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Nursing Home Culture: A Critical Component In Sustained Improvement, Jill Scott-Cawiezell, K. Jones, L. Moore, C. Vojir
Nursing Home Culture: A Critical Component In Sustained Improvement, Jill Scott-Cawiezell, K. Jones, L. Moore, C. Vojir
Jill Scott-Cawiezell
In the third in a series of articles exploring working conditions and quality improvement in nursing homes, 31 nursing homes were surveyed using an adaptation of the Competing Values Framework (CVF) Organizational Assessment. The CVF provides information about the organizational culture through describing dominant perceived values, distribution of values across organizational characteristics, and orientation of values toward flexibility. Staff reported a dominant group culture, reflecting a family and team orientation within their settings. Leaders, however, were more often reported to reflect a hierarchy value orientation, emphasizing efficiency of operations and following rules and procedures.
Detection Of Patient Risk By Nurses: A Theoretical Framework, L. Despins, Jill Scott-Cawiezell, J. Rouder
Detection Of Patient Risk By Nurses: A Theoretical Framework, L. Despins, Jill Scott-Cawiezell, J. Rouder
Jill Scott-Cawiezell
AIM: This paper is a description of a theoretical framework of how nurses detect and interpret patient risk signals in the context of organizational attitudes and procedures related to patient safety. BACKGROUND: The ability to detect when patients are at increased risk for harm is a challenge faced by nurses worldwide. How nurses are able to discriminate patient risk warning signals from background noise is not well understood. Also, the impact of system-level factors on nurses' signal detection capabilities has not been investigated. DATA SOURCES: Computerized database searches were used to identify nursing, organizational science, and cognitive psychology literature from …
Quality Improvement In Long-Term Care. Are Nursing Homes Ready To Create Sustainable Improvement?, Jill Scott-Cawiezell
Quality Improvement In Long-Term Care. Are Nursing Homes Ready To Create Sustainable Improvement?, Jill Scott-Cawiezell
Jill Scott-Cawiezell
No abstract provided.
Entrepreneurial Program Of Research And Service To Improve Nursing Home Care, M. Rantz, D. Mehr, L. Hicks, Jill Scott-Cawiezell, G. Petroski, R. Madsen, R. Porter, M. Zwygart-Stauffacher
Entrepreneurial Program Of Research And Service To Improve Nursing Home Care, M. Rantz, D. Mehr, L. Hicks, Jill Scott-Cawiezell, G. Petroski, R. Madsen, R. Porter, M. Zwygart-Stauffacher
Jill Scott-Cawiezell
This is a methodological article intended to demonstrate the integration of multiple goals, multiple projects with diverse foci, and multiple funding sources to develop an entrepreneurial program of research and service to directly affect and improve the quality of care of older adults, particularly nursing home residents. Examples that illustrate how clinical ideas build on one another and how the research ideas and results build on one another are provided. Results from one study are applied to the next and are also applied to the development of service delivery initiatives to test results in the real world. Descriptions of the …
Are Nursing Homes Ready To Create Sustainable Improvement?, Jill Scott-Cawiezell
Are Nursing Homes Ready To Create Sustainable Improvement?, Jill Scott-Cawiezell
Jill Scott-Cawiezell
No abstract provided.
Measuring Organizational Attributes Of Primary Care Practices: Development Of A New Instrument, P. Ohman-Strickland, A. Orzano, P. Nutting, W. Perry Dickinson, Jill Scott-Cawiezell, K. Hahn, M. Gibel, B. Crabtree
Measuring Organizational Attributes Of Primary Care Practices: Development Of A New Instrument, P. Ohman-Strickland, A. Orzano, P. Nutting, W. Perry Dickinson, Jill Scott-Cawiezell, K. Hahn, M. Gibel, B. Crabtree
Jill Scott-Cawiezell
OBJECTIVE: To develop an instrument to measure organizational attributes relevant for family practices using the perspectives of clinicians, nurses, and staff. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING: Clinicians, nurses, and office staff (n=640) from 51 community family medicine practices. DESIGN: A survey, designed to measure a practices' internal resources for change, for use in family medicine practices was created by a multidisciplinary panel of experts in primary care research and health care organizational performance. This survey was administered in a cross-sectional study to a sample of diverse practices participating in an intervention trial. A factor analysis identified groups of questions relating to latent …