News
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July 14, 2010
Failure In Central Line Infection Prevention, Survey Says
In a piece for Health Leaders Media, Cheryl Clark wrote about a study of more than 2,000 health providers which found that just 3/10 hospital administrators are willing to spend the necessary funds to prevent catheter-related bloodstream infections. The study also found that less than 1/5 providers believe that their institutions have the capability to train staff in infection prevention strategies.
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July/August, 2010
Using Clinical Data to Capture Nurse Workload: Implications for Staffing and Safety
In a piece published in the July/August edition of Computers, Informatics, Nursing, authors Marianne Baernholdt, Kathleen Cox and Ken Scully used a hospital clinical data repository to calculate workload measures and a unit activity index.
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July 12, 2010
Pessimism about conquering infections is the biggest obstacle, Pronovost says
For a recent article published in FierceHealthcare, author Sandra Yin quotes Peter Pronovost who suggests that pessimism is to blame for failure to prevent these infections. "By far, the biggest barrier is people just don't believe they can do it," he said.
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May, 2010
The Role Of Nurse Practitioners In Reinventing Primary Care
INQRI director Mary Naylor and Ellen Kurtzman have a new article in the May 2010 edition of Health Affairs which provides an overview of the role of nurse practitioners, the principal group of advanced-practice nurses delivering primary care in the United States.
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April 28, 2010
Reversing the Trend: Researchers Investigate How Nurses Can Improve Patient Care During "Off-Peak" Hours
An INQRI-funded team of health researchers, including two nurses, has identified the causes of some of the disparities in care that occur at hospitals during "off-peak" hours and have made preliminary recommendations for changes in nursing administration that could help.
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March 18, 2010
Where Patient Safety Really Counts – at the Bedside: A Conversation with Pam A. Thompson
Pam A. Thompson, MS, RN CENL, FAAN, is chief executive officer of the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE), a national professional organization which has been providing leadership, advocacy and research to advance nursing practice and patient care since 1967. She believes patient safety starts with nurses.
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March 9, 2010
Nurses Say Distractions Cut Bedside Time by 25 Percent
In a new article for Health Leaders Media, John Commins reports that hospital nurses spend 1/4 of their shift away from the patients' bedside to complete regulatory requirements, redundant paperwork, and other non-direct care, according to a recent online survey of more than 1,600 nurses.
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February 22, 2010
Hospital infections killed 48,000, report shows
Reuters recently reported that "pneumonia and blood-borne infections caught in U.S. hospitals killed 48,000 patients and cost $8.1 billion in 2006."
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January 14, 2010
Evidence-based treatments have improved care quality, Joint Commission says
This week, Victoria Forlini wrote a piece for FierceHealthcare, explaining the way that the Joint Commission says that evidence-based practices improve patient care.
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January 4, 2010
NQF endorses 70 data-related measures
Modern Healthcare has reported that "The National Quality Forum is endorsing 70 performance measures that combine data from various electronic sources—such as administrative claims, pharmacy and laboratory systems, and registries—in order to advance the use of electronic data platforms to measure, report and improve quality."
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September 17, 2009
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Awards $1.5 Million To Identify Ways to Keep Patients Safe and Improve Quality
INQRI announces the newly awarded fourth cohort of grantees.
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July 20, 2009
Modern Healthcare has posted a commentary by INQRI grantees Eileen Lake and Thelma Patrick on their research on neonatal intensive care units (NICU). They argue that by fully staffing a NICU with sufficiently-seasoned nurses and by developing an environment in which nurses work as a team with doctors, hospitals can reduce the number of hospital-acquired infections (HAI) in these tiny babies.
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July 6, 2009
Report Suggests New York Hospitals Have More to Do to Reduce HAIs
A report from the New York State Health Department finds that hospitals are making strides in reducing the risk of some hospital acquired infections (HAIs), but rates remain higher than the national average for some types of infections, the Jamestown Post-Journal reports.
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June 30, 2009
State Reports Reveal Wide Variation in Health Care Quality
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released its annual set of reports detailing state-by-state health care quality, finding that there are "mixed reviews" for the quality of care being provided, with no states performing exceptionally well or very poorly on all quality measures, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.
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May 29, 2009
INQRI Grantee Featured in RWJF Newsletter
Congratulations to Gerri Lamb who was profiled in the May 2009 edition of "Sharing Nursing's Knowledge."
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May 15, 2009
Updates on Nurse Staffing and Workforce Regulations
Federal Legislation Would Establish Inpatient Nurse Staffing Ratios
Legislators, Nurse Unions Push for National Workforce Regulations -
May 7, 2009
Updates from AHRQ
AHRQ Report Highlights Health Care Quality, Access Disparities Gap
Patients Receiving Only 59 Percent of Recommended Care, AHRQ Finds -
May 4, 2009
Medical Students, Health Care Professionals Tap IHI for Quality, Safety Courses
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has developed a series of free online courses designed to teach medical students, nurses and other health care professionals about quality improvement and patient safety, American Medical News reports.
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April, 2009
AHA Quality Center Distributes Guide to Bolster Quality Improvement
The American Hospital Association's (AHA) Quality Center has launched an initiative to help hospital leaders enhance "clinical, operational and financial performance" by meeting the Institute of Medicine's six aims for improvement, AHA News Now reports.
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September 27, 2006
New Research Projects Will Examine How Nurses' Contributions Affect Patient Care And Safety