Saturday, July 12, 2003: 1:00 PM-2:00 PM | |||
Plenary II: Challenges and Successes in Collaborative Nursing Research Across Borders | |||
| Learning Objective #1: Identify challenges and opportunities associated with nursing research collaborations across national borders | |||
| Learning Objective #2: Describe the basic structure of the International Hospital Outcomes Study and its major findings regarding the relationship of nurse staffing and hospital organizational climate to patient and nurses outcomes | |||
| Motivated by a desire to document and understand the impacts of hospital restructuring throughout the Western world, in 1998 principal investigator Linda Aiken and her team at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing’s Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, along with six other research teams embarked on a landmark study of nurses and patients in hospitals across 7 sites in 5 countries. In this presentation, the origins of the International Hospital Outcomes Study, the major challenges in designing and managing it, and the new projects and collaborations it has spawned will be discussed. Results of the study to date will also be reviewed. Despite cultural differences and wide variations in health care systems and the nature of the nursing profession across the countries studied, the results of the study are remarkably consistent across sites and point to a need to address nurse staffing and practice environment conditions to protect and improve the quality of hospital care. | |||
| Organizer: | Sean P Clarke, RN, PhD, CRNP, CS, assistant professor and associate director | ||
14th International Nursing Research Congress
Sigma Theta Tau International
10-12 July 2003