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 in the Spotlight
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INQRI Grantee Awarded Episteme Laureate Award From Sigma Theta Tau International
Kathleen R. Stevens, EdD, RN, FAAN, recently received the Episteme Laureate award from the honor society of nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International. Dr. Stevens, who was a co-PI of a previously funded INQRI study, is nationally recognized for her involvement in improvement science and the dissemination of evidence-based practices.
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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.
Events
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INQRI National Conference - SAVE THE DATE
INQRI will hold a final national meeting to showcase and discuss the results of the research funded under this initiative. The meeting will be held April 26-27, 2012 in Washington, D.C. We invite you to attend this final meeting to learn more about INQRI research teams' work and key findings.
Call for Poster Abstracts NOW OPEN.
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Sixth Annual INQRI Meeting
The sixth annual INQRI meeting was held at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on July 13-14, 2011. Click "read more" to learn about the sessions and to watch video from the event.
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Above All, Do No Harm
Special thanks to Christopher Landrigan for the presentation on our recent webinar. It was a fantastic discussion focused on his team's study, "Temporal Trends in Rates of Patient Harm Resulting from Medical Care," in the New England Journal of Medicine. Thanks also to INQRI grantee Linda Flynn, who provided a reaction to the study based on her INQRI work.
News Room
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Facilitating Use of Research Evidence
A new issue of Milbank Quarterly has recently been made available free of charge that is focused on facilitating the use of research evidence.
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Reducing Readmissions
A recent article on HealthcareITNews.com, "Readmissions have hospitals stymied," discussed a recent Dartmouth Atlas Project report which indicated that little progress has been made in reducing hospital readmissions for Medicare patients over a five-year period. In addition, the report demonstrated that readmissions for patients with some conditions are actually increasing.
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Campaign for Action Research Agenda Released
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is coordinating a unique, multi-funder initiative to identify, generate, synthesize and disseminate evidence essential to informing efforts to implement the recommendations outlined in the Institute of Medicine report, "The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health" and to contribute to The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action's goal of advancing comprehensive change in health care for patients and the country.
