VIRTUAL TCAB SITE
For a toolkit on implementing Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB), go to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's virtual TCAB site at: http://www.rwjf.org/qualityequality/product.jsp?id=30051.
AJN TCAB SERIES
For additional examples of TCAB in action, read about the experiences of TCAB unit White 10 at Massachusetts General Hospital in a series of articles by Amanda L. Stefancyk, the unit's nurse manager: Stefancyk AL. Transforming Care at the Bedside series, AJN, September 2008 through August 2009. http://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/pages/collectiondetails.aspx?TopicalCollection.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
1. Associates in Process Improvement. Home page. 2008. http://www.apiweb.org/API_home_page.htm.
2. Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Improvement methods: how to improve. http://www.ihi.org/IHI/Topics/Improvement/ImprovementMethods/HowToImprove.
3. Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Transforming Care at the Bedside. http://www.ihi.org/IHI/Programs/StrategicInitiatives/TransformingCareAtTheBedsid.
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7. Reinertsen JL, et al. Seven leadership leverage points for organization-level improvement in health care. Cambridge, MA: Institute for Healthcare Improvement; 2008. 2nd edition. IHI Innovation series white paper; http://www.ihi.org/IHI/Results/WhitePapers/SevenLeadershipLeveragePointsWhitePap.
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10. Schall MW, et al. Transforming Care at the Bed-side how-to guide: spreading innovations to improve care on medical and surgical units. Cambridge, MA: Institute for Healthcare Improvement; 2008. http://www.ihi.org/IHI/Topics/MedicalSurgicalCare/MedicalSurgicalCareGeneral/Too.