SCCM is dedicated to providing its members with resources to better manage their ICU. This exciting new resource for administrators and clinical managers/directors offers ready to use tools, products, resources, and other valuable information.  

This Tool Box is designed for: 

• ICU Directors and Managers
• Hospital Administrators
• Quality Improvement Professionals
• Human Resource Managers

Resources

• Talking Money with Hospital Administrators: A Guide for ICU Clinicians Who Want to Change the System
  This resource provides eight easy steps for bridging the communication gap between clinicians and administration.
  

CPOE System Requirements for Intensive Care Use

CPOF System Requirements for Intensive Care Use

Critical Care Delivery: Defining Clinical Roles and the Best Practice Model
Products

• Resource Guide for the Intensivist-Directed ICU
  Designed for hospitals making or considering the transition to an intensivist-directed ICU. Essential for planning and managing a successful intensivist model.                                                        
• Introduction to the Intensivist-Directed ICU
  This overview offers valuable insight in a condensed version that covers topics such as a synopsis of critical care and the intensivist model, a discussion of models of ICU organization, how to assess medical staff receptivity, establishing intensivist authority in the ICU, and creative staffing options.  
• Patient and Family Support Brochures
  These brochures are designed to assist healthcare practitioners with the difficult task of explaining in easy and understandable terms of the complexities of critical care.
• Improving Care in the ICU
  Provides a variety of solutions to common challenges in operating a high-quality ICU.
• Clinical Practice and Administrative Guidelines Notebook 
  Developed by the American College of Critical Care Medicine (ACCM) and approved by the Board of Regents and SCCM Council, the Guidelines Notebook provides a collection of administrative and clinical practice guidelines. A sampling includes: Guidelines on Critical Care Services and Personnel: Recommendations Based on a System of Categorization of Three Levels of Care; Guidelines for Intensive Care Unit Design.
• ICU Design Video & Book
  This video and book combination provides a complete resource detailing ICU Design Award Citation submissions.
• Critical Care Unit Design & Furnishing
  A thorough how-to guide to redesign your ICU and make it patient friendly, functional, efficient, and comfortable.
• Fundamentals of Disaster Management
  This valuable book will help you create your institution's disaster plan.
• Critical Care Units; A Descriptive Analysis
  Update to the landmark 1991 Groeger Survey. Highlights staffing patterns, effects of nursing shortage and more.
• Compensation of Critical Care Professionals
  Compare salary, benefits and working conditions of critical care professionals across the country.
• Job Descriptions & Contracts in Critical Care
  Find out how you can ensure that your job description accurately reflects your responsibility by reviewing this valuable resource.
  
  To order any of the above products, please contact Customer Service at (847) 827-6888. You may also order online through the SCCM Bookstore.  Be sure to login to receive member pricing.