Twitter Chat Recap

Last week, INQRI grantee Marianne Weiss participated in a Twitter chat on patient empowerment, hosted by U.S. News and World Report.  With 263 participants, the chat moved pretty fast!  Panel members and many others shared tips for patients on how to prepare for doctor visits, keep track of medical information, ask the right questions, and ensure that they become partners in their care.

If you missed it (or missed some of it, considering the speed), you can check out the recap right here.  Dr. Weiss and INQRI were feeling pretty prolific - we had the top number of tweets (71) and the top number of mentions (121).  If you are interested in checking out the metrics of the chat, you can access them here.

INQRI Expert on Discharge to Discuss Patient Empowerment

As we told you yesterday, INQRI grantee Marianne Weiss will participate in a Twitter chat on patient engagement later today.  In advance, we'd like to introduce you to the work of her INQRI team which focused on nurses' contributions to hospital discharge teaching.

Improving hospital discharge and reducing unnecessary readmissions is a critical issue. Policymakers are seeking cost-effective solutions to better transition patients from hospital to home. Dr. Weiss and Dr. Olga Yakusheva led a team at Marquette University to study what hospital-based nurses do to influence outcomes after a patient is discharged from a hospital. They identified the contributions that nursing staff make to the quality of discharge teaching and the impact of that teaching on patient outcomes, readiness and readmission rates of patients who are discharged home. The team found that when units had more RN hours per patient day, fewer overtime hours and fewer vacancies, the discharge teaching was of higher quality, patients reported greater readiness for hospital discharge, and post-discharge utilization of readmission and emergency room visits was lower.

To access the articles published by the Weiss-Yakusheva team on this topic, please visit their page on the INQRI website.

Join us for today's Twitter chat using hashtag #PatientChat from 2pm-3pmET.

Moderator: @USNewsHealth
Experts: @RWJF, @theNPSF, @NPAF_tweets, @TrishaTorrey, @tedeytan, @RWJF_HumanCap, @INQRIprogram (*Dr. Weiss will use the INQRI Twitter handle)

Twitter Chat on Patient Empowerment

Tomorrow, U.S. News and World Report is hosting a live Twitter chat about empowering hospital patients.  Experts (including INQRI grantee Marianne Weiss*) will discuss how patients can become actively engaged and informed about their treatment.

Join us, using hashtag #PatientChat on Thursday, July 25 from 2pm-3pmET.

Moderator: @USNewsHealth
Experts: @RWJF, @theNPSF, @NPAF_tweets, @TrishaTorrey, @tedeytan, @RWJF_HumanCap, @INQRIprogram (*Dr. Weiss will use the INQRI Twitter handle)

Marianne Weiss, DNSc, RN, is a grantee of the Robert Wood Johnson Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative (INQRI) and associate professor at Marquette University College of Nursing. She is an active researcher focusing on improving patients’ experience with hospital discharge and the role nurses play in discharge preparation and the discharge transition. Her research on patient perceptions of discharge teaching, readiness for discharge, and coping difficulty at home following hospital discharge have highlighted the importance of inclusion of patient voice to improve discharge experiences. Her work has included a broad base of patient populations including adult medical-surgical patients, parents of hospitalized children, and postpartum mothers.

 

Join Us Today For A One Year Progress Report On The Future Of Nursing: Campaign For Action

At 2pm EST this afternoon, TheFutureofNursing.org will be hosting a twitter chat reflecting on the first year of the progress of achieving the recommendations set forth by the IOM report, Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. This chat will be led by Sue Hasmiller, Director of the Future of Nursing Campaign for Action, as well as staff from the Center to Champion Nursing in America. Many of the topics that will be discussed during this Twitter chat are addressed in the recent Future of Nursing Research Agenda.

Click here to find out more information about the Twitter chat.

Make sure to use #FutureRN in all your tweets and follow us at @INQRIProgram & @CFAResearch.

Nurses on Twitter

Do you Tweet?

Of course, we all know about Twitter, the free online service that lets users post updates, or tweets, in text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length. These short messages are sent to other users who have subscribed, or "follow," the user.

Although Twitter is a fun way to learn about what your friends and family are up to in their daily lives, it's also a great way to find out what others are saying about current events and healthcare. If you are new to the medium and need to find some great people to follow, check out who INQRI is following by clicking here. Also, be sure to check out #RNChat, a weekly Twitter chat focused on all things nursing.

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Tweet with Us!

Follow us on Twitter!

The INQRI Annual Meeting kicks off tomorrow night in Princeton, NJ. We will be tweeting throughout the program. The hashtag for the event will be #INQRI09. To find the discussion, enter #INQRI09 in the search box in Twitter. To contribute to the conversation, include #INQRI09 in all tweets.