To attend this seminar, RSVP.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
4th Call for Proposals Released!
The 4th Call for Proposals is now available on-line!
Learn more about this funding opportunity by attending one of the upcoming INQRI webinars: October 23, 2008: 4:00pm - 5:00pm EST or November 11, 2008: 3:00pm - 4:00pm EST. For more information and to RSVP, email Heather Kelley.
Learn more about this funding opportunity by attending one of the upcoming INQRI webinars: October 23, 2008: 4:00pm - 5:00pm EST or November 11, 2008: 3:00pm - 4:00pm EST. For more information and to RSVP, email Heather Kelley.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
State of the Science 2008
Check out the INQRI slide show from the Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science's State of the Science event. INQRI grantees from our first cohort presented during a poster session and three teams presented findings during a panel presentation.
View the 2008 State of the Science program.
View the 2008 State of the Science program.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
What a Nurse Wants
A recent story in the Washington Post, “What Nurses Want,” highlighted a critical but unrecognized fact: When things go wrong in a hospital, it’s often the nurse who makes a difference between a good health experience and a bad one.
The story details efforts by Inova Fairfax Hospital and Georgetown University Hospital to recognize the important role that nurses play in making hospitals better and keeping patients safe. Like many hospitals around the nation facing a nursing shortage, these hospitals are developing new ways to recruit and retain nurses. It shouldn’t be a novel idea, but they’re finding that giving nurses a say in patient care works.
"It's important for me to know that what I do matters,” Jennifer Dimmick, a nurse with INOVA Fairfax told the Post.
It seems so intuitive, so simple, you might be thinking. Of course, nurses should play a central role in how we make decisions about patient care.
Unfortunately, this isn’t the case in many hospitals around the country, where nurses are often overworked, under-motivated, underused, and practice in work environments that too often set them up for failure. Under the INQRI program, nurses in partnership with other researchers are trying to provide the evidence to help reduce patient falls, prevent bloodstream infections, curb unnecessary readmission to hospitals, and create working conditions that ensure the best care for patients.
What are we learning through this important research? That among many things, giving nurses a voice in patient care can make all the difference.
The story details efforts by Inova Fairfax Hospital and Georgetown University Hospital to recognize the important role that nurses play in making hospitals better and keeping patients safe. Like many hospitals around the nation facing a nursing shortage, these hospitals are developing new ways to recruit and retain nurses. It shouldn’t be a novel idea, but they’re finding that giving nurses a say in patient care works.
"It's important for me to know that what I do matters,” Jennifer Dimmick, a nurse with INOVA Fairfax told the Post.
It seems so intuitive, so simple, you might be thinking. Of course, nurses should play a central role in how we make decisions about patient care.
Unfortunately, this isn’t the case in many hospitals around the country, where nurses are often overworked, under-motivated, underused, and practice in work environments that too often set them up for failure. Under the INQRI program, nurses in partnership with other researchers are trying to provide the evidence to help reduce patient falls, prevent bloodstream infections, curb unnecessary readmission to hospitals, and create working conditions that ensure the best care for patients.
What are we learning through this important research? That among many things, giving nurses a voice in patient care can make all the difference.
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