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Summer 2013 RN Work Project Newsletter
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A Multi-state Assessment of Employer-Sponsored Quality Improvement Education for Early Career Registered Nurses
Increasing participation of registered nurses (RNs) in quality improvement (QI) is a promising strategy to close the health care quality chasm. For RNs to participate effectively in hospital QI, they must have adequate QI knowledge and skills. 2013 Djukic, M., Kovner, C., Brewer, C., Fatehi, F., & Seltzer. J. The Journal of Continuing Education in […]
Charting the Course for Nurses’ Achievement of Higher Education Levels
To improve patient outcomes and meet the challenges of the U.S. health care system, the Institute of Medicine recommends higher educational attainment for the nursing workforce. Characteristics of registered nurses (RNs) who pursue additional education are poorly understood, and this information is critical to planning long-term strategies for U.S. nursing education. 2012 Kovner, C. T., […]
Work Environment Factors Other Than Staffing Associated With Nurses’ Ratings of Patient Care Quality
The impact of registered nurse (RN) staffing on patient care quality has been extensively studied. Identifying additional modifiable work environment factors linked to patient care quality is critical as the projected shortage of approximately 250,000 RNs over the next 15 years will limit institutions’ ability to rely on RN staffing alone to ensure high-quality care. […]
New Nurses: Has the Recession Increased Their Commitment To Their Jobs?
2012 Current evidence suggests that the economic recession has induced retired RNs to reenter nursing and working nurses to work more hours and delay retirement, thus easing the projected RN shortage. We wondered whether the economic downturn had affected new nurses’ work attitudes and behaviors, including those related to turnover. Brewer, C. S., Kovner, C. […]
State Mandatory Overtime Regulations and Newly Licensed Nurses’ Mandatory and Voluntary Overtime and Total Work Hours
* Winner of Nursing Outlook’s Excellence in Policy Award Nurse overtime has been used to handle normal variations in patient census and to control chronic understaffing. By 2010, 16 states had regulations to limit nurse overtime. We examined mandatory overtime regulations and their association with mandatory and voluntary overtime and total hours worked by newly […]
Predictors of Actual Turnover In A National Sample of Newly Licensed Registered Nurses Employed In Hospitals
2012 There is a large body of research related to nursing retention; however, there is little information specific to newly licensed registered nurse turnover. Incidence rates of turnover among new nurses are unknown because most turnover data are not from nationally representative samples of nurses. Brewer, C. S., Kovner, C. T., Greene, W., Tukov-Shuser, M., […]
Early Career RNs’ Perceptions of Quality Care In The Hospital Setting
2011 The purpose of this study was to explore early-career registered nurses’ perceptions of high-quality nursing care in hospitals. The study findings contribute to ongoing work intended to explore and define what quality nursing care is and how it ultimately impacts patients. The final sample analyzed for this article consisted of 171 narrative responses from […]
Newly Licensed RNs Describe What They Like Best About Being A Nurse
About 25% of newly licensed registered nurses (NLRNs) leave their first job within two years, but only 2% leave the nursing profession in this same timeframe. Therefore, the researchers sought to discover what new nurses like best about being a nurse, in hopes of gaining information that might help facilities to reduce turnover rates. Data […]
The Relative Geographic Immobility Of New Registered Nurses Calls For New Strategies To Augment That Workforce
Little is known about registered nurses’ geographic mobility after they earn their first professional degree and become licensed to practice. Through a cross-sectional mailed survey of newly-licensed registered nurses in 15 states, the researchers found that 52.5 percent work within 40 miles of where they attended high school. Researcher’s analysis of Census Bureau data shows […]
