Nursing/Clinical Units

With a focus on quality patient outcomes, we provide comprehensive Critical Care consultation services including:

• Operational assessments for analysis of
  • Internal processes
  • Quality of service
  • Financial profitability
  • Customer satisfaction
  • Strategic growth and development
• Implementation and monitoring of patient care protocols
• Physical space and equipment analysis and recommendations
• Set up of newly developed programs
  • New policies and procedures
  • New hire staff orientations
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Equipment acquisition

The Medical/Surgical service areas are an essential part of the services that hospitals provide and a key component of the healthcare organization’s clinical quality, patient satisfaction, physician satisfaction, and staff productivity. Support systems interfacing with Medical/Surgical units can have a tremendous influence on staffing needs and staff satisfaction with their ability to provide quality care to their patients.

Specialty Nursing Units are a significant element of the hospital’s clinical quality, patient and physician satisfaction, and staff productivity. Support departments interacting with Specialty Nursing Units can have a major impact on staffing needs and satisfaction with their capability to deliver quality patient care.

The Step Down/Intermediate Care Unit promotes efficient and effective care by increasing the flexibility of patient triage, utilizing personnel efficiently, and providing cost-effective care. We will assess the unit’s performance and recommend quality improvement initiatives for the unit to deliver high quality patient care and high patient satisfaction. We can assess:

• Monitoring techniques and lead placement
• Drug calculation, administration, and monitoring of patient effects
• Staffing
• Interdepartmental communication
• Telemetry monitoring

Our consultants’ nursing experience will ensure that patient flow into and out of the Step Down/Intermediate Care Unit is timely, efficient, and appropriate to meet your patient's needs.

Our consulting experts are experienced in clinical, operational, and administrative areas and have extensive knowledge of program and service trends in:

• Gynecological, obstetrical, neonatal, and pediatric service integration
• Neonatal Intensive Care Units
• Pediatric care
• Physician practice management
• Women’s health centers with integrated lifespan healthcare services for women
• Family-centered care models for the childbearing family
  • Labor, Delivery, and Recover, LDRP, and Mother/Baby care

We can evaluate and address the following:

• Perinatal, gynecological, pediatric care trends and technology
• Leadership roles and responsibilities
• Staff productivity
• Staff development, education, and orientation needs
• Market information review and service volume trends
• Financial analysis of cost reduction and revenue enhancement opportunities
• Equipment requirements, usage, and storage
• Space and staffing requirements related to facility design, model of patient care delivery, and service volume statistics