Showing posts with label acute care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label acute care. Show all posts
Monday, January 6, 2014

Post-Acute Care Transitions Should be Facilitated by Rehab Nurses

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A new white paper asserts that successful post-acute care (PAC) transitions for individuals with disabling conditions must be facilitated by...
Monday, October 14, 2013

Research Brief: Quality of Nursing Care on Acute Inpatient Units

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Does the composition of hospital nurse staffing levels matter when it comes to preventing costly complications and death following those com...
Friday, November 2, 2012

Medical-Surgical Nurses Week

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The Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses (AMSN) has designated a special week, November 1-7, to honor the ways that medical-surgical nurses...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Reducing Central Line Infections

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Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center recently found that hospitals can use a set of basic precautions to reduce the number...
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Friday, August 17, 2012

California Nurses' Union Advocates for Setting Minimum Charity Care Levels for Non-Profit Hospitals

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Over the past few decades, many health care professionals have expressed their concern regarding non-profit facility's tax-exempt status...
Thursday, August 9, 2012

Nurses Save Patients Time and Hospital Money

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The local CW affiliate for the Dallas Fort-Worth area, KDAF-TV , detailed how a group of nurses tasked with obtaining detailed history for p...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Inside an Award-winning ED's Nursing Department

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Yesterday, Alexandra Wilson Pecci, reporting for HealthLeaders Media , gave a glimpse of specific programs and initiatives being implemente...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

How to Better Motivate Nurses and Cut Costs

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Yesterday, Karen Minich-Pourshadi, Senior Editor for HealthLeaders Media , published a fascinating piece that discussed innovative ways for ...
Monday, July 16, 2012

Significant Rise in Ohio Nurses Seeking 4-year Degrees

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In response to growing demands by hospital systems and ambulatory practices, more Ohio registered nurses are enrolling in bachelors of scien...
Thursday, June 28, 2012

New Coverage on INQRI Study re: Nurse Depression

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INQRI grantees, Susan Letvak , Christopher Ruhm , and their team are receiving a lot of attention for a new article they published recently ...
Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Did You Miss Monday's Webinar?

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If so, you can catch it right here.  We were joined by INQRI grantees, Linda Flynn and Suzanne Gordon for the seventh session in our series ...
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Depression in Hospital-Employed Nurses Is Double The National Average

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An INQRI supported study, published in the May/June edition of Clinical Nurse Specialist and led by INQRI grantees Susan Letvak, PhD, RN and...
Monday, June 4, 2012

New INQRI Article on Delirium Treatment & Prevention

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INQRI grantees Michele Balas and William Burke recently concluded their study focused on implementing, analyzing and disseminating an eviden...
Tuesday, May 29, 2012

2012 AAN Fellows Announced... with an INQRI Grantee Among Them!

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INQRI congratulates all of the American Academy of Nursing's 2012 Fellows , but we would like to especially congratulate INQRI grantee S...
Monday, May 7, 2012

It is National Nurse Week!

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With Sunday, May 6th kicking off National Nurses Week, we believe it is appropriate to highlight news stories that celebrate this annual wee...
Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Nursing Excellence Improves Outcome for High-Risk Infants‎

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We are pleased to share with you a recently published study in JAMA conducted by INQRI cohort 2 grantees Dr. Eileen Lake, Dr. Jeannette Rog...
Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Upcoming IHI Seminar: Rethinking Critical Care: Reducing Patient Harm from Sedation, Immobility, and Delirium

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On May 15th and 16th, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement will be hosting a symposium in San Diego, CA addressing critical care and cut...
Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Nurse Staffing Mandates Debated at Hospitals

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Over the weekend, Ben Sutherly, staff writer for the Dayton Daily News , reported on the different viewpoints hospital administrators and nu...
Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Hospital Efforts To Keep Elderly Strong

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Yesterday, Lindsey Tanner, reporting for the Huffington Post , described new initiatives being implemented by hospitals to encourage elderly...
Monday, March 5, 2012

Minimum Nurse Staffing Level Legislation Introduced In Minnesota

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Last week, Renee Passal, of local ABC affiliate WDIO , reported that the Minnesota House and Senate has introduced legislation aiming to est...