Recently added articles from Nursing Economics:
Nursing on the right side: why nurses must step to the right (of our left brains).(Editorial)
May 01, 2009; ... IN THIS AGE of evidence-based management and evidence-based nursing, I was delighted to learn from neuroanatomist and author, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, what happens when a massive stroke occurs in the left side of the brain. Personally, I knew the ill effects of a stroke, having witnessed my ...
Nurse residency programs: an essential requirement for nursing.(CNE SERIES)
May 01, 2009; ... NEW GRADUATES ARE THE employment pipeline for acute care hospitals. With a dwindling supply of experienced nurses projected for the future, it is imperative that hospitals recruit more than their historical number of new graduates to fill their vacancies. In 2002, the Health Care Advisory ...
Patterns of knowing: proposing a theory for nursing leadership.
May 01, 2009; ... THE HEALTH SERVICES INDUSTRY is a rapidly changing environment; subsequently, innovative leadership characteristics and roles are required for the nursing profession. Porter-O'Grady and Malloch (2006) noted that the impact on nursing management and leadership is just beginning to be ...
Evaluation of a nurse practitioner-led care management model in reducing inpatient drug utilization and cost.
May 01, 2009; ... THE DRASTIC INCREASE in health care spending has surpassed the growth of the rest of the U.S. economy (Health Affairs, 2002). Hospital care and prescription drugs are responsible for much of the overall escalation in health care spending (Pear, 2004), and accounted for 30% and 11% of the ...
What nurses want: the Nurse Incentives Project.
May 01, 2009; ... ALTHOUGH NURSE JOB satisfaction has been linked to retention, a gap remains t in identifying specific factors which can be managed or changed to improve satisfaction and reduce turnover. Knowing that nurse satisfaction is related to physician interactions, policies, or autonomy provides ...
Predicting factors related to nurses' intention to leave, job satisfaction, and perception of quality of care in acute care hospitals.
May 01, 2009; ... HIGH NURSING TURNOVER IS A problem facing many countries, including Taiwan, and can be very challenging for nursing leaders and hospital administrators. With the ongoing National Health Insurance policy reform in Taiwan, hospitals had to change to deal with the reduction in payments and ...
Churn: patient turnover and case mix.
May 01, 2009; ... THE MIDNIGHT CENSUS has long been the metric for measuring hospital bed use and thus nursing resources needed. As hospitals worldwide strive to become more efficient and use all available beds to capacity, arguments are being made to treat a bed as a bed and a patient as a patient, as ...
Supplemental recruiting services: a viable solution in challenging times.(Human Resource Solutions)
May 01, 2009; ... IT IS NO REAL NEWS THAT nurse recruiting is in a harsh down cycle after a period of reasonably active recruiting, outreach, and growth. Within this arduous environment there is a remarkable paradox confronting nursing leaders, human resources recruiters, and health systems in need of ...
Massachusetts health care reform: lessons for the nation? An interview with Thomas Smith, MS, RN, NEA-BC.(Economic$ of Health Care and Nursing)(Interview)
May 01, 2009; ... DESPITE A NATIONAL POLICY agenda crowded by efforts to deal with the recession, the federal budget, energy policy, auto bailouts, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and a flu pandemic, momentum is growing to enact legislation to reform the nation's health care delivery system. While it is ...
Improvement in prescription renewal handling by application of the lean process.(Perspectives in Ambulatory Care)
May 01, 2009; ... THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS (UIHC) utilize the Lean methodology to facilitate process improvement. Taiichi Ohno is credited with developing the Lean process at Toyota in post-World War II Japan. Japan had been monetarily depleted by the war, with many manufacturing plants ...
Letter to the editor: the virtue script.(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2009; ... To the Editor: Marcella Rutherford's (2008) excellent summary of current trends in the estimation of nursing value ("The How, What, and Why of Valuation and Nursing," Nursing Economic$, 26[6], 347-351) is a (excuse the pun) valuable primer to the issues of reimbursement for ...
RNs are key to detecting, correcting, and preventing medical errors during critical care.(registered nurses)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009 ... Since RNs play a pivotal role in preventing or reducing the impact of medical errors during critical care, interventions should build on factors that enhance their effectiveness in preventing, intercepting, or correcting these errors, suggests a recent study. Using entries in ...
Leadership and artful persuasion.(Editorial)(Editorial)
Mar 01, 2009; ... FRESH FROM orchestrating a historic victory in the passage of the newly enacted American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (H.R. 1), President Obama demonstrated how effective leadership and artful persuasion win the day. By providing a sobering assessment of the current fiscal crisis and an ...
Critical thinking in nurse managers.(CNE SERIES)
Mar 01, 2009; ... THE FRONT-LINE NURSE manager plays a key role in achieving organizational goals of delivering high-quality care to satisfied patients. Creating a positive work environment that fosters staff satisfaction is required of nurse managers (McGuire & Kennedy, 2006). The nurse manager must be a ...
Understanding new registered nurses' intent to stay at their jobs.
Mar 01, 2009; ... NEWLY LICENSED REGISTERED nurses (NLRNs) are critical members of the health care and hospital workforce. Most hospitals hired at least one new graduate in 2000 (Group, 2002). The National League for Nursing (2006) estimates that there were about 84,878 new graduates in 2005, most of whom ...
An interview with Anthony R. Kovner, PhD academic-clinical partnerships: building the case for evidence-based management.(Interview)
Mar 01, 2009; ... ANTHONY R. KOVNER, PHD, IS professor, program in health policy and management, Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University. He is also director of the MS in Management: Concentration for Nurse Leaders Program. Dr. Kovner is a board member, Lutheran Medical Center, Member ...
The implications of staff 'churn' for nurse managers, staff, and patients.
Mar 01, 2009; ... GROWING AWARENESS OF THE link between nurse staffing and patient outcomes has focused greater attention on the importance of staffing decisions. However, with prolonged workforce shortages, staffing hospitals with an appropriate mix and number of nurses to provide safe patient care is now ...
An estimation of the cost per visit of home care nursing services.
Mar 01, 2009; ... THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA'S 2007 Gross National Income per capita was estimated at USD $20,045 (Economic Statistics System, 2008). Given the average life expectancy increased from 51.1 years in 1960 to 77.9 years in 2006, and the total fertility rate declined dramatically from 6.1 in 1960 to ...
APR DRG weights and the relationship to patient falls.(All Patient Refined Diagnosis Related Groups )
Mar 01, 2009; ... IN 2007 THE CENTERS FOR Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) examined Medicare data on the number of Medicare beneficiaries who fell out of bed. In 2006, there were 2,591 cases reported of Medicare patients who fell out of bed. The patients who fell had an average charge for the hospital ...
Mary Wakefield appointed HRSA administrator.(Health Resources and Services Administration)
Mar 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] President Obama has appointed Mary Wakefield, PhD, RN, FAAN, one of the nation's top rural health care professionals, as Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration. Dr. Wakefield had been a Nursing Economics Editorial Board since ...