Submissions from 2016
The Aligning Forces for Quality initiative: background and evolution from 2005 to 2015., Dennis P Scanlon, Jeff Beich, Brigitt Leitzell, Bethany W Shaw, Jeffrey A Alexander, Jon B Christianson, Diane C Farley, Jessica Greene, Muriel Jean-Jacques, Megan McHugh, and Laura J Wolf
Curricular Innovations in Tobacco Cessation Education for Prelicensure Baccalaureate Nursing Students., Rhonda G. Schwindt, Angela McNelis, and Jon Agley
The longitudinal impact of Aligning Forces for Quality on measures of population health, quality and experience of care, and cost of care., Yunfeng Shi, Dennis P Scanlon, Raymond Kang, Megan McHugh, Jessica Greene, Jon B Christianson, Muriel Jean-Jacques, Yasmin Mahmud, and Jeffrey A Alexander
Cancer clinical trial participants' assessment of risk and benefit, Connie M. Ulrich, Sarah J. Ratcliffe, Gwenyth R. Wallen, Qiuping Zhou, and Christine Grady
The Rise and Fall in Out-of-Pocket Costs in Australia: An Analysis of the Strengthening Medicare Reforms., Chun Yee Wong, Jessica Greene, Xenia Dolja-Gore, and Kees van Gool
Advanced Practice Nursing in Latin America and the Caribbean: Regulation, Education and Practice, Keri Elizabeth Zug, Silvia Helena De Bortoli Cassiani, Joyce Pulcini, Alessandra Bassalobre Garcia, Francisca Aguirre-Boza, and Jeongyoung Park
Submissions from 2015
Bridging politics, policy, and practice: Transforming health care in Massachusetts through the creation of a statewide commission on LGBT aging., Kimberly D. Acquaviva and Lisa Krinsky
Feeding on microbiomes: effects of detritivory on the taxonomic and phylogenetic bacterial composition of animal manures., Manuel Aira, Seth Bybee, Marcos Pérez-Losada, and Jorge Domínguez
The influence of depression and anxiety symptoms on health-related quality of life in patients with atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter, Bimbola Akintade, Deborah W. Chapa, Erika Friedmann, and Sue Ann Thomas
NCSBN Simulation Guidelines for Prelicensure Nursing Programs, Maryann Alexander, Carol F. Durham, Janice I. Hooper, Pam Jeffries, Nathan Goldman, Suzan Kardong-Edgren, Karen S. Kesten, Nancy D. Spector, Elaine Tagliareni, Beth Radtke, and Crystal Tillman
Evaluation of Sisom: A computer-based animated tool to elicit symptoms and psychosocial concerns from children with cancer., Christina Baggott, Jennifer Baird, Pamela Hinds, Cornelia M. Ruland, and Christine Miaskowski
Gender differences in stroke, mortality, and hospitalization among patients with atrial fibrillation: A systematic review, Deborah W. Chapa, Bimbola Akintade, Sue Ann Thomas, and Erika Friedmann
Social Determinants of Health: Knowledge to Effective Action for Change, Deborah W. Chapa and Sandra L. Davis
Shared Curriculum Model: A Promising Practice for Education Transformation., Liz Close, Mary Sue Gorski, Maureen Sroczynski, Patricia D. Farmer, and Jean M. Wortock
Creating Caring and Empathic Nurses: A Simulated Ostomate, Desiree A. Diaz, Annette T. Maruca, Joan E. Kuhnly, Pam Jeffries, and Nina Grabon
Does Prior RN Clinical Experience Predict Academic Success in Graduate Nurse Practitioner Programs?, Majeda M. El-Banna, Linda A. Briggs, Mayri S. Leslie, Erin K. Athey, Arlene Pericak, Nancy L. Falk, and Jessica Greene
Strategic Planning and Doctor Of Nursing Practice Education: Developing Today’s and Tomorrow’s Leaders, Nancy L. Falk, Kenneth F. Garrison, Mary-Michael Brown, Christine Pintz, and Joseph Bocchino
Nursing Education Transformation: Promising Practices in Academic Progression., Mary Sue Gorski, Patricia D. Farmer, Maureen Sroczynski, Liz Close, and Jean M. Wortock
Large performance incentives had the greatest impact on providers whose quality metrics were lowest at baseline., Jessica Greene, Judith H. Hibbard, and Valerie Overton
