INQRI in the Spotlight

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  October, 2008

  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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  October, 2008

  Rural Delivery: Health Care Lessons from North Dakota

  INQRI Grantee, Mary Wakefield, is "In the Spotlight" for the Commonwealth Fund.

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  September, 2008

  Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice - Volume 9, Issue 2

  INQRI grantee, John Welton's paper "Testing an Impatient 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.

• INQRI Annual Meeting, July 2008

  At the INQRI Annual Meeting in July, 2008, we were joined by two outstanding speakers. Please take the opportunity to view their presentations:

  "Promoting Quality through Research Impact: Challenges, Missed Opportunities and Potential for Nursing Research"
  David Mechanic, PhD
  Director of the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research
  Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
  
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  "Shaping Nursing Roles & Research for the Dorsett Family"
  Arnold Milstein, MD, MPH
  Medical Director
  Pacific Business Group on Health
  
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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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