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Source: Nurse Leader - November 6, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Margarita van den Bogaard Source Type: research
Nurse Manager Success Factors: The Foundation for Succession Planning
An estimated 70,000 nurses, including nurse leaders, are expected to retire annually. Proactive succession planning programs are key mitigation strategies for this impending shortage of nurse leaders. Determining success factors that support a program to develop future nurse managers is the first step and lays a foundation for succession planning. Convening focus groups among current nurse managers to identify, in their own words, what it takes to be a successful nurse manager, and mapping those factors to the academic health system behavioral competencies and American Organization for Nursing Leadership manager competenci...
Source: Nurse Leader - November 4, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Eileen P. Magri, Debra Albert, Terence Joyce Source Type: research
A Dynamic Staffing & Scheduling Solution: The Build and Implementation of a Logistics Engine to Optimize Nurse Schedules and Rosters
The use of electronic scheduling and staffing tools should be standard practice in health care. Gone are the days of paper scheduling, replaced with mobile apps and sleek desktop applications. The frontline clinician has access to scheduling, paid time off (PTO), trades, and timecard management in the palm of their hand. Ease of use and work flexibility are top of mind for many frontline clinicians and leaders. Yet even with the newest technology and sleekest design, there continues to be a gap in functionality and practice: predictive scheduling. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - November 2, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Brienne M. Sandow, Danielle Bowie Source Type: research
Next Generation Leaders
This article describes the process of developing a pioneering initial initiative to build a national student leadership work group by the nursing management division in the Ministry of Health. All nursing schools and faculties were invited to participate in the initiative (N = 28) and asked to identify leaders among nursing students. Of the 28 nursing schools and faculties approached, 10 participated in the initiative, with 60 identified as nursing student leaders representing a mix of nursing education institutions across Israel. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - November 2, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Shirly Luz, Irit Schwartz-Attias Tags: Featured article Source Type: research
A Framework for Strategic Development and Integration of the Advanced Practice Executive
Health care organizations have immense opportunities to transform enterprise performance through strategic development and integration of advanced practice providers (APPs). The projected growth rate for APPs, which include advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) and physician assistants, is 45% and 31%, respectively. This projection is based on the shortfall of physicians and the increased need to provide cost-effective care. Successful integration of APPs requires organizations to invest in the infrastructure to support this rapidly growing profession. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - November 1, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Amanda Comer, Alisha DeTroye, Eileen Campbell, Julie Creaden, Clair Kuriakose, Dorothy Mullaney, Bonnie Proulx, Julie Raaum, Christen Hunt Source Type: research
The Business Model Canvas: A Tool to Enhance Nurse Business Acumen
This article describes the Business Model Canvas, a one-page strategic business planning tool, and how it can be used to describe and visualize proposed clinical practice innovations and build nurse business acumen. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - November 1, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Mary Lou Manning, John Renzi Source Type: research
Are You Experiencing Burnout?
In 2019, the National Academies of Medicine Sciences, Engineering, Medicine (NASEM) published Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout: A Systems Approach to Professional Well-Being,1 which outlined clinician burnout as a major problem across the country. NASEM defined clinician burnout in the context of a workplace syndrome resulting from chronic job stress. At that time, 35% to 54% of physicians and nurses exhibited substantial symptoms of burnout.1 Nurses continue to report high levels of burnout, with a National Council of State Boards of Nursing ’s (NCSBN) study finding a quarter to one-half of nurses feeling emotion...
Source: Nurse Leader - November 1, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Beth A. Brooks Tags: The Career Coaching Corner Source Type: research
Improve the Diversity of a Nursing Workforce Using a Pipeline Development Program
The Workforce Pipeline Development Program, established at a local children ’s hospital, is a quality improvement initiative to address diversity in nursing, offering career-planning opportunity to underrepresented teens and young adults. The program strategy includes targeting local schools to bring in nursing assistant and medical assistant students for pediatric clinic al training with possibility for employment, thus increasing the likelihood of achieving a diverse workforce and better balancing the workforce with the patient populations served. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - October 31, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Margaret E. LaFashia, Cynthia Bowers, Catherine Haut, Norine Watson Source Type: research
The Impact of a Licensed Practical Nurse –Registered Nurse Care Delivery Model on the Work Environment
Appropriate staffing and its impact on the work environment have been a topic of discussion throughout nursing history. The COVID-19 pandemic combined with an unprecedented nursing shortage propelled health care leaders to create care delivery models to reduce the registered nurses ’ workload and improve their work environment. This research analyzed the impact of a team-based licensed practical nurse–registered nurse patient care delivery model (LPN-RN_CDM) on the work environment. Using the Nursing Work Index to measure the impact, the results demonstrated that the LPN-R N_CDM can be used as a staffing solution strat...
