Cohort 5 Projects Start TODAY

We are pleased to announce that our six newly-funded research projects begin today.

Over the past four years, INQRI grants have supported research to establish links between nursing and the quality of care delivered to people within and across a variety of health care settings. This year’s grants will support studies that focus on disseminating and implementing programs that have proven effective. Each new  team receives an 18-month grant of up to $300,000 to support a project that explores the relationship between nursing and health care with a focus on developing evidence on how to disseminate and implement programs that are known to work. INQRI will share the results of this research with policy-makers, hospital administrators and others who make decisions about how nursing resources are distributed to improve quality and patient outcomes.

Click here to learn about these teams:

Michele Balas, Ph.D., R.N., A.P.R.N.-N.P., C.C.R.N., University of Nebraska Medical Center and William Burke, M.D., University of Nebraska Medical Center, principal investigators, Implementation and Dissemination of an Interdisciplinary Nurse-Led Plan to Manage Delirium in Critically Ill Adults;

Susan Beck, Ph.D., A.P.R.N., F.A.A.N., University of Utah and Nancy Dunton, Ph.D., Kansas University Medical Center, principal investigators, Dissemination and Implementation of Evidence-Based Methods to Measure and Improve Pain Outcomes;

Linda Flynn, Ph.D., Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and Joel Cantor, Sc.D., Center for State Health Policy at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, principal investigators, Creation of a Nurse Manager Development Program to Increase Patient Safety;

Nancy Hanrahan, Ph.D., R.N., University of Pennsylvania and Phyllis Solomon, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, principal investigators, Translation of a Transitional Care Nursing Intervention for People with Serious Mental Illness;

Robin Newhouse, Ph.D., M.S., M.G.A., University of Maryland, Baltimore and Bonnie Spring, Ph.D., A.B.P.P., Northwestern University, principal investigators, Nurse-Led Intervention to Improve Screening and Treatment for Substance Abuse: An RCT of Hospitals; and

Maria Titler, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., University of Michigan School of Nursing and Paul Conlon, Pharm.D., J.D., Trinity Health, principal investigators, Implementation of a Risk Specific Fall Prevention Bundle to Reduce Falls in Hospitals.