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New Term Chair for Penn Nursing Professor
Karen B. Lasater, PhD, RN, FAAN, Associate Professor in Penn Nursing’s Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences, has been appointed as the Jessie M. Scott Term Chair in Nursing and Health Policy. The appointment took effect on July 1, 2023.
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Investigators Identify Translation Gaps in Instrument That Measures Nurse Work Environment
Two decades ago, the Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index was published to measure the nursing practice environment. Although the instrument’s use has resulted in advances in science and quality improvement efforts, its potential may be limited by the availability and quality of translations into different languages.
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Hospital Understaffing and Poor Work Conditions Associated with Physician and Nurse Burnout and Intent to Leave
A unique collaborative study on hospital clinician wellbeing by teams at 60 of the nation’s best hospitals, defined by Magnet Hospital Recognition, was published today in JAMA Health Forum. The study found that physicians and nurses, even at hospitals known to be good places to work, experienced adverse outcomes during the pandemic and want hospital management to make significant improvements in their work environments and in patient safety. The solutions to high hospital clinician burnout and turnover, they say, are not resilience training for clinicians to better cope with adverse working conditions but organizational improvements that provide safe workloads and better work-life balance.
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Penn’s Rebecca Clark, PhD, Joins Betty Irene Moore Fellowship Program at UC Davis Nursing School
Rebecca Clark, PhD, MSN, RN, Assistant Professor of Perinatal Nursing, Midwifery, and Women’s Health at Penn Nursing and a Nurse Scientist at Pennsylvania Hospital, is one of 16 nurse scientists accepted to the fourth cohort of the Betty Irene Moore Fellowship for Nurse Leaders and Innovators. She is the first nurse scientist from Penn to be accepted to this program.
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Study Shows Missed Nursing Care is a Key Factor in Adverse Outcomes for Very Low Birthweight Infants
Sometimes hospital staff nurses cannot provide required care due to time constraints. This reality can contribute to potentially dire outcomes for very low birthweight (VLBW) infants, who weigh less than 3.3 lbs. at birth. These newborns depend on the nurse for survival. Missed nursing care is likely clinically relevant to whether VLBW infants develop an infection, develop a brain hemorrhage, or even die. Given post-pandemic staffing shortages and the increased burden placed on nurses, routine measurement of missed care and managerial efforts to prevent it could be vital to improving the health and life course of VLBW infants.
CHOPR RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTED IN THIS IMPORTANT NEW YORK TIMES OPINION BY LYDIA POLGREEN (JAN 18, 2023)
“We studied Medicare patients in NY and found that better staffing ratios could have prevented more than 4,000 deaths and saved upward of $700 million in medical costs over a two-year period.” Linda H. Aiken
LINDA AIKEN TELLS NBC NEWS WHY Nearly 1 in 4 U.S. hospitalized patients experience harmful events
“We consistently find that one of the major explanations for poor patient outcomes is insufficient numbers of nurses at the bedside,” she said. “Having a sufficient number of nurses is a building block for safety.”
WRITING FOR MYAMERICANNURSE.COM,MAGNET4EUROPE (m4E) NURSES DETAIL THEIR JOURNEY TO achieve Magnet® recognition across international boundaries.
The article focuses on the M4E partnership between the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania from the City of Brotherly Love, & Universitätsklinikum Münster from the City of Peace.
INVESTIGATORS call on the federal government to change Medicare’s nurse-staffing policies to fix nurse shortages in HOSPITALS. more
“It is past time for the federal government to step in with strategic and specific interventions to eliminate chronic understaffing and nurse shortages in hospitals permanently, not just during COVID.”