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December 18, 2011 | Story
Study suggests hospitals should pursue improved nurse education and staffing, but those investments do not significantly reduce patient mortality in the absence of a good work environment.
August 9, 2011 | Program Result
Transforming Care at the Bedside-New Jersey is a state specific application of the nurse-driven TCAB process of hospital improvement. This is a look at the project's progress at the halfway mark.
July 11, 2011 | Program Result
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 5, 2011 | Story
"There's that stigma where the doctor is some almighty person, and the nurse is in more of a subservient role."
November 1, 2008 | Issue Brief
Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) is a multiphase, national initiative to improve the work environment on hospital medical-surgical units, and thereby increase the quality of patient care and nurse engagement. This brief discusses the successful spread of TCAB innovations across diverse units and hospitals.
March 24, 2011 | Story
"A lot of the program focuses on learning about yourself and how to leverage your strengths," she recalls. "No one had ever said that to me. That was just freeing."
January 1, 2006 | Report
The goal of this section of the toolkit Transforming Care at the Bedsite is to convince hospital executives to fully support efforts led by nurses and other frontline staff to increase the quality and patient-centeredness of care¿while also increasing job satisfaction and retention.
June 4, 2008 | Report
The TCAB Partnership
October 15, 2007 | Report
Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) is a multiphase program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The evaluation, led by Jack Needleman, Ph.D., of the UCLA School of Public Health, began in September 2004 and will end in May 2009.
November 1, 2009 | Commentary
In this Foreword, president-CEOs of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement review the success of Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) and call on national health care leaders and policy-makers to heed the insights of the insights of TCAB to leverage the skill and energy of nurses to improve patient care.