Assessment Task 4: Research/Evidence Based Practice Report: Early Save Program Was Effective

ASSESSMENT TASK 4: RESEARCH/EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE REPORT
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ASSESSMENT TASK 4: RESEARCH/EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE REPORT
Part 1
EARLY SAVE Program was Effective
The answer to the question is that this new program is effective in improving early recognizing and response to clinical deterioration.
In the period before this program was introduced, there were a total of 160 MET calls and during the Post-EARLY SAVE period after the program was introduced, statistics show that there were 360 MET calls. This demonstrates that MET calls rose by 200.
An increase in the frequency of MET calls implies that there was increased response to clinical deterioration in the post-EARLY SAVE period compared to the period before the program was introduced.
The increase in frequency of MET calls resulted in an increase in the use of rapid response teams which helped in saving lives by reducing preventable in-hospital patient mortalities. This affected patient safety and patient outcomes positively (Smith et al. 2014).
Moreover, in the period before the introduction of EARLY SAVE, there were 140 Code Blue calls, which reduced by 80 to 60 calls after the program was introduced. The 60 Blue Code calls were primarily for respiratory or cardiac arrest.
Code Blue calls are usually for medical emergencies such as respiratory and cardiac arrests. The fact that Code Blue calls reduced significantly denotes that thanks to the EARLY SAVE program, cases of medical emergencies went down.
This shows that the program was able to effectively improve early recognition and response to clinical deterioration.
This new program allowed medical professionals at the hospital to quickly recognize that the condition of a patient in the hospital was deteriorating and to rapidly respond to the needs of those patients in timely and appropriate fashion, which is a crucial aspect of high quality and safe patient care.
Reporting against NSQHS Standard 9
NSQHS is aimed at ensuring that the deterioration of a patient is recognized promptly and suitable action is quickly undertaken (Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (ACSQHC) 2010, p. 1). When reporting against NSQHS Standard 9, the hospital may use the data acquired in the period before and after the new program was introduced by showing how this new program helped the hospital to effectively recognize that the condition of patients was deteriorating and responded to their needs appropriately and timely to escalate care. It will show that the program facilitated early detection of deterioration, which was followed by effective and prompt action to reduce the occurrence of serious adverse events for instance unexpected patient death, and improved patient outcomes. According to the ACSQHC (2010, p. 1),early identification of clinical deterioration, which is followed by effective and prompt action, could reduce the incidence of serious adverse events and might in fact improve patient outcomes and minimize the level of intervention needed for stabilising patients whose condition gets worse.
Part 2
Introduction
There is growing evidence that during the resuscitation of a loved one, ...