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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.
November 12, 2009 | Toolkit
Improving quality care helps to ensure that innovations are sustained and enables all units to benefit from tested and proven changes.
January 1, 2008 | Toolkit
Hospitals must determine areas of focus.
July 1, 2009 | Program Result Report
Investigators at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill surveyed nurses to find out which co-workers they consulted when confronted with complex treatment situations, including those involving error.
September 1, 2006 | Toolkit
The goal of the Build a Bridge program is to strengthen the relationships between the ED staff and their colleagues throughout the Sun City West, Arizona hospital.
November 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
Researchers at the University of Maryland studied the impact of nursing staff levels on patient outcomes in California hospitals for the period 1996 and 2000.
June 4, 2008 | Toolkit
A multifaceted approach rooted in four themes (Patient-Centered Care; Care Team Vitality; Reduction of Waste; Safety and Reliability) lends itself to participating hospitals developing a set of measures to gauge progress.
May 1, 1999 | Program Result Report
From 1995 to 1998, researchers from the Economic Policy Institute assessed the impact of labor-management cooperation and new employment and human resource practices on hospital performance, processes and outcomes.
June 11, 2011 | Journal Article
Benefits outweigh the risks of conducting collaborative nursing research.
December 1, 2010 | Journal Article
A review of existing research on handoffs in order to inform the improvement and standardization of the handoff process in hospitals found that in existing literature, key concepts remain poorly defined and that patient safety is not analyzed against handoffs' other functions.