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The Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research has a new Director.
Dr. Matthew D. McHugh, the Independence Chair for Nursing Education and Professor of Nursing, has been appointed the Director for the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing’s Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research. "Dr. McHugh is well known to all of us for his research expertise and intellect, for his generosity in mentoring and collaboration, and for his energy and competence in managing the complexities of the CHOPR enterprise," said Linda H. Aiken, Founding Director of the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research. Dr. Aiken will devote full time to research. More
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Magnet4Europe: Twinning Partnership Spotlight
The 1:1 Twinning of 73 European hospitals in six countries with US Magnet hospitals is the cornerstone of Magnet4Europe (M4E), aimed to improve the mental health and well-being of clinicians and patient outcomes. Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Germany and Northwestern Medicine’s Delnor Hospital, of Geneva, Illinois presented at the January 2021 M4E Learning Collaborative. Despite early concerns about language barriers, different cultures, level of support, and different time zones, they quickly built “Trust” in each other, trust in the tools provided and trust from their CNO’s and colleagues to lead the project. They discovered a spirit of “Teamwork” utilizing creative thinking to overcome barriers such as Covid. Finally, they noted the “Autonomy to Co-Design” the intervention and develop additional tools and processes as a great benefit. Having completed the first M4E deliverable, the M4E gap analysis, they are developing an action plan placing Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin Hospital well on their way to achieving their goal to be positioned to enter the application phase of ANCC Magnet designation in 2024.
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New grant funding from LDI to help researchers examine racial disparities.
CHOPR Postdoctoral Fellow and LDI Associate Fellow, Dr. Rebecca Clark and co-investigators, Drs. Eileen Lake and Sindhu Srinivas received a LDI pilot grant on health equity to study differences in Cesarean rates between Black and White women to determine the extent to which racial disparities in Cesarean rates are explained by variation in hospital nursing resources across hospitals.
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#ThankANurse #WearAMask campaign launches new music video.
CHOPR is collaborating with NursesEverywhere.com, a new non-profit organization born out of the Covid-19 pandemic that seeks to improve the public’s access to nursing care. Our second initiative urges the public to show their appreciation for nurses’ heroic contributions to saving lives during the Covid-19 pandemic by masking up. Watch the music video that had it's debut in London last month and has already been seen by over 100,000 viewers. Don't be surprised if you recognize a familiar face or two behind face masks, including CHOPR Senior Fellow, Claire Fagin.
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More from the Media...
The Wall Street Journal cited CHOPR’s recent study of nurse staffing and burnout in New York and Illinois hospitals published in BMJ Quality & Safety -- Dr. Karen Lasater et al.'s paper on the link between nurse ratios and sepsis outcomes was the lead story in Nursing Times, and figured prominently in Consumer Affairs and Science Magazine. -- Dr. Linda Aiken is quoted discussing hospital nurse staffing in The Intercept -- CHOPR Senior Fellow, Dr. Betsy White was interviewed for the Washington Post about nursing home staff burnout and the article cites this CHOPR study -- CHOPR predoctoral fellow, Rachel French reports on a new program treatment to stop fatal overdoses in this Penn LDI Policy$ense blog.
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Dr. Frances Hughes is one of the 100+ Outstanding Women Nurses and Midwives.
To mark the end of the Year of the Nurse and Midwife, the World Health Organization unveiled the 2020 List because "courageous work of nurses and midwives deserves, more than ever, to be honored." To celebrate the release of the list, Women in Global Health and the Year of the Nurse and Midwife partners will be hosting a virtual event in February, titled "Reflections of a Nursing Leader During an Extraordinary Time of Aged Care in New Zealand.“ More
"This was a time of the battle of ignorance not just a virus, it was a time nursing in aged care came of age in New Zealand. We stepped up as nurse executives not just for our facilities but for the 38,000 vulnerable people we care for.” Dr. Frances Hughes
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Professor James Buchan with colleagues from the Health Foundation published a new analysis of the nursing workforce in England.
