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could have then re-audited doing the same people with similar patients to
evaluate if the process of the reminder actually reminded people to reassess
pain in the hour post intervention.
The staff were receptive to the re-education, as it pertained to my
project. I was able to gather information to why the reminders didnt appear
to work the first time they were implemented, and therefore attempted to
implement changes, such as reminders the shifts I worked and made the
reminder a bit more eye-catching. I further attempted to follow-up with the
staff to see if the reminder was helping, and if not, why. This project ended
up being more of an informational gathering project, ending up teaching how
to successfully implement a project. Through this quality improvement
project, improvements were made, to myself when attempting another
project, rather than to the unit. The errors that were made, as well as the
obvious failures, taught me how to more effectively develop a project. I
would like to truly implement a project with my own developed audit chart,
which I could do on a weekly basis, to truly follow the trend, either poor or
good, in which the pain reassessments are trending. I would intentionally
then educate the PCTs to the fact that they could reassess, or even assess,
pain when entering a patients room, as it is part of collecting vital signs,
which is within a PCTs scope of practice.
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