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| Susan R LaceySummaryAffiliation: Children's Mercy Hospital Country: USA Publications
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The clinical scene investigator academy: the power of staff nurses improving patient and organizational outcomesSusan R Lacey
Bi State Nursing Workforce Innovation Center, Children s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, Kansas City, Missouri 64108, USA
J Nurs Care Qual 27:56-62. 2012..Not only did each Clinical Scene Investigator project improve patient and/or staff outcomes but 3 such projects also had a significant economic impact...- Development and testing of an organizational job satisfaction tool: increasing precision for strategic improvementsSusan R Lacey
Nursing Workforce and Systems Analysis, Children s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
J Nurs Adm 41:15-22. 2011..This article describes the development and testing of a new instrument that measures organizational job satisfaction (OJS)... - Planning and creating a new bi-state nursing workforce center through unique partnershipsSusan R Lacey
Bi State Nursing Workforce Innovation Center, Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City, Missouri 64108, USA
J Nurs Adm 39:399-404. 2009..The authors describe a partnership that has launched a new type of workforce center with core missions to create work environment improvements and point-of-care change led by staff nurses... - Nursing: key to quality improvementSusan R Lacey
Bi State Nursing Workforce Innovation Center, UMKC School of Nursing, 2464 Charlotte Street, Room 3413, Kansas City, MO 64108, USA
Pediatr Clin North Am 56:975-85. 2009..Much work needs to be conducted using health services research approaches that link and partition the overall and combined contribution of discipline-specific providers... - Enhancing the work environment of staff nurses using targeted interventions of supportSusan R Lacey
Children s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, Kansas City, MO 64108, USA
J Nurs Adm 38:336-40. 2008..The authors discuss 3 programs to enhance the work environment through increased professional practice. The rationale for these programs, preimplementation and postimplementation are explained... 
Know staff's "intent to stay"Karen S Cox
Children's Mercy Hospital and Clinics and University of Missouri, Kansas City, USA
Nurs Manage 37:13-5. 2006- Comparing variations in labor costs for two vs. one full-time nurse managerCathryn A Carroll
University of Missouri-Kansas City, School of Pharmacy, Department of Economics, Kansas City, MO, USA
Nurs Econ 22:254-7, 227. 2004..Results revealed reductions in nursing costs per patient day. These results suggest that innovative models may hold promise as organizations struggle to retain nurses and decrease costs... - Differences between pediatric registered nurses' perception of organizational support, intent to stay, workload, and overall satisfaction, and years employed as a nurse in magnet and non-magnet pediatric hospitals: implications for administratorsSusan R Lacey
Bi State Nursing Workforce Innovation Center, Children s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, Kansas City, MO 64108, USA
Nurs Adm Q 33:6-13. 2009.... - Work environment perceptions of pediatric nursesKaren S Cox
Children s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, Kansas City, MO 64108, USA
J Pediatr Nurs 22:9-14. 2007..Specific to pediatrics, younger nurses and those working in critical care settings seemed to be the happiest with their work environment... - Secondary analysis of merged American Hospital Association data and U.S. Census data: beginning to understand the supply-demand chain in pediatric inpatient careSusan R Lacey
Children s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, Kansas, MO, USA
J Pediatr Nurs 23:161-8. 2008..Future research will examine how this supply-demand chain impacts clinical and cost outcomes for pediatric patients... - Developing and testing a clinical information system evaluation tool: prioritizing modifications through end-user inputJanis B Smith
Patient Care Services Clinical Information Systems, Children s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, Kansas City, Missouri 64108, USA
J Nurs Adm 41:252-8. 2011..The objectives were to develop and validate the Information System Evaluation Tool (ISET), use feedback to modify the institution's clinical information system (CIS), and determine the modifications' success... - An infrastructure for organizational support of researchMichelle R Redfearn
Patient Care Services, Children s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, Kansas City, MO 64108, USA
J Nurs Adm 34:346-53. 2004..Collaboration between a hospital-based research team and bedside nurses has produced a successful, funded program of research that has led to dissemination of findings... - Nursing support, workload, and intent to stay in Magnet, Magnet-aspiring, and non-Magnet hospitalsSusan R Lacey
School of Nursing, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL 35294 1210, USA
J Nurs Adm 37:199-205. 2007..Nurse executives may consider using the Individual Workload Perception Scale as a way to assess their organization's culture as it relates to professional practice of the registered nurse... - Developing measures of pediatric nursing qualitySusan R Lacey
University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
J Nurs Care Qual 21:210-20; quiz 221-2. 2006..This article describes the project undertaken to select and pilot 2 pediatric indicators of nursing quality care to be included in an ongoing national benchmarking program...