Publications by authors named "Jennifer Ledlow"
Background: Nursing care delivery models may serve as a significant factor contributing to nurse satisfaction, frequency of missed care, and patient outcomes.
Local Problem: The nursing leadership team at our institution sought to determine if an adaptation of our primary registered nurse (RN) nursing model would enhance satisfaction of bedside nurses and care of patients.
Methods: An improvement study introducing a care-based delivery model was implemented between January 2023 and January 2024 on a medical-surgical neurology/spinal unit at our organization.
Background: Nursing care delivery models influence nursing workload.
Problem: Poorly designed nursing workforce models may lead to lack of satisfaction in practice, inability to recruit staff, and nursing turnover.
Approach: This paper describes a process that our team undertook to evaluate one nursing unit's nursing care delivery model and provides a recommendation for a nursing workforce model that ensures practice to top of scope while maintaining a balanced workload.
Background: Many healthcare facilities implement technology to reduce medication errors. Nursing schools are exploring implementing similar technology to promote best practice.
Purpose: Our institution developed a quality improvement project to evaluate the integration of similar technology into pre-licensure curriculum.
Aim: To provide an analysis of the concept of medication errors that occur during the nursing task of medication administration.
Background: Medication errors occurring during medication administration have an increased risk for an adverse patient outcome. Many terms are associated with medication errors, with limited clarification for a medication administration error at the point of care delivery.