Earlier this year, Cooper team members were participants in mobility advocate training by their peers from Johns Hopkins as part of the #everyBODYmoves campaign. The goal of the program is to break a cycle of deconditioning patients while hospitalized and preventing the occurrence of hospital-acquired conditions and infections.
The Johns Hopkins Activity and Mobility Promotion (JH-AMP)™ provides a systematic approach to combating the harms of immobility in the hospital. Patients who lie in hospital beds for long periods of time can lose the ability to stand or walk confidently or with ease. Setting daily mobility goals for patients who are in the hospital — from sitting up, to sitting on the edge of the bed, to moving to a chair, to walking a certain number of steps — has shown to improve patient outcomes and reduce complications and readmissions.
The Early Activity and Mobility Program provides Cooper team members with the tools and support needed to design and implement structured quality improvement processes that may successfully increase patient activity and mobility.
In June 2023, Phase I of the program was successfully implemented in Trauma Step-Down, Trauma ICU, Viner ICU, CCU, Kelemen 3, North Kelemen 7, and the Neuroscience ICU. Unit leaders, providers, and mobility advocates have engaged in assessing, goal setting, and implementing activity and mobility strategies. Phase II will roll out in February 2024 with an expansion to additional adult inpatient units.
We look forward to sharing more information as the program expands. In the meantime, see photos from the training sessions earlier this year and what our team members are saying about the program.
Words From Our Team!
Viner ICU Team: “The Johns Hopkins Mobility Program has been a good way to work as a team to help patients move every day.”
Matt N. (K3 RN): “The Johns Hopkins Mobility Program gives patients accessibility to the nurses to help with their goals for mobility and to get back to their baseline.”
Matt R. (K3 RN): “I like the Johns Hopkins Mobility Program because it is helping our patients recover faster.”
Karlos Powell (CCU RN): “Movement gets the heart pumping! I like the Johns Hopkins Mobility Program because it provides a guideline to gauge where your patient is at with their mobility. After you score your patient at their current mobility level, you then know exactly where you need to go to improve it.”
Kacie Brien (CCU RN): “I like that we get to partner with physical therapy in the program. They are great at getting the patients up and moving. With the program, we get to work closely with PT and the patients to improve the mobility score.”
Dana Thames (CCU RN): “The program is working well so far! It’s a much better format for us to figure out where our patients’ mobility levels are and where they should be. It gives us the opportunity to help our patients more.”