Clarifying Role Expectations and Practice Standards Using a Clinical Nurse Leader Professional Practice Model Illustration
Conclusions:
Professional practice model illustrations may be beneficial in developing a consensus of practice. (Source: Journal of Nursing Care Quality)
Source: Journal of Nursing Care Quality - May 21, 2019 Category: Nursing Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Use of Chlorhexidine to Prevent Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in a Long-term Care Setting: A Retrospective Medical Record Review
Conclusions:
These findings support using CHX to significantly reduce the number of days of intravenous antibiotics used to treat VAP with little side effects. (Source: Journal of Nursing Care Quality)
Source: Journal of Nursing Care Quality - May 21, 2019 Category: Nursing Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Exploring the Hidden Functions of Nursing Bedside Shift Report: A Performance, Ritual, and Sensemaking Opportunity
Conclusions:
Nurse leaders can use this study's findings to inform the development or improvement of an efficient, effective, and sustainable NBSR process at their local institution. (Source: Journal of Nursing Care Quality)
Source: Journal of Nursing Care Quality - May 21, 2019 Category: Nursing Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Relationship Between Work Environments, Nurse Outcomes, and Quality of Care in ICUs: Mediating Role of Nursing Care Left Undone
Conclusions:
Cultivating supportive work environments serves as a strategy to reduce nursing care left undone, and to improve nurse outcomes and quality of care in ICUs. (Source: Journal of Nursing Care Quality)
Source: Journal of Nursing Care Quality - May 21, 2019 Category: Nursing Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Organizational Factors Associated With Technical Efficiency of Nursing Care in US Intensive Care Units
Conclusions:
A higher nurse-to-patient ratio greatly improved technical efficiency of nursing care in ICUs and the effect differed between hospitals. Administrators and policy makers can translate the study findings into management strategies to provide efficient nursing care in ICUs. (Source: Journal of Nursing Care Quality)
Source: Journal of Nursing Care Quality - May 21, 2019 Category: Nursing Tags: Articles Source Type: research
