Download or read book Relationships of Nurse Staffing and Selected Patient Outcomes in Skilled Nursing Facilities written by Margene J. Nordstrom and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nursing Staff in Hospitals and Nursing Homes written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1996-03-27 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hospitals and nursing homes are responding to changes in the health care system by modifying staffing levels and the mix of nursing personnel. But do these changes endanger the quality of patient care? Do nursing staff suffer increased rates of injury, illness, or stress because of changing workplace demands? These questions are addressed in Nursing Staff in Hospitals and Nursing Homes, a thorough and authoritative look at today's health care system that also takes a long-term view of staffing needs for nursing as the nation moves into the next century. The committee draws fundamental conclusions about the evolving role of nurses in hospitals and nursing homes and presents recommendations about staffing decisions, nursing training, measurement of quality, reimbursement, and other areas. The volume also discusses work-related injuries, violence toward and abuse of nursing staffs, and stress among nursing personnelâ€"and examines whether these problems are related to staffing levels. Included is a readable overview of the underlying trends in health care that have given rise to urgent questions about nurse staffing: population changes, budget pressures, and the introduction of new technologies. Nursing Staff in Hospitals and Nursing Homes provides a straightforward examination of complex and sensitive issues surround the role and value of nursing on our health care system.
Download or read book Keeping Patients Safe written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-03-27 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the revolutionary Institute of Medicine reports To Err is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm, Keeping Patients Safe lays out guidelines for improving patient safety by changing nurses' working conditions and demands. Licensed nurses and unlicensed nursing assistants are critical participants in our national effort to protect patients from health care errors. The nature of the activities nurses typically perform â€" monitoring patients, educating home caretakers, performing treatments, and rescuing patients who are in crisis â€" provides an indispensable resource in detecting and remedying error-producing defects in the U.S. health care system. During the past two decades, substantial changes have been made in the organization and delivery of health care â€" and consequently in the job description and work environment of nurses. As patients are increasingly cared for as outpatients, nurses in hospitals and nursing homes deal with greater severity of illness. Problems in management practices, employee deployment, work and workspace design, and the basic safety culture of health care organizations place patients at further risk. This newest edition in the groundbreaking Institute of Medicine Quality Chasm series discusses the key aspects of the work environment for nurses and reviews the potential improvements in working conditions that are likely to have an impact on patient safety.
Download or read book Patient Safety and Quality written by Ronda Hughes and published by Department of Health and Human Services. This book was released on 2008 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient car -- not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes. To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality -- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043)." - online AHRQ blurb, http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/
Download or read book The Relationship Between Nurse Staffing and Selected Patient Outcomes written by Perpetua Mbabazi and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improving the Quality of Long Term Care written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-02-27 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the issues confronting America is long-term care for frail, older persons and others with chronic conditions and functional limitations that limit their ability to care for themselves. Improving the Quality of Long-Term Care takes a comprehensive look at the quality of care and quality of life in long-term care, including nursing homes, home health agencies, residential care facilities, family members and a variety of others. This book describes the current state of long-term care, identifying problem areas and offering recommendations for federal and state policymakers. Who uses long-term care? How have the characteristics of this population changed over time? What paths do people follow in long term care? The committee provides the latest information on these and other key questions. This book explores strengths and limitations of available data and research literature especially for settings other than nursing homes, on methods to measure, oversee, and improve the quality of long-term care. The committee makes recommendations on setting and enforcing standards of care, strengthening the caregiving workforce, reimbursement issues, and expanding the knowledge base to guide organizational and individual caregivers in improving the quality of care.
Download or read book Nurse Staffing and Its Relationship with Patient Safety and Patient and Staff Satisfaction written by Midhun John and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many current researches and surveys present that provide evidence that inadequate nursing staffing is associated with patient safety, negative patient outcomes, and that it leads to decreased patient satisfaction. The capstone project will have discussions about why nursing shortages is presently very high, and also will provide changes that can be made in the workforce to improve patient satisfaction, and safety. The purpose of the project is to provide better understanding of the never resolved issue of inadequate nurse staffing, and to introduce an effective plan that provides increased patient safety, and satisfaction. There is evidence that mandated patient to nurse ratios, and staffing based on patient acuity levels increase patient care and satisfaction. There are barriers to making these changes as facilities have concerns that changes to the current staffing ratios, and routines can increase cost, and reduce its financial gains. In this writing, solution will be provided to the readers on how to fix the problem of inadequate staffing, and implementations that can be performed on a unit to see changes. This essay will provide patient care, safety, and satisfaction and how it is correlated with nurse staffing.
