Advancing a Culture of Clinical Nursing Research Through Collaborative Partnership Between Practice and Academia
This article describes the journey of the “One Emory Nursing” initiative, which spans from bedside/chairside to bench and back again. This work is built on a foundation of clinical nurses engaged in leading research that is designed to transform care in partnership with SON. (Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly)
Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly - September 5, 2018 Category: Nursing Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Perspectives on a System Partnership: Academia and Practice at Emory University
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Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly - September 5, 2018 Category: Nursing Tags: On the Scene Source Type: research
A CGEAN Perspective: Partnerships in Nursing and in Health Care
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Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly - September 5, 2018 Category: Nursing Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Guest Editorial
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Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly - September 5, 2018 Category: Nursing Tags: Guest Editorial Source Type: research
From the Editor
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Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly - September 5, 2018 Category: Nursing Tags: From the Editor Source Type: research
International Nursing: Job Satisfaction Among Critical Care Nurses in a Governmental Hospital in Saudi Arabia
This study was undertaken to measure factors that affect job satisfaction among critical care nurses at King Khalid Hospital in Saudi Arabia. This study used a quantitative, cross-sectional method. A convenient sample of 190 critical care nurses was recruited from the main government hospital in Saudi Arabia. Job satisfaction scales were used in this study. Overall, the staff nurses were neither satisfied nor dissatisfied with their work. The majority of participating nurses were moderately satisfied with their relationships with coworkers (mean = 4.24, standard deviation [SD] = 1.66) and nature of their jobs (mean = 4.13,...
Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly - June 5, 2018 Category: Nursing Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Book Review
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Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly - June 5, 2018 Category: Nursing Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
Role of the Chief Nurse Officer in Ensuring Person- and Family-Centered Care
This article provides 9 specific steps a chief nurse officer should take to create a culture, with supportive systems and an environment, to ensure authentic PFCC. (Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly)
Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly - June 5, 2018 Category: Nursing Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
The Impact of Nurse Engagement on Quality, Safety, and the Experience of Care: What Nurse Leaders Should Know
To lead others in achieving exemplary outcomes, nurse leaders need to understand the vital and interdependent connection between quality, safety, the patient and RN experience of care, and RN engagement. The triple aim of improving population health, enhancing patient experience, and reducing cost cannot be accomplished without a robust and engaged workforce that finds joy and meaning in its work. This is especially true for the nursing workforce. The vital connection of nurse engagement to the experience of care, and ultimately to nurse and patient outcomes, is clear. Quality improvement efforts that equally emphasize ini...
Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly - June 5, 2018 Category: Nursing Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Self-organizing Development Teams for Innovative Nursing Care
The purpose of this study was to describe the participation of nurses and nurse leaders in self-organizing teams formed to develop innovative nursing care. The theoretical perspective combines Bondas' caritative theory on nursing leadership with Waterman's and Dolan's work on ad hoc organizations. Seven self-organizing teams participated in a 2-year action research project. Data were collected through fieldwork, formal and informal individual and group interviews, and diaries. Analytical abstraction methodology described by Miles et al was used. The metaphor “overcoming the jet lag of bureaucracy” is based on 5 themes:...
Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly - June 5, 2018 Category: Nursing Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Transitioning Nurse Handoff to the Bedside: Engaging Staff and Patients
The emergency department is a complex environment in which reliable communication is vital for safe patient care. Communication during nurse shift report can be risky without an effective report process in practice. Reliability improves with the use of a standardized, patient-centered nurse handoff process. Quality improvement methods were used to promote reliable information exchange during nurse shift handoff through the implementation of a standardized, patient-centric bedside report process. Forty-six hospital-based emergency nurses participated in the project. Outcomes were measured through observation of bedside repo...
Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly - June 5, 2018 Category: Nursing Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Caring Cards: Preventing Patient Harm Through the Heart of Nursing
This article describes how the foundational constructs of nursing theory are paired with aspects of universal fall precautions. In a pilot prioritizing Caring Cards, conversations between leaders and staff provide a way for the nurse to describe his or her critical thinking about fall prevention that is individualized to a patient. Leaders collect information on barriers to care and demonstrate follow-up actions to staff members who raise concerns. The system allows for structured leader and staff interactions that are coaching and mentoring in nature. These support an environment where nurses care for patients, while lead...
Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly - June 5, 2018 Category: Nursing Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Leveraging Technology to Increase Patient and Family Engagement and Improve Outcomes
Engaging persons in their health care influences the quality of care and improves patient safety, health outcomes, and the patient experience. Emerging technology is enabling patients to be more fully engaged in their care. At the same time, the rapid emergence of these solutions is impacting nursing professional practice, workflows, and care delivery models across the continuum. Faced with a sustained and continued technology explosion, nurse executives are uniquely positioned to lead care transformation that leverages technology to engage patients at the point of care, redefine nursing practice, and improve empirical out...
Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly - June 5, 2018 Category: Nursing Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Engaging Employees in Well-Being: Moving From the Triple Aim to the Quadruple Aim
Anne Arundel Medical Center has been on a 3-year journey to improve employee well-being with the assumption that employee well-being and employee engagement are interconnected. Improvements in employee well-being will result in increased employee engagement and will be a pivotal driver to assist the health system meet its goals. Historically, Anne Arundel Medical Center successfully differentiated itself in the market by being the region's high-quality, low-cost provider of health services delivered through intense collaboration with patients and families. The financial, quality, and patient satisfaction results are in the...
Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly - June 5, 2018 Category: Nursing Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Engagement in Nursing: One Organization's Success
Engagement in health care has gained in importance over time. It has become increasingly important in the work that nurses do to optimize patient involvement in the management of their health care activities. Nurse leaders are being called upon to build and sustain cultures of engagement for their employees and ultimately for patients. The purpose of this article is to share an engagement process that has proven successful at a community-based academic medical center that has received Magnet designation. While engagement remains a multifaceted process for all parties involved and requires a constant focus, the authors have...
Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly - June 5, 2018 Category: Nursing Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
