Building a 21st century facility.
At Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital, staff worked for 10 years to design a new facility and plan the transition for their patients, their equipment, and themselves.
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Biomedical subjects
J A Verdin
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Multidisciplinary intervention programs and tools for integrating professional practice.
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Conducting unit-based research to improve quality of care.
How does a tertiary care medical center without a primary academic nursing affiliation improve quality of patient care by conducting unit-based nursing research? The organization's strengths and opportunities include top management support, an infrastructure for development of nurse researchers, a specific patient care coordinator role, research supporting organizational decision making, and success in obtaining nursing research grants. The effects of limited consultative support, statistical avoidance, reorganization, competing staff demands, and lack of funding must be minimized. Strategies include: continue communication with top management, provide meaningful development opportunities and technical research support, build on completed research, use multidisciplinary teams, and change thinking to maximize the research opportunities that already exist.
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Peer social support: a key to care giver morale and satisfaction.
Social support is a group dynamic, but studies have not identified specific strategies for managers to use as direct environmental resources. The authors discuss a study that explored group social support as a component of job morale for bedside care givers. Specific unit-based factors are identified for managers to develop focused staff social support activities. These include means of universal recognition, use of common space, methods to develop team culture and styles, and methods of communication.
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