The growing nurse practitioner (NP) workforce represents a significant supply of primary
care providers, who if optimally utilized, are well-positioned to improve access to health care …

Individuals both within and outside the nursing profession have called for more diversity in
nursing, from the education arena to the workforce. Implementing initiatives that address …

OBJECTIVE: To examine within-hospital racial and ethnic disparities in severe maternal
morbidity rates and determine whether they are associated with differences in types of …

Background The relationship between nurses' job satisfaction and their perceptions of
quality of care has been examined in previous studies. There is little evidence, however …

Background Implicit rationing of nursing care is the withholding of or failure to carry out all
necessary nursing measures due to lack of resources. There is evidence supporting a link …

In attempting to explain why hospitals vary in the quality of care delivered to patients, a
considerable body of health policy research points to differences in hospital characteristics …

Objective To evaluate variation in Illinois hospital nurse staffing ratios and to determine
whether higher nurse workloads are associated with mortality and length of stay for patients …

Objectives. We qualitatively assessed patients' perceptions of discrimination and patient
satisfaction in the health care setting specific to interactions with nonphysician health care …

This project seeks to define and identify the use of Amplification Rhetorics (AR) in the social
movement organization TRAP Karaoke and at three Historically Black Colleges and …

Objective: Nurses provide parental support and education in the neonatal intensive care unit
(NICU), but it is unknown if satisfaction and expectations about nursing care differ between …