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| العنوان: |
Chapter 18: Lower Medicare mortality among a set of hospitals known for good nursing care. |
| المؤلفون: |
Aiken, Linda H., Smith, Herbert L., Lake, Eileen T. |
| المصدر: |
Exemplary Research For Nursing & Midwifery; 2001, p330-351, 22p |
| مستخلص: |
This article presents information on a study related to lower Medicare mortality among a set of hospitals known for good nursing care. In this study, researchers found that magnet hospitals, hospitals that embody a set of organizational attributes that nurses find desirable, have lower mortality than matched hospitals, which are similar along other organizational dimensions, but that are not known as settings that place a high institutional priority on nursing. Those familiar with the inner workings of hospitals will not be surprised there is a relationship between the practice of nursing and the mortality experience of hospital patients. The connection between nursing and mortality rates dates as far back as the reforms in British hospitals made under Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War. Nurses are the only professional caregivers in hospitals who are at the bedside of hospital patients around the clock. What nurses do or not do is directly related to a variety of patient outcomes, including in-hospital deaths. American physicians typically combine office and hospital- based practice, and therefore observes their hospitalized patients only periodically. Nurses are physicians' primary source of information about changes in their patients' conditions. Nurses often must act in the absence of the physician when timely intervention is required. |
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