyal
• Kristina McVay
• Ingrid Otten
• A.J. Stagg

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Analyzed Data

• Incident reports for four nurses in our hospital
• Compared to the National incident reports
• Variance is quite significant

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What We Discovered

• 79 errors were made over a period of 2,598 shifts
  worked in the local hospital
• This is an error rate of 3.04 compared to the
  national rate of 0.96

• Three times the error
• rate is a cause for
• concern!

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Local VS. National Data

• National data suggests that a higher number of
  errors occur on the third shift, thus prompting a
  constraint to add more nurses for that shift
• On the other hand, local data suggests that 2nd
  shift has the most errors. Therefore, it is
  suggested that additional nurses be scheduled on
  2nd shift instead of 3rd shift for this
  particular hospital

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Local VS. National Data

• National data suggests more nurses are needed
  for Wednesday and Saturday
• However, we recommend that additional nurses be
  scheduled on Saturdays and Sundays due to the
  difference in the local data

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Local VS. National Data

• After further testing of local data we discovered
  that there is no correlation between years of
  experience and the number of incidents reported
• Therefore, on the local level it is not necessary
  to pair less experienced nurses with more
  experienced nurses because it will not reduce the
  incident rate

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Cautions About Our Recommendations

• No data was presented to indicate what type of
  activities the nurses engaged in when the
  incident occurred
• No gauge for the seriousness of the incidents
• No set timeframe
• We cannot be certain that the data is comparable
  without further information

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