The Emory University Hospital EM APPs are all very committed to the Magnet journey and actively incorporate the components of structural empowerment, exemplary professional practice, innovation, and empirical quality outcomes while providing patient family-centered care. The APPs are also involved with maintaining core measures proficiency of acute Myocardial infarction, Pneumonia, and heart failure.
In the CDU the APP, along with an attending physician, oversees the daily management of the CDU including rounding on patients, cardiac risk stratification, and collaborating with specialty services to coordinate patient care. In triage and care initiation area (CIA), the APP interviews patients and begin the workup process. The triage APP also provides care and discharge lower acuity patients from the triage area, thus reducing their length of stay and increasing patient satisfaction. The APP in the emergency department works in collaboration with attending physicians to provide care to patients and their families.
All of the APPs within Emory University Hospital emergency department strives to improve quality of care, increase patient satisfaction, and support positive outcomes. The APs participate in evidence-based research, scholarly development, and continuing medical education opportunities. There is a strong commitment to the local community through the aftERcare program. The aftERcare program is run solely by the APPs. The main focus is to provide follow up as needed to every patient that is discharged from the emergency department with pending laboratory and/or radiology test results. All patients that need follow up are contacted by telephone or certified letter. AftERcare also helps with referrals to free or low-cost medical care and often just a telephone call to check on a patients status.