A Unified Approach to Quality From the Bedside to C-Suite and Back Again: Thoughts From the C-Suite on How to Achieve Value in Health Care.

The cost of a prolonged critical care admission is often the driver of the high cost of care. At a time when the health care system in the United States is absorbing an increasing percentage of the gross domestic product, an understanding of the value equation is essential. The pressure to provide high-quality care at a cost that the nation can shoulder unifies the bedside nurse and the C-suite to a common goal.

COVID-19: The Nursing Administration Response.

The COVID-19 pandemic presented an unprecedented opportunity to test the emergency management plan of one large urban teaching hospital. In this article, a detailed description of the hospital's surge planning process with lessons learned has been provided.

Cracking the Code for Quality: The Interrelationships of Culture, Nurse Demographics, Advocacy, and Patient Outcomes.

Objective: The aim of this study was to describe the complex relationships among patient safety culture, nurse demographics, advocacy, and patient outcomes.

Background: Why has healthcare lagged behind other industries in improving quality? Little nursing research exists that explores the multifactorial relationships that impact quality.

Methods: A convenience sample of 1045 nurses from 40 medical/surgical units was analyzed using a correlational cross-sectional design with secondary data analysis.

The Relationship Between Patient Safety Culture and Patient Outcomes: A Systematic Review.

Context: In the past 13 years since the Institute of Medicine report, To Err is Human, was published, considerable attention was placed on the relationship between patient safety culture and patient outcomes. Research to understand this relationship has been conducted; however, now, it is important to systematically review these studies to determine if there are tools, levels of measure and outcomes that have been shown to result in significant correlations.

Objective: The purpose of this review is to evaluate the state of research connecting patient safety culture and patient outcomes to determine nurse-sensitive patient outcomes that have been significantly correlated to culture of safety and commonly used tools to measure culture of safety in the studies with significant correlations.