Coordinating the roles of nursing home staff and families of elderly nursing home residents.

abstract：:The type of dressing selected for intravascular catheters may influence costs and complications. We carried out a clinical trial to compare the safety and costs of transparent and gauze dressings. We did not find differences in complication rates between transparent (34.1%) and gauze (26.5%) dressings (P = .62). The t...

journal_title：Journal of nursing care quality

authors： Chico-Padrón RM,Carrión-García L,Delle-Vedove-Rosales L,González-Vargas CS,Marrero-Perera M,Medina-Chico S,Rodríguez-Díaz MP,Alonso-Díaz M,Jiménez-Sosa A

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of their involvement in the transport, handling, preparation, administration, or disposal of hazardous medications, health care workers across multiple settings are at risk for adverse health consequences from exposure to these drugs. This review presents evidence-based strategies to mitigate the harmful expos...

journal_title：Journal of nursing care quality

authors： Crickman R,Finnell D

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coordination of patient care is the goal; the structure to promote the multidisciplinary plan of care is the unit-based outcome facilitation team. The focus of the team is the outcome achievement for the day, which could include patient education, therapies, or discharge planning. ...

journal_title：Journal of nursing care quality

authors： Schifalacqua M

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nursing and pharmacology literature of 1988 to 1992 generally encouraged a change in nursing practice with regard to maintenance of peripheral intravenous access devices in adults. Although recommendations were based on data, methodological limitations in many studies prevented enthusiastic change from heparinized...

journal_title：Journal of nursing care quality

authors： Reineck C,Reineck TC Jr

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to examine the associations between nurse staffing hours and 6 quality indicators: physical restraints, weight loss, incontinence, late loss activities of daily living decline, stages 1 to 4 pressure ulcers, and problem behaviors toward others. Increasing registered nurse staff hours may ...

journal_title：Journal of nursing care quality

authors： Bostick JE

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The successful implementation of outcomes measurement is jeopardized by its application within systems that do not control inputs. This systemic flaw within health care can be corrected by placing critical knowledge that is now in the minds of individual practitioners into computer-based knowledge coupling tools that ...

journal_title：Journal of nursing care quality

authors： Kozak A

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Proning intubated intensive care unit patients for the management of acute respiratory distress syndrome is an accepted standard of practice. We examined the nursing climate in 4 units and its impact on implementing a novel self-proning protocol to treat COVID-19 patients outside the intensive care unit. LO...

journal_title：Journal of nursing care quality

authors： Francisco MA,Pierce NL,Ely E,Cerasale MT,Anderson D,Pavkovich D,Puello F,Tummala S,Tyker A,DʼSouza FR

更新日期：2020-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Hospitalized adult patients are at increased risk for adverse outcomes, particularly when undergoing invasive procedures that include indwelling urinary catheterization. This study identified factors associated with nurses' adoption of an evidence-based practice to reduce the duration of catheterization and potential ...

journal_title：Journal of nursing care quality

authors： Conner BT,Kelechi TJ,Nemeth LS,Mueller M,Edlund BJ,Krein SL

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The article describes a study that measured, over a 3-month period, staffing problems, including turnover rates; nurse incidents, including absenteeism, back injuries, and needle sticks; and patient incidents, including falls and medication errors. The self-reported stress of the nurses caring for these patients was r...

journal_title：Journal of nursing care quality

authors： Dugan J,Lauer E,Bouquot Z,Dutro BK,Smith M,Widmeyer G

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This descriptive and cross-sectional study included 561 nurses in hospitals located in Istanbul, Turkey. The Patient Safety Questionnaire was used for data collection. The type of hospital and the amount of education nurses obtained about patient safety and quality improvement were positively associated with patient s...

journal_title：Journal of nursing care quality

authors： Turkmen E,Baykal U,Intepeler SS,Altuntas S

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is a paucity of evidence-based, posthospital stroke care in the United States proven to reduce preventable hospital readmissions. LOCAL PROBLEM:Follow-up with a provider after hospitalization for stroke or transient ischemic attack had low compliance rates. This may contribute to preventable readmissi...

journal_title：Journal of nursing care quality

authors： McClain JV 4th,Chance EA

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent changes in the Surgical Care Improvement Project guideline require blood glucose values be less than 180 mg/dL 18 to 24 hours after anesthesia end time after cardiac surgery. Our study compares the first group of patients transitioned off IV insulin on postoperative day 1, 24 hours after anesthesia end time, wh...

journal_title：Journal of nursing care quality

authors： Westbrook A,Sherry D,McDermott M,Gobber M,Pabst M

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes the development and implementation of the Nursing Quality Indicators Scale and a quality control system for hospital nursing care, which allows universal access to all external and internal audit results, thus ensuring complete data transparency. Standardized indicators make departments' perform...

journal_title：Journal of nursing care quality

authors： Kagan I,Cohen R,Fish M,Mezare HP

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The importance of staff working life for staff well-being has been demonstrated in several studies; less research has focused on staff working life and older persons' satisfaction with care. PURPOSE:The study aim was to study relationships between 1) staff assessments of their structural conditions/empowerm...

