Nursing Experts Release Guiding Principles for Patient Engagement
July 11, 2012 | News Release
Nursing Alliance for Quality Care kicks off effort to put the patient relationship at the cornerstone of patient safety and quality.
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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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'The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Motivates Me'
June 28, 2012 | Story
Shelia Spurlock-White has developed a prep course for licensed practical nurses in the hope that better educated LPNs will lead to better elder care. RWJF, she says, inspires her in this mission.
Nurses and Medication Management
December 16, 2011 | Program Result Report
Interdisciplinary research teams at four institutions examined nursing's role in - and contribution to - medication management in hospital and transitional care settings.
Transforming Care at the Bedside--New Jersey
August 9, 2011 | Program Result Report
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.
Collection of Language Data and Services Provided by Health Plans
December 1, 2011 | Journal Article
This article reports the results of three nationwide surveys of health plans regarding their efforts to improve the provision of culturally and linguistically appropriate services for their members
Transforming Care at the Bedside
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.
Measuring the Contributions of Nurses to High-Value Health Care
May 18, 2011 | Program Result Report
Creating a set of measures that would make the connection between what nurses do and the quality of care patients receive and studying their implementation in hospitals.
Who Is Talking? Who is Listening? - Improving Communication Among Hospital Nurses and Clinicians
March 2, 2011 | Program Result Report
Joint Commission Resources in Oak Brook Ill., oversaw development and testing of an online course and support materials to improve communication among hospital nurses, physicians and others clinicians involved in team-oriented patient care.
How Transparency and Accountability Policy Directions Could Reflect the Contributions of Hospital Nurses
November 22, 2010 | Program Result Report
Mounting health care costs and misaligned reimbursement systems have prompted employers, health care purchasers and health policymakers to call for the creation of performance measures and transparency in reporting provider performance.
Do Information Systems Affect Adverse Events in Hospitals - and the Workload of Nurses?
October 18, 2010 | Program Result Report
Researchers with the School of Nursing at the University of California, San Francisco, measured the effect of two information systems at the Veterans Administration (VA) on the number of adverse events experienced by patients and the hours worked by nurses.