Balancing Interests of Hospitals and Nurse Researchers
June 11, 2011 | Journal Article
Benefits outweigh the risks of conducting collaborative nursing research.
Nurses
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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Effects of Nurse Staffing and Nurse Education on Patient Deaths in Hospitals With Different Nurse Work Environments
November 30, 2011 | Journal Article
Nurse staffing improvements have the greatest positive effect in hospitals with the best nurse working environments.
RWJF, Three Other Foundations to Support New National Center for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice
June 29, 2012 | Story
Goal is to promote team-based learning among nurses, doctors and other health professionals to improve patient care.
Quality and Cost Analysis of Nurse Staffing, Discharge Preparation, and Postdischarge Utilization
April 21, 2011 | Journal Article
Investments in nursing care hours reduce hospital readmissions by better preparing patients for discharge.
Nurses and Medication Management
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.
The Impact of Nurses' Health on Productivity and Quality of Care
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.
Nurse Staffing Effects on Patient Outcomes
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.
Rapid Response Teams Seen Through the Eyes of the Nurse
June 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Rapid response teams enhance nurses’ work environment and were considered so important that some nurses said they would be reluctant to work in a facility that did not have one.
Teamwork by RWJF Executive Nurse Fellow Alumni Facilitates Adoption of a Medically-Fragile Twin
June 1, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
This post is part of an ongoing series of Voices from the Field by scholars, fellows and alumni of RWJF Human Capital programs. The author, Mary Hooshmand, R.N., Ph.D., is an alumnus of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellows prog ...
Off-Peak Nurse Staffing
January 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Safe, high quality care depends on appropriate nurse staffing around the clock.