Measuring Nurses' Impact on Health Care Quality
April 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Four Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative (INQRI) teams summarize their work to close the gaps in measuring quality of nursing care.
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Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care
National Program
Program to foster long-term changes in health care institutions to substantially improve care for dying persons and their families.
Conference Offers Ways to Improve Care for Patients Facing the End of Life
December 1, 1998 | Program Result Report
In 1997, the Colorado Collaboration on End-of-Life Care (CCELC), a consortium of public and private groups, sponsored a conference with the goal of developing a replicable model of hospice/palliative care that can be used by an integrated delivery system to optimize appropriate interdisciplinary and holistic End-of-Life care.
IOM Recommends Steps for Better End-of-Life Care
September 2, 2002 | Program Result Report
The goals of the study were to strengthen public and professional understanding of what constitutes good care at the end of life and to encourage a stronger commitment to caring well for people as they die.
Death is Certain, Strategy Isn't
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
RWJF spent two decades working on end-of-life issues in the United States. Through multiple partnerships and collaborations, the field of end-of-life care underwent significant change and improvement.
Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care
October 15, 2009 | Program Result Report
Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care was a program to identify, promote and institutionalize care practices that allow seriously ill people and their families to approach the end of life in physical, psychological, spiritual and emotional comfort.
A Story from the Pediatric Palliative Care Project
May 15, 2008 | Program Result Report
If all that mattered to dying children and their families was an all-expenses-paid trip to the Grand Canyon or the World Series, it would be easy enough to ease the pain of young lives prematurely foreclosed.
A Story of Implementing Palliative Care in an Inner-City Trauma/Surgical Intensive Care Unit
May 15, 2008 | Program Result Report
The Trauma/Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) at University Hospital in Newark is the sort of place people land without warning: a gunshot wound late at night; a car accident on the way home from the movies.
Establishment of a Culturally Sensitive Rural Hospice Program for Alaska Natives
May 15, 2008 | Program Result Report
The Bristol Bay Area Health Corporation created Ikayurtem Unatai (Helping Hands), a palliative care program for Native Alaskans living in the 34 villages that comprise Bristol Bay.
Developing a Research and Education Agenda to Improve End-of-Life Care in Intensive Care Units
May 15, 2008 | Program Result Report
With $107,906 from the Special Opportunities Fund of from RWJF's Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care national program, researchers from the University of Washington organized and convened a workshop.