Professional nurses with advanced nursing degrees are invited to apply for a new Nurse Safety Scholar-in-Residence program, which aims to "translate safe patient care from evidence to the bedside," according to program sponsors Joint Commission Resources and Hill-Rom, a medical technology firm.
The first year of the project will focus on skin safety and the prevention of pressure ulcers. The overall goals of the program, which will eventually branch out to other subject areas such as preventing patient falls, are to identify best practices for handling specific problems, train expert nurses "to become translators of evidence into practice" and "establish hospital collaborative projects focused on clinical challenges."
The chosen Scholar-in-Residence for the first year of the program will be trained in patient safety and performance measurement, help select and coordinate participating hospitals and educate hospital staff members on best practices in the area of skin care.
Applications are due Feb. 23, 2009, and the project will last from April 1, 2009, to March 31, 2010. Selection criteria, application instructions and more details on the program are available here. JCR, a non-profit organization affiliated with the Joint Commission, is managing the program.
—Irene Tsikitas
