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November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Two trustees of hospitals that have experience with Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB), a nurse-led, quality improvement initiative, cite efficiency, lower staff turnover, and staff and patient satisfaction as reasons why TCAB makes sense from a hospital's business point of view.
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
A well-crafted and well-implemented program to engage front-line staff in quality improvement can have an impact on how things are done, according to this qualitative evaluation of pilot phases two and three of the Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) nurse-led, quality improvement initiative.
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Implementing Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB), a nurse-led quality initiative which aims to create rapid improvement, resulted in large gains in outcomes and large savings in costs, according to two executives with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, one of the hospitals participating in the TCAB pilot program.
November 23, 2009 | Video/Story
Initiative is developing evidence about the most effective ways of organizing, financing and delivering public health services.
June 4, 2008 | Toolkit
When establishing measures, it's important to determine the desired outcome from looking at the design target.
November 1, 2009 | Commentary
In this Foreword, president-CEOs of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement review the success of Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) and call on national health care leaders and policy-makers to heed the insights of the insights of TCAB to leverage the skill and energy of nurses to improve patient care.
November 1, 2009 | Commentary
In this editorial appearing in a special supplement to the American Journal of Nursing, two nursing leaders of the Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) initiative review the program's history.
March 21, 2009 | Program Result
In 2007–2008, a team at Health Workforce Solutions LLC, a consulting firm in San Francisco, investigated innovative, nursing-driven models of health care delivery, identified 24 models for in-depth study and disseminated detailed information.
December 2, 2008 | Program Result
The UCLA School of Nursing revised and validated a survey instrument that they had developed to assess team functioning, attitudes toward safety, the organizational climate and satisfaction among nurses.
June 4, 2008 | Story
Staff created new positions for quality improvement facilitators, called patient care analysts, to help providers improve their practice patterns and use of evidence-based interventions.