Website spotlight: Anatomy of a Nursing Image Awards nominee
Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, December 2, 2011
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education!
Last week I was writing about hot topics at the annual Nursing Management Congress. This week I've had the honor of sifting through the shortlist of nominees for HCPro's 2011 Nursing Image Awards. The two seem unconnected, yet the same themes appear throughout and link the two.
The conference covered the changing face of healthcare and provided a chance to discuss pressing issues such as value-based purchasing and nursing's role. Attendees were buzzing about:
- The Future of Nursing report: How to implement its recommendations and how it will change the profession
- Value-based purchasing: How this will affect nursing and what nurses need to know
- Patient engagement: There's more reason than ever before to pay attention to this topic, which nursing can really own
- Quality: Preventing HAIs and best practices for any quality improvement initiative
- Leadership: Being a better manager, improving communication, and retaining a committed and engaged nursing staff
These themes were reflected in the nomination essays of the nurses singled out by their peers for recognition. Here are some excerpts:
To read the rest of this FREE article, click here.
Editor's note: To read more articles like this, visit the Reading Room, part of www.StrategiesForNurseManagers.com.
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education!
Related Products
-
A Practical Guide to Staff Development, Second Edition
Staff development specialists can turn to one resource to become competent and compelling educators while implementing...
-
Simulation Training in Nursing:
This 90-minute webcast explores the many different models of simulation training available-from high-tech to low-tech-and...
-
Charge Nurse Program Builder: Tools for Developing Unit Leaders
This all-in-one training resource contains customizable tools, templates, and checklists to help nursing leaders provide...
-
Innovation in Nursing Staff Development
This ground-breaking resource guides staff development professionals through a wide variety of proven, cutting-edge teaching...
-
Professional Growth in Staff Development:
Designed to progress staff development professionals along the learning continuum from novice to expert, this resource by...
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- Featured blog post: Nurses face felony charges after reporting physician to the Texas Medical Board
- Topic: CMS, OESS post new security compliance review information, checklist
- Q/A: Volume requirement for reporting hydration services
- HIPAA Q&A: Answering service messages
- News and briefs: Oklahoma Osteopathic Association against residency bill change
- What does case-mix index mean to you?
- QA:Coding multiple initial infusions
- OB services: Coding inside and outside of the package
- State medical board will hear unprofessional charges against OB-GYN
- The debate continues: Nurses who reported physician to the Texas Medical Board file federal appeal
- E-mailed
-
- Featured blog post: Nurses face felony charges after reporting physician to the Texas Medical Board
- Are your workforce members texting PHI?
- Don't let these sentinel events trigger falsely
- Arkansas woman convicted for HIPAA violation
- Q/A: Coding infusions to correct low potassium levels
- Q&A: Coding for protein malnutrition
- Q&A tackles coding questions about injections and infusions
- Joint Commission Center announces handoff communication solutions
- Inside best practice: Reduce patient falls with a stoplight
- Identify modifiable risk factors to prevent patient falls
- Searched