TCAB engages leaders at all levels of the health care organization and empowers front-line nurses and other care team members to improve the quality and safety of patient care on medical-surgical units, increase the vitality and retention of nurses, engage patients and families and improve their experiences of care, and improve the ...

Since 2007, the TCAB model has been adopted by approximately 200 hospitals through collaboratives led by the American Organization of Nurse Executives, TCAB collaboratives in the IHI's IMPACT network, and the RWJF's Aligning Forces for Quality initiative.

Transforming Care at the Bedside creates programs of change originating at the point of care and directly promoting engagement of nurses to transform work processes and quality of care on medical-surgical units.

Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) is a national effort of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Institute for Healthcare Improvement designed to improve the quality and safety of patient care on medical and surgical units, to increase the vitality and retention of nurses, and to improve the effectiveness of the entire care team.

Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) is a national effort of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Institute for Healthcare Improvement designed to improve the quality and safety of patient care on medical and surgical units, to increase the vitality and retention of nurses, and to improve the effectiveness of the entire care team.

2008年6月25日 · This toolkit provides materials for hospital units interested in adopting the transforming care at the bedside (TCAB) model of nurse-initiated quality improvements.

Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) is intended in part to help fill these gaps. Key TCAB strategies are supporting and training staff nurses and managers in order to empower them to identify the need for change, assess work processes, test new processes, and decide which ones should be maintained.

Care at the Bedside—TCAB for short. Together, we intend to help make inpatient care safer, more reliable, and more focused on the patient by engaging patients and their family members in their own care, improving the eficiency of care processes, and supporting more effective teamwork among nurses and other staf

MeSH terms Academies and Institutes / organization & administration Diffusion of Innovation Foundations / organization & administration Humans Leadership Nurse's Role* Nursing Evaluation Research Nursing Staff, Hospital / education Nursing Staff, Hospital / organization & administration* Nursing Staff, Hospital / psychology Organizational Innovation Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care ...

In the two years that White 10-a 20-bed general medical unit at Massachusetts General Hospital-has participated in the Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) initiative, our nurses have implemented 32 changes that address TCAB's four priorities: patient-centered care, value-added process, safety and reliability, and vitality and teamwork.