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Alliance Strategic Goals
- To expand evidence-based nursing
practice to improve patient care outcomes
- To foster collaboration (including
mentorship) for the conduction of nursing research and
research utilization (particularly multi-site
opportunities)
- To create a (local) culture that
encourages and supports the conduction of nurse-lead
studies and the application of evidence-based nursing
practice
- To enhance the translation of
research/evidence-based findings to clinical practice
and nursing education
- To stimulate and facilitate the oral
and written publication of work on the topic of
evidence-based nursing practice
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Priorities for Research and Research
Utilization
- Methods to increase teenager’s compliance with the
medical regime
- Using CPOE to measure nursing outcomes
- Effect of surgical pre-admission teaching on LOS
- Comparison of manual versus mechanical VS
assessment, is there a difference in BP or HR?
- Validity/reliability of tympanic temperatures
- Medication compliance and readmission rates of
psychiatric patients
- Validation of patient’s suicidal ideation in
homeless patients
- Utility of Buck’s traction and rate of CPM use on
orthopedic outcome
- Comparison of straight cath versus indwelling foley
for patients with epidural anesthesia on rates of
urinary tract infection
- Support system development for extreme neonatal
pre-maturity on parental coping
- Rate and methods of prevention for post-ostomy
procedure urinary retention in older adults
- Best practices to avoid post-op nausea
- Effect of nursing input on hospital equipment
purchases
- Effect of equipment culturing on decreasing
nosocomial infection rates
- Reasons patients identify for choosing hospitals
- Factors related to staff morale
- Distribution procedures to increase participation in
staff surveys
- Rate of errors compared with staff/patient ratio and
staff morale
- Staff supportiveness and relation to employee
satisfaction
- Measures of patient satisfaction using unit specific
questions versus Press Ganey results
- Methods to improve patient’s quality of life
post-procedure
- Nurse Manager/Supervisors support of clinical work
on ability to improve patient coordination, transfers,
length of stay, staff and patient satisfaction
- Identify gaps in administrative structure to assist
in better patient care as evidenced by improved patient
coordination, transfers, length of stay, staff and
patient satisfaction
- Evaluate patient acuity related to patient/nurse
ratios on the floors and ICU on number of times patients
require “rescue” care (previously stable patient
deteriorates requiring transfer to SD or ICU)
- What factors affect rate of “rescue” care, staffing
plan?
- Use of a patient acuity system on staffing patterns
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