About INQRI
The primary goal of the Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative (INQRI) is to generate, disseminate and translate research to understand how nurses contribute to and can improve the quality of patient care. The program, led by Mary Naylor, Ph.D, R.N., F.A.A.N. and Mark Pauly, Ph.D. of the University of Pennsylvania, in partnership with Lori Melichar, Ph.D. and her colleagues at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, supports interdisciplinary teams of nurse scholars and scholars from other disciplines to address the gaps in knowledge about the relationship between nursing and health care quality.
INQRI Meeting Materials
Cohort 1 - Executive Summaries (pdf)
Cohort 2 - Executive Summaries (pdf)
Cohort 3 Finalists - Executive Summaries (pdf)
News Room
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Modern Healthcare - Letter to the Editor - "Quantifying nurses' impact," a letter to the editor, written by INQRI leaders Mary Naylor and Mark Pauly.
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Trustees Magazine - June 2008 -
"A Different Voice: Nurses on the Board," by Susan Meyers. For years, nurses have been missing from the ranks of the hospital boardroom, with its chairs reserved for the CEO, physicians, lawyers and community leaders. Health care leaders say the prevailing stereotype of nurses simply as implementers of care rather than decision-makers of care has contributed to this exclusion.
Events
INQRI in the Spotlight
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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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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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