Distraction-Free Practice in the Ambulatory Setting by A. Renaud | OPENPediatrics

In this Nursing World Shared Practice Forum, Ms. Ashley Renaud explains distraction-free practice and its implementation in the ambulatory healthcare setting through the Red Zone Initiative. She reviews how distraction-free practice for specific activities reduces patient errors and how to implement it in your unit. Learning Objectives - Explain what distraction-free practice is, and why it is important - Describe clinical situations in the inpatient and ambulatory settings where implementation of the Red Zone has been shown to be beneficial - Understand how the Red Zone initiative is implemented in the ambulatory setting - Describe how the implementation of the Red Zone might be carried out in your institution Initial publication: October 4, 2019. Please visit: www.openpediatrics.org OPENPediatrics™ is an interactive digital learning platform for healthcare clinicians sponsored by Boston Children's Hospital and in collaboration with the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies. It is designed to promote the exchange of knowledge between healthcare providers around the world caring for critically ill children in all resource settings. The content includes internationally recognized experts teaching the full range of topics on the care of critically ill children. All content is peer-reviewed and open access-and thus at no expense to the user. For further information on how to enroll, please email: [email protected] Please note: OPENPediatrics does not support nor control any related videos in the sidebar, these are placed by Youtube. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.