A Miami critical care nurse and a wound ostomy team in Iowa City are the recipients of this year's awards for extraordinary, compassionate care presented by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the DAISY foundation.
Jobic Ray Butao, RN, a critical care nurse in the intensive care unit at West Kendall Baptist Hospital, helped implement a new type of leadership rounds in the ICU focused on nursing-sensitive indicators. He also led initiatives to tackle central-line associated bloodstream infections and catheter-associated urinary tract infections, resulting in no central line-related infections over a 11-month period and only one catheter-associated UTI case.
The eight-member wound ostomy nursing team at the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics have helped ensure the organization remained below national benchmarks for pressure ulcers, partly due to a quarterly skin survey program for all inpatients. They also created a committee to address hospital-acquired pressure injuries.
The winners will receive the awards at the IHI Patient Safety Congress, held May 15 to May 17, in Houston.
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