July 13, 2007

MGH nurses transform care at the bedside

The MGH is among 68 U.S. hospitals and the only adult academic center in the state selected by the American Organization of Nurse Executives to participate in the second phase of a national, two-year patient care improvement project, Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB), sponsored by the MGH Center for Innovations in Care Delivery. Originally launched in 2003 by the Robert Johnson Wood Foundation and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, the TCAB project aims to engage nurses as leaders in driving patient care improvements. It provides nurses with the tools and training to lead quality and safety improvements on medical and surgical units, increase the retention of nurses and improve the effectiveness of the entire care team.

General Medicine Unit White 10 will serve as the central TCAB site at the
MGH, and White 9, also a General Medicine Unit, will be the project's control unit. Members of the TCAB leadership team at the MGH are: Barbara Blakeney, RN; Eileen Flaherty, RN; Theresa Gallivan, RN; Christina Graf, RN; Susan Kilroy, RN; Sara Macchiano, RN; Nancy McCarthy, RN; Sally Millar, RN; and Amanda Stefancyk, RN.