Improving Hospital Inpatient Nursing Care
A Case Study of One Hospital's Intervention to Improve the Patient's Care Experience
Published Aug 20, 2010
Describes how one large urban hospital that used an iterative, six-step quality improvement (QI) process to successfully change the way its registered nurses, nursing assistants, and other nursing staff provided emotional support to the hospital’s adult, medical and surgical inpatients.
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- Year: 2010
- Pages: 57
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.7249/WR751
- Document Number: WR-751-AHRQ
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Quigley, Denise D., Shelley H. Wiseman, and Donna O. Farley, Improving Hospital Inpatient Nursing Care: A Case Study of One Hospital's Intervention to Improve the Patient's Care Experience, RAND Corporation, WR-751-AHRQ, 2010. As of September 12, 2024: https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR751.html
Quigley, Denise D., Shelley H. Wiseman, and Donna O. Farley, Improving Hospital Inpatient Nursing Care: A Case Study of One Hospital's Intervention to Improve the Patient's Care Experience. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2010. https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR751.html.
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