Future directions include gathering objective data from Epic and expansion of the initiative to other psychiatric services and institutions. With promising results across a range of metrics indicating resident-reported positive impacts on patient care, further research on the implementation of PSYCH-PASS and its integration into EMR systems is merited. IPASS Student Handoff Instructors Guide. The first cohort of IIPE projects from 2009 are beginning to realize some early successes. The final 30-minutes of the workshop are devoted to two handoff simulations exercises. Nurses in a large childrens hospital had poor compliance on the implementation of standardizing hand-off using the I-PASS mnemonic (illness severity, patient. The importance of structured communication strategies to enhance patient safety is emphasized, literature pertinent to the handoff process is reviewed, including the use of verbal mnemonics, and the creation of individual elements of the I-PASS mnemonic are defined. Pre-survey and post-surveys completed by post-graduate year 2 and 3 residents at Montefiore Medical Center (n = 24) noted increased satisfaction, handoff efficiency, handoff efficiency, accessibility, accuracy, communication, awareness, and adherence to PSYCH-PASS, along with a decrease in frequency of errors. Key structured team communication techniques and the I-PASS mnemonic are taught in detail and reinforced with the use of trigger videos and large group discussion. The authors developed a 14 question pre- and post-survey with a 4-point Likert scale measuring five categories.

The components of PSYCH-PASS are Patient summary, Situational awareness, 'whY' is the patient here, Comorbidities, Hemodynamics, Pharmacology/PRNs, Action list, Specifics, and Synthesis. The authors examined areas of improvement in the handoff system with residency training administration, service directors, and psychiatry residents to create PSYCH-PASS, a novel mnemonic that could be integrated in the electronic medical record (EMR). The I-PASS mnemonic and the occurrence of handoff related errors in adult acute care hospitals: a systematic review protocol JBI Database System Rev Implement Rep. The primary purpose of the study was to develop and implement a psychiatry mnemonic PSYCH-PASS for transitions of care in residency training programs.

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