Vanessa
Buie,
MD
General Surgery Resident
University of Chicago Medicine
Vanessa Buie is a current general surgery resident at the University of Chicago Medicine, currently completing two years of dedicated research as well as an MBA degree at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Vanessa started the MD/APP-in-Room button initiative and oversaw the pilot implementation on the first unit.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
With pressures to improve hospital efficiency, reduce length of stay and decrease readmissions, effective communication among care teams is more important than ever. Improved physician-nurse communication is associated with improved patient experience, outcomes, and staff engagement. Communication on surgical units poses unique challenges due to early rounding by the resident team and difficulty communicating with them while in the OR.
To combat these challenges, we implemented an “MD/APP-in-room” button in patient rooms in May 2019 to send real-time notifications to nursing. Surgical…