Nursing research and partecipant recruitment: organizational challenges and strategies

J Nurs Adm. 2010 Jan;40(1):43-8. doi: 10.1097/NNA.0b013e3181c97afb

PMID: 20010377 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] PMCID: PMC2901155

Hospitals as research environments are crucial in advancing evidence-based practice and translational research. The authors discuss issues related to hospital-based nursing research such as institutional review board approval, the HIPAA, structure, unit characteristics, and nurse staffing as well as research-related issues such as study purpose and design, participant recruitment, and research personnel. Strategies and suggestions for nurse executives to assist researchers in overcoming recruitment challenges are presented.

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The effect of  hospital electronic health record adoption on nurse-assessed quality of  care and patient safety
J Nurs Adm. 2011 November; 41(11): 466–472.

PMID: 22033316 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] PMCID: PMC3236066

The aim of this study was to examine the effect of having a basic electronic health record (EHR) on nurse-assessed quality of care, including patient safety. Few large-scale studies have examined how adoption of EHRs may be associated with quality of care. A cross-sectional, secondary analysis of nurse and hospital survey data was conducted. The final sample included 16,352 nurses working in 316 hospitals in 4 states. Logistic regression models were used to evaluate the relationship between basic EHR adoption and nurse-assessed quality of care outcomes. Nurses working in hospitals with basic EHRs consistently reported that poor patient safety and other quality outcomes occurred less frequently than reported by nurses working in hospitals without an EHR. Our findings suggest that the implementation of a basic EHR may result in improved and more efficient nursing care, better care coordination, and patient safety.

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Professional competences of nurse to work in Intensive Care Unit: an integrative review.

This study aimed to identify and analyze nurses' competences to work at Intensive Care Units-ICU. An integrative review method was used, and data were collected in LILACS, SciELO and BDENF, from August to October 2010. Ten articles were identified, published in the last 12 years. Data grouping permitted the construction of thematic units related to nurses' competences: nursing care management, high-complexity nursing care delivery, decision making, leadership, communication, continuing/permanent education, human resource management, material resource management. The professional competences identified can support the outline of guidelines to constitute the profile of nursing working in intensive care units and drive/mobilize the improvement of nursing care practices.

PMID: 22481738 [Pubmed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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Leader to Watch

Karen Drenkard, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN

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Workshop: Implementation, Education, Training

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YALE Study: Medication errors, confusion common for hospital patients

by Lisa Chekedel, Conn. Health I-Team Writer

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Red Blood Cell Transfusion: A Clinical Practice Guideline From the AABB

http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1103943

Jeffrey L. Carson, MD; Brenda J. Grossman, MD, MPH; Steven Kleinman, MD; Alan T. Tinmouth, MD; Marisa B. Marques, MD; Mark K. Fung, MD, PhD; John B. Holcomb, MD; Orieji Illoh, MD; Lewis J. Kaplan, MD; Louis M. Katz, MD; Sunil V. Rao, MD; John D. Roback, MD, PhD; Aryeh Shander, MD; Aaron A.R. Tobian, MD, PhD; Robert Weinstein, MD; Lisa Grace Swinton McLaughlin, MD; and Benjamin Djulbegovic, MD, PhD

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