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Source: Nursing Outlook - March 1, 2022 Category: Nursing Source Type: research
Value-based payment promotes better patient care, incentivizes health care delivery organizations to improve outcomes and lower costs, and can empower nurses: Part 2
In this Part 2 of our six-part series on value-informed nursing practice, (Yakusheva& Buerhaus, 2021) we discuss the core concepts underpinning value and the opportunities that the transition to value-based payment systems presents for patients, health care organizations, and nurses. Adjusting to changes in how health care is paid is not easy for providers (or payers). This series clarifies the meaning and implications of value-based payment and highlights the opportunities for nurses to improve patient care and gain empowerment. (Source: Nursing Outlook)
Source: Nursing Outlook - February 24, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Olga Yakusheva, Betty Rambur, Monica O'Reilly-Jacob, Peter I. Buerhaus Tags: Outlook and Perspective Article Source Type: research
Completion and attrition of DNP students of the 2006-2015 matriculating cohorts
Despite the strong support for DNP education, we have limited knowledge about completion and attrition of DNP students, which are important measures of achievement of DNP programs. (Source: Nursing Outlook)
Source: Nursing Outlook - February 24, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Di Fang, George A. Zangaro Source Type: research
Exploring the turbulent nature of nurses ’ workflow
Improving the work environment in acute care settings has the potential to reduce burnout thereby improving nurses ’ work life, well-being, and patient safety (Lake et al., 2019). A major feature of nurses’ work environments involves workflow. Understanding nurses’ workflow can guide education, practice, and research efforts to improve the work environment. (Source: Nursing Outlook)
Source: Nursing Outlook - February 24, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Bonnie Mowinski Jennings, Marianne Baernholdt, Susan G. Hopkinson Source Type: research
A call to reform undergraduate nursing clinical placements
Undergraduate nursing clinical placements became a universal challenge for academia and clinical practice partners during the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Many clinical practice partners canceled clinical rotations to focus on caring for patients, protecting students and faculty from contagion exposure, and conserving personal protective equipment (PPE) supplies for front-line staff. As a result of this action, nursing schools were forced to replace direct care clinical experiences with 100% simulation. (Source: Nursing Outlook)
Source: Nursing Outlook - February 24, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Jama Goers, David Mulkey, Kenneth Oja Source Type: research
Letter to the editor
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Source: Nursing Outlook - February 24, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Julee Waldrop, Staci Reynolds Source Type: research
A scoping review of outcomes of operational success for nurse scientists in clinical practice settings
Roles for PhD-prepared nurses in the clinical setting began to appear in the 1980s and 1990s (Grant, 1999; Mayhew, 1994). With the establishment of the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), widespread recognition of nursing research was beginning to take hold, and visionary nursing leaders in hospitals and health systems recognized the need to link nursing research more directly with pa tient care (Bostrom, 1994; Zelauskas, 1988). (Source: Nursing Outlook)
Source: Nursing Outlook - February 22, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Bradi B. Granger, Ruth Bryant, Andrew Crow, Mary Fran Tracy Source Type: research
Characteristics of family nurse practitioners and their preparation for practice in rural vs urban employment settings
Approximately 50 million people, 20% of the population of the United States, live in areas designated as rural (U.S. Census Bureau, 2018). Rural Americans are more likely to die from heart disease, cancer, chronic lower respiratory disease, and stroke compared to their urban counterparts (Rural Health Information (RHI), 2019b). Deaths from unintentional injury are approximately 50% higher in rural areas (Cente rs for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2017). Increasing rates of substance abuse disorders, depression, and suicidality in rural settings continue to outpace rates in urban settings (Gale, Janis, Coburn,...
Source: Nursing Outlook - February 22, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Stacy M. Stellflug, Peter Buerhaus, David Auerbach Source Type: research
Nursing in the Spotlight: Talk about Nurses and the Nursing Profession on Twitter during the early COVID-19 Pandemic
In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. Nearly two years later, 59.8 million Americans have been infected with COVID-19, and 836,000 of them have died from it (Johns Hopkins University of Medicine, n.d.). The stress of the pandemic on the United States (US) healthcare system has been extreme. Health care workers have faced an onslaught of very ill patients, lack of staff, shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE), and the emotional toll of witnessing an enormous amount of death (Argulian, 2020; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2021; Shaukat et al., 2020; Whi...
