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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Nursing quality"”.
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Narrowing the QSEN Competency Gap in New Graduate Registered Nurses
… is an evidence based, change of practice, quality improvement project that evaluates achievement of the six Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) competencies of new registered nurse graduates. No intervention with a similar focus was found in an extensive review of the literature. …
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The Antecedents and Emergent Effects of Unit-level Display Rules: A Multilevel Investigation of Display Rules in Nursing
… load, patient affect) and consequences (i.e., nursing quality and patient satisfaction) of unit-level display rule level (i.e., mean) and strength (i.e., dispersion). Further, the present study utilized hospital data on unit-level patient satisfaction and unit-level patient health outcomes to …
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Fall Reduction with Nursing Interventions
… medical, and surgical patients. The focus of the nursing staff education using handouts, brochures, and poster will be based on the results from pre and post intervention audits. The goal of this fall reduction project is to have the nursing staff learn, review, and apply fall prevention …
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Float Nurses’ Association with Nurse Sensitive Indicators: A Cross-Sectional Study
… April 2024, utilizing the National Database for Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI) and existing nurse staffing records. A logistic regression analysis revealed two key findings: float pool nurses were associated with a decreased risk of HAPI (OR 0.96, 95% CI 0.92-0.99) and CLABSI (OR 0.93, 95% CI …
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Improving Quality Through Nursing Participation At Bedside Rounds In A Pediatric Acute Care Unit
… clinical teamwork and collaboration, and improve quality outcomes. Nurses carried a pager so that physicians could alert them of rounds. Perception of teamwork and collaboration was assessed via surveys pre- and post- intervention as well as the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators …
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Association Between Nurse Staffing Indicators, Patient Falls, and Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers in the Acute Care Setting
… States. Unit level data for 11 medical-surgical nursing units from the hospital's National Database for Nursing Quality Indicators survey conducted in October 2011 were obtained.</p> <p><strong>Results:</strong> A statistically significant relationship was found between TNHPPD and RNNHPPD. No …
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Creating a Healthy Work Environment: Empowering Nursing Staff
… nurse retention and ultimately the delivery of quality patient care and patient satisfaction. Empowerment is a concept that embodies opportunity, support, autonomy and communication. Previous studies suggest empowered nursing staff improve patient outcomes. This study utilizes responses from …
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Patients' Perception of Feeling Known by Their Nurses and the Nurse Practice Environment
… 290 nurses completed the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators <em>RN</em> <em>Survey with Job Satisfaction Scales-R</em>.</p> <p>Patients’ perception of feeling known by their nurses was high with a mean of 3.5 out of 4.0. No significant differences between levels of care were found. …
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A retrospective study to identify unique contributors to falls in hospitalized adult hematology patients
… that are currently being used to evaluate the quality of hospital nursing care, and are an integral part of the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI). The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services no longer reimburses hospitals for in-hospital falls with injury, therefore, …
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Hospital Patients' and Nurses' Perceptions of Quality
<p>Hospital quality assurance programs have been provider-oriented, focusing on structure and process elements of care rather than outcomes specific to patient needs and values. This study tested the relationship between quality and value, proposed in <strong>Larrabee'</strong><strong>s …
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The effects of human patient simulation on critical thinking, self-efficacy, and quality and safety education for nurses
… has challenged the education system to prepare nursing students with critical thinking skills vital for providing quality patient care as well as safety in practice. The purpose of the study was to examine the effect of human patient simulation (HPS) technology on enhancing critical thinking …
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Critical Thinking Disposition of Preceptor Nurse and Professional Nursing Competence of New Graduate Nurse
… of the preceptor nurses and professional nursing competence of the new graduate nurses and to clarify the relationships between them. It is expected to provide fundamental information for nursing education and clinical practice, and eventually to make a contribution to nursing quality …
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Using Immersive Virtual Reality to Impact Clinical Reasoning of New Graduate Nurses
… et al., 2022). Clinical reasoning (CR) improves nursing quality by fostering confidence, autonomy, readiness for practice, and minimizing patient safety events such as failing to recognize a patient who is decompensating (Mohammadi‐Shahboulaghi et al., 2021; Powers et al., 2019). CR is a complex …
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What Is Good Nursing Care? The Lived Meaning of Quality Nursing Care for Practicing Nurses
Healthcare quality in the United States of America (USA) is the subject of intense criticism. Although quality nursing care is vital to patient outcomes and safety, meaningful quality improvements have been disturbingly slow and incremental. Practicing nurses are rarely involved in developing …
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Navigating the Change of Life: The Menopausal Transition of Thai Immigrant Women
… and well-being in later life are determined by quality of health during the menopausal transition, menopause has become an important issue in the healthcare arena. The growing number of immigrant women in the United States signifies a need for healthcare providers to develop cultural knowledge …
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Does Participation in a Multi-Modal Activity-Based Program Impacts on Functional Recovery, and Quality of Life in Adults with Spinal Cord Injury?
… level of functional recovery, and overall quality of life in adults with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI). A descriptive, correlational design was performed on a secondary analysis dataset to conduct this study. Inferential statistics were performed with mixed ANOVA's on measures of ASIA UEM and …
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Quality of Life among Southwest American Indians and Alaska Natives Living with the Hepatitis C Virus
… of depression, alcohol consumption, stigma, and quality of life; (b) Examine the relationship among the variables of age, gender, residing on an AI/AN reservation, current partner status, depression, alcohol consumption, and stigma with quality of life in a sample of AI/ANs living with HCV; and …
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A Study of Quality of Life Issues in Community-Dwelling Elders
… Forum on Aging-Related Statistics, 2000). Quality of life measurement tools have been used to assess the health and social needs of aging people both in the United States and internationally since their conception in the 1960s. (Andreson, Rothenberg, Panzer, Katz, & McDermott, 1998; …
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Resilience and Quality of Life in Taiwanese Survivors of Childhood Cancer
… complications that affect their quality of life. This study explored how the independent variables of illness-related risk (ILLRK), individual risks (IRK), protective factors (PF) and resilience (RS) affected the dependent variable---quality of life (QOL)--in Taiwanese survivors …
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Relationship between Participation in Nurse Externship Program and RN Retention and Quality Care
… to demonstrate the value of the program in terms quality of care and long term RN retention. Research Questions. The three research questions this study addressed include: (1) What is the relationship between student nurse externship experience and extension of the new graduate, unit-based …
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