Changing an ingrained culture: Improving the safety of oxygen therapy at University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust.

ABSTRACT: Oxygen is one of the most commonly administered drugs in UK hospitals. Our quality improvement project aimed to increase the safety of oxygen therapy at University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust. We aimed to increase the rate of oxygen prescribing and increase the percentage of nurses signing appropriately for oxygen titration and administration. We hypothesised this would result in a higher percentage of patients achieving their appropriate oxygen saturations. Our project ran on several acute medical and surgical wards. We tested several interventions with a plan, do, study, act method of continuous data collection. We firstly focussed on the education of junior doctors and then the wider multi-disciplinary team with a trust-wide "safety focus". We utilised patient safety systems

SUBMITTER: Gatter M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4693053 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature