Research, Quality, & Safety

Avoiding patient falls involves being able to learn from each event. Implementing a standardized root-cause-analysis across ambulatory care practices assists in learning how to reduce investigations and offers clinical staff a better understanding of the causes of patient falls…

This session shares results of the AAACN Research Committee’s ongoing ambulatory care nursing scoping review and assist attendees to identify an experience of their own that could be developed into a publication to fill gaps identified by the scoping review…

This session explores ambulatory care nurses’ knowledge about social drivers of health and existing community resources, perceived confidence to discuss social needs with their patients, and the challenges and opportunities they perceive in integrating the social drivers of health into their care…

This session addresses the development of a full-time program to provide continuity and dedicated education for all patient-aligned care team (PACT) members in outpatient clinics…

Falls are a persistent problem for community-dwelling older adults, and they impact nearly one-third of the population in rural and urban settings. While fall risk management has been identified as suboptimal, little is known about the use of fall prevention guidelines in primary care…

In these short rapid-fire presentations, multiple speakers highlight approaches to managing issues related to social determinants of health in the practice environment…

Workplace violence, incivility, and bullying decrease patient quality of care and safety. Nurses must demand safe and secure care environments for themselves and their patients, striving for zero tolerance…

Addressing therapeutic inertia in diabetes care, this session explores the positive impact of a collaborative partnership between primary care nurses and diabetes educators (DE) on improving the quality of care for patients diagnosed with diabetes mellitus and elevated Hgb A1c (A1c) levels…

Explore the impact of intentional caring and the incorporation of evaluating and treating pre-procedure anxiety to improve patient satisfaction…

During the 2023 AAACN conference, attendees of the Pediatric Special Interest Group (SIG) session were asked to identify topics they viewed as most critical to their nursing practice in pediatric ambulatory care…

Take your practice and professional growth to the next level by learning evidence-based techniques to present your research and practice improvement work! In this session, members of the AAACN Research Committee share pearls on how to write a winning abstract, create an effective poster presentatio…

This session discusses the design and implementation of one institution's new ambulatory care staffing model to maximize equity in workload distribution for the portal messages to prevent missed care events…

Veterans Administration primary care nurses perform activities that are often uncaptured, leading to these nurses not receiving credit for their work. These activities also are difficult to quantify or capture within the electronic health record (EHR)…

Brosschot’s Generalized Unsafety Theory of Stress (GUTS) offers new insights and a mechanism through which health care providers, including RNs, may intervene to improve health outcomes of patients from minority communities…

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nursing is one of the unhealthiest professions, and the pandemic has shone a spotlight on the critical need to address nurses' mental health and overall well-being…

Although sound evidence regarding the role of the registered nurse in the practice of telephone triage has existed in the literature for well over a decade, clinical practice has not kept up, often resulting in unsafe care…

Join us for a town hall discussion focusing on workplace safety in the ambulatory care nursing environment, with an opportunity to share your own ambulatory care experiences in practice…

Clinical triage call centers produce a significant amount of data related to call volumes and productivity…

This presentation shares how one ambulatory care organization established a plan and infrastructure to achieve Magnet® recognition…

This session describes the role development, responsibilities, contributions, and early lessons learned associated with the newly create role of an ambulatory care nurse scientist…

This presentation discusses the implementation strategy for centralizing nursing services to support primary care practices as well as the tools and tactics for tracking RN work and value-based program outcomes as a result of centralization…

Learn how a team of RN quality coordinators initiated a population health improvement program to standardize care gap closure and provide excellent patient care in primary care practice…

This session discusses the development of guidelines to provide a structure and process for nurses with hybrid work schedules, with a focus on pre- and post-implementation comparison…

In 2022, the FDA issued emergency use authorization for administration of Evusheld, comprised of two monoclonal antibody medications that help minimize the risk of severe COVID-19 disease in immunocompromised patients…