Cultivating quality: Early postoperative ambulation: Back to basics: A quality improvement project increases postoperative ambulation and decreases patient complications

American Journal of Nursing

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 63-69

  Kibler, Valerie A ^a   Hayes, Rachel M ^b   Johnson, Dana E ^b   Anderson, Laura W ^b   Just, Shari L ^b   Wells, Nancy L ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILIZATION; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECTUM DISEASE; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; URINARY TRACT DISEASE;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; EARLY AMBULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE'S ROLE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RECTAL DISEASES; TENNESSEE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UROLOGIC DISEASES;

EID: 84859364200     PISSN: 0002936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NAJ.0000413460.45487.ea     Document Type: Article

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