Impacts of Shared Governance on Ambulatory Nursing Engagement
An ambulatory shared governance program was initiated in an outlying location of a large academic hospital to evaluate the impact on engagement, process improvement, and safety event reporting. Shared governance led to improvements in engagement, empowerment, and autonomy. Although the impact of shared governance has been evaluated in inpatient settings, there is a paucity of evidence evaluating the impact in ambulatory settings, specifically clinical care centers in outlying locations. Clinically significant findings were noted, including increase in staff involvement in shared governance initiatives, involvement in insti...
Source: Nurse Leader - October 24, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Natalie Sanchez, Kathleen Turner, Kimberly Hermis, Goley Richardson, Brooke Ngo, Montgomery Leach, Nikki Novak Source Type: research
The ACCN Core Essentials ’ Impact on Practice Partners and Academia: What Nurse Leaders Need to Know
This article provides a general overview of the framework, competency-based education, and the impact on both academia and practice partners so that nurse leaders will understand these changes and their impact on the workforce. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - October 21, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Linda Cole, Linda Plank Source Type: research
Unit Partners
High turnover of unlicensed assistive personnel can have a significant fiscal impact on health care organizations. More importantly, the attrition rates set the groundwork for missed elements in patient care. Unprecedented employment challenges inspired one group of leaders to develop an innovative cost-effective unit partner role to address turnover rates and support demanding workloads. The role enables flexibility, a nimble orientation structure, and university partnership. Consequently, this role affords nurses further opportunities to practice at the top of their licensure. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - October 5, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Julie Boothby, Christina Woline, Daniel T. Lose, Jessica McDaniel, Anita Nicholson Source Type: research
Julie Zerwic, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN
I have been amazed by the importance of the broadening experiences of higher education in enabling social change within health care. I am in awe of how faculty and leadership within colleges and universities align with stakeholders to re-envision future workforces, technologies, and treatments, and leverage this for better patient care. At the University of Iowa, faculty are expected to teach, engage in scholarship, and provide service in areas that will advance nursing and health care, both nationally and internationally. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - October 4, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: M. Lindell Joseph Tags: Leader to Watch Source Type: research
Interview With Jennifer Mensik Kennedy, PhD, MBA, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN
Jennifer Mensik Kennedy, PhD, MBA, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, is president of the American Nurses Association (ANA). (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - October 1, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Roxane Spitzer Tags: What ’s on YOUR Desk? Source Type: research
Gaining Ground: Using Simulation to Improve New Graduate Nurse Performance in Emergency Situations
Megan Seston Matson received AONL ’s 2023 Pamela Austin Thompson Early Careerist Award. She led the project detailed in this paper, which improved new graduate nurse comfort with using a rapid response system. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - October 1, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Megan Seston Matson Tags: AONL Source Type: research
American Organization for Nursing Leadership ’s Workforce Compendium – Section 3
The American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) is leading a nationwide strategic initiative to facilitate the dissemination of best practices and strategies to support the invaluable work of nurse leaders. Part of this work has resulted in a compendium that focuses on initiatives that worked in practice. The AONL Workforce Committee and its 7 subcommittees released the second of a 3-part series in early 2023. This summary, covering academic –practice partnerships, culture of inquiry, and total rewards, is the third of 3 summaries presented in this journal. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - October 1, 2023 Category: Nursing Tags: AONL Source Type: research
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Source: Nurse Leader - October 1, 2023 Category: Nursing Source Type: research
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Source: Nurse Leader - October 1, 2023 Category: Nursing Source Type: research
The Role of the Wider Organization and Community in Meaningful Nurse Manager Recognition
The span of control of the nurse manager role argues for an interdependent approach to generate meaningful nurse manager recognition. As part of a larger descriptive qualitative study, nurse managers, directors, and chief nursing officers (CNOs) were interviewed using open-ended semistructured questions to examine a culture and climate of meaningful recognition. The purpose of this article is to advance the call to improve nurse manager recognition by the wider health care organization and community. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - September 29, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Mary Beth Hovda Davis, M. Lindell Joseph, Deb Zimmermann, Danielle Ward Source Type: research
Young Nurse Leader Program
Recruitment and retention of strong nurse leaders is essential to our health care delivery system, highlighting a need for early career engagement and mentorship. Combining experiential and didactic learning through an academic –practice partnership facilitated the creation of a 1-year leadership program for prelicensure nursing students, highlighting nursing leadership as a future career specialty. The Young Nurse Leader program combined educational sessions, precepted experiences, and self-reflection to enhance student nurses’ leadership knowledge and skills, while providing professional enrichment of the practicing ...
Source: Nurse Leader - September 26, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Daniel T. Lose, M. Lindell Joseph Source Type: research
Leadership Coaching to Improve Nursing Unit Practice Councils Effectiveness
Nursing shared governance (SG) provides an opportunity for alignment between frontline team members and nursing leadership. A department of nursing had a mature SG program with many thriving departmental-based SG groups. However, structural processes and guidance for unit-based SG groups were lacking and demonstrated a need for improvement. The General Theory of Effective Multilevel Shared Governance framework provided an opportunity to refocus and improve unit practice councils (UPC). Results demonstrated that UPC leadership competencies can be improved through focused 1:1 leadership coaching by identifying a UPC area of ...
Source: Nurse Leader - September 25, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Emily K. Ward, M. Lindell Joseph, Kirsten Hanrahan Source Type: research
Driving Change
This paper presents a case study on the development and implementation of the Csomay Center for Gerontological Excellence ’s Doctorate in Nursing Practice Leader in Residence program. Nurse leaders are assuming executive roles in health care organizations, improving patient and system-level outcomes through driving innovation and change. However, many are selected based on clinical performance rather than leadership competence. This case study utilizes the Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle to guide development, implementation, and evaluation of a unique Leader in Residence program in a nontraditional health care setting, focusing ...
Source: Nurse Leader - September 23, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Misty Brooks, Harleah G. Buck Tags: Featured Articles Source Type: research
Leading Improvements in Rural Healthcare Through Mobile Simulation
Simulation in Motion – Iowa (SIM-IA) is a high-fidelity simulation education for health care providers throughout Iowa. SIM-IA is administered by the University of Iowa College of Nursing with mobile simulation trucks in Iowa City (east), Des Moines (central), and Sioux City (west). SIM-IA’s goal is to provide simul ation continuing education to improve patient outcomes. In year 1, SIM-IA provided 110 sessions for over 2200 providers. Second-year goals include expanding from emergency medical service (EMS) providers to hospital and long-term care facility providers. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - September 22, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Jacinda L. Bunch, Cormac T. O ’Sullivan Source Type: research
Using Real-Time Data to Mitigate Nurse Burnout
As the largest segment of our health care workforce, nurse burnout and turnover are a major risk to the health of our communities and sustainability of our health care ecosystems. As nurse leaders, it is imperative that we identify the risk for burnout and intervene in a real-time fashion. Leveraging technology solutions that allow for available, accessible, and usable information can support nurse leaders in mitigating the risk of burnout and turnover within their areas of accountability. (Source: Nurse Leader)
Source: Nurse Leader - September 21, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Simmy King, Maggie Finke, Tim Darling Source Type: research
