Good care, good science: leveraging frontline staff for quality.

Health care is changing by moving from volume-based care to quality-based care according to the US Department of Health and Human Services. Although hospitals have been required to report data and the results have been publically reported for some time, the frontline nurse was not aware of the impact of the federal government regulations and how this would refocus and re-center care that is provided. Nursing leaders need to provide the context for this culture shift and support the efforts of the frontline nurses by connecting the evidence of the quality indicators to quality care they provide. Linking good care and good science provides the vehicle for setting this stage.