HAMPTON ROADS, Va. (WAVY) —An innovative tool is working to improve staffing and patient care at a local hospital. Nurses at Sentara realized that on some days, their workloads were uneven. For ...
It's called Patient Acuity Nursing Tool or PANT, a homegrown algorithm to optimize nursing assignments, improving care for patients and workload for nurses. Physicians are in short supply. They are ...
The VHA Foundation offers a free, downloadable assessment tool designed to help patient safety leaders measure their organization and leadership’s commitment to patient safety and quality improvement ...
A nurse practitioner-led triage intervention reduces wait and total encounter times; however, it has no effect on patient satisfaction rates, a quality improvement project reports.