TY - JOUR
T1 - Utilization of a benchmarking database to inform NICHE implementation
AU - Capezuti, Elizabeth
AU - Boltz, Marie P.
AU - Shuluk, Joseph
AU - Denysyk, Lana
AU - Petra Brouwer, Julianna
AU - Roberts, Marie Claire
AU - Dickson, Victoria Vaughan
AU - Cline, Daniel D.
AU - Wagner, Laura M.
AU - Fairchild, Susan
AU - Kim, Hongsoo
AU - Secic, Michelle
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - An integral part of NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders) is a benchmarking service that provides member sites with the ability to evaluate staff perceptions of the care environment compared with other NICHE sites. The NICHE Database includes more than 100,000 surveys (Geriatric Institutional Assessment Profile). This study aimed to explain how secondary analyses of this aggregate database can inform effective geriatric programming in hospitals. We found that nurse age and experience influence nurse perceptions of organizational alignment to NICHE guiding principles and that those perceptions improve following NICHE implementation. The NICHE Database addresses knowledge generation in key areas of geriatric nursing practice and assists hospitals' systemic capacity to effectively embed NICHE Guiding Principles: evidence-based geriatric knowledge, patient-family centered care, healthy and productive practice environment, and multidimensional metrics of quality. It contributes to the growing field of implementation science that seeks to promote the uptake of research findings into clinical practice.
AB - An integral part of NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders) is a benchmarking service that provides member sites with the ability to evaluate staff perceptions of the care environment compared with other NICHE sites. The NICHE Database includes more than 100,000 surveys (Geriatric Institutional Assessment Profile). This study aimed to explain how secondary analyses of this aggregate database can inform effective geriatric programming in hospitals. We found that nurse age and experience influence nurse perceptions of organizational alignment to NICHE guiding principles and that those perceptions improve following NICHE implementation. The NICHE Database addresses knowledge generation in key areas of geriatric nursing practice and assists hospitals' systemic capacity to effectively embed NICHE Guiding Principles: evidence-based geriatric knowledge, patient-family centered care, healthy and productive practice environment, and multidimensional metrics of quality. It contributes to the growing field of implementation science that seeks to promote the uptake of research findings into clinical practice.
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U2 - 10.3928/19404921-20130607-01
DO - 10.3928/19404921-20130607-01
M3 - Article
C2 - 23756294
AN - SCOPUS:84884341573
SN - 1940-4921
VL - 6
SP - 198
EP - 208
JO - Research in Gerontological Nursing
JF - Research in Gerontological Nursing
IS - 3
ER -