Back to Basics/Bundle Nursing Care/ Patient Care Essentials Programs

[deweydecimal13501]

Hello all,

Do any of the nurses/techs here participate in or use "Back to Basics" or "Nursing Care Bundles" or "Patient Care Essentials" type programs in your hospital? How does it work and what methods are you using ?

The nurse I am doing research for would like to know. With the introduction of computers/ electronic charting, basic nursing skills are being neglected and they are missing the basic things that they learned on the first day of Nursing School. These programs are developed to help correct that.

Please share your experiences if you can.

Thank-you in advance,

Deweydecimal13501 (librarian to great nurses)

[Double-Helix, BSN, RN]

My unit does monthly Back-to-Basics initiatives. One or two staff members are chosen to develop education related to pertinent topics and for the month, those nurses do mandatory individual education with every staff member who then must sign that they have received the education.

Our bundle compliance is measured via retrospective chart auditing and in-the-moment survey of documentation and nursing care techniques. Remediation and action plans are done at the unit or individual level, depending on the results.

We also do bi-monthly hands-on review (for skills like trach changes, med administration during codes, and other skills pertinent to our practice) and hands on simulation using mannequins on the alternating months.