Hourly Rounding to Improve Outcomes and Patient and Staff Satisfaction

Video Runtime: 29 Minutes; Learning Assessment Time: 23 Minutes

Hourly rounding is standard to nursing practice in many hospitals, but nurses don’t always understand why it is conducted or how the patients and nursing staff benefit. This course discusses how hourly rounding improves patient outcomes, increases patient satisfaction, and increases staff satisfaction. The goals of hourly rounding discussed here will include: reducing patient falls, reducing hospital-acquired pressure ulcers, decreasing call light use, increasing patient satisfaction and overall satisfaction with pain, and increasing staff satisfaction. Specific steps of hourly rounding and how to implement and hardwire the process will be discussed. The role of nursing, as well as interdisciplinary team members, will be addressed. Research studies on this process and their outcomes will also be presented. This course is appropriate for nurses and nurse leaders working in any inpatient setting but particularly targets those in acute rehab and acute care settings.