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Despite the widespread collection of patient data, clinicians often experience frustration when they try to access relevant data at the point of care. This can lead to a lack of clinician engagement with the IT systems intended to support their work.
Using Six Sigma process improvement methodologies, nurses managers and other researchers at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia developed a protocol for reducing continuous patient observations for nonsuicidal patients. The team implemented a standardized weaning process…
A three-month pilot study of discontinuing contact precautions for patients with select infections saved money for participating hospitals without increasing infection rates. Researchers conducted the study at a community hospital and a level II teaching hospital with fewer than 400 beds. The study…
The American Academy of Nursing's Building Healthcare Systems Excellence expert panel held an invitational meeting earlier this year to identify a strategy to move nursing from the most trusted to most influential profession. Senior leaders in nursing organizations, health care systems and academic…
The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) announced this week it has surpassed 1 million enrollees in its Nursys eNotify database. Nursys collects data about licensed nurses from state nursing regulatory bodies and makes the information available to participating Nursys eNotify…
Using a five-point “Worry Factor” scale, researchers at the Mayo Clinic studied nurses’ levels of concern for patient deterioration during 3,551 hospitalizations. They found nurse concern to be a more accurate predictor of deterioration than most published early warning scores. Notably, the…
Supporting frontline nurses to ask questions and engage in bedside research benefits nurses, patients and organizations. That’s why AONL members Kerri Scanlon, MSN, RSN, deputy chief nurse executive at Northwell Health and chief nurse executive at North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, N.Y.,…
The World Health Organization (WHO) observed the first World Patient Safety Day Sept. 17 as part of a campaign to make patient safety a global health priority. WHO is encouraging patients, health professionals, policymakers and industry leaders to “Speak up for patient safety!” Focused safety…
The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) will be conducting a 2020 RN Practice Analysis Study for the development of the 2022 NCLEX-RN Test Plan.
The National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, will fund pragmatic trials to test dementia care interventions in real-world settings. Brown University in Providence, R.I., will partner with Massachusetts-based Hebrew Senior Life to manage the trials, which are expected…