Aim: This paper reports on structures and processes of hospital care influencing 30-day mortality for acute medical patients. Background: Wide variation in risk-adjusted 30-day hospital mortality rates for acute medical patients indicates that hospital structures and processes of care affect patient death. Because nurses provide the majority of care to hospitalized patients, we propose that str...

The membership of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, in partnership with its practice partners, has initiated a national effort to create a new nursing role that is more responsive to the realities of a complex technologically advanced, ever-changing healthcare system. This new role is the clinical nurse leader. Nurses in this role will be prepared at the master’s level and will a...

What comes to mind when I hear the name Karen Zander: case manager pioneer, brilliant and compassionate nurse leader, articulate teacher, mentor, and friend. Karen has a unique perspective on health care today as a consumer and provider. While she manages through physical limitations, it has never diminished her passion, commitment or can-do spirit. Her contributions to the case management prac...

The Seniors Wellness Clinic: An Interprofessional Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Care Model Lina Medeiros, MSW, Social Worker, University Health Network Toronto Western Hospital,Toronto, ON. Debbie Kwan, MSc, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto; Pharmacist, University Health Network Toronto Western Hospital,Toronto, ON. Carol Banez, MAN, Clinical Nurse Specialist, University Hea...

South Africa focuses on service delivery at primary health care (PHC) clinics. A ‘servant leader’ could guide student nurses towards service delivery at PHC clinics. The purpose of this study was to describe the role of nurse managers acting as servant leaders of student nurses at some PHC clinics in the Johannesburg, South Africa, area. A quantitative, exploratory and descriptive design was fo...

From the 1Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, and the 1,2Inpatient Diabetes Program and 2Care Management Department, Pitt County Memorial Hospital Greenville, North Carolina. Presented at the American College of Endocrinology and American Diabetes Association Consensus Conference, Washington, ...

BACKGROUND There is an absence of formal error tracking systems in public sector hospitals of Pakistan and also a lack of literature concerning error reporting culture in the health care sector. Nurse practitioners have front-line knowledge and rich exposure about both the organizational culture and error sharing in hospital settings. The aim of this paper was to investigate the association bet...