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Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative (INQRI).
INQRI's primary goal is to "generate, disseminate and translate research to understand how nurses contribute to and can improve the quality of patient care." The website contains information on research studies, articles, reports, and meetings related to nurses’ impact on safe patient care. Syntheses of research results are organized according to nurses’ roles in acute care, medication errors, pain management, nurse staffing and environment, and quality measures and nursing, making it very easy to access desired information. Grant information is provided for those persons and facilities looking for funding for a research project. Click on http://www.inqri.org/ to reach INQRI’s home page.
