Showing posts with label hospitals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hospitals. Show all posts
Thursday, May 22, 2014

New Hospital Initiative Involves Nurses Conducting Universal Screening for Depression

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Hospital patients who have undiagnosed depression often have a slower and more difficult recovery. Now, nurses at Cedars-Sinai hospital in ...
Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Hospitals' Approach to Quality Care

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Kaiser Health News recently reported that the Joint Commission has released their annual report announcing which hospitals have excelled at...
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 ...
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 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...
Tuesday, June 12, 2012

How Hospital Noise Harms Health

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A study investigating how hospital noises may disrupt sleep and potentially have a negative effect on patient health has gained national att...
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...
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...
Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Philadelphia Hospital Boosts Use Of Registered Nurses In Bid To Improve care

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Yesterday, Stacey Burling, reporting for the Philadelphia Inquirer , detailed how Hahnemann University Hospital plans to utilize more regist...
Friday, December 23, 2011

INQRI's Five Most Read Blogposts of 2011

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On behalf of the INQRI program staff and leadership team, we would like to wish all of you a safe and happy holiday & New Year. Below yo...
Monday, November 7, 2011

A New Tool to Compare Hospital Performance

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Last week, Tom Avril and Dylan Purcell, of the Philadelphia Inquirer, reported on the Center of Medicare & Medicaid Services' hospi...
Thursday, November 3, 2011

Hospital Delirium, Another Hospital Hazard for the Elderly

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Yesterday, Susan Seliger wrote about her personal and family's experience with hospital delirium. Hospital delirium, a brain dysfunction...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Florida Hospitals, Nursing Homes Team Up To Cut High Readmission Rates

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On Monday, Letitia Stein, of the St. Petersburg Times , detailed how Florida hospitals are collaborating with local rehabilitation and nursi...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Nurses Can Become Desensitized To Hospital Sounds

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Yesterday, Michele Norris, host of the National Public Radio program, All Things Considered , had a conversation with Boston Globe reporter...
Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Bloodstream Infections Tied to Excess Mortality in ICU

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Last week, Nursingcenter.com featured a study conducted in Europe from the December edition of The Lancet Infectious Diseases Journal that...
Friday, April 23, 2010

Are Hospital Rankings Popularity Contests or Measures of Quality?

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In an article published yesterday, Janice Simmons wonders if hospital rankings are true measures of quality. Each year since 1990, U.S. N...
Friday, July 24, 2009

U.S. News and World Report... focusing on quality

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U.S. News and World Report recently released two articles relating to health care quality: America's Best Hospitals Last week, U.S. Ne...