Advocacy: From the Patient to the Profession
It is well known that nursing comprises the largest segment of the health care industry at local, state, national, and even international levels. The United States has over 4 million registered nurses, and nursing has been voted the most trusted profession for the past 19 years. With such a vast representation within the health care industry, the nursing profession is well positioned to advocate for legislation that promotes safe and healthy work environments, as well as quality care delivery. Although we have many nurses that have provided insight and thoughtful leadership, we have a long way to go to ensure our voice is ...
Source: Nurse Leader - July 14, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Dawna L. Cato, Danielle Costello Source Type: research
Leveraging Big Data in Nursing Practice
As much as 30% of the entire world ’s data is generated in the health care space. Sources of health care data include claims, patient medical records, and billing codes. Nurse leaders and their interprofessional partners have opportunities to proactively plan for, implement, and monitor the extraction of insights from these data to improve health care outcomes, affordability, and patient experiences. To leverage these data, health care organizations, large and small, must improve their data management practices and increase skills that support those data practices. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - July 2, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Jeanne Gibson, Mary Jo Jerde, Nancy Shivers Source Type: research
The Great Realization
This article posits that the nurses at the bedside, the true innovators and influencers, are most able to develop solutions that will be effective in this transformation. Appreciative inquiry is offered as a co-creative and possibility-focused model to guide nurses and nurse leaders through the process of holding on to what is good, dreaming of what can be, and charting the course for their future. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - June 30, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Kay Kennedy, Lucy Leclerc, Susan Campis Source Type: research
Privileging for Nursing: Structural Requisites for Next-Step Professional Governance
Structuring for the profession of nursing in any practice setting is critical to the expression of professional practice behaviors. Explored here is a brief outline of what a nursing professional privileging structure might look like and how it replaces historic "job-based" approaches as a better way of addressing nurses and their practice in a professional practice environment. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - June 29, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Tim Porter-O ’Grady Source Type: research
Work-Related Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, and Nurse Intention to Leave the Profession During COVID-19
The purpose of this mixed-method study was to understand the relationships between work-related burnout (WRB), compassion fatigue (CF), and intention to leave the nursing profession. The Job Demands-Resources model was used to predict intention to leave as a function of WRB, CF, and caring for COVID-19 patients in a sample of 1299 US nurses. Greater WRB and CF scores were associated with intention to leave the profession. Contrary to prior research, working with COVID-19 patients was associated with greater intention to stay in nursing. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - June 28, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Jacqueline Christianson, Norah Johnson, Amanda Nelson, Maharaj Singh Source Type: research
