Lessons from Boston: Providing Trauma Care
April 26, 2013 | Story
An RWJF Clinical Scholar shares lessons from the Brigham and Women’s ER on the day of the Boston Marathon bombing.
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An Increase in the Number of Nurses With Baccalaureate Degrees is Linked to Lower Rates of Postsurgery Mortality
March 4, 2013 | Journal Article
Researchers found that a 10-point increase in the percentage of nurses holding a baccalaureate degree in nursing within a hospital was associated with an average reduction of 2.12 deaths for every 1,000 patients.
A Multicenter, Phased, Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial to Reduce Central Line-associated Bloodstream Infections in Intensive Care Units
September 1, 2012 | Journal Article
The success of this nurse-led collaborative underscores the role of nurses in quality improvement.
Reform in Action: Improving Quality in Hospitals
August 23, 2012
AF4Q is working with nearly 300 hospitals in 16 communities to develop, test, implement, and spread quality improvement strategies.
Reform in Action: Improving Quality in Hospitals
August 23, 2012 | Issue Brief/Infographic
AF4Q is working with nearly 300 hospitals in 16 communities to develop, test, implement, and spread quality improvement strategies.
The Path to Palliative Care
July 6, 2012 | Feature
RWJF brought about a seismic shift in the way Americans viewed end-of-life care.
Specialized Hospital Units for Elderly Provide Shorter Stays, Lower Costs
June 20, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Hospital units designed specifically for the care of older patients could save as much as $6 billion a year, a study from the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) finds. In a randomized controlled trial, patients in “acute care for elder ...
Nurses' Practice Environments, Error Interception Practices, and Impatient Medication Errors
June 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Nurses play a critical role in identifying and intercepting medication errors regardless where the error originates—at the prescribing, transcribing, dispensing or administration stages.
Cash & Counseling: Empowering Choice, Improving Health
May 25, 2012 | Feature
In 1998, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) joined forces to provide eligible, disabled Medicaid participants with greater personal choice and control over their care
Nurses' Clinical Reasoning
January 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Nurses use clinical reasoning to prevent medication errors, saving lives and increasing the efficiency of the health care system.