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.
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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 workâand variations in patient mortality rates.
Nurse Practitioners Can Expand Roles in Collaborative Care Units
January 1, 2001 | Program Result
In the University Hospitals of Cleveland's Collaborative Care Unit, nurse practitioners manage the delivery of care and clinical decision-making. This project examined the impact of the collaborative care model on costs and quality of care at the hospital using a randomized controlled trial over a two-year period.
Coaching Academic Medical Centers in the Chronic Care Model
August 22, 2008 | Program Result
The Association of American Medical Colleges provided education and coaching to teams at 22 academic health centers that were implementing the Chronic Care Model - a system to improve the care of chronically ill patients.
Responding to Disaster
June 5, 2007 | Program Result
The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) prepared a video inform doctors of the team approach to disasters and to encourage them to volunteer for federally trained disaster response teams.
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.