Recently added articles from Annual Review of Nursing Research:

The Intersection of Patient Safety and Nursing Research

Jan 01, 2006; Walker, Patricia Hinton; Carlton, Gaya; Holden, Lela; Stone, Patricia W ... Chapter 1 ABSTRACT The individual and collective discussions of the patient safety issue in the United States have mounted from a low roar to a deafening din in the past 10 years. In this chapter the authors (1) discuss the context of patient safety over the past decade and the ...

Medication-Related Errors: A Literature Review of Incidence and Antecedents

Jan 01, 2006; Carlton, Gaya; Blegen, Mary A ... Chapter 2 ABSTRACT Patient safety has become a major concern for both society and policymakers. Since nurses are intimately involved in the delivery of medications and are ultimately responsible during the medication administration phase, it is important for nursing to understand ...

Preface

Jan 01, 2006; Fitzpatrick, Joyce J ... Patient safety is one of the most important topics in health care literature today. It also represents a rapidly developing research area for both nurse scientists and other health care researchers, and, based on the problems addressed, it is necessarily interdisciplinary in nature. In this 24th ...

Fall and Injury Prevention

Jan 01, 2006; Currie, Leanne M ... Chapter 3 ABSTRACT Falls and related injuries are increasingly being recognized as a nursing-sensitive quality indicator, and they continue to be an unsolved patient safety problem in inpatient and outpatient care areas as well as in the community at large. The purpose of this ...

Patient Safety in Hospital Acute Care Units

Jan 01, 2006; Blegen, Mary A ... Chapter 5 ABSTRACT The most visible threats to patient safety associated with nursing care occur on hospital inpatient units. Patient safety research is a new phenomenon, but it builds on the knowledge provided by quality-of-care research done previously. The purpose of this ...

Hospital-Acquired Infections as Patient Safety Indicators

Jan 01, 2006; Peterson, Ann Marie B; Walker, Patricia Hinton ... Chapter 4 ABSTRACT Transmission of infection in the hospital has been identified as a patient safety problem adversely affecting patients, visitors, and health care workers. Prevention of infection should not be limited to the hospital epidemiology staff but also must involve the ...

Nurse Home Visit Programs for the Elderly

Jan 01, 2006; Marek, Karen Dorman; Baker, Carol Dean ... Chapter 7 ABSTRACT Nurses are the largest professional provider of health care services in the home setting. However, nurse home visit programs are diverse. The purpose of this review was to examine the many factors that influence the effectiveness of nurse home visit programs ...

Nursing Home Safety: A Review of the Literature

Jan 01, 2006; Scott-Cawiezell, Jill; Vogelsmeier, Amy ... Chapter 8 ABSTRACT The number of older persons in the United States is rapidly growing and, based on this growth projection, the number of consumers needing nursing home (NH) care will likely triple in the next 10 years. Although NHs have been bombarded and scrutinized about the ...

Organizational Climate and Culture Factors

Jan 01, 2006; Clarke, Sean P ... Chapter 10 ABSTRACT Nurses and others have expressed a great deal of interest in the potential for incorporating notions about organizational culture and climate in research and practice aiming to improve health care safety. In this review, definitions and measures of these terms ...

Informatics for Patient Safety: A Nursing Research Perspective

Jan 01, 2006; Bakken, Suzanne ... Chapter 9 ABSTRACT In Crossing the Quality Chasm, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Quality of Health Care in America identified the critical role of information technology in designing a health system that produces care that is "safe, effective, patient' centered, ...

Methodologies Used in Nursing Research Designed to Improve Patient Safety

Jan 01, 2006; Merwin, Elizabeth; Thornlow, Deirdre ... Chapter 11 ABSTRACT Nursing research studies of patient safety for 2002-2005 were reviewed to determine methods used and methodological challenges within this field of research. Methods used in traditional clinical research and in health services research were often combined or ...

Nursing Research in Ireland

Jan 01, 2006; McCarthy, Geraldine; Hegarty, Josephine; O'Sullivan, Dawn ... Chapter 12 ABSTRACT This review presents an analysis of research published by Irish nurses during the period 1990-2005. The analysis is the first effort made to identify the main characteristics of Irish nursing research. Overall, 213 published studies were identified for ...