When patient activation levels change, health outcomes and costs change, too., Jessica Greene, Judith H. Hibbard, Rebecca Sacks, Valerie Overton, and Carmen D. Parrotta
Working under a clinic-level quality incentive: primary care clinicians' perceptions., Jessica Greene, Ellen T. Kurtzman, Judith H. Hibbard, and Valerie Overton
Who's Aware of and Using Public Reports of Provider Quality?, Jessica L. Greene, Veronica Fuentes-Caceres, Nina Verevkina, and Yunfeng Shi
ACA and Expanded Healthcare Coverage After Healthcare Second Open Enrollment Period: A Policy Update, Joyce A. Hahn
Does Compensating Primary Care Providers to Produce Higher Quality Make Them More or Less Patient Centric?, Judith H. Hibbard, Jessica Greene, Rebecca Sacks, and Valerie Overton
Taking the long view: how well do patient activation scores predict outcomes four years later?, Judith H. Hibbard, Jessica Greene, Yunfeng Shi, Jessica Mittler, and Dennis Scanlon
Leadership In Learning And Teaching In Higher Education: Perspectives Of Academics In Non-Formal Leadership Roles, Anne Hofmeyer, Brenda Helen Sheingold, Hester C. Klopper, and Jane Warland
Do You Understand What I Mean? How Cognitive Interviewing Can Strengthen Valid, Reliable Study Instruments And Dissemination Products, Anne Hofmeyer, Brenda H. Sheingold, and Ruth Taylor
Signs of Maturity . . . Simulations Are Growing and Getting More Attention., Pam Jeffries
The Good News--Simulations Work, So Now What?, Pam Jeffries
The evolving health care system: the need for nursing education reform., Pamela R. Jeffries
Health Care Transformation: Opportunities for a Healthier Virginia, Pam Jeffries, Mary Jean Schmann, Edward Salsberg, and Billinda D. Tebbenhoff
Leveraging Quality and Safety Education for Nurses to Enhance Graduate-Level Nursing Education and Practice, Jean Johnson, Karen Drenkard, Esther Emard, and Kathy McGuinn
Effective presentation of health care performance information for consumer decision making: A systematic review., Ellen T. Kurtzman and Jessica Greene
Policy agenda for nurse-led care coordination., Gerri Lamb, Robin Newhouse, Claudia Beverly, Debra A Toney, Stacey Cropley, Ellen Kurtzman, and +12 additional authors
Perspectives on implementing delayed cord clamping., Mayri Sagady Leslie
The Evolution of Individual Maternity Care Providers to Delayed Cord Clamping: Is It the Evidence?, Mayri Sagady Leslie, Debra Erickson-Owens, and Maria Cseh
Engaging older adults to build social capital, Beverly K. Lunsford and Danielle Janes
Managing Heroin Addiction in an Outpatient Setting: A Case Study, Kathleen D. Malliarakis
Enhancing Empathy in Undergraduate Nursing Students: An Experiential Ostomate Simulation., Annette T Maruca, Desiree A Diaz, Joan E Kuhnly, and Pamela R. Jeffries
End-Stage Kidney Disease Without Dialysis., Alvin H Moss, Nancy Armistead, and Dale Lupu
An Assessment of State-Led Reform of Long-Term Services and Supports., Mary D. Naylor, Ellen T. Kurtzman, Edward A. Miller, Pamela Nadash, and Peter Fitzgerald
Nurse practitioner and physician assistant staffing in the patient-centered medical homes in New York State., Jeongyoung Park
Diagnosing Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Using the DSM-5 Criteria, Arlene Pericak
Alternative Approaches to the Governance of Transnational Labor Recruitment, Patricia Pittman
The changing roles of registered nurses in Pioneer Accountable Care Organizations., Patricia Pittman and Emily Forrest
Developing a Pathway for an Institution Wide ePortfolio Program, Laurie Posey, Margaret M. Plack, Robert Snyder, Patricia Low Dinneen, Melissa Feuer, and Andrew Wiss
The National League for Nursing Project to Explore the Use of Simulation for High-Stakes Assessment: Process, Outcomes, and Recommendations., Mary Anne Rizzolo, Suzan Kardong-Edgren, Marilyn H Oermann, and Pam Jeffries