journal_title：Journal of nursing care quality

authors： Engström M,Högberg H,Strömberg A,Hagerman H,Skytt B

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postpartum urinary retention is a common condition in obstetric units. A Clinical Practice Guideline was implemented in a high-risk obstetrical unit to decrease variance of clinical practice, rate of postpartum urinary retention, and number of urinary catheterizations and increase awareness of this common condition. G...

journal_title：Journal of nursing care quality

authors： Stanley AY,Conner BT

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This secondary analysis evaluated the association of operating room scrub staff expertise, based on frequency of working on a specific surgical procedure, with the development of surgical site infections. The odds of developing surgical site infections decreased by 5.7% (odds ratio = 0.943; 95% confidence interval, 0....

journal_title：Journal of nursing care quality

authors： Bathish M,McLaughlin M,Talsma A

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pediatric nurse practitioners in school-based clinics have the potential to overcome access to care barriers for school-age children and their families by providing primary health care and linking these services with existing health and social services in the community. The article reports a study that examined health...

journal_title：Journal of nursing care quality

authors： Jones ME,Clark D

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health care organizations across the country are in different phases of transition from quality assurance to quality improvement. A plan is essential to ensure quality assessment and improvement requirements are met while the organization is in transition. Based on the hospital's commitment to quality improvement, the...

journal_title：Journal of nursing care quality

authors： Johnson T

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Building a knowledgebase regarding multicultural beliefs and practices will help health care providers meet the challenge of caring for persons of diverse cultures. It is evident that developing greater multicultural awareness will also help health care workers improve patient care. For this reason, an Interdisciplina...

journal_title：Journal of nursing care quality

authors： Peterson R,Whitman H,Smith J

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The health care team identified the causes of health care-associated infections (HAI) and developed interventions in a pediatric intensive care unit in Gaza. A quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design was used. All 26 full-time staff members in the pediatric intensive care unit participated. The HAI rate decreased s...

journal_title：Journal of nursing care quality

authors： Aljeesh YI,Alkariri N,Abusalem S,Myers JA,Alaloul F

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes a hospital unit's successful central line-associated bloodstream infection reduction project. The focus is on decreasing and sustaining a low rate of infection by targeting improvement in central line maintenance. The Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research's 5 interacting domains (th...

journal_title：Journal of nursing care quality

authors： Jones CM,Stewart C,Roszell SS

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to develop a psychometrically sound measure of nurses' evaluation of patient care delivered. The Nurses' Assessment of Quality Scale-Acute Care Version (NAQS-ACV), derived from the qualitative interviews of acute care nurses, was initially 138 items formatted as a Likert-type scale and administ...

journal_title：Journal of nursing care quality

authors： Lynn MR,McMillen BJ,Sidani S

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to prevent medication errors, barcode medication administration technology has been implemented in many health care organizations. An integrative review was conducted to understand the effect of barcode medication administration technology on medication errors, and characteristics of use demonstrated by n...

journal_title：Journal of nursing care quality

authors： Strudwick G,Reisdorfer E,Warnock C,Kalia K,Sulkers H,Clark C,Booth R

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the outcomes of a telephone call service (TCS) for ambulatory surgery patients. Three outcomes were evaluated: patient satisfaction, patients' perceptions of the value of a TCS intervention, and nurses' perceptions of difficulties in implementing it. The results indicated that...

journal_title：Journal of nursing care quality

authors： Chen CH,Ma HJ,Yen M,Li SF,Liu LC

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Some hospitals seek integration with skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) to reduce readmissions while others focus more on patients discharged home. PURPOSE:Our objective was to understand different approaches for readmission reduction for patients discharged to SNFs based on contrasting strategies from 2 com...

journal_title：Journal of nursing care quality

authors： McHugh JP,Shield RR,Gadbois EA,Winblad U,Mor V,Tyler DA

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A literature review was conducted of 16 research articles examining the relationship between implementation of a model of care utilizing unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) and patient satisfaction. In nine of the articles, the implementation of the UAP model was found to increase patient satisfaction. In seven artic...

journal_title：Journal of nursing care quality

authors： Siehoff AM

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Information technology is integral to health care delivery. Nurse leaders recognize the need to build intellectual capital (knowledge, skills, and experience) in use and oversight of electronic health records despite financial constraints on indirect care time. A systematic literature review was conducted to answer th...

journal_title：Journal of nursing care quality

authors： Poe SS

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although patient satisfaction has been used traditionally as a measure of excellence, research has suggested that the perception of being well cared for is likely a more promising indicator of quality than satisfaction alone. Expectations, physical environment, communication, participation and involvement, technical c...

journal_title：Journal of nursing care quality

authors： Dulko D,Mooney K

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study explored 150 critical care nurses' perceptions of patient safety standards in a selection of private, public, and university hospitals in Turkey. Quality management and patient safety programs were more prevalent in private hospitals. Private hospitals were also more likely to encourage reporting, have erro...

journal_title：Journal of nursing care quality

authors： Badir A,Herdman EA

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite evidence of the positive impact of the clinical nurse leader (CNL) role, implementation of supplemental nursing roles has proven to be challenging due to unclear role explanations and organizational unfamiliarity. PROBLEM:Nurses practice in a dynamic environment and need to cope with the rapid pace ...

journal_title：Journal of nursing care quality

authors： Hatley A,Ralyea T,Buttriss GO,Rankin VL

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00