Sheryl Bailey & Melinda Edger
May 2014
Sheryl
Edger
,
RN, CWOCN
Wound Care Department TEAM
Bon Secours Maryview Medical Center
Portsmouth
,
VA
United States
2013 was an inspiring and promising year for pressure ulcer reduction in the ICU. The success of this year began two years prior in the Spring of 2011 when Sheryl Bailey, RN, BSN, CWOCN, CFCN, approached SAGE products and Bon Secours with a request to bring SAGE's Turn and Position System (TAP) to life at Maryview. The product request was turned down twice.
Melinda Edger, RN, BSN, CWOCN, Clinical Nurse 4, joined the department in the fall of 2012. She had used the product at another facility and was able to speak to the ease of use and success of the product. As the saying goes "third time's a charm." The journey for TAP approval was revived, and the team was not going to settle for anything less than approval. Meanwhile, Melinda and Sheryl compiled research documents and poster presentations to present to the leaders of Clinical Transformation at Maryview. The team also presented the number of sacral and buttock pressure ulcers that occurred in the ICU from June of 2012 to March of 2013 and the associated cost to treat each stage of pressure ulcer based on national averages.
With their approval, the Clinical Values Analysis Team honored a product trial. The trial began in April of 2013 and lasted until the beginning of October 2013. Melinda's and Sheryl's vigilant rounding and support of the protocol for TAP as well as the prudence of Team ICU made the six-month trial a great success with astonishing results.
The mission of Bon Secours focuses on compassion especially for the poor and dying. Many of the patients in the ICU are debilitated and are in the dying phase of their lives. A device that makes turning easier, safer, and with less pain fulfills the requirement of being compassionate all while preventing pressure ulcers.
A few of the values that have been displayed in this project are compassion, quality, innovation, stewardship, and growth. Displayed throughout this application, patients are visiting the ICU and are leaving skin intact.
It took the innovation of two WOC nurses to find a solution to the pressure ulcer problem the ICU was experiencing. The entire project was a display of stewardship; from start to completion the team took mediocre to extraordinaire.
This Team effort has allowed the Wound Care Department to challenge opportunities and seek out solutions and compromises to do what is right for the people of the community that we serve.
Melinda Edger, RN, BSN, CWOCN, Clinical Nurse 4, joined the department in the fall of 2012. She had used the product at another facility and was able to speak to the ease of use and success of the product. As the saying goes "third time's a charm." The journey for TAP approval was revived, and the team was not going to settle for anything less than approval. Meanwhile, Melinda and Sheryl compiled research documents and poster presentations to present to the leaders of Clinical Transformation at Maryview. The team also presented the number of sacral and buttock pressure ulcers that occurred in the ICU from June of 2012 to March of 2013 and the associated cost to treat each stage of pressure ulcer based on national averages.
With their approval, the Clinical Values Analysis Team honored a product trial. The trial began in April of 2013 and lasted until the beginning of October 2013. Melinda's and Sheryl's vigilant rounding and support of the protocol for TAP as well as the prudence of Team ICU made the six-month trial a great success with astonishing results.
The mission of Bon Secours focuses on compassion especially for the poor and dying. Many of the patients in the ICU are debilitated and are in the dying phase of their lives. A device that makes turning easier, safer, and with less pain fulfills the requirement of being compassionate all while preventing pressure ulcers.
A few of the values that have been displayed in this project are compassion, quality, innovation, stewardship, and growth. Displayed throughout this application, patients are visiting the ICU and are leaving skin intact.
It took the innovation of two WOC nurses to find a solution to the pressure ulcer problem the ICU was experiencing. The entire project was a display of stewardship; from start to completion the team took mediocre to extraordinaire.
This Team effort has allowed the Wound Care Department to challenge opportunities and seek out solutions and compromises to do what is right for the people of the community that we serve.