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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March 4, 2013 | Journal Article
Researchers found that a 10-point increase in the percentage of nurses holding a baccalaureate degree in nursing within a hospital was associated with an average reduction of 2.12 deaths for every 1,000 patients.
May 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Nurse staffing stability associated with improved performance measures in heart failure care in rural hospitals according to this study.
March 1, 2012 | Journal Article
In order to reduce costly turnover among newly-licensed nurses, hospitals should work to improve job satisfaction and organizational commitment before nurses develop the desire to leave their jobs, and also work to reduce workplace injury.
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.
January 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Nurses have the knowledge and skills—and leadership qualities—needed to serve on hospital and health system boards.
April 12, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
A newly released ranking of the nation’s “top 100 hospitals” concludes that if every U.S. hospital had performed as well over the last 30 months as the hospitals that earned spots on the list, nearly 180,000 Medicare patients would still be alive to ...
November 30, 2011 | Journal Article
Nurse staffing improvements have the greatest positive effect in hospitals with the best nurse working environments.
December 18, 2011 | Story
Study suggests hospitals should pursue improved nurse education and staffing, but those investments do not significantly reduce patient mortality in the absence of a good work environment.
February 13, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative (INQRI) has announced a series of webinars that will explore recommendations from the Institute of Medicine report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change ...
October 1, 2010 | Report
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