Nursing Workload and Patient Care - 2012
Understanding the value of nurses, the effects of excessive workload, and how nurse-patient ratios and dynamic staffing models can help.
Quality Care
Evidence Scan: Quality Improvement Training for Healthcare Professionals - 2012
This evidence scan explores the following questions:
– What types of training about formal quality improvement techniques are available for health professionals?
– What evidence is there about the most effective methods for training clinicians in quality improvement?
Evolving the QI Plan: Reporting Template: Priority Indicators - 2011
Presents a reporting template with a list of priority nursing-sensitive inputs, processes (throughputs), and outcomes for your consideration. The template provides a core set of quality indicators that demonstrate the nursing contribution to care. Research from major nursing indicator projects and literature reviews were used to inform the development of this template.
RNAO Position Statement: Strengthening Client Centred Care in Home Care - 2011
Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) strongly supports the development of home care services utilizing a client centred care model in which Ontarians have access to continuity of care and continuity of caregiver from a primary nurse in the most appropriate setting. RNAO also strongly endorses strengthening inter-professional care so all health disciplines work closely together to support high quality client care, ensuring the right care is provided to the right client in the right place by the right care provider.
Public Services Health & Safety Association: Your Healthy Work Environment Resource - 2011
A healthy work environment is critical to the wellbeing of every healthcare provider. It is essential for the overall satisfaction of healthcare professionals, for successful recruitment and retention, and for quality of patient or client care.
Quality Improvement Plans in Long-Term Care: Lessons Learned - 2011
This report analyzes results from the first year in which LTC home leaders submitted QIPs.
RNAO Position Statement: Strengthening Client Centred Care in Long Term Care - 2010
RNAO strongly supports the development of Long Term Care Homes (LTCHs) utilizing a resident/client-centred care model, where Ontarians have access to continuity of care and continuity of caregiver from a primary nurse. RNAO also strongly endorses strengthening inter-professional care so all health disciplines work closely to support high quality care in all health care settings.
The Demonstration Projects: Creating the Capacity for Nursing Health Human Resource Planning - 2010
Timely access to healthcare services requires the right number, mix and distribution of appropriately educated nurses, physicians and other healthcare professionals.The demonstration projects initiative has led to the creation of a unique collection of best practices, tools and resources aimed at improving organizational planning capacity. Evaluation of the initiative generated recommendations that may guide the ministry toward policy and program development to foster improved nursing health human resource planning capacity in Ontario healthcare organizations.
Hospital and Acute Care: Forecasting Future Workforce Demand - 2010
This study focuses on the implementation and evaluation of the Forecasting Future Workforce Demand Tool. It was hypothesized that the implementation of the Tool would enable hospitals to enter historical workforce data to create one to five year forecasts for proactive HHR planning and strategy development.
Nursing Health Services Research Unit (NHSRU) on Nurses in Public Health - 2010
Nursing Health Services Research Unit (NHSRU) is a collaborative project of the University of Toronto Faculty of Nursing and McMaster University School of Nursing.
Our mission is to develop, conduct and disseminate research that focuses on: design, management, utilization, outcomes and provision of nursing.
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