The Earlier the Longer
November 12, 2012 | Journal Article
Intensive care units should take a rigorous and nuanced approach to planning patient handoffs to improve patient safety and quality of care.
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Simultaneous Improvement of Patient Care and Medical Student Training - Dartmouth Develops a New Model
July 14, 2008 | Program Result Report
Between December 2004 and June 2006, researchers from six medical centers, led by Dartmouth Medical School created a conceptual model on how to improve patient care and student training.
Early Nursing Involvement is Key to Successful Design Process, Says Nurse Architect
August 9, 2006 | Story
“Nurses have to be in the room and be empowered to be part of the process,” said Woodworth, a senior associate with Anshen+Allen in San Francisco, an architecture firm specializing in the design of health care and academic facilities.
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.
Nurses' Practice Environments, Error Interception Practices, and Impatient Medication Errors
June 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Nurses play a critical role in identifying and intercepting medication errors regardless where the error originates—at the prescribing, transcribing, dispensing or administration stages.
Pipeline, Profession & Practice: Community-Based Dental Education
November 19, 2012 | Program Result Report
RWJF's Dental Pipeline Program helped dental schools increase access to dental care for underserved populations through expanded community-based education and recruitment of underrepresented minority and low-income students.
Prevention or Treatment: Why Is Heart Disease Mortality Dropping?
October 24, 2012 | Story
Forty years of debate has failed to identify the most effective method of reducing coronary artery disease.
Provision of On-Site Medical Care to Patients with Hepatitis C in Drug Treatment Units
January 1, 2004 | Journal Article
The objective of the study was to explore what characteristics of patients and drug treatment units were related to providing either on-site medical care or a referral for treatment of Hepatitis C viral (HCV). A random sample of drug treatment units ...
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.