About INQRI
The primary goal of the Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative (INQRI) is to generate, disseminate and translate research to understand how nurses contribute to and can improve the quality of patient care. The program, led by Mary Naylor, Ph.D, R.N., F.A.A.N. and Mark Pauly, Ph.D. of the University of Pennsylvania, in partnership with Lori Melichar, Ph.D. and her colleagues at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, supports interdisciplinary teams of nurse scholars and scholars from other disciplines to address the gaps in knowledge about the relationship between nursing and health care quality.
INQRI in the Spotlight
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INQRI Team Receives Funding from the Greenwall Foundation
Congratulations to our INQRI team at the University of Pittsburgh (Mary Beth Happ, Amber Barnato and team) who were recently awarded a grant from the Greenwall Foundation Kornfeld Program on Bioethics and Patient Care for a companion study to their INQRI project.
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Nurses Can Tell Us What Goes Wrong "Off-Peak"
In the newest edition of Healthcare Risk Management, INQRI researcher Patti Hamilton was interviewed about her project, "The Effect of Off-peak Hospital Environments on Nurses' Work: an Institutional Ethnography."
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Nurse Staffing, Nurse Human Capital and the Quality of Hospital Care
Three INQRI teams presented a panel together at the 2010 American Society of Health Economists meeting. Abstracts are now available online for their panel, "Nurse Staffing, Nurse Human Capital and the Quality of Hospital Care."
Events
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AcademyHealth's Health Reform Orientation
For three and a half days this October, AcademyHealth will host an orientation that features "an in-depth introduction to the key players, formal and informal policymaking processes, and critical health policy issues." The orientation will be held October 25-28 in Washington, D.C. and will be organized in small-classroom format to allow a one-to-one ratio of faculty to participants.
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Expanding What We Know About Off-Peak Mortality in Hospitals
An INQRI team at Midwestern State University hosted two meetings this summer to present the findings from their study, "The Effect of Off-peak Hospital Environments on Nurses' Work: an Institutional Ethnography." One meeting was held July 13, 2010 in Dallas and the other was held July 30, 2010 in Houston.
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Fall Webinars
Watch this space...
Thank you to everyone who participated in this spring's two webinar series, either as a presenter or a participant. The INQRI team is hard at work planning our next series, which will begin this fall. If you have questions or suggestions, please email .
News Room
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Involving Intensive Care Unit Nurses in a Proactive Risk Assessment of the Medication Management Process
In a new article published in the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, authors Hélène Faye, A. Joy Rivera-Rodriguez, Ben-Tzion Karsh, Ann Schoofs Hundt, Christine Baker and Pascale Carayon detail the way that nurses represent the last line of defense against medication errors.
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Using Clinical Data to Capture Nurse Workload: Implications for Staffing and Safety
In a piece published in the July/August edition of Computers, Informatics, Nursing, authors Marianne Baernholdt, Kathleen Cox and Ken Scully used a hospital clinical data repository to calculate workload measures and a unit activity index.
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Failure In Central Line Infection Prevention, Survey Says
In a piece for Health Leaders Media, Cheryl Clark wrote about a study of more than 2,000 health providers which found that just 3/10 hospital administrators are willing to spend the necessary funds to prevent catheter-related bloodstream infections. The study also found that less than 1/5 providers believe that their institutions have the capability to train staff in infection prevention strategies.
