Health systems-level initiatives and strategies aim to improve the institutions and resources surrounding healthcare.

UI College of Nursing faculty work to promote better health systems through improvements in healthcare quality, provider and patient safety and efficiency, and promotion of evidence-based practice.

Funded Centers/Projects

• University of Iowa Center for Nursing Classification and Clinical Effectiveness
• The Iowa Model Collaborative
• Unresolved Issues in Newborn Screening: Quantifying the Harms of a False positive Result (R01HD095068). Co-I: Daack-Hirsch, PI: Tarini, Children’s Research Institute
• Assuring medication safety in k-12 schools: Implementation and evaluation of electronic school medication administration record eSMAR (R18HS029292) PI: Farag
• Patient, nurse, and event characteristics associated with nurse judgments about safety concerns conveyed by inpatients in minority and other health disparity populations (R21MD016139). PI: Groves
• Behavioral Economic and Staffing Strategies To Increase Adoption of the ABCDEF Bundle in the ICU (BEST-ICU) (UG3HL165740). Co-I: Krupp, MPI: Balas/Vasilevskis, UNMC
• Iron-CLAD: securely advancing AoU participant characterization with proven platforms and collaborations (OT2OD036113). Co-I: Madlock-Brown, MPI: Haendel/Chute/Moffitt/Pfaff, U Colorado

College of Nursing donor supported grants

• Sigma Theta Tau-Gamma Chapter Grant
• Jo Ellen Ross Research Fund