Source: Nursing Outlook - February 20, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Wendy R. Miller, Caeli Malloy, Michelle Mravec, Margaret F. Sposato, Doyle Groves Source Type: research
Application of the Model of Leadership Influence for Health Professional Wellbeing during COVID-19
Nurse burnout is well documented as a top patient safety concern. Workplace stress and burnout results in high turnover rates and costs, as well as lessened productivity. Perspectives are shifting from the expectation that it is the responsibility of the individual nurse to solve burnout to an organizational obligation. Although models support the relationship of burnout to patient outcomes and communication, there is little available in terms of a theoretical framework to guide leaders in developing a comprehensive and effective approach to promoting wellbeing and reducing burnout. (Source: Nursing Outlook)
Source: Nursing Outlook - February 20, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Kimberly Ferren Carter, Richard J. Bogue Source Type: research
Recruitment and retention of primary care nurse practitioners in underserved areas: A scoping review
The growing nurse practitioner (NP) workforce plays a critical role in primary care delivery in the United States. However, better recruitment and retention of the robust NP workforce in underserved areas are needed; evidence to inform such effort is limited. (Source: Nursing Outlook)
Source: Nursing Outlook - February 17, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Supakorn Kueakomoldej, Eleanor Turi, Amy McMenamin, Ying Xue, Lusine Poghosyan Source Type: research
Certification alignment of nurse practitioners in acute care
The nurse practitioner (NP) role was originally envisioned to provide primary care in rural and underserved communities (Fairman, 2008). Today, half of all NPs practice in primary care, while the other half are in virtually every corner of the delivery system, from subspecialties and surgical centers to critical care and retail clinics (Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), 2014). These rapid changes highlig ht the adaptability of the NP workforce, but also present challenges to regulatory and professional organizations charged with ensuring that NPs are appropriately educated and that their preparation ...
Source: Nursing Outlook - February 12, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Alex Hoyt, Monica O'Reilly-Jacob, Michelle Souris-Kraemer Source Type: research
Leadership corner: FAANs and the national cancer advisory board
Dr. Bruner is a force for change with her research knowledge and expertise as an internationally renowned researcher focused on patient reported outcomes. At the time of this writing, she is the first and only nurse to ever lead the NCI National Clinical Trials Network National Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) which focuses cancer prevention, control and cancer care delivery research, and ranks among the top 5% of all NIH-funded investigators in the world since 2012. Dr. Bruner had a long-standing history on NCI committees and was familiar with NCAB. (Source: Nursing Outlook)
Source: Nursing Outlook - February 11, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Lauren V. Ghazal, Darina V. Petrovsky, Janet S. Carpenter Source Type: research
Trauma informed care in nursing: A concept analysis
While the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted nurses as front-line heroes, the effects of pandemic-related trauma on students, nurses, and patients alike have forced examination of chronic stress exposure, documented trauma, complicated grief, depression, anxiety, and secondary stress syndrome. Although literature, discussion, and national dialogue around trauma-informed care has surged recently, a concept analysis of trauma-informed care is needed to begin filling in the gap of knowledge, specifically of how this is defined in relation to nursing science and clinical practice. (Source: Nursing Outlook)
Source: Nursing Outlook - February 11, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Anna Goddard, Rebecca Jones, LuAnn Etcher Source Type: research
Value-informed nursing practice: What is it and how to make it a reality
This article is Part 1 of a 6-part series on value-informed nursing practice. It describes the concept of ‘value-informed nursing practice’—practice that focuses not only on outcomes, but also on the cost of care—as a new way to envision nursing practice. (Source: Nursing Outlook)
Source: Nursing Outlook - February 10, 2022 Category: Nursing Authors: Olga Yakusheva, Betty Rambur, Peter I. Buerhaus Source Type: research
