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Webinar: Translation of a Transitional Care Nursing Intervention for People with Serious Mental Illness

This presentation is the sixth in a series providing the study findings from INQRI's final cohort of grantees. Their work focused on translating research into practice. This session features Drs. Nancy Hanrahan and Phyllis Solomon presenting study findings from the translation of the Transitional Care Model for Persons with Serious Mental Illness (TCM-SMI) intervention to meet the complex needs of SMI clients in public managed care.

Webinar: Implementation of a Risk Specific Fall Prevention Bundle to Reduce Falls in Hospitals

This presentation is the fifth in a series providing the study findings from INQRI's final cohort of grantees. Their work focused on translating research into practice. This session features Dr. Marita Titler presenting study findings regarding her team's work to implement fall prevention interventions targeted to patient risk factors and evaluate use of these practices and their impact on reducing falls and fall related injuries.

Webinar: Implementation and Dissemination of an Interdisciplinary Nurse-Led Plan to Manage Delirium in Critically Ill Adults

This presentation is the fourth in a series providing the study findings from INQRI's final cohort of grantees. Their work focused on translating research into practice. This session features Drs. Michele Balas and Bill Burke presenting study findings regarding their plan to implement, analyze and disseminate an evidence-based, nurse-led, inter-professional, multi-component program focused on improving the care and outcomes of critically ill adults.

Webinar: Creation of a Nurse Manager Development Program to Increase Patient Safety

This presentation is the third in a series providing the study findings from INQRI's final cohort of grantees. Their work focused on translating research into practice. This session features Drs. Linda Flynn and Joel Cantor presenting study findings from the design and implementation of a nurse manager development program to positively effect patient safety.

Fall Prevention Toolkit

INQRI grantees Patti Dykes, Blackford Middleton and colleagues created a tool designed to prevent patient falls by translating an individual patient's fall risk assessment into a decision support intervention that communicates fall risk status, and creates a tailored plan that is accessible to care team members (including patients and family members) to prevent falls.

Baccalaureate education in nursing and patient outcomes.

The aim of this study was to examine the effects of registered nurse (RN) education by determining whether nurse-sensitive patient outcomes were better in hospitals with a higher proportion of RNs with baccalaureate degrees.

Patient turnover and the relationship between nurse staffing and patient outcomes.

High patient turnover (patient throughput generated by admissions, discharges, and transfers) contributes to increased demands and resources for care. This study examined how the relationship between registered nurse (RN) staffing and failure-to-rescue (FTR) varied with patient turnover levels by analyzing quarterly data from the University HealthSystem Consortium.

Nurse staffing effects on patient outcomes: safety-net and non-safety-net hospitals.

Nurse staffing has been linked to hospital patient outcomes; however, previous results were inconsistent because of variations in measures of staffing and were only rarely specific to types of patient care units. The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between nurse staffing in general and intensive care units and patient outcomes and determine whether safety net status affects this relationship.

Webinar: Dissemination and Implementation of Evidence-Based Methods to Measure and Improve Pain Outcomes

This presentation is the second in a series providing the study findings from INQRI's final cohort of grantees. Their work focused on translating research into practice. This session features Drs. Susan Beck and Nancy Dunton presenting study findings regarding the dissemination and implementation of evidence-based methods to measure and improve pain outcomes.  The team finalized and implemented a set of pain quality indicators within the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators® based on their previous INQRI work to develop Pain Care Quality measures.

Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Pain Care Quality Surveys (PainCQ©)

The objective of this study was to examine the reliability and validity and to decrease the battery of items in the Pain Care Quality (PainCQ©) Surveys. Patient-reported data were collected prospectively from 337 hospitalized adult patients with pain on medical/surgical oncology units in four hospitals in three states. Cumulative evidence supports the reliability and validity of the companion PainCQ© Surveys in hospitalized patients with pain in the oncology setting. The tools may be relevant in both clinical research and quality improvement. Future research is recommended in other populations, settings, and with more diverse groups.