Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9781935213727
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Optimal Nurse Staffing to Improve Quality of Care and Patient Outcomes
Author: Patient Safety and Quality
Author: Ronda HughesPublisher: Department of Health and Human Services
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
"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/
Keeping Patients Safe
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309187362
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
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.
Nursing Staff in Hospitals and Nursing Homes
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309175704
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
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.
Principles for Nurse Staffing
Author: Publisher: American Nurses Association
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Adoption of Standard Nurse-to-patient Ratios and Strict Nurse Staffing Plans to Reduce the Occurrence of Negative Patient Outcomes
Author: Casey J. CarnahanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Burn out (Psychology)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The rate of occurrence in negative patient outcomes resulting in the development of morbidity and/or mortality is alarming. Based on the findings of multiple documented studies, high levels of nurse-to-patient ratios compromise the safety of patient care due to increases in nurse workloads and decreases in the amount of surveillance time spent with patients. This issue creates a toxic environment for medication errors, patient falls, hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), and death to occur, ultimately increasing health care costs, diminishing the quality of for many patients, and heavily impacting the lives of family members. In the attempt to decrease the numbers of negative patient outcomes, this paper introduces the solution of developing optimal nurse staffing models accounting for patient acuity, unit layout, and skills and educational levels of nursing staff (Knudson, 2013). Standard nurse-to-patient ratios of 1:2 in one intensive care unit (ICU) and 1:4 in one medical surgical unit are implemented and tested during a six-month pilot study. A separate ICU and medical surgical unit are set as the control variables where solutions are not implemented. Through the evaluations of the rate of occurrence of negative patient outcomes documented through incident reports, nurse pre-and post- implementation questionnaires, and patient satisfaction surveys before and after implementation of the solution, plan effectiveness will be measured and visualized through the use of graphs and charts. The researcher will disseminate results of the study using a PowerPoint presentation and handouts to key stakeholders and compose an article and handouts for the greater nursing community. By adopting this solution to the issue the researcher aims to lower patient mortality rates and negative patient outcomes through the decrease in nursing workload and stress levels, ultimately increasing patient surveillance and the amount of time available to effectively care for all patients.
Quality Improvement for Nurse Managers
Author: Cynthia BarnardPublisher: HC Pro, Inc.
ISBN: 1601467362
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
This book and CD-ROM clearly outline a nurse leader's role in quality improvement and offer simple instructions to improve patient outcomes through nurse education and engagement. In an easy-to-understand format, this guide explains how to engage staff, how to choose, measure, and benchmark nursing quality data, and how to use QI projects to achieve positive results."
Advances in Patient Safety
Author: Kerm HenriksenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
v. 1. Research findings -- v. 2. Concepts and methodology -- v. 3. Implementation issues -- v. 4. Programs, tools and products.
Nurse Staffing and Quality of Patient Care
Author: U.s. Department of Health and Human ServicesPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781500374150
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
A shortage of registered nurses, in combination with increased workload, has the potential to threaten quality of care. Increasing the nurse to patient ratios has been recommended as a means to improve patient safety. However, the cost effectiveness of increasing registered nurse (RN) staffing is controversial. This systematic review analyzes associations between hospital nurse staffing and patient outcomes with consideration of variables that could influence the primary association. The basic research questions were: 1. How is a specific nurse to patient ratio associated with patient outcomes (i.e., mortality; adverse drug events, nurse quality outcomes, length of stay; patient satisfaction with nurse care)? How does this association vary by patient characteristics, nurse characteristics, organizational characteristics, and nursing outcomes? 2. How is a measure of nurse work hours (hours per patient or patient day) associated with the same patient outcomes? 3. What factors influence nurse staffing policies? 4. What nurse staffing strategies are effective for improving the patient outcomes listed in question 1? 5. What gaps in research on nurse staffing and patient outcomes can be identified to address in future studies? Questions 1, 2, and 4 are addressed in the systematic review using meta-analytic approaches. The literature associated with question 3 does not lend itself to meta-analysis. Questions 1 and 2 address the same basic association but employ two different measures of nurse staffing. The nurse to patient ratio relies on a general ratio, which may include all nurses assigned to a unit, including non-clinical time, whereas nurse work hours look specifically at nurses involved in patient care. Even beyond this distinction, the varied ways staffing rates are calculated complicates pooling data.
Safety in Numbers
Author: Suzanne GordonPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801464935
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Legally mandated nurse-to-patient ratios are one of the most controversial topics in health care today. Ratio advocates believe that minimum staffing levels are essential for quality care, better working conditions, and higher rates of RN recruitment and retention that would alleviate the current global nursing shortage. Opponents claim that ratios will unfairly burden hospital budgets, while reducing management flexibility in addressing patient needs. Safety in Numbers is the first book to examine the arguments for and against ratios. Utilizing survey data, interviews, and other original research, Suzanne Gordon, John Buchanan, and Tanya Bretherton weigh the cost, benefits, and effectiveness of ratios in California and the state of Victoria in Australia, the two places where RN staffing levels have been mandated the longest. They show how hospital cost cutting and layoffs in the 1990s created larger workloads and deteriorating conditions for both nurses and their patients-leading nursing organizations to embrace staffing level regulation. The authors provide an in-depth account of the difficult but ultimately successful campaigns waged by nurses and their allies to win mandated ratios. Safety in Numbers then reports on how nurses, hospital administrators, and health care policymakers handled ratio implementation. With at least fourteen states in the United States and several other countries now considering staffing level regulation, this balanced assessment of the impact of ratios on patient outcomes and RN job performance and satisfaction could not be timelier. The authors' history and analysis of the nurse-to-patient ratios debate will be welcomed as an invaluable guide for patient advocates, nurses, health care managers, public officials, and anyone else concerned about the quality of patient care in the United States and the world.