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January 1, 2008 | Program Result
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology convened a conference to develop a research agenda on the role of health care facility design and patient safety, patient and family experiencem and nurse/staff working conditions.
National Program
The TCAB program was led by the Institute for Health Improvement (IHI), and has generated significant information about the value of involving nurses and other front-line staff in the redesign of care delivery models and systems.
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Nursing students need to be taught the guiding principles of Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB), a nurse-led, quality improvement program, from the first day of nursing school so that their entire education prepares them to work in a collaborative, adaptive environment centered on patient care, according to this article on curriculum and TCAB.
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Implementing Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB), a nurse-led quality initiative which aims to create rapid improvement, resulted in large gains in outcomes and large savings in costs, according to two executives with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, one of the hospitals participating in the TCAB pilot program.
January 1, 2006 | Journal Article
Nurses are the largest group of health care professionals providing direct patient care in hospitals, and the quality of care for hospital patients is strongly linked to the performance of nursing staff, according to an Institute of Medicine report. ...
August 9, 2011 | Program Result
Transforming Care at the Bedside-New Jersey is a state specific application of the nurse-driven TCAB process of hospital improvement. This is a look at the project's progress at the halfway mark.
July 11, 2011 | Program Result
Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) was a national initiative to improve hospital patient care and the hospital work environment by empowering front-line nurses to implement innovative new practices on their units.
July 5, 2011 | Story
"There's that stigma where the doctor is some almighty person, and the nurse is in more of a subservient role."
July 5, 2011 | Story
"You can't deliver sustainable, long-term quality and safety improvement without infrastructure dedicated to the work," Minnier says. "And the amount you have will be a very strong predictor of the change and the sustainability of that change."
November 1, 2008 | Issue Brief
Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) is a multiphase, national initiative to improve the work environment on hospital medical-surgical units, and thereby increase the quality of patient care and nurse engagement. This brief discusses the successful spread of TCAB innovations across diverse units and hospitals.