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Innovations in Patient Care: Lessons from the Field


Friday, July 11, 2008

With the health reform discussion in full swing, improving value for the money we spend on health care is an essential part of the debate. Nurses can play a prominent role in improving quality. A growing body of research points to the positive impact of nurses on coordinating care, reducing hospital readmissions and improving clinical outcomes – all with a potential to reduce costs.

What is the state of the evidence on nursing and quality improvement? How do nurse staffing ratios affect quality? What impact can nurses have on promoting quality? What safeguards need to be implemented to assure that patient care is not compromised by diffusing responsibility for care? What can be done to address the nursing shortage?

To address these and related questions, the Alliance for Health Reform, with support from the United Health Foundation, sponsored a July 11 briefing. Panelists were: Mary Naylor, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing; Audrey Nelson, Veterans Health Administration; Rick Kellerman, American Academy of Family Physicians; and Reed Tuckson, UnitedHealth Group. Ed Howard of the Alliance moderated.

Speakers

 Ed Howard, Alliance for Health Reform, Moderator
 Mary Naylor, University of Pennsylvania, Speaker
 Audrey Nelson, Veterans Health Administration, Speaker
 Reed Tuckson, UnitedHealth Group, Speaker
 Rick Kellerman, American Academy of Family Physicians, Speaker
(Click on the camera icon to see a video of the speaker's presentation.)

Transcript, Event Summary and/or Webcast and Podcast

Transcript: Innovations in Patient Care: Lessons from the Field (Adobe Acrobat PDF), 7/11/2008
Event Summary: Innovations in Patient Care: Lessons from the Field (Word Document), 7/11/2008
Full Webcast/Podcast: Innovations in Patient Care: Lessons from the Field
The transcript, full webcast and podcast for this briefing, as well as videos of individual speakers' presentations, are provided by Kaiser Family Foundation.

Speaker Presentations

Audrey Nelson Presentation (PowerPoint), 7/11/2008
Mary Naylor Presentation (PowerPoint), 7/11/2008

(If you want to download one or more slides from these presentations, contact us at info@allhealth or click here for instructions.)

Source Materials

Issue Brief - Transitional Care for Older Adults: A Cost Effective Model (Adobe Acrobat PDF), Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics, 5/1/2004
M.D. Anderson Nurses Find Empowerment in PACTs (Adobe Acrobat PDF), University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 5/31/2008
An Interview with Peter Buerhaus (Adobe Acrobat PDF), Nursing Economics, 5/1/2007
Transitional Care of Older Adults Hospitalized with Heart Failure (Adobe Acrobat PDF), American Geriatrics Society, 1/1/2004
Edge Runners (Adobe Acrobat PDF), American Academy of Nursing, 7/11/2008
Innovations in Patient Care: Lessons from the Field (Word Document), Word Document, 7/11/2008
Speaker Biographies (Word Document), , 7/11/2008

Offsite Materials (briefing documents saved on other websites)

Charting Nursing’s Future (Adobe Acrobat PDF),Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 6/8/2008
Highlights of Selected Federal Legistlation Impacting the Nursing Shortage (Adobe Acrobat PDF),Center to Champion Nursing in America, 5/1/2008
Blowing Open the Bottleneck: Designing New Approaches to Increase Nurse Education Capacity (Adobe Acrobat PDF),Center to Champion Nursing in America, 5/1/2008
Fact Sheet (Adobe Acrobat PDF),Center to Champion Nursing in America, 6/20/2008
INQRI Program Overview, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 7/11/2008
Health System Reform Agenda, American Nurses Association, 2/1/2008
Advanced Practice Nurses Seek Wider Scope in 24 States, , 4/21/2008
Medical Testing Board to Introduce Doctor of Nursing Certification, , 6/16/2008
Soapbox; Feel no pain? Your Nurse Does, New York Times, 7/18/2004
The LPN: A Practical Way to Alleviate the Nursing Shortage (Adobe Acrobat PDF),AFSCME, AFL-CIO, 5/1/2007
The Role of Nurses in Hospital Quality Improvement, Center for Studying Health System Change, 3/1/2008

Photos

Reed Tuckson of the UnitedHealth Group and United Health Foundation, speaker at the July 11 briefing supported by the foundation.
Mary Naylor of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, speaker at the July 11 briefing supported by the United Health Foundation.

Audrey Nelson of the Veterans' Health Administration, speaker at the July 11 briefing supported by the United Health Foundation.
Rick Kellerman, board chair of the American Academy of Family Physicians, speaker at the July 11 briefing supported by the United Health Foundation.

 

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