Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) Projects Description

UCSF Medical Center

Cardiac patient education

Change of shift report

Developing a alcohol withdrawal protocol

Effectiveness of PCA in pain management

Nurse education and competency I are of patients with less common diagonoses

Pain interventions and reassessment documentation

Pain management documentation

Pain management education for nurses with emphasis on culturally diverse patients

Prevention of skin breakdown in geriatric patients

Pain interventions and reassessment documentation

Strategies for improving interactions with children in the emergency department

Stanford Hospital and Medical Center

Educational program for patients in infusion center waiting area

Evaluating pain management and barriers to documentation

Fall prevention education of staff at unit X

Hyperglycemia in bone marrow transplant patients

Microsystem Action Plan to Prevent Patients from Falling (Location: Stanford University Hospital and Clinics)

Pain reassessment documentation

Patients on unit X report they are not receiving adequate emotional support. Are the nurses comfortable with their therapeutic communication skills? A nursing staff teaching intervention

Preventing medication errors in the emergency department

Promotion use of the incentive spirometer to prevent the complication of pneumonia in the intermediate intensive care unit

Staff nurse's barriers to providing consistent and effective diabetes education

Why is there an increase in rate/incidence of patient falls occurring in 2006 in unit X?

Kaiser Hospitals and Medical Center

Accessibility of Patient Education on a Cardiac Unit

Despite a PMT (patient mobility team) resource, nurses are injuring themselves related to manual lifting of patients. Is this related to inaccessibility of the PMT and/or the need for additional personnel to staff the movement load on unit x?

Discharge delays on unit X resulting in patient and family anxiety and reduction in ability to assimilate discharge teaching

Enhancing whiteboard use as a communication tool with patients and their families

Hourly rounding and patient safety, satisfaction and call light use

Implementation of a bedside repositioning reminder tool to increase the rate of re-positioning patients at risk for hospital-acquired pressure wounds

Improving discharge teaching and documentation for patients with heart failure

Nurses' resistance to newly implemented nurse-to-nurse bedside shift report

Oversight and disregard for oral hygiene for compromised patients on unit X

Promoting the use of advance healthcare directives

Staff nurses' resistance to bedside reporting during change of shift

VA Medical Centers

Ambulatory Infusion Center (AIC) Nursing Assessment and Documentation Redesign

Applying Lean Principles to Increase Operational Efficiency in the Nursing Documentation Process: Impacting Patient Outcomes from the Microsystem to the Macrosystem at the VAPAHCS

Development and Implementation of a Standardized Perioperative Nursing Care Plan to be Integrated in the Patient Electronic Record

Embedding the Clinical Nurse Leader Role in Patient Aligned Care Team Women’s Clinic

Enhancing Wound Care in the Polytrauma Population

Implementation of the Clinical Nurse Leader: Improving Shift Change Report in a Community Living Center

Implementing a Health Issues Module to Improve Quality of Patient Care Through Patient Education

Integration of a CNL into the MSICU

Process Improvement in the Operating Room: A Reference Manual for Surgical Count Sheets

The Financial Feasibility of a Fast Track System in the Emergency Department

Mills Peninsula Medical Center