Items Tagged ‘nursing research’
October 31, 2017
Education changes perception of sepsis screening tool among nurses
Sepsis, a complication of an infection, a time-critical and potentially life-threatening disease, is one of Mayo Clinic’s top 10 patient safety risks. To mitigate this risk, sepsis screening alert tools were developed to help staff in the Emergency Department identify patients at risk. Nurses play an important role in minimizing the risk of sepsis by […]
July 25, 2017
New findings from Nursing Research
Everyone knows what nurses do – they care for patients, right? While providing the best possible patient care is foremost on nurses’ minds at Mayo Clinic (and really, that of all our health care providers), nurses hold all sorts of roles. And some nurses are “doctors,” of the Ph.D. variety. These nurse scientists form the […]
Tags: nursing research
February 23, 2016
Taking the First Step – Tracking Discharge Delays
By Advancing the Science contributor 
The national conversation continues to revolve around health care and improvements in health care delivery, and often focuses on finding ways to add value and reduce cost. At Mayo Clinic, we too seek to enhance health and the way patients experience health care. Nurses are at the front line of patient care, and positioned such, […]
Tags: care transitions, Diane Holland, nursing research, patient experience