emergency room caregivers were least likely to practice good hand hygiene when tending to hallway patients.<\/strong> The study, which was the largest ever focused on ED hand hygiene, supports studies in Ireland which said boarding was another way hospital infection was spread.<\/p>\n\n\n\nMany healthcare professionals consider hallway boarding, either outside of the ED or on unit floors, as the least of several evils. But perhaps it\u2019s not, based on this study. ED personnel are trained to deal with emergent health problems or the results of accidents and shootings. When they are pulled away to give care to patients who have been stabilized and are waiting for a room, not only is the patient potentially being exposed to infection, but the health worker\u2019s focus is split between the \u201cday\u201d job of emergency medicine and the \u201cpart-time\u201d job of attending to patients who now need specialized care. On top of that, someone in the ED isn\u2019t getting the care they need when they need it because of that split.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ED crowding is the result of an emergency in the rest of the hospital<\/strong>, the one that\u2019s caused by poor capacity management usually due to antiquated manual patient flow processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\nEmergency Departments around the country are to be commended for the fine work they do, including the number of innovative initiatives they\u2019ve undertaken to relieve the pressure on their area. But when ED staff are so squeezed by sheer volume that they feel can\u2019t wash their hands and get their jobs done, they are really being let down by the rest of the hospital. In particular, those executives who know better ways already exist to improve capacity management, but do nothing about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here\u2019s the link to the Brigham & Women\u2019s study abstract<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We all knew hallway boarding was bad for patients. Now we know a little more about why. It has to do with hospital infection. A study at Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital showed emergency room caregivers were least likely to practice good hand hygiene when tending to hallway patients. The study, which was the largest ever focused on ED hand […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"keyword":[],"class_list":["post-5969","blog","type-blog","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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