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September 29, 2008

This issue features innovations and QualityTools that highlight the role of nurses in improving health care delivery.

The featured innovations describe nurse-led hospital interventions and home health programs in which nurses play a key role.

The featured QualityTools provide a range of educational resources for nurses and nursing assistants.

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Innovation Profiles:
	-	Advocacy Firm Assists Patients in Choosing Providers/Treatments and Coordinating Care, Leading to Quick Access to Services and High Satisfaction

	-	Checklist-Plus-Technology System Eliminates Wrong-Site Surgery and Near Misses, Enhances Required Preoperative Process Compliance

	-	Comprehensive Heart Failure Program Enhances Compliance with Recommended Care and Reduces Hospital Readmissions

	-	Enhanced Home Health Program Provides Remote Monitoring and Services, Leading to Fewer Hospitalizations and Increased Nurse Productivity

	-	Individualized Stress Management Program Encourages Healthy Behaviors and Coping Techniques

	-	Nurse-Led Pediatric Rapid Response Team Leads to Significant Reduction in Respiratory and Cardiac Arrests

	-	Regular Walking Program With Area Physicians Encourages Physical Activity and Weight Loss
QualityTools:
	-	Dysphagia Screening Assessment Tool

	-	Health Risk Appraisal

	-	How to Use "I Statements" in Clinical Practice

	-	International Physical Activity Questionnaires (IPAQ)

	-	Monthly Checklist: Influenza Immunization Program for Health Care Workers

	-	Nursing Assistant Ostomy Competency Tool

	-	Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-2)

	-	Putting Clinical Practice Guidelines to Work in VHA

	-	Treating Prostate Cancer: A Guide for Men With Localized Prostate Cancer
Perspectives:
	-	New Guide Charts Course for Navigating Challenges of Innovation Adoption

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Last updated: September 29, 2008.

September 29, 2008

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