Features and Benefits

The One Stop Post Op™ concept of post-operative open-heart surgery care provides patient focused care across continium, from pre and immediate post-op period until discharge. The level of patient care changes, equipment changes, but patient remains in same room receiving care from same nursing staff. While this is not a new concept to health care, it is relatively new to post-operative open heart surgery recovery. In traditional open heart surgery recovery models patient is transferred from an Intensive Care Unit to an intermediate care unit and possibly to a non-monitored bed prior to discharge. The traditional process moves patient to care source instead of applying a patient responsive approach that delivers services directly to hospital’s customer.

The One Stop Post Op™ model reduces care costs by eliminating inefficiencies associated with transfers. Streamlining care delivery affects length of stay as consistent caregivers, familiar with patients and medical conditions that can occur following OHS surgery, recognize and immediately address complications. The nurses in “one-stop CVU units” are clinical specialists in pre and postoperative open-heart surgery care, experts in early recognition of clinical complications and can provide rapid intervention, optimizing clinical pathway variance monitoring and management. In addition, One Stop Post OP™ nursing and ancillary staff address patient discharge issues of homecare, family support and skilled facility placement, eliminating a fragmented planning process that can frequently occur when patients are transferred to several post operative care units.

Physicians, nurses and ancillary staff have opportunity to bond as a continuous quality improvement team that can experience success of discharging patients who have recovered from their OHS surgery. This is “real time” quality feedback. Satisfaction is not limited to patients and families; physician, staff and ancillary personnel appreciate this innovative approach to care. The One Stop Post Op™ model provides an environment that facilitates staff empowerment and ownership with all caregivers focusing on entire recovery process.

Key Points

Excellent satisfaction: Patients, Nurses, Physicians The One Stop Post Op ™ cardiovascular recovery unit has documented results that patient satisfaction can be improved with this innovative care delivery model. Nursing retention was higher and was attributed to increased job satisfaction while working in a unit that implemented this model. Physician survey scores reported excellent grades for patient care and nurse response.

"The 4 Critical Factors to Achieving Your Dream Body"

by Tony Tass.

Pay close attention.

I'm about to tell you everything you need to know to get dream body you've always wanted. You can do this WITH JUST information I'm about to give you.

So if you're interested in achieving a body that's leaner, healthier, and more muscular, pay VERY close attention.

There are 4 (FOUR) Factors that anyone who wants to transform their body, needs to do or follow. No if's, and's, or but's.

There are NO SHORTCUTS. These MUST be followed.

The 4 Factors are:

1) Eat a Proper Diet 2) Do some Aerobic Exercise 3) Perform some type of Weight Training 4) Get enough Rest

------------------------------ 1) Eat a Proper Diet ------------------------------

This first factor is extremely important. First off, before you can change your diet for better, you need to know exactly what it is that you're eating on a daily basis.

The best way to do this is to write down everything you eat. You can use software for this or do it manually, using a book such as "The Complete Book of Calorie Counts", by Corinne Netzer.

Once you've looked at what you're eating, you have to make necessary changes. For some, it may be as simple as eliminating junk food. For others, you need a complete overhaul of your diet.

What you need to eat, and what works best for most people is a diet properly balanced between Protein, Carbs, and Fat. That does not mean following a 90% carb diet, nor does it mean following a 90% Protein diet either.

Start off with something like a diet similar to a Zone-type diet where you're eating 40% carbs, 30% protein, and 30% fat. See how this works and then fine tune it. Make small adjustments week to week, for example increase protein 5% and decrease fat 5%, etc.

By doing this, and noting change, you'll become a master at knowing your body and how it responds to different diets.

And eat ONLY until you're full. DO NOT eat past that, even if it means you're leaving food on your plate.

Make sure you get all your food in at least 4 meals a day and, preferably 5 or 6. By eating smaller meals, spaced throughout day, you'll have better energy, and will increase your metabolism.

------------------------------ 2) Aerobic Exercise ------------------------------

Aerobic exercise is important for 3 reasons.

1) It's very good for your heart 2) It helps to increase your metabolism 3) It burns extra calories

I recommend that you do some kind of aerobic exercise 3-4 times per week for about 30 minutes each time.

Now, you may burn only 200-300 calories during this time, which to be quite honest is not much.