NLN Jeffries Simulation Theory: Brief Narrative Description., Beth Rodgers, Katie Adamson, and Pam Jeffries
Mental Health Care Among Low-Income Pregnant Women with Depressive Symptoms: Facilitators and Barriers to Care Access and the Effectiveness of Financial Incentives for Increasing Care, Rebecca Sacks, Jessica L. Greene, Ryan Burke, and Erin Owen
Patient Centered Medical Home: Creating A Blueprint for Quality Healthcare Through Illustrative Simulation, Brenda Helen Sheingold, Deborah W. Chapa, and Esther Emard
Implementing the ACA: The Influence of Nurse Practitioner Regulatory Policies on Workforce, Access to Care, and Primary Care Health Outcomes, Andrea Sonenberg, Hillary Knepper, and Joyce A. Pulcini
A Systematic review on interventions supporting preceptor development., Maryann Windey, Carol Lawrence, Kimberly Guthrie, Debra Weeks, Elaine Sullo, and Deborah W. Chapa
Student Feedback to Enhance Student Support Services in a Blackboard Community: A Quality Improvement Project, Kayla Wright and Sandra Davis
Submissions from 2014
The quest for an effective adherence intervention: A DOT-cART case study, Erin Athey
Medicare's Hospice Benefit: Analysis of Utilization and Resource Use, S. Bogasky, Brenda Helen Sheingold, and S. Stearns
Is health-related quality of life a predictor of hospitalization or mortaility among women or men with atrial fibrillation?, Deborah W. Chapa, Bimbola Akintade, Eleanor Schron, Erika Friedmann, and Sue Ann Thomas
Pathophysiological relationships between heart failure and depression and anxiety, Deborah W. Chapa, Bimbola Akintade, Heesook Son, Patricia C. Woltz, Dennis Hunt, Erika Friedmann, Mary Kay Hartung, and Sue Ann Thomas
Information and communication technology to facilitate learning for students in the health professions: Current uses, gaps, and future directions, Ellen Costello, Mary A. Corcoran, Jacqueline S. Barnett, Marisa C. Birkmeier, Rhea Cohn, Ozgur Ekmekci, Nancy L. Falk, Thomas Harrod, Debra Herrmann, Sean Robinson, and Bryan Walker
Mentoring and the Use of Innovative Curriculum Design to Develop a Global Nurse Leader, Sandra Davis
Understanding the changing nature of patient transitions, Esther Emard
A health policy resource guide for nurses, Nancy L. Falk
Retaining the wisdom: Academic nurse leaders' reflections on extending the working life of aging nurse faculty, Nancy L. Falk
Opinion Piece: Don't Come Late to the Party: Step Up and Lead., Nancy L Falk and Margaretann House
Don't come late to the party: step up and lead, Nancy L. Falk and Margaretann House
Using a student-faculty collaborative learning model to teach grant development in graduate nursing education, Nancy L. Falk, Kathleen M. Phillips, Regina Hymer, Kimberly D. Acquaviva, and Mary Jean Schumann
Poor social support is associated with increases in depression but not anxiety over 2 years in heart failure outpatients, Erika Friedmann, Heesook Son, Sue A. Thomas, Deborah W. Chapa, and Hyeon Joo Lee
Improving the quality of geriatric nursing care: enduring outcomes from the geriatric nursing education consortium, Deanna Gray-Miceli, Laurie Dodge Wilson, Joan Stanley, Rachael Watman, Amy Shire, Shoshanna Sofaer, and Mathy Mezey
A case study of a team-based, quality-focused compensation model for primary care providers, Jessica Greene, Judith H. Hibbard, and Valerie Overton
The impact of tobacco dependence treatment coverage and copayments in Medicaid, Jessica Greene, Rebecca Sacks, and Sara B. McMenamin
Medicaid Expansion: A policy update, Joyce A. Hahn and Brenda H. Sheingold
The ACA state insurance marketplace: A toolkit for case managers, Joyce A. Hahn and Brenda H. Sheingold
The Affordable Care Act state health insurance marketplaces: A toolkit for case managers, Joyce A. Hahn, Brenda H. Sheingold, and Karen M. Ott
