Senior Director Q and A
This fall, AONL launched Transition to Practice for Nurse Managers, a robust on-demand course that helps nurses in assuming the complex and challenging manager role. AONL Senior Director of Leadership Development Beverly Hancock, DNP, RN, answered questions about the course, its format, and what it has to offer new managers. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - December 1, 2022 Category: Nursing Tags: AONL Source Type: research
Fuchs Q and A
At the American Organization for Nursing Leadership ’s (AONL) 2022 annual conference, former AONL Board Member David Marshall, DNP, JD, RN, FAAN, FAONL, senior vice president and chief nursing executive at Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles., interviewed AONL’s Immediate Past President Mary Ann Fuchs, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, who helmed the organization dur ing the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this edited interview, she discusses the actions she took as AONL president and as system chief nursing executive at Duke University Health System, Durham, North Carolina, during that tumultuous time. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - December 1, 2022 Category: Nursing Tags: AONL Source Type: research
Table of Contents
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Editorial Board
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The MAGNUS Experience: An Opportunity for Renewal, Respite, and Reflection
This article describes the evolution of a continuing education course from a clinical leadership development program to an empowerment experience. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - November 29, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Mary Beth Modic Source Type: research
Supporting our Nurse Managers
An experienced health care executive recently noted in an interview, “We have weathered many storms in health care, but this has been the most challenging time in my 40-year career.”1 And while undoubtedly executive roles in health care have been taxing over the past 3 years, the burnout and exhaustion among leaders at the frontlines of care are even more signifi cant. Supporting our nurse managers in their roles in 2023 is a critical imperative. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - November 28, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Rose O. Sherman Tags: Editorial Source Type: research
Jan Jones-Schenk, DHSc, RN, FAADN, FAAN
As nursing enters the critical chapter of post-pandemic transformation, there is a need to refresh and reform our professional identity in practice and academic settings. Leaders in both arenas are facing long-term staffing challenges, forcing the practice environment to invent new care delivery models and creative roles. Similarly, academic programs are equally challenged to advance nurse preparation strategies. Jan Jones-Schenk, DHSc, RN, FAADN, FAAN, provides bold and fresh ideas for all leaders looking for contemporary ways to support reconstruction of our professional identity. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - November 25, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Noreen Bernard Tags: Leader to Watch Source Type: research
Transformational Nurse Leadership Comes to Life: Igniting the Implementation of Age-Friendly Health Systems in CVS MinuteClinics
As the population ages, it is imperative to ensure that older adults receive evidence-based care. Age-Friendly Health Systems is a national initiative to spread the evidence-based Age-Friendly What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility Framework and is supported by the Institute for Health care Improvement. A key driver to spread this effort is the use of transformational leadership, a leadership model used by nurse practitioners at MinuteClinic, the convenient care clinics in select CVS Health Pharmacies, to implement Age-Friendly What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility care during the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
Source: Nurse Leader - November 24, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Mary A. Dolansky, Holly Kouts, Anne M. Pohnert, Latina Brooks Source Type: research
Human-Centered Design: Principles for Successful Leadership Across Health Care Teams and Technology
Centering the humanity of the individual and evaluating the benefits and risks of care delivery is nursing ’s calling card across health systems confronted by competing technology-centered and human-centered perspectives. Human-centered design (HCD) emerged in health care to reprioritize a human-centered approach to innovation and caring. Nurse leaders can leverage HCD to understand the disease and tre atment context of the human experience in care delivery as lived by those directly participating in and impacted by a process or system. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - November 23, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Joshua A. Wymer, Dan R. Weberg, Christopher H. Stucky, Nguyet N. Allbaugh Source Type: research
Investment in Social Capital to Mitigate Nursing Shortages Post-Pandemic
The impacts of the pandemic have further eroded nursing work environments and have exacerbated the nursing shortage. Interventions have largely focused on unit-based interventions and unsustainable financial incentives to increase the levels of human capital in the organization to meet patient demand. Organizations may help to mitigate shortages, improve nurse work environments, and improve patient outcomes through intentional interventions related to social capital networks in the organization. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - November 21, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Jason H. Gilbert Source Type: research
Code DARK: Leveraging the Human Firewall
Health care organizations can no longer afford to “bolt on” cybersecurity elements to projects and initiatives in an ad hoc style. To best prepare our health care system to address cyber risks, it’s important to consider both the technical and human aspects of a robust cybersecurity program. Cybersecurity works best when it employs a “layer ed defense”—multiple layers of security built into the organizational infrastructure that provide additional coverage should a threat bypass a single layer of protection. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - November 21, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Simmy King, Andrea Kraus Source Type: research
Increasing Nurse Leaders Competence and Confidence by Implementing a Novice Nurse Leader Development Program
Nurse leaders are often promoted based on stellar clinical performance or tenure without being provided leadership training. Nurses who receive training in leadership competencies are shown to be more effective and confident in their roles. The General Self-Efficacy (GSE) Scale was used to measure the participants pre/post competence and confidence in their leadership skill. The results showed a statistically significant difference in the pre- and post-GSE scores of leaders who participated in the leadership development program. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - November 17, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Julie Balluck Source Type: research
The Demand for Change: How Nurse Leaders Reframed the Nurse Orientation Process During the COVID ‘Great Resignation Era’
The lingering COVID pandemic has left the nursing profession in a particularly vulnerable state. Nursing burnout, turnover, increased workload, and the lack of professional development opportunities have become workplace dissatisfiers. The “Great Resignation Era” created large turnover and vacancy rates within inpatient hospital units. To mitigate staffing shortages, nurse leaders were challenged to balance large cohorts of new graduate orientees while also motivating and engaging seasoned nurses with leadership opportunities. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - November 16, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Kathleen Romano, Debra Rodrigue Source Type: research
The Nursing Labor Market ’s Structural Shift
In a recent Wall Street Journal article, stock analysts reported that weekly pay for temporary nurses had dropped another 15% to the low $3,000s, helping to improve the bottom line at investor-owned hospital groups.1 While travel nurse contracts and wages have been decreasing concurrently with pandemic-related hospital admissions, many wonder when (if ever) the registered nurses (RNs) who for the first time in their career decided (for a myriad of reasons) to travel to pandemic hot spots will return to permanent positions. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - November 10, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Beth A. Brooks Tags: The Career Coaching Corner Source Type: research
Increasing Nurse Leader Compassion Satisfaction Through Gratitude
Nurse leader compassion fatigue contributes to role dissatisfaction and leader turnover, staff turnover, low morale and engagement, safety, and satisfaction concerns. Both staff and leader turnover lead to costs for recruitment, onboarding, orientation, and staffing. Fifteen nurse leaders participated in a daily gratitude exercise, Three Good Things, over an 8-week period. Three Good Things was found to be statistically significant in increasing compassion satisfaction of this population. A practice of gratitude fosters compassion satisfaction which is a protective factor against compassion fatigue, and it is beneficial in...
Source: Nurse Leader - November 10, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Rebecca S. Chambers Source Type: research
