Using a Framework to Enhance Clinician Well-Being
This article describes how a large health system created and implemented a well-being framework, based on national evidence, to support the advancement of clinician well-being. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - April 18, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Lesly Kelly, Melissa Reeves Source Type: research
Advancing Health Equity: Gauging the Impact of Data-Driven Interventions to Assess, Improve, Maintain or Promote Health of Individuals
Interventions that address social determinants of health (SDOH) must be based on patient health and demographic data. The electronic health record (EHR) comprises comprehensive data from the populations that nurse leaders can use for the communities they serve. Demographic data included in the EHR are not only critical to facilitating an understanding of SDOH within the population but are significant to understanding the extent of diversity within the healthcare workforce that supports diverse populations. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - April 17, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Deborah C. Stamps Source Type: research
In: Advancing Health Equity: Gauging the Impact of Data-Driven Interventions to Assess, Improve, Maintain or Promote Health of Individuals
Interventions that address social determinants of health (SDOH) must be based on patient health and demographic data. The electronic health record (EHR) comprises comprehensive data from the populations that nurse leaders can use for the communities they serve. Demographic data included in the EHR are not only critical to facilitating an understanding of SDOH within the population but are significant to understanding the extent of diversity within the healthcare workforce that supports diverse populations. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - April 17, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Deborah C. Stamps Source Type: research
Nurse Administrator and Nurse Practitioner Practice Expert Collaboration to Improve Hospital NP Hiring Practices
This article presents a description of nurse practitioner scope of practice as it relates to the inpatient setting and an experiential framework that the nurse administrator may use t o navigate this challenge. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - April 12, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: John D. Gonzalez, Kristin Gigli Source Type: research
Designing A System for Safe Staffing
Developing effective systems to ensure safe and appropriate nurse staffing is a critical priority for both chief nursing officers as well as the governance and leadership of health care organizations. Bedside nurses will gain confidence in their employer ’s commitment to ensuring safe nurse staffing if they are actively engaged in designing staffing systems in a meaningful way. Investment in comprehensive, well-integrated staffing systems can offer an effective and viable alternative to regulatory solutions. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - April 8, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Carol Bradley Source Type: research
A Contemporary Model for Improving RN Job Outcomes
The pandemic has highlighted 3 critical nursing workforce issues: turnover, wellbeing, and equity. A comprehensive framework is needed to understand the interactions between these concepts. This paper proposes a model that allows for more inclusive understanding of professional outcomes for RNs, with attention not just to job outcomes, but also to equity for underrepresented groups in the workforce and individual wellbeing. The model highlights the importance of systems and societal elements, contextual elements, and individual responses to the dynamic conditions of work and life, and can be used to advance research and pr...
Source: Nurse Leader - April 7, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Kyla F. Woodward, Mayumi Willgerodt, Elaine Walsh, Susan Johnson Source Type: research
Utilizing Innovative Technology to Improve Health Care
This article provides examples of several technological innovations as solutions to each of the Institute for Health Care Improvement ’s Quintuple aims. Consideration is given to the importance of envisioning, inspiring, and supporting environments of curiosity, adaptation, and creativity necessary to advance the vision of sustainable, quality health care. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - April 5, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Angela S. Prestia Source Type: research
Pre-Employment Testing and Artificial Intelligence
There seems to be quite a bit of movement lately in the nursing leadership job market. The American Organization for Nursing Leadership Foundation recently released findings from their August 2022 Longitudinal Nursing Leadership Insight Survey, which summarized responses given to a series questions about leadership tenure. Thirteen percent of nurse leaders changed positions in the past 6 months, with 36% of that number leaving for better work –life balance and 29% leaving to look for a new opportunity. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - April 2, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Beth A. Brooks Tags: The Career Coaching Corner Source Type: research
Recognizing the Synergistic Impact
I am an avid reader ofNurse Leader. The recent article by Pate and Rankin1 really caught my attention and admiration. Their description of “Joining of 2 Powerful Nursing Forces, the Clinical Nurse Specialist and Clinical Nurse Leader” is spot on. I had been actively involved in the development and promotion of the CNL role early on—recognizing the synergistic impact that the CNL and CNS roles could and should have on advancing nu rsing practice at all points of care. In light of today's staffing and care delivery model challenges, they've done an outstanding job in relaying the value-added impact that these 2 roles h...
Source: Nurse Leader - April 1, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Cathy Rick Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research
Interview With Patricia Yoder Wise, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, ANEF, FAONL, FAAN
Patricia Yoder Wise, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, ANEF, FAONL, FAAN, is a nursing legend. Her career has spanned decades, and she is an accomplished leader, educator, and author. She is cofounder of the Nurses Legacy Institute, President, The Wise Group, Professor and Dean Emerita, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, School of Nursing, and serves as Editor in Chief, The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - March 31, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Roxane Spitzer Tags: What's on YOUR Desk? Source Type: research
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Editorial Board
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Source: Nurse Leader - March 31, 2023 Category: Nursing Source Type: research
Moral Distress in the ICU: Measuring, Tracking, and Responding to Staff Experiences
This article describes the level of moral distress experienced by ICU staff, the disparity between hospital-provided resources and the contributing factors of mor al distress, and the potential financial cost of job turnover due to moral distress. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - March 31, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Matthew Eddleman, Kianna Montz, Lucia D. Wocial Source Type: research
Nicole (Nikki) Gruebling, DNP, RN, NEA-BC
Dr. Nicole (Nikki) Gruebling is the Vice President for Member Networks at Vizient. When meeting Nikki for the first time, I quickly noticed her passion for excellence and how much she enjoys helping others achieve this. Nikki ’s unique vantage point provides a lens into national trends, and she collaborates with nursing colleagues across the country to develop solutions. Nikki offers what she recognizes as the top 3 opportunities that chief nurses and leaders will continue to face for the foreseeable future. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - March 26, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: K. David Bailey Tags: Leader to Watch Source Type: research
Readiness to Practice Indicators: Accelerating New Graduate Nurses Toward Independent Practice
Academic institutions and hospitals want the same outcomes: safe, practice-ready nurses, but each use different tools to evaluate practice-readiness. Successful transition-to-practice programs aimed at closing the academic gap require thoughtful and actionable collaboration between academic and practice settings with consideration of using mutual evaluation tools. Readiness to Practice Indicators (RPIs) are an evidence-based tool intended as a determinant for independent practice that synthesizes the scope and standards of nursing practice with a focus on how to manage a patient assignment. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - March 20, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Bobbi Martin, Ronda LaVigne Source Type: research
