Category: Nursing

A Nurse’s Wish for National Nurses Week (and no, it’s not a pizza party)

By Gayle Porter
May 8, 2023

I love having lunch with my nurse colleagues. Whenever we fuel our minds over salads and sandwiches, we also solve problems in healthcare, identifying what we believe is the

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Data Analysis: Healthcare Vital Signs

By Gayle Porter
October 24, 2022

As a nurse, I have a love-hate relationship with data. Sometimes, data can be the silver bullet that reveals the source of a complex problem, and other times, it

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Null: The Case for a Failure Library

By Gayle Porter
October 17, 2022

I recently learned that the NIH is questioning 16 years of Alzheimer’s research after indications of falsified imaging were identified in one of the seminal studies. Apparently, the images

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Rounding

By Gayle Porter
October 10, 2022

Research shows that bedside nurses who told patients they would check on them every hour on a handful of critical topics (belongings, pain, etc.) were able to reduce patient

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Part I: What is Quality for the Rest of Us?

By Gayle Porter
September 26, 2022

What is the purpose of Healthcare Quality Improvement (QI) exactly? And what does it mean to have quality “for the rest of us”? At the most basic level, Healthcare

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Process Improvement With Excessive Acronyms (PIWEA)

By Gayle Porter
September 12, 2022

The first time someone told me about the scientific method, I was deeply disappointed. I really thought I was going to learn how to use a Bunsen burner to

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