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The Value-Based HealthCare Outcomes Pledge Program is a collaborative and long-term partnership designed to address healthcare complications that result in poor outcomes and higher costs. This outcome-based partnership follows clinical protocols, clinician education, and targeted goals to help improve clinical outcomes.

Communication challenges can impact the medical-surgical floor. And those challenges may affect care. We have four important ways to help you manage them. Find out how you can help improve communication and patient outcomes on the wards.

Although capnography has historically been used mostly by anaesthetists, it is becoming more common in different clinical settings, being used by nurses, paramedics and doctors non-anaesthetists in emergency departments, interventional rooms and recovery departments. In this article we talk about the 3 important aspects you must notice in capnography, to interpret and make clinical decisions.

The level of carbon dioxide that is released at the end of an exhaled breath is called End Tidal CO2 (ETCO2) and it reflects the patient’s ventilatory status.^5,6,7  In this article we discuss the key facts in understanding this technology and its implications in clinical practice.

In a typical ICU environment, a 1 to 1 or 1 to 2 ratio of nurse-to-patient has been the common standard. Due to a dramatic influx of patients admitted to the ICUs across the country, clinicians are overwhelmed needing to increase the patient to nursing ratio. This just compounds the strain that’s put on already stressed clinicians.