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 7, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
Transforming Care At the Bedside gave nurses at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center the courage to imagine what their jobs would be like without wasted time and unnecessary workarounds.
January 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Improving the hospital nurse work environment can prevent readmissions for three common conditions.
November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Baccalaureate degree program in nursing pairs online content delivery with simulations and traditional nursing program clinical rotations.
January 10, 2013 | News Release
A study in the current issue of Medical Care suggests that improving nurses’ work environment can help to reduce Medicare readmissions.
March 19, 2013 | News Release
New study reveals striking understaffing for critically ill babies compared with national guidelines.
November 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
Implementing the IOM Future of Nursing Report–Part II
November 12, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Twelve-hour nursing shifts cause higher levels of burnout and negatively affect patient care, according to a study published this month in Health Affairs.
August 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
The August 2011 issue of Charting Nursing's Future focuses on how to dramatically increase the formal education of America's nursing workforce by 2020.
September 27, 2012 | Story
Read about a new study on how improved nurse environments can reduce medication errors, what’s new on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Human Capital Blog, and more.
November 30, 2011 | Journal Article
Nurse staffing improvements have the greatest positive effect in hospitals with the best nurse working environments.