Today, the Irish Medical Times details a study that finds nurse-led interventions achieve better blood pressure control in patients with diabetes than usual care. The study, which is published in the British Medical Journal, finds that nurse-led intervention are less expensive and could possibly reduce costs in the long-run.
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Click here to read more about nurse-led interventions led by INQRI grantees.
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Thursday, January 13, 2011
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
INQRI Projects Featured in Geriatric Nursing
The INQRI program is pleased to report that the latest edition of Geriatric Nursing features all INQRI projects in their selection of featured articles.
Please click here to read the letter from editor Barbara Resnick (also an INQRI grantee), "The Difference Nurses Are Making to Improve Quality of Care to Older Adults through the Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative."
Featured Articles:
The Impact of Worker Health on Long Term Care: Implications for Nursing Managers
Susan Letvak, Christopher J. Ruhm
SPEACS-2: Intensive Care Unit “Communication Rounds” with Speech Language Pathology Mary Beth Happ, Brooke M. Baumann, Jennifer Sawicki, Judith A. Tate, Elisabeth L. George, Amber E. Barnato
Age-Related Differences in Perception of Quality of Discharge Teaching and Readiness for Hospital Discharge
Kathleen L. Bobay, Teresa A. Jerofke, Marianne E. Weiss, Olga Yakusheva
Nurse Identified Hospital to Home Medication Discrepancies: Implications for Improving Transitional Care
Cynthia F. Corbett, Stephen M. Setter, Kenn B. Daratha, Joshua J. Neumiller, Lindy D. Wood
Satisfaction with Assisted Living: The Unexplored Role of Physical Activity
Barbara Resnick, Elizabeth Galik, Ann L. Gruber-Baldini, Sheryl Zimmerman
Please click here to read the letter from editor Barbara Resnick (also an INQRI grantee), "The Difference Nurses Are Making to Improve Quality of Care to Older Adults through the Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative."
Featured Articles:
The Impact of Worker Health on Long Term Care: Implications for Nursing Managers
Susan Letvak, Christopher J. Ruhm
SPEACS-2: Intensive Care Unit “Communication Rounds” with Speech Language Pathology Mary Beth Happ, Brooke M. Baumann, Jennifer Sawicki, Judith A. Tate, Elisabeth L. George, Amber E. Barnato
Age-Related Differences in Perception of Quality of Discharge Teaching and Readiness for Hospital Discharge
Kathleen L. Bobay, Teresa A. Jerofke, Marianne E. Weiss, Olga Yakusheva
Nurse Identified Hospital to Home Medication Discrepancies: Implications for Improving Transitional Care
Cynthia F. Corbett, Stephen M. Setter, Kenn B. Daratha, Joshua J. Neumiller, Lindy D. Wood
Satisfaction with Assisted Living: The Unexplored Role of Physical Activity
Barbara Resnick, Elizabeth Galik, Ann L. Gruber-Baldini, Sheryl Zimmerman
Volume 31, Issue 3, Pages 153-238, e1-e2 (May-June 2010)
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Nurses Key to Understanding the "Off-peak Effect"
Drs. Patti Hamilton, Gretchen Gemeinhardt, Sondip Mathur and their team recently had their article, "Expanding What We Know About Off-peak Mortality in Hospitals" published in the Journal of Nursing Administration.
Dr. Hamilton: For more than thirty years, weekend and/or night time hospitalizations have been associated with negative patient outcomes. Descriptive studies have verified the presence of this “off-peak” effect in twenty-five patient diagnostic groups but have done little to explain the cause of this effect. We believe nurses can help us to understand what happens on off-peak shifts that may lead to negative patient outcomes. The purpose of our INQRI-funded study is to describe challenges nurses encounter and deal with on off-peak shifts, and to explain how those challenges arose in institutions designed to avoid any such outcomes. Our research to date suggests a number of steps that nurse administrators might take to enhance their knowledge for handling off-peak challenges in their hospitals. Visit our study website at http://www.nursingopen247.com/ for more information about the study and for useful resources.
Click here to access the article on the Journal of Nursing Administration's website.
Dr. Hamilton: For more than thirty years, weekend and/or night time hospitalizations have been associated with negative patient outcomes. Descriptive studies have verified the presence of this “off-peak” effect in twenty-five patient diagnostic groups but have done little to explain the cause of this effect. We believe nurses can help us to understand what happens on off-peak shifts that may lead to negative patient outcomes. The purpose of our INQRI-funded study is to describe challenges nurses encounter and deal with on off-peak shifts, and to explain how those challenges arose in institutions designed to avoid any such outcomes. Our research to date suggests a number of steps that nurse administrators might take to enhance their knowledge for handling off-peak challenges in their hospitals. Visit our study website at http://www.nursingopen247.com/ for more information about the study and for useful resources.
Click here to access the article on the Journal of Nursing Administration's website.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
INQRI Team Offers New Tools to Measure Pain Management
Susan Beck and her colleagues at the University of Utah have published the first phase of their INQRI-sponsored work to develop tools to measure the quality of care related to pain management.
Dr. Beck: The purpose of this phase of our research was to establish content validity of the items and to evaluate whether patients understood each item and were able to make a judgment based on the care provided to them by nurses and their interdisciplinary team. We interviewed 39 hospitalized patients with pain at the end of a nursing care shift. The process allowed the team to produce a 44-item version of the tool that could then be tested in the clinical setting.
Copies of the final version of the tools that resulted from this ongoing work are available upon request. The first tool, "Pain Care Quality (PainCQ) Nursing" includes 14 items that measure three factors: Being Treated Right, Comprehensive Nursing Pain Care, and Efficacy of Pain Management. The second tool, "PainCQ-Interdisciplinary" contains six items that measure Partnership with the Healthcare Team and Comprehensive Interdisciplinary Pain Care. Please contact me at susan.beck@nurs.utah.edu to obtain a copy and request permission to use the PainCQ tools.
You can read the article in the March/April issue of Nursing Research, now available online.
Dr. Beck: The purpose of this phase of our research was to establish content validity of the items and to evaluate whether patients understood each item and were able to make a judgment based on the care provided to them by nurses and their interdisciplinary team. We interviewed 39 hospitalized patients with pain at the end of a nursing care shift. The process allowed the team to produce a 44-item version of the tool that could then be tested in the clinical setting.
Copies of the final version of the tools that resulted from this ongoing work are available upon request. The first tool, "Pain Care Quality (PainCQ) Nursing" includes 14 items that measure three factors: Being Treated Right, Comprehensive Nursing Pain Care, and Efficacy of Pain Management. The second tool, "PainCQ-Interdisciplinary" contains six items that measure Partnership with the Healthcare Team and Comprehensive Interdisciplinary Pain Care. Please contact me at susan.beck@nurs.utah.edu to obtain a copy and request permission to use the PainCQ tools.
You can read the article in the March/April issue of Nursing Research, now available online.
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