Cathy Catrambone

TL;DR: Wide rate variation indicates the need to examine administratively mediated variables and the promotion of unit-based improvement efforts in physical restraint rates and contexts in U.S. hospitals.

TL;DR: Proposed definitions of global health and global nursing that reflect the new paradigm that integrates domestic and international health and will be used by the Global Advisory Panel on the Future of Nursing to guide promoting a voice and vision for nursing that will contribute to the profession's contribution to global health.

TL;DR: A wide gap exists between desirable characteristics in ICUs and medical-surgical units, and future research is needed to explore operationalization of unit design elements as risk adjustments,How design elements contribute to patient outcomes, and how design elements influence one another.

TL;DR: The authors discuss their evaluation of stationary personal computers, workshops on wheels, and handheld tablets related to timeliness of data entry and their use of focus groups to ascertain the pros/cons of data-entry devices and staff preferences.

TL;DR: The extent of inter- and intrainstitutional variation in labor, capital, and process-of-care variables related to nursing service on U.S. adult acute and intensive care units is described and the extent to which resource clustering exists is described.