title: Graduate nursing education. What are the benefits and costs to hospitals?
abstract: In 1989, Hermann Hospital and University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center School of Nursing applied for and received approval to implement a 5-year demonstration project funded by the Health Care Finance Administration using Medicaid pass-through funds to educate nurses at the graduate level. The project aimed to evaluate the impact of advanced practice nurses and researchers on the practice of professional nursing at a 655-bed acute-care hospital in a large metropolitan area. The authors describe the factors that served to galvanize the two institutions to apply for such a grant, discuss the barriers encountered along the course of the project, and list the outcomes achieved by 1994 or project end. Predictions regarding the second 5-year segment (phase 2) are summarized as well. The article includes suggestions to other institutions interested in replicating such a project.
authors.affiliation: University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, USA.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Weeks
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Starck
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Liebr
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: LaFontaine
mesh_terms: D015400:Clinical Nursing Research; D003361:Cost Allocation; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D017721:Hospital Costs; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D008297:Male; D008611:Mentors; D008875:Middle Aged; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009734:Nursing Faculty Practice; D009738:Nursing Service, Hospital / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D012579:Schools, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration; D013781:Texas; D000078329:Workforce