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Standardized Bedside Handoff: One Organization's Journey., Shanon Fucik
Standardized Bedside Handoff: One Organization's Journey., Shanon Fucik
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Nursing Skill Mix, Nurse Staffing Level, And Physical Restraint Use In Us Hospitals: A Longitudinal Study., Vincent S. Staggs, Danielle M. Olds, Emily Cramer, Ronald I. Shorr
Nursing Skill Mix, Nurse Staffing Level, And Physical Restraint Use In Us Hospitals: A Longitudinal Study., Vincent S. Staggs, Danielle M. Olds, Emily Cramer, Ronald I. Shorr
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BACKGROUND: Although it is plausible that nurse staffing is associated with use of physical restraints in hospitals, this has not been well established. This may be due to limitations in previous cross-sectional analyses lacking adequate control for unmeasured differences in patient-level variables among nursing units.
OBJECTIVE: To conduct a longitudinal study, with units serving as their own control, examining whether nurse staffing relative to a unit's long-term average is associated with restraint use.
DESIGN: We analyzed 17 quarters of longitudinal data using mixed logistic regression, modeling quarterly odds of unit restraint use as a function of quarterly staffing relative to …
Processing Information After A Child's Cancer Diagnosis-How Parents Learn., Cheryl C. Rodgers, Kristin Stegenga, Janice S. Withycombe, Karen Sachse, Katherine Patterson Kelly
Processing Information After A Child's Cancer Diagnosis-How Parents Learn., Cheryl C. Rodgers, Kristin Stegenga, Janice S. Withycombe, Karen Sachse, Katherine Patterson Kelly
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Parents of a child newly diagnosed with cancer must receive an extensive amount of information before their child's initial hospital discharge; however, little is known about best practices for providing this education. An interpretive descriptive study design was used to describe actual and preferred educational content, timing, and methods among parents of children newly diagnosed with cancer prior to their child's first hospital discharge. Twenty parents of children diagnosed with various malignancies participated in individual interviews 2 to 12 months after their child's diagnosis. Data were analyzed using constant comparative analysis. Education delivery occurred in a telling manner at diagnosis …
A Pressure Ulcer And Fall Rate Quality Composite Index For Acute Care Units: A Measure Development Study., Diane K. Boyle, Ananda Jayawardhana, Mary E. Burman, Nancy E. Dunton, Vincent S. Staggs, Sandra Bergquist-Beringer, Byron J. Gajewski
A Pressure Ulcer And Fall Rate Quality Composite Index For Acute Care Units: A Measure Development Study., Diane K. Boyle, Ananda Jayawardhana, Mary E. Burman, Nancy E. Dunton, Vincent S. Staggs, Sandra Bergquist-Beringer, Byron J. Gajewski
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Background: Composite indices are single measures that combine the strengths of two or more individual measures and provide broader, easy-to-use measures for evaluation of provider performance and comparisons across units and hospitals to support quality improvement.
Objective: The study objective was to develop a unit-level inpatient composite nursing care quality performance index-the Pressure Ulcer and Fall Rate Quality Composite Index.
Design: Two-phase measure development study.
Settings: 5144 patient care units in 857 United States hospitals participating in the National Database of Nursing Quality Indictors® during the year 2013.
Methods: The Pressure Ulcer and Fall Rate Quality Composite Index was developed …