Vineet
Arora,
MD, MAPP
Herbert T. Abelson Professor of Medicine, Assistant Dean for Scholarship and Discovery and Associate Chief Medical Officer-Clinical Learning Environment
University of Chicago Medicine
Vineet Arora, MD, MAPP is the Herbert T. Abelson Professor of Medicine, Assistant Dean for Scholarship and Discovery and Associate Chief Medical Officer-Clinical Learning Environment at the University of Chicago and oversees the IGNITE initiative, which promotes interprofessional collaboration initiatives and quality improvement. An accomplished scholar, she is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and the American Society of Clinical Investigation.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Background: Clinician engagement in interprofessional teams is an effective strategy to improve care delivery. The IGNITE (Improving GME-Nursing Interprofessional Team Experiences) program engages residents, nurses, and other health professionals together in performance improvement activities at our large academic institution, and has resulted in improvements in quality of care. However, the financial value of enhanced interprofessional communication is difficult to quantify. We sought to understand the financial implications of expanding IGNITE to all adult Med-Surg units at our institution…
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…