Journal Article
Despite the projections of severe shortages made just 10 years ago, a combination of policy efforts, a responsive education system, private-sector initiatives, and the effects of the recession has led to unexpected growth in the nursing workforce.
Journal Article
A small percentage of patients die during hospitalization or shortly thereafter, and it is widely believed that more or better nursing care could prevent some of these deaths.
Journal Article
Researchers projected nursing workforce supply between 2010 and 2030 for each of the four major census regions of the United States.
Blog
It seems obvious to ask nursing home residents about their own health. But until a quiet revolution that took place in 2010, it didn't work that way.
Report
Inadequate numbers of Nurse Practitioners (NPs) trained in Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) and expanding health insurance coverage from health care reform will create a gap in NPs to meet SRH needs. Policy options that could help close this gap are examined.
Journal Article
Care provided by physicians was substantially supplemented by nurse care managers, as measured by Assessing Care of Vulnerable Elders quality indicators.
Journal Article
The substantial expansion in the RN workforce between 2005 and 2010 is largely a temporary bubble that is likely to burst between 2010 and 2015 as the unemployment rate falls.
Journal Article
The nurse practitioner (NP) workforce in the United States is expected to grow dramatically by 2025, easing concerns about a potential looming nursing shortage and suggesting that NPs will fill a substantial amount of future need for care.
Journal Article
With or without electronic charting options, nurses spend about 19% of their time completing documentation, compared with all other categories of care.
News Release
The number of people aged 23 to 26—primarily women—who became registered nurses increased by 62 percent from 2002 to 2009, approaching numbers not seen since the mid-1980s. This trend should ease some of the concern about a looming nursing shortage in the United States.
Journal Article
The number of people aged 23 to 26—primarily women—who became registered nurses increased by 62 percent from 2002 to 2009, approaching numbers not seen since the mid-1980s. This trend should ease some of the concern about a looming nursing shortage in the United States.
Journal Article
This article describes results of a systematic literature review focused on which interventions can be integrated into routine care to prevent pressure ulcers.
Journal Article
Understanding how nurses are evaluating quality improvement interventions may contribute to improved measurement in the future.
Research Brief
Analysis of labor market trends suggests that the United States is experiencing a shortage of anesthesiology providers.
Journal Article
Data from a large sample of nursing homes were used to examine the cross-sectional association between workplace injuries and organizational factors, caregiver staffing levels, and quality.
Journal Article
This paper focuses exclusively on the experiences of the 13 hospitals in the second phase of TCAB during which they tested more than 400 innovations.
Journal Article
Evaluates efforts of three major hospital systems to internally disseminate nursing unit change among medical-surgical units. All organizations carefully planned, coordinated, and implemented a spread process; none left dissemination to chance.
Journal Article
Identifies symptom clusters that include urinary and erectile dysfunction among men treated for prostate cancer. Fatigue and emotional distress may be seen together or in combination with prostate cancer-specific symptoms.
Journal Article
Tests a bottom-up framework for redesigning the work environment on medical-surgical units. Examine the number of innovations tested and the association of the volume of tests made and changes in a measurement of vitality at participating hospitals.
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Tests the accuracy of a brief cognitive assessment of nursing home (NH) residents and to determine whether facility nurses can reliably perform this assessment.
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