Linda Aiken, the Claire M. Fagin Leadership Professor in Nursing, Professor of Sociology, and Director of the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, was recently awarded an R01 grant from the National Institutes of Nursing Research for her study, "Panel Study of Effects of Changes in Nursing on Patient Outcomes." Herb Smith serves as one of the co-investigators.
The study's overarching aim is "to determine points of comparatively low-cost organizational leverage of nursing inputs to improve patient outcomes."