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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 ...

Rapid Response Teams Seen Through the Eyes of the Nurse

June 1, 2010 | Journal Article

Rapid response teams enhance nurses’ work environment and were considered so important that some nurses said they would be reluctant to work in a facility that did not have one.

Balancing Interests of Hospitals and Nurse Researchers

June 11, 2011 | Journal Article

Benefits outweigh the risks of conducting collaborative nursing research.

Nurse-Led Interdisciplinary Teams

October 1, 2008 | Journal Article

A nurse-led interdisciplinary team considers how to ensure a patient's current medications are taken into account when hospital physicians or clinicians prescribe in-hospital treatment and drugs.

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.

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.

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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