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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 ...
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.
June 11, 2011 | Journal Article
Benefits outweigh the risks of conducting collaborative nursing research.
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.
September 1, 2012 | Journal Article
The success of this nurse-led collaborative underscores the role of nurses in quality improvement.
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.
December 16, 2011 | Program Result Report
Interdisciplinary research teams at four institutions examined nursing's role in - and contribution to - medication management in hospital and transitional care settings.
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.
May 18, 2011 | Program Result Report
Creating a set of measures that would make the connection between what nurses do and the quality of care patients receive and studying their implementation in hospitals.
April 21, 2011 | Journal Article
Investments in nursing care hours reduce hospital readmissions by better preparing patients for discharge.