Fast Facts on Educational Preparedness Improvements, Verbal Abuse, and Work Trends from the RN Work Project

Our colleagues at the RN Work Project just published their summer newsletter. It includes data on newly-licensed nurses' experiences with and perspectives on educational preparedness, verbal abuse from nurse colleagues, and work trends.

Find out more here.

Scores Predict Readmission Likelihood

Through a simple risk score, a team from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, collaborating with a team in Bern, Switzerland, say they can identify roughly one-fourth of a hospital's patient population with the highest likelihood of being readmitted, and then within that group the 18% whose readmissions were potentially avoidable, for whom more expensive, intensive efforts might be worth the money.  Continue reading the article.

Readmissions is an area of interest to INQRI.  Grantees Dr. Marianne Weiss and Dr. Olga Yakusheva have conducted research on the discharge process and it's relationship to readmissions.  Learn more about their work:

View "Nurse and patient perceptions of discharge readiness in relation to postdischarge utilization."
View "Age-related differences in perception of quality of discharge teaching and readiness for hospital discharge."
View "Quality and cost analysis of nurse staffing, discharge preparation, and postdischarge utilization."

AACN: Implementing Successful Academic-Practice Partnerships Conference

AACN: Implementing Successful Academic-Practice Partnerships Conference
April 18-19, 2013. Chicago, IL

The American Association of Colleges of Nursing is promoting a conference to discover keys to maximizing strategic affiliations to ensure that they are goal-driven, outcomefocused, and mutually beneficial. Participants will explore how to sustain commitment and cooperation among partnering organizations through interactive presentations highlighting successful collaborations. Of note, the conference is geared toward those partnerships that are new/or under development.

Register by March 22.

New Research Highlights Advances of Fetal Surgery for Spina Bifida

A nursing research team at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has reviewed and summarized the history of fetal surgery for Spina Bifida from inception to current practice in order to highlight the advances of this science and its effects on the vulnerable children's population.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/08/10/4714540/nurses-from-the-childrens-hospital.html#storylink=cpy

To read more about this research team's work, click here.

Nursing Certificate Program Available for High School Students

An innovative education program that allows for high school students to start certified nurse assistance (CNA) training while still in school is being promoted in Hillsboro, North Carolina. Ben Kleine, reporting for the Hillsboro Star-Journal, detailed how local high school students can integrate the CNA certificate coursework into their high school class schedule. This program may be very useful for individuals who want to get an early start to their nursing career.

To read more about this program, click here.

Upcoming Webinar on May 17, 1-2pm EST: Lifelong Learning: Creating Partnerships to Build a Culture for Professional Growth

The INQRI program is pleased to announce the fifth webinar in our series focused on the IOM report, 'The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health."    

This session will focus on the sixth recommendation made in the IOM report, which focuses on ensuring that nurses engage in lifelong learning. Accrediting bodies, schools of nursing, health care organizations, and continuing competency educators from multiple health professions should collaborate to ensure that nurses and nursing students and faculty continue their education and engage in lifelong learning to gain the competencies needed to provide care for diverse populations across the lifespan.

 

Lifelong Learning: Creating Partnerships to Build a Culture for Professional Growth  

Presented by:

Teresa Wehrwein PhD, RN, Associate Dean for Academic and Clinical Affairs Michigan State University College of Nursing    

Kathleen Kessler, MSN, RN, Director of Professional Partnerships Michigan State University College of Nursing    

Thursday, May 17, 2012  1pm - 2pm ET 

Click here to register.

The programs we will be discussing are: "Nursing for Life: RN Career Transition Program" and "Leading Toward Tomorrow: Creating a Community of Nurse Leaders" in Michigan.

Webinar Objectives:

1.   Discuss lifelong learning and strategies to engage nurses.

2.   Describe specific programs developed to support career development for practicing nurses.

3.   Explore how utilizing partnerships can leverage lifelong learning program development.

Nursing Excellence Improves Outcome for High-Risk Infants‎

We are pleased to share with you a recently published study in JAMA conducted by INQRI cohort 2 grantees Dr. Eileen Lake, Dr. Jeannette Rogowski and colleagues, which found hospitals designated by the American Nurses Credentialing Center as a "RNE" hospital provide high quality care in three quality measurement areas. These hospitals, who have obtained the "RNE" designation by achieving exemplary practice or leadership in five areas, had significantly better outcomes than hospitals without this designation in rates of hospital infection, severe intraventricular hemorrhage, and death after seven day. Surprisingly, this study found no significant difference in the death rate of low birth weight infants after 28 days of birth between those hospitals with "RNE" designation and those that did not receive this credential.

Click here to read more about this study.

Click here to read the actual study (subscription required).