Nursing's bond to patients and link to quality of care are pivotal, as nurses make up more that half of the health care workforce. To improve the quality of hospital care, we must also transform the quality of nursing care at the patient's bedside.
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May 1, 2013 | Story
New study finds nurse staffing plays important role in implementation of measures that improve care for heart failure patients in rural hospitals.
May 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Nurse staffing stability associated with improved performance measures in heart failure care in rural hospitals according to this study.
February 21, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
These are some of the stories in the February issue of Sharing Nursing's Knowledge, a monthly e-newsletter from RWJF.
July 11, 2011 | Program Result Report
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.
March 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
North Dakota L.I.N.C. enrolled a total of 101 students in the program, who were spread across 47,000 square miles.
March 7, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
The rural nature of Maine provides unique challenges to the state’s 13 nursing schools when it comes to placing students in their needed clinical hospital rotations.
February 11, 2013 | Story
RWJF scholars and grantees spearhead projects to improve access to high quality nursing care in remote areas.
July 1, 1999 | Program Result Report
From 1993 to 1997, South Carolina Hospital Research and Education Foundation, West Columbia, S.C., developed and delivered three new nursing degree programs to rural areas.
July 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
The US Schweitzer Fellows Programs, which enable medical, nursing, public health and social work students to volunteer their services in impoverished communities, increased the number of student participants and added three volunteer sites.
March 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
In 1993 and 1994, Maine developed a five-part strategy to improve the distribution of primary care providers in underserved areas.