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June 1, 2009 | Journal Article
A patient care plan, including current fall risk status and appropriate interventions, should be made available to the patient, the patient's health care team and family to reduce falls.
April 10, 2007 | Book
Transforming Care at the Bedside
January 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Approximately 3 million children in the United States are hospitalized every year. This study examines children and adolescents' views of the quality of their nursing care while hospitalized and their physical and emotional states.
November 3, 2010 | Journal Article
A tailored communication and intervention effort–the Fall Prevention Tool Kit–can reduce hospital falls, especially in elderly.
July 11, 2011 | Program Result Report
Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) was a national initiative to improve hospital patient care and the hospital work environment by empowering front-line nurses to implement innovative new practices on their units.
July 1, 2010 | Program Result Report
RWJF launched Wisdom at Work: Retaining Experienced Nurses in 2006 to build an evidence base for what works to retain experienced nurses in hospital settings and to develop a better understanding of the impact of existing interventions on the work environment for older nurses.
January 1, 2005 | Journal Article
In January 2004, a California law went into effect that regulates minimum nurse/patient ratios in hospitals because several studies had documented worse patient outcomes when nurse/patient ratios fell. This study examined associations between low nurse/patient ratios and adverse patient outcomes.
March 11, 2009 | News Release
Part of RWJF's ambitious "Aligning Forces for Quality" program, the effort will engage nurses and other front-line staff to develop quality improvement innovations.
February 4, 2009 | Toolkit
How-to guides supported through TCAB, a national program of RWJF and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, offer detailed steps to implement select aspects of the program.
November 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
Researchers at the University of Maryland studied the impact of nursing staff levels on patient outcomes in California hospitals for the period 1996 and 2000.