INQRI in the Spotlight
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INQRI Team Recognized for Work in "Aging in Place"
Congratulations to our team at the University of Maryland, led by Barbara Resnick and Sheryl Zimmerman. Their project on Function-Focused Care recently won a Dorland Health Silver Crown Award in the Aging in Place category.
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INQRI Team's Intervention Profiled by AHRQ
Congratulations to INQRI researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital on the inclusion of their fall prevention tool kit, FallTIPS, on AHRQ's Healthcare Innovations Exchange.
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INQRI Team Receives Funding from the Greenwall Foundation
Congratulations to our INQRI team at the University of Pittsburgh (Mary Beth Happ, Amber Barnato and team) who were recently awarded a grant from the Greenwall Foundation Kornfeld Program on Bioethics and Patient Care for a companion study to their INQRI project.
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Nurses Can Tell Us What Goes Wrong "Off-Peak"
In the newest edition of Healthcare Risk Management, INQRI researcher Patti Hamilton was interviewed about her project, "The Effect of Off-peak Hospital Environments on Nurses' Work: an Institutional Ethnography."
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Nurse Staffing, Nurse Human Capital and the Quality of Hospital Care
Three INQRI teams presented a panel together at the 2010 American Society of Health Economists meeting. Abstracts are now available online for their panel, "Nurse Staffing, Nurse Human Capital and the Quality of Hospital Care."
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INQRI Featured Prominently in Geriatric Nursing
The INQRI program is pleased to report that each featured article in the May-June 2010 edition of Geriatric Nursing comes from an INQRI team.
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Nurse Assessments Key to Understanding Discharge Readiness
INQRI researchers have found that formalizing nurse assessments at hospital discharge could help identify patients at risk for readmission.
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INQRI Research Team the First Commissioned by ANCC
An INQRI team from University of Maryland School of Nursing and Johns Hopkins University is the first to lead a study commissioned by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).
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Nurses Key to Understanding the "Off-peak Effect"
Drs. Patti Hamilton, Gretchen Gemeinhardt, Sondip Mathur and their team had their article, "Expanding What We Know About Off-peak Mortality in Hospitals" published in the Journal of Nursing Administration's March 2010 edition.
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INQRI Grantee Wins NIH Grant for Improvement Science
Kathleen Stevens, Ed.D, R.N., A.N.E.F., won a $3.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to advance health care improvement projects.
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INQRI Team Offers New Tools to Measure Pain Management
Susan Beck and her colleagues at the University of Utah have published the first phase of their INQRI-sponsored work to develop tools to measure the quality of care related to pain management.
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INQRI Grantee Appointed to the National Advisory Council for AHRQ
Congratulations to Nancy E. Donaldson, D.N.Sc., R.N. on her appointment to the National Advisory Council for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
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INQRI Team Member Receives MacArthur Foundation Genius Award
Peter Pronovost, M.D., a two-time grantee of the Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative (INQRI) program and critical care physician and professor at Johns Hopkins University, was one of 25 recipients of a $500,000 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur "Genius" Award.
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Rural Delivery: Health Care Lessons from North Dakota
INQRI Grantee, Mary Wakefield, is "In the Spotlight" for the Commonwealth Fund.
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Testing an Inpatient Nursing Intensity Billing Model
Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice - Volume 9, Issue 2
INQRI grantee, John Welton's paper "Testing an Inpatient Nursing Intensity Billing Model" was featured in this special edition of Policy, Politics & Nursing Practice. The articles in this edition were based on papers delivered at The Economics of Nursing Invitational Conference: Paying for Quality Nursing Care, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy in June 2007.
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Eliminating Bloodstream Infections: Influences of Nurse Turnover and Teamwork Activities
INQRI Grantee David Thompson, DNSc, MS, RN, from Johns Hopkins University will present a paper entitled "Eliminating Bloodstream Infections: Influences of Nurse Turnover and Teamwork Activities," at the 2008 Interdisciplinary Research Group on Nursing Issues (IRGNI) Interest Group Meeting in conjunction with the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting.
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Panel Presentation
INQRI Grantees Shoshanna Sofaer, DrPh, Paula Edwards, PhD, and Susan Beck, PhD, RN, will give a panel presentation on their INQRI projects at the AcademyHealth meeting in Washington, DC. Senior Program Officer Lori Melichar will moderate the panel and INQRI leaders Mary Naylor and Mark Pauly will serve as discussants.
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INQRI Grantee Linda Flynn Quoted in Star-Ledger
Registered nurses in New Jersey are on the brink of exhaustion from "unreasonable" workloads that sometimes cause them to miss important changes in their patients' conditions, according to a survey released Monday.
More than half of the 22,000 registered nurses responding to the survey said they didn't believe there is enough nursing staff in their institutions to provide quality patient care, while one-third said unreasonable workloads had caused them to look for a new job.
"It's not the nursing they don't like, it's the challenges they face in order to do their job," said Linda Flynn of Rutgers College of Nursing in Newark, who led the study that she described as the most comprehensive to date.
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INQRI Grantee Shoshanna Sofaer in ModernHealthcare
INQRI grantee Shoshanna Sofaer was featured in the Nov. 13 issue of Modern Healthcare, in an article on "Transparency Challenges" the described the difficulty for many members of the public to use existing, public reports of comparative quality.