Alleviating Care Partner Poststroke Stress Through Education.

Background: Those who provide assistance to persons who have experienced stroke (care partners) become exposed to new situation and paradigms that may produce stress. Providing adequate information and training before discharge may reduce care partner stress.

Methods: This prospective longitudinal pilot study examined whether tailored poststroke discharge education would reduce care partner stress.

Efficacy of Using Available Data to Examine Nurse Staffing Ratios and Quality of Care Metrics.

Background: Nurse staffing ratios impact both the quality and safety of care on a particular unit. Most hospitals have access to a large volume of nurse-sensitive outcomes. We hypothesized that these data could be used to explore the impact of changing the nurse-to-patient ratio on patient-reported outcomes, nurse satisfaction scores, and quality of care metrics.