The Academy training focuses on empowering nurses to improve patient care on many fronts, including mobility, communication, infection control and overall patient safety.
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According to an AACN release, over 16 months, hospitals with nurses participating in the program:
- Reduced ventilator-associated pneumonia 60 percent
- Decreased pressure ulcers 20 percent
- Reduced patient falls 30 percent
- Decreased catheter-associated urinary tract infections by more than half
- Reduced intensive care unit stays by more than one day
- Improved patient communication, readmission rates and HCAPS scores
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