Burnout Research at a Crossroads.

We have enough evidence that burnout exists-let's investigate solutions.

Value, a nursing outcome.

This era of health care reform calls for the ability of hospitals to provide quality patient care while managing costs. Nursing practice is a key determinant of patient care quality and associated costs, or simply put, creating value. The value of nursing has been addressed by multiple qualified authors, yet there is no clear, consistent meaning of the term.

The cost of nurse-sensitive adverse events.

Objective: The aim of this study was to describe the methodology for nursing leaders to determine the cost of adverse events and effective levels of nurse staffing.

Background: The growing transparency of quality and cost outcomes motivates healthcare leaders to optimize the effectiveness of nurse staffing. Most hospitals have robust cost accounting systems that provide actual patient-level direct costs.

Describing costs related to nursing.

There is limited financial evidence describing the relationship between nursing staffing and patient care costs. In this analysis, the body of knowledge relating costs to nursing practice is described and critiqued. An improved method of describing costs of patient care is presented, and a comparison of costs using each approach illustrates how the magnitude of cost variation between 2 patients differs based on the approach used.