COVID-19: A Personal and Professional Perspective
This article traces the experience of 1 nurse leader as she falls ill, only to learn that she has, indeed, been infected with the virus. She describes her 4-week quarantine, including the impact on her family and her attempts to continue to support her staff. As she recovers from the acute onslaught of COVID, the focus shifts back to her nurse leader role. In this role, she and her colleagues manage the logistics of caring for more than 150 COVID-positive patients a day in the 719-bed academic medical center. This included staffing the hospital, given the extreme challenges of staff availability limited by concerns such as...
Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly - March 11, 2021 Category: Nursing Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Implications and Experiences in Postacute Care—Rehabilitation, Long-Term Acute Care, and Skilled Nursing
Postacute care is a term used to describe a group of health care providers, caring for patients outside of traditional acute care. The populations served and measures of outcomes are similar, but the services provided may vary by type of setting and individual provider. Managing through the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been both a challenge and an opportunity to demonstrate the vital role of postacute providers in the health care continuum. National media outlets have highlighted emergency departments, critical care areas, and start-up COVID units in acute care hospitals treating critically ill patients...
Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly - March 11, 2021 Category: Nursing Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Field Hospital Boston Hope: Defining Culture During Uncertainty
As hospitals across the world realized their surge capacity would not be enough to care for patients with coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) infection, an urgent need to open field hospitals prevailed. In this article the authors describe the implementation process of opening a Boston field hospital including the development of a culture unique to this crisis and the local community needs. Through first-person accounts, readers will learn (1) about Boston Hope, (2) how leaders managed and collaborated, (3) how the close proximity of the care environment impacted decision-making and management style, and (4) the characteri...
Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly - March 11, 2021 Category: Nursing Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
COVID-19: An Italian Hospital Response From the Nursing Perspective
This article aims to highlight the management strategies for the health care staff subsequent to the pandemic intense workload in San Raffaele Scientific Institute. (Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly)
Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly - March 11, 2021 Category: Nursing Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Planning for the Pandemic: A Community Hospital Story
When the Covid 19 pandemic affected New York State, Federal and mostly State, mandates were given to hospitals to prepare for the expected influx of patients. This is a community hospital's planning journey that includes preparing for placing patients, educating caregivers, matching the abilities of the available caregivers with the needs of the patients, securing needed equipment and supplies, and caring for the caregivers. Planning for patient placement resulted in a phased-in guide, accommodating seriously and critically ill affected patients. Education and training were initial and ongoing, rapidly changing as new info...
Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly - March 11, 2021 Category: Nursing Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
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Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly - December 4, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: Book Review Source Type: research
Building the Profession of the Future: Challenging Assumptions
Leaders need to have a change framework in order to be successful in building the future of nursing. Health care leaders need to combine their knowledge of culture, technology, and the science of change in order to lead innovation in their organizations. Leaders should also understand the negative behaviors that stop change and kill innovation. (Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly)
Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly - December 4, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Nurse Leader Competencies: Today and Tomorrow
The coronavirus-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in turbulent times challenging nurse leaders to adopt, adapt, and develop new leadership competencies to navigate current and future challenges. In never-imagined approaches, nurse leaders have responded to a different type of crisis management. In this new era, nursing leadership will need competencies to reshape the future of nursing and nurses' role in caring for patients, families, and promotion of healthy communities along with a focus on reducing health disparities. The pandemic has drawn critical focus on the health and well-being needs of nurses. The American Or...
Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly - December 4, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Disruptive Demographics: Their Effects on Nursing Demand, Supply and Academic Preparation
The nursing profession faces both a labor shortage and a diversity problem. Nine proactive strategies—rooted in the disruptive demographic trends that are transforming our nation—are advanced to address these 2 critical issues. (Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly)
Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly - December 4, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Creating a Healthier Workplace Environment in an Era of Rising Workforce Pressures
Challenges in the nurse work environment, particularly those resulting from nurse shortages and the retirement wave, can affect the health and well-being of all Americans, not just nurses themselves or the health care organizations where they work. Many of the solutions to significantly expand the number of nurses in America will take many years to realize. However, there are some important changes that health care organizations can put into effect relatively quickly to enhance the work environment for nurses, which can improve care quality and safety, patient satisfaction, and the well-being of nurses. The biennial Survey...
Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly - December 4, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
The Future of Nursing Report Set the Stage for Healthier Hoosiers
This article describes these accomplishments. Notable examples include increasing the diversity of the workforce, placement of nurses on community boards and governmental appointments, promoting the advancement of nursing education, and increasing the number of nurses with baccalaureate degrees. Furthermore, Indiana supports the proliferation of new doctoral programs with a scholarship fundraising program to assist nurses with the cost of their education. (Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly)
Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly - December 4, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Texas Team Action Coalition Advancing Health Through Nursing: Past, Present, and Future
This article details initiatives of the Texas Team over the past 10 years and describes current efforts to position itself to champion anticipated recommendations from the 2020-2030 Future of Nursing report from the National Academy of Medicine. (Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly)
Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly - December 4, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
Nurse Leaders' Assumptions and Attitudes Toward Residency Programs for New Graduate Nurses
The Future of Nursing Report from 2010 offered key recommendations for the practice of nursing, including the need for nurse residency programs for all new graduate nurses. Although numerous articles can be found about the programs themselves, finding information about the support of nurse leaders for such programs is more challenging. In the spring of 2019, a small group of invited nurse leaders from across the United States met during a “Think Tank.” The purpose of this gathering was to discuss a policy brief offered by the American Academy of Nursing requiring all new graduate registered nurses to participate in a n...
Source: Nursing Administration Quarterly - December 4, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research