Download or read book Long Term Care Services in the United States 2013 Overview written by National Center for Health Statistics and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-term care services include a broad range of services that meet the needs of frail older people and other adults with functional limitations. Long-Term care services provided by paid, regulated providers are a significant component of personal health care spending in the United States. This report presents descriptive results from the first wave of the National Study of Long-Term Care Providers (NSLTCP), which was conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). This report provides information on the supply, organizational characteristics, staffing, and services offered by providers of long-term care services; and the demographic, health, and functional composition of users of these services. Service users include residents of nursing homes and residential care communities, patients of home health agencies and hospices, and participants of adult day services centers.
Download or read book Relationship Between Nurse Staffing and Quality Outcomes in Los Angeles County Nursing Homes written by Hsin-I. Chen and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Retooling for an Aging America written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2008-08-27 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first of the nation's 78 million baby boomers begin reaching age 65 in 2011, they will face a health care workforce that is too small and woefully unprepared to meet their specific health needs. Retooling for an Aging America calls for bold initiatives starting immediately to train all health care providers in the basics of geriatric care and to prepare family members and other informal caregivers, who currently receive little or no training in how to tend to their aging loved ones. The book also recommends that Medicare, Medicaid, and other health plans pay higher rates to boost recruitment and retention of geriatric specialists and care aides. Educators and health professional groups can use Retooling for an Aging America to institute or increase formal education and training in geriatrics. Consumer groups can use the book to advocate for improving the care for older adults. Health care professional and occupational groups can use it to improve the quality of health care jobs.
Download or read book Nurse Staffing Methodology written by Myrtle Kitchell Aydelotte and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost 200 references and lengthy "critiques" to books, journal articles, reports, theses, term papers, guides, manuals, and pamphlets. Arranged by format. Entries include bibliographical citation, review (annotation covering purpose, rationale, sample, instrument, procedure, and results), and critique. Glossaries of research, health care, and general terms. Miscellaneous appendixes, including bibliography of over 1000 citations. No index.
Download or read book Relationships of Professional Nurse Characteristics and Nurse Staffing to Adverse Patient Outcomes written by Monica A. Redekopp and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite major changes in the health care environment, limited research has been conducted to guide the changing roles of nurses or to examine the impact of professional nurse characteristics on patient outcomes. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between professional nurse characteristics of years of experience, educational level, and professional certification; nurse staffing variables; and adverse patient outcomes of falls, falls with injury, hospital acquired pneumonia, and hospital acquired pressure ulcers. Donabedian's Structure-Process-Outcome framework (Donabedian, 1980) and the Nursing Role Effectiveness Model (Irvine, Sidani, & Hass, 1998) were adapted to guide an examination of the relationship of the structural variables of the nurse and organizational structural variables related to work load and staff mix to adverse patient outcomes. A process component was not studied. A multivariate, retrospective, correlational, cross-sectional, nonexperimental design was used employing a secondary analysis of existing employee, patient, and organizational data from electronic healthcare databases. The study sample included 451 registered nurses and 30,289 patients during a one year period within 18 medical and surgical acute care units of three Northeastern non-for-profit, teaching, acute care institutions. Differences in nurse characteristics, nurse staffing, nursing employment, patient characteristics, and patient adverse outcomes between the three hospitals were evaluated using analysis of variance. A correlation matrix was developed to analyze the relationships among the study variables. For each correlation that was found to be significant, ANCOVA was computed. No significant relationships were found between professional nurse characteristics of educational level and professional certification, nurse staffing variables, and adverse patient outcomes. The challenges in collecting the nurse data impacted data analysis and ability to answer the research questions, prompting attention to data collection about nurses. Study results and the contradictory findings of others support the need to question the exclusion of the process component and examine whether adverse patient outcomes are truly nurse sensitive. There needs to be deliberation about evolving the research on these relationships to include processes of nursing care and nurse sensitive patient outcomes that are direct results of nursing care. This knowledge is needed for developing professional practice models that demonstrate safe and effective nurse staffing in a rapidly evolving health care delivery system.
Download or read book NHSQIC Annual Bibliography written by National Health Standards and Quality Information Clearinghouse (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Relationships Between Nurse Staffing and Patient Outcome Variables written by Garland C. Valley and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Relationship Between Nursing Staffing and Quality patient Outcomes in Hospitals and Nursing Homes written by Washington (State). Department of Health and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nurse Staffing and Patient Outcomes in the Inpatient Hospital Setting written by American Nurses Association and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
