What are the biggest challenges to conducting research related to the quality of nursing care?
A. The biggest challenge to conducting research about nursing quality was that there were not good quality measures that we could use to understand how various investments in nursing might impact quality. That is why the first round of funding focused on building the tools and developing the measures that could then be used by subsequent INQRI grantees. Q. What are some of the ways nurses contribute to high quality care by eliminating waste and maximizing value? A. In trying to capture how nursing contributes to quality, we spent the first two rounds of grants looking at nurses’ impact on patient outcomes. Now we also are looking at how nurses contribute to the cost side of the equation and the potential for nurses to greatly enhance the efficiency of care delivered in a variety of settings. We have not yet announced the grantees for this third round. We expect, however, that the more we understand the role that nurses play in complicated processes such as medication administration, ca
