The Center for Nursing Research & Innovation

Completed Grants Overview

1. Impact of Unit Level Nurse Workload on Patient Safety - R01

Study Purpose -

To understand whether more sensitive measures of staffing and workload have an impact on patient safety when variance in these factors exceeds a unit-specific margin of safety. This study will break new ground in tracing daily staffing in approximately 100 medical surgical patient care units over a two (2) month period.

Study Aims -

To examine associations between the structure of staffing and patient safety and outcome indicators such as falls, pressure ulcers, restraint prevalence and significant clinical events.
To examine the effect of a new nurse workload indicator (patient turnover) and nurse staffing.

2. The UCSF Venous Access Patient Safety Interdisciplinary Education Project

Study Aims -

• Develop/Present a 1 unit Venous Access Device Patient Safety interdisciplinary, web-based, academic graduate course;
• Translate the academic course into a CE version for practicing clinicians;
• Evaluate the content, processes and impact of instructional processes on clinician learning and patient safety;
• Disseminate findings and courseware.
  

3. CalNOC Partners for Quality TRIP to Reduce Hospital Falls

The CalNOC Partners TRIP to Reduce Patient Falls Project builds on the infrastructure of the California Nursing Outcomes Coalition (CalNOC) Database Project, a joint venture of ANA\California & the Association of California Nurse Leaders (ACNL).

Study Aims -

The primary aim of the CalNOC Partners for Quality TRIP To Reduce Patient Falls Project, a four-year quality improvement demonstration Project, is to use evidence from the reported literature and the California Nursing Outcomes Coalition statewide repository to reduce the incidence of patient falls and severity of fall-related injury in California Hospitals. The Project builds on the established infrastructure and capacity of the California Nursing Outcomes Coalition (CalNOC). CalNOC engages California acute care hospitals in voluntarily reporting standardized nurse staffing, patient falls, and fall-related injuries, as well as other quality indicators, in a collaborative repository development and benchmarking Project using American Nurses Association’s quality indicators.