Source: Nurse Leader - October 31, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Marie L. Desir, Deborah Laughon, Hong Tao, Jeanette F. Green Source Type: research
A Comprehensive Approach to Increasing Nurse Retention: NYC Nurse Residency Program Improves Newly Licensed Registered Nurse Outcomes
Nursing leadership at New York City Health + Hospitals (NYCHH), the largest municipal health care system in the nation, recognized the looming nursing shortage and the concurrent problem of high turnover were significant challenges. Here we showcase the strategy NYCHH used to launch a nurse residency program as a part of a city-wide region al collaborative, thereby creating a stable infrastructure for nurse retention; the article also addresses the importance of leader engagement, programmatic outcomes, and implications for nurse leaders. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - October 31, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Albert Belaro, Natalia Cineas, Donna Boyle Schwartz, Kelly Gallagher, Tina Logsdon, Lindsay Ross, Joseph Rhoades, Daniel Liss Source Type: research
Ethical Reasoning as a Core Nurse Leader Competency: Maximizing Strategic Decision-Making and Operational Outcomes
Nurse leaders practice across an exceedingly complex and dynamic healthcare landscape, requiring the highest levels of ethical reasoning, engagement, and leadership skills to guide decision-making. Nurse leaders shape the organizational climate and conditions supporting ethical practice and must identify ethical dilemmas, explore individual perspectives through multiple lenses, and make strategic decisions consistent with personal, professional, and organizational values. This manuscript educates nurse leaders on the critical adaptive competency of strategic ethical reasoning to guide just and ethical decision-making for t...
Source: Nurse Leader - October 28, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Christopher H. Stucky, Joshua A. Wymer Tags: Featured article Source Type: research
Launching Lavender Response Teams Across a Health Care System
This article describes how this organization accomplished this and may serve as a resource for other health care systems interested in establishing their own version of Code Lavender. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - October 28, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Kathleen Ann DeMarco, Marci Resnicoff Source Type: research
Ethical Reasoning as a Core Nurse Leader Competency
Nurse leaders practice across an exceedingly complex and dynamic healthcare landscape, requiring the highest levels of ethical reasoning, engagement, and leadership skills to guide decision-making. Nurse leaders shape the organizational climate and conditions supporting ethical practice and must identify ethical dilemmas, explore individual perspectives through multiple lenses, and make strategic decisions consistent with personal, professional, and organizational values. This manuscript educates nurse leaders on the critical adaptive competency of strategic ethical reasoning to guide just and ethical decision-making for t...
Source: Nurse Leader - October 28, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Christopher H. Stucky, Joshua A. Wymer Tags: Featured article Source Type: research
No Patient Left Behind: The Importance of Nursing Presence
Inpatient and outpatient services require the coordinated efforts of multiple disciplines to provide safe patient care. Identifying gaps in care delivery is an essential component required to achieve and maintain excellence in health care. This paper highlights a gap in patient care and will outline our performance improvement project to provide essential nursing presence. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - October 26, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Patty Gessner, Joan Herr, Julie Mills, Armi Andaya Tags: Featured article Source Type: research
Shared Governance: A New Age
This narrative provides how an organization transformed their model of shared governance to enhance communication, meaningful feedback, innovation, and idea generation with clinical nursing. The organization completed an analysis of the current state of shared governance and provided recommendations for change, leading to enhanced nurse engagement. Nurse engagement has consistently become more difficult to achieve with multigenerational barriers, remote technology, and the difficult workload of clinical nurses. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - October 24, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Brittany N. Kremer, Derek L. Mayberry, Brianna L. Reading Source Type: research
