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Practice Change and Culture Change in Implementing Geriatric Care Initiatives

November 1, 2010 | Journal Article

Recommendations from nurse managers on how to make lasting practice change.

Effects of Nurse Staffing and Nurse Education on Patient Deaths in Hospitals With Different Nurse Work Environments

November 30, 2011 | Journal Article

Nurse staffing improvements have the greatest positive effect in hospitals with the best nurse working environments.

Expanding What We Know about Off-Peak Mortality in Hospitals

March 1, 2010 | Journal Article

Nurses giving bedside care can help researchers learn how off-peak environments affect their work—and variations in patient mortality rates.

Technology Target Studies

January 1, 2008 | Report

This product was provided to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation by the grantee organization, American Academy of Nursing Inc.

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.

Hospitalized Children's Perspectives on the Quality and Equity of Their Nursing Care

January 1, 2012 | Journal Article

Approximately 3 million children in the United States are hospitalized every year. This study examines children and adolescents' views of the quality of their nursing care while hospitalized and their physical and emotional states.

Psychometric Testing of the Smoking Cessation Counseling Scale

December 1, 2011 | Journal Article

The SCC scale was found to be reliable and valid for representing nursing compliance with evidence-based smoking cessation counseling.

Balancing Interests of Hospitals and Nurse Researchers

June 11, 2011 | Journal Article

Benefits outweigh the risks of conducting collaborative nursing research.

Quality and Cost Analysis of Nurse Staffing, Discharge Preparation, and Postdischarge Utilization

April 21, 2011 | Journal Article

Investments in nursing care hours reduce hospital readmissions by better preparing patients for discharge.

Nurses and Medication Management

December 16, 2011 | Program Result

Interdisciplinary research teams at four institutions examined nursing's role in - and contribution to - medication management in hospital and transitional care settings.

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