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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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.
November 30, 2011 | Journal Article
Nurse staffing improvements have the greatest positive effect in hospitals with the best nurse working environments.
October 1, 2010 | Report
This product was provided to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation by the grantee organization, Pitt Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc.
June 11, 2011 | Journal Article
Benefits outweigh the risks of conducting collaborative nursing research.
April 21, 2011 | Journal Article
Investments in nursing care hours reduce hospital readmissions by better preparing patients for discharge.
December 16, 2011 | Program Result
Interdisciplinary research teams at four institutions examined nursing's role in - and contribution to - medication management in hospital and transitional care settings.
April 1, 2011 | Journal Article
This article presents concerns about nurses who continue to work despite suffering physical pain or while under mental stress. The authors conducted focus groups with RNs and hospital management at four hospitals in North Carolina.
April 1, 2011 | Journal Article
In this study researchers examined the relationship between nurse staffing and patient outcomes to determine whether safety-net status affects that relationship.
September 28, 2011 | Story
New research offers insight into nurses' sense of job security, examines the potential for nurses to be accidentally exposed to toxic chemotherapy drugs, and offers evidence that ERs need to provide training and support to temporary nurses.
January 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Safe, high quality care depends on appropriate nurse staffing around the clock.