The analysis showed that achieving the government’s target of 50,000 additional nurses will only be possible with sustained investment and policy action on domestic supply, including a marked improvement in retention of the current nurse workforce. Coordinated, ethical and effective international recruitment will also be required. The report is available here. In other news, Dr. Buchan was lead author on a report for the International Council of Nurses and International Center for Nurse Migration. Up to 4.7 million nurses worldwide are expecting to retire by 2030. New report reveals strategies that must be adopted to help them continue in work and keep health services running. The report includes a ten-point plan for supporting older nurses in their work here.
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Closing the racial disparity gap in survival after In-hospital cardiac arrest.
In a recent CHOPR study published in Medical Care on in-hospital cardiac arrests (IHCA), lead author, Dr. Margo Brooks Carthon, found that despite investments to improve quality of resuscitation efforts, fewer than 25 percent of all patients that experience cardiac arrests in hospitals survive to discharge, and survival varies significantly across hospitals and by race. Until now, few have been able to specify reasons for the between-hospital differences. Coauthors include CHOPR Senior Fellows Drs. Heather Brom, Matthew McHugh, Douglas Sloane, Linda Aiken, Robert Berg, and Raina Merchant. More
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Improving hospital nurse staffing Is associated with fewer deaths from sepsis.
According to a new CHOPR study published in American Journal of Infection Control, improving nurse staffing as proposed in pending legislation in New York state would likely save lives of sepsis patients and save money by reducing the length of hospital stays. Adequate nurse staffing was found to be more important than mandated sepsis care bundles in reducing sepsis deaths. Authors include Drs. Karen Lasater, Douglas Sloane, Matthew McHugh, Jeannie Cimiotti, Kathryn Riman, Linda Aiken, with collaborators from the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Maryann Alexander, Kyrani Reneau and Brendan Martin. More
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| More CHOPR Papers
- Are data on missed nursing care useful for nursing leaders? The RN4CAST@IT cross-sectional study. Journal of Nursing Management. Bagnasco A, Catania G, Zanini M, (...) Sermeus W, Aiken LH, Sasso L.
- Better nurse staffing is associated with survival for Black patients and diminishes racial disparities in survival after in-hospital cardiac arrests. Medical Care. Brooks Carthon JM, Brom H, McHugh M, Sloane DM, Berg R, Merchant R, Girotra S, Aiken LH.
- Spontaneous vaginal birth varies significantly across US hospitals. Birth. Clark RRS, Lake ET.
- The role of oxytocin in primary cesarean birth among low-risk women. Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health. Clark RRS, Warren N, Shermock KM, Perrin N, Lake E, Sharps PW.
- Vertical integration and physician practice labor composition. Medical Care Research and Review. Barnes H, Martsolf GR, McHugh MD, Richards MR.
- Association between physician practice Medicaid acceptance and employing nurse practitioners and physician assistants: A longitudinal analysis. Health Care Management Review. Barnes H, Richards MR, Martsolf GR, Nikpay SS, McHugh MD.
- A systematic review of care needs for surgical patients with chronic opioid use. Medsurgical Nursing. French R, McHugh MD, Lake ET, Brooks Carthon JM.
- Linking the work environment to missed nursing care in labour and delivery. Journal of Nursing Management. Lake ET, French R, O'Rourke K, Sanders J, Srinivas SK.
- Evaluation of hospital nurse-to-patient staffing ratios and sepsis bundles on patient outcomes. American Journal of Infection Control. Lasater KB, Sloane DM, McHugh MD, Cimiotti JP, Riman KA, (…), Aiken LH.
- Missed care relates to nurse job enjoyment and intention to leave in neonatal intensive care. Journal of Nursing Management. Smith JG, Rogowski JA, Lake ET.
- Moving beyond the measure: Understanding patients' experiences of communication with nurses. Research in Nursing and Health. Trotta RL, Rao AD, McHugh MD, Yoho M, Cunningham RS.
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