Episode 186: The ICU Revolution at Mercy San Juan Medical Center Part 5 – Respiratory Therapy
What role do respiratory therapists play in creating Awake and Walking ICUs? How did Candace Wistrich, RRT, BSRT and Nelya Kapitula, RRT, BSRT lead their respiratory therapy department to move the revolution forward? They join us now to share their team’s journey! Episode Transcription Nelya Kapitula, RRT, BSRT 0:00 Candace and Nelya, thank you so
Episode 185: The ICU Revolution at Mercy San Juan Medical Center- Part 4 with the Trauma ICU RNs
How did education, training, leadership support, and deep compassion empower these experience trauma nurses to transform their ICU culture and practices? What successes have they had and how has keeping patients awake and mobile impacted their career fulfillment and team dynamics? Jessica Williams, BSN, RN, Adrienne Craig, BSN, RN, and Amber Brandt, BSN, RN share
Episode 184: The ICU Revolution at Mercy San Juan Medical Center- Part 3 with Luke Stratigates
Safe patient handling(SPH) is a fairly new and rapidly growing field. Mercy San Juan Medical Center is fortunate to have a strong SPH department and leadership. Luke Strategates, DPT shares with us the key role he plays in the ICU Revolution as the safe patient handling leader. Episode Transcription Kali Dayton 0:00 This is the
Episode 183: The ICU Revolution at Mercy San Juan Medical Center- Part 2 with Dr. Lawrence Bistrong
What happens when a medical director really sees the reality of “normal practices” and becomes a revolutionist? Dr. Bistrong shares his personal conversion and the key role he has playing in his team’s transformation. Episode Transcription Kali Dayton 0:00 This is the walking home from the ICU Podcast. I’m Kali Dayton, a nurse practitioner and
Episode 182: The ICU Revolution at Mercy San Juan Medical Center- Part 1 with Jeana Flakes
Standardized sedation and immobility are rooted in a gap in education. What is the power of a nurse educator in transforming knowledge, culture, and practice in the ICU? Jeana Flakes, MSN, RN shares how she helped lead the ICU Revolution as a nurse educator at Mercy San Juan Medical Center. Episode Transcription Kali Dayton 0:00
Episode 181: Physician Insights at CHEST
What do physicians understand of the ABCDEF bundle? What are their perceptions of early mobility? How are their teams practicing the ABCDEF bundle in their own units? What do physicians need to be able to lead an Awake and Walking ICU approach in their units? I interviewed physicians while attending the CHEST conference to find
Episode 180: Leading the ABCDEF Bundle in Bangledash
What happens when a visionary physician in a low-resource hospital in Bangledash leads his team to practice the ABCDEF bundle? How did this passionate team of ICU clinicians transform their care from automatic sedation and immobility to standardized mobility three times a day? How did they come to treat mobility as important and optional as
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Walking Home From The ICU Episode 179: The Legal Liability of Failing to Practice the ABCDEF Bundle
Fear of “liabilities” is often a barrier to keeping patients awake and mobile in the ICU. Yet, we know that the ABCDEF is evidence-based best practices. So what are the legal liabilities to a hospital, leadership, and bedside clinicians of current cultural practices? Maggie Ortiz, MSN, RN joins us now to share her expert perspective.
Walking Home From The ICU Episode 178: The Power of Nursing Leadership to Revolutionize the ICU
Although the ABCDEF bundle does not solely rest on the shoulders of nurses, their leadership is KEY. Andrea Silva, BSN, RN shares with his her journey to revolutionizing care in her ICU as an assistant nurse manager. Episode Transcription Kali Dayton 0:00 Kali, this is the walking home from the ICU Podcast. I’m Kali Dayton,
Walking Home From The ICU Episode 173: ICU Outcomes by Dose of Mobility
We know that for each additional 10 minutes of early mobility in the ICU, hospital length of stay decreases by 1.2 days. What else do we know about the relationship between dose of mobility and time on the ventilator? Sarina Fazio, PhD, RN, shares with us her exciting discoveries in her latest research. E Episode
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When patients are so ill that they require a ventilator in the ICU, the antiquated approach of heavy sedation and immobilization should be avoided in order to help prevent the immense burden of physical and cognitive disabilities suffered during survival. To understand this better, listen to Walking Home From The ICU. You will see what ICU consultant Kali Dayton provides to your team.
Her training will catalyze changes in your practice to improve outcomes, decrease costs, and allow your patients to return to their full lives. Learn to love your job again as you embrace whole person care instead of caring for inert sedated bodies. Kali is leading ICU teams to become Awake and Walking ICUs through true mastery of the ABCDEF Bundle.
I endorse her mission and look forward to the standardization of this evidence-based approach in ICUs all over the world.
Dr. Wes Ely, author of "Every Deep Drawn Breath," leading founder of the ABCDEF Bundle and ICU CAM delirium screening tool, and Professor of Medicine in the Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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