Chapter 14: Private Health Insurance Market, Joyce Hahn, Brenda Helen Sheingold, D. Nickitas, D. Middaugh, and N. Aries
The impact of an incentive on the use of an online self-directed wellness and self-management program, Judith H. Hibbard and Jessica Greene
The importance of resistance training in the treatment of sarcopenia, Dennis Hunt, Deborah W. Chapa, Barbara Hess, Kathleen Swanick, and Andrew Hovanec
Leveraging QSEN to Enhance Graduate-Level Nursing Education and Practice, Jean Johnson, Esther Emard, K. Drenkard, and K. McGuinn
The Quality Imperative for Palliative Care, A. Kamal, L. Hanson, D. Cassarett, S. Dy, S. Pantilat, Dale Lupu, and A. Abernathy
Children's Oncology Group Nursing Research Framework, Katherine P. Kelly, Mary C. Hooke, Kathleen S. Ruccione, Wendy Landier, and Joan Haase
The Elder Justice Act: What nurses need to know, Patricia A. Kleba and Nancy L. Falk
Factors influencing nursing students' acceptance of electronic health records for nursing education (EHRNE) software program, Yanika Kowitlawakul, Sally Wai Chi Chan, Joyce A. Pulcini, and Wenru Wang
Ten Years After Keeping Patients Safe: Have Nurses' Work Environments Been Transformed?, Ellen T. Kurtzman and N. Fauteux
Chapter 7: Religion, Spirituality, and Culture in Advance Care Planning, Beverly K. Lunsford, L. Rogne, and S. McCune
Hospice Innovation Impediments: Can Halfway Efforts Tame the Terrible Choice?, Dale Lupu, B. Ivanko, F. Insana, P. White, and R. Arnold
Performance Measurement of Nursing Care, J. Needleman, Ellen T. Kurtzman, K. Kizer, and Kominski G.
Korean American women's perceptions about physical examinations and cancer screening services offered in Korea: The influences of medical tourism on Korean Americans, Kyeung Mi Oh, Jungmi Jun, Qiuping Zhou, and Gary Kreps
The influences of immigration on health information seeking behaviors among Korean Americans and native Koreans, Kyeung Mi Oh, Qiuping Zhou, Gary Kreps, and Wonsun Kim
Use of hospitalists and office-based primary care physicians' productivity, Jeongyoung Park and Karen Jones
Diagnostic Tip Article, Arlene Pericak
Original research: Perceptions of employment-based discrimination among newly arrived foreign-educated nurses, Patricia Pittman, Catherine Davis, Franklin Shaffer, Carolina Herrera, and Cudjoe Bennett
International recruitment of allied health professionals to the United States: Piecing together the picture with imperfect data, Patricia Pittman, Bianca Frogner, Emily Bass, and Courtney Dunham
Residency programs for home health and hospice nurses: Prevalence, barriers, and potential policy responses, Patricia Pittman, Katie B. Horton, Margaret Terry, and Emily Bass
Academic progression models in nursing: design decisions faced by administrators in four case studies, Patricia Pittman, Ellen T. Kurtzman, and Jean E. Johnson
Communities of Inquiry in Online Nurse Practitioner Education., Laurie Posey, Sandra Davis, Brenda Helen Sheingold, and Linda Briggs
Easing Students' Transition to Online Graduate Education, Laurie Posey and Christine Pintz
The ACA in 2014, Joyce Pulcini
Interview with a nursing policy leader: A hopeful look at a changing profession, Joyce A. Pulcini
International Development of Advanced Practice Nursing, Joyce A. Pulcini, A. Hamric, J. Spross, and C. Hanson
Visualization of tissue removal using focus + context techniques, Nadezhda Radeva and Joyce A. Hahn
Mental health care among low-income pregnant women with depressive symptoms: Facilitators and barriers to care access and the effectiveness of financial incentives for increasing care, Rebecca Sacks, Jessica Greene, Ryan Burke, and Erin C. Owen
How well do patient activation scores predict depression outcomes one year later?, Rebecca M. Sacks, Jessica Greene, Judith H. Hibbard, and Valerie Overton