Ghided Care is a practical, interdisciplinary model of health care designed to improve the quality of life and efficiency of resource use for persons with medically complex health conditions.  In Guided Care, a registered nurse, who is based in a primary care office, works closely with 2-5 ...

Nov 14,2011

Tips and Tools for Engaging Patients in Hospital Quality Improvement: Gateway to Improved HCAHPS Scores

discuss key elements of improvement strategies and share paired set of tools tailored to both nurses, and ... approaches to improving communications at nurse bedside shift report – and to potentially elevate their ... tailored to both nurses, and patients and their families. We’ll hear lessons – and results! ...

Telephones on a Pole Increase Medical Interpreter Use

example, it takes 20 minutes for an interpreter to get to a patient, but if a nurse uses IPOP to assess a ... Both patients and nurses are satisfied with this new system. St. E's has seen an increase in ...

Sep 07,2011

Truman Medical Center Reduces Wait

wound and suture removal patients. The new strategy was fortified by collaboration between the Nursing ... accelerated evaluation by the physician before the triage nurse removes the sutures.  (Hospital Care, ...

Feb 16,2012

A Foundation for Quality Improvement

for doctors and nurses to enhance the care provided to patients. A new study published in Health ... resources to help local doctors and nurses deliver better care to patients. The study, authored by a ...

Mar 06,2012

Care Transitions Program Reduces Readmissions in Humboldt County

County and Humboldt State University's nursing department, the Community Health Alliance developed ... receiving home health or hospice care are assigned a coach who is a student nurse. Coaches meet patients in ...

Aug 18,2011

Southern Maine Medical Center Improves Team Communication

decreased to five to seven minutes. The nursing staff accomplished this decrease by providing staff a ... Certified Nursing Assistants. On average, there are two simultaneous huddles occurring on the SMMC TCAB unit ...

Jul 16,2012

Pausing to Reduce Readmissions

patient with limited mobility might say they will have help at home.  The nurse, believing that there ... nurse had not been empowered to do this, the patient would have been discharged to an unprepared and ...

Jun 19,2013

The  corresponding pocket guide  was created to help nurses educate heart failure patients about ... are two sections – “what the nurse needs to know” and “what the patient needs to know.”   ...

Dec 12,2011

The  corresponding pocket guide  was created to help nurses educate heart failure patients about ... are two sections – “what the nurse needs to know” and “what the patient needs to know.”   ...

Dec 12,2011