More and more ambulatory care organizations are using nursing report cards to monitor and evaluate the quality and effectiveness of nursing care in the ambulatory setting. Nurse staffing levels is usually one of the items included in a nursing report card and the one most scrutinized by ambulatory care administrators. One strategy employed by the nursing leadership at the South Texas Veterans Healthcare System to justify nurse staffing levels is linking administrative staffing monitors with nurse-sensitive outcomes via workload and performance indicators. Through this approach, nurse leaders are able to justify nurse staffing level changes, needed technology changes, process improvements, and/or workflow needs to administrators with positiv...
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010) established clear provisions for Patient-Cente...
The demand for information about quality is greater now than ever. Despite the significance of qual...
AbstractPatient classification systems (PCSs) are commonly used in nursing units to assess how many ...
Nurses and adequate nurse staffing are critical to the delivery of safe, cost-effective, and quality...
Pay for performance initiatives are changing the quality landscape. Gaps exist in quantifying and li...
Executive Summary: On March 1-2, 2010, a state-of-the-science invitational conference titled Ambula...
The quality and safety of nursing care vary from one service to another. We have only very limited i...
The need for care coordination and management of transitions between Patient-Centered Medical Home p...
During 2003, an estimated 906 million visits were made to physician offices in the United States (Hi...
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010) established clear provisions for Patient-Cente...
Background: Assigning the correct nursing resources to hospitalized patients positively impacts pati...
Background: Evidence-based intensity staffing tools are necessary to provide balanced nurse workload...
Objective: There is limited published research supporting the effectiveness of nursing workload meas...
Provisions of the 2010 Affordable Care Act have placed hospitals in the center of financial accounta...
Background: Despite extensive research on nursing workload since the 1930s, no standardized definiti...
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010) established clear provisions for Patient-Cente...
The demand for information about quality is greater now than ever. Despite the significance of qual...
AbstractPatient classification systems (PCSs) are commonly used in nursing units to assess how many ...
Nurses and adequate nurse staffing are critical to the delivery of safe, cost-effective, and quality...
Pay for performance initiatives are changing the quality landscape. Gaps exist in quantifying and li...
Executive Summary: On March 1-2, 2010, a state-of-the-science invitational conference titled Ambula...
The quality and safety of nursing care vary from one service to another. We have only very limited i...
The need for care coordination and management of transitions between Patient-Centered Medical Home p...
During 2003, an estimated 906 million visits were made to physician offices in the United States (Hi...
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010) established clear provisions for Patient-Cente...
Background: Assigning the correct nursing resources to hospitalized patients positively impacts pati...
Background: Evidence-based intensity staffing tools are necessary to provide balanced nurse workload...
Objective: There is limited published research supporting the effectiveness of nursing workload meas...
Provisions of the 2010 Affordable Care Act have placed hospitals in the center of financial accounta...
Background: Despite extensive research on nursing workload since the 1930s, no standardized definiti...
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010) established clear provisions for Patient-Cente...
The demand for information about quality is greater now than ever. Despite the significance of qual...
AbstractPatient classification systems (PCSs) are commonly used in nursing units to assess how many ...