Nursing excellence: Turn to APNs to meet your nursing research needs
Nurse Leader Insider, November 3, 2016
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Nurse Leader Insider!
Getting staff nurses involved in research is not easy. Along with the additional time and work required to complete a project, it’s difficult to find mentors who have the extra hours to guide nurses through the process.
“After achieving [ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® (MRP)] designation, to move forward and maintain [status], we knew we needed to involve staff nurses in research, quality improvement, and patient safety projects,” says Maureen Cavanagh, RN, C-EFM, MS, MAHCM, an APN at St. Peter’s Health Care Services—a 2005 MRP recipient—in Albany, NY. “And the people who had the skills to really lead and mentor nurses for those projects were the APNs.”
Cavanagh and colleague Patricia Newell-Helfant, RNC, MS, CPNP, also an APN, are helping St. Peter’s meet the nursing research participation expectation under Component IV: New knowledge, innovations, and improvements by pairing APNs with staff nurses. In the past two years, the new relationships have resulted in six national research presentations by staff nurses—six more than the facility had seen in the previous 25 years.
Get APNs on board
Although St. Peter’s, a 442-bed facility, has an APN for every clinical area, they weren’t all on board to be research mentors. But with the help of organizational support, many APNs were able to take on the new time commitment.
“The role of the APN had been focused heavily on education and orientation, and we needed it to move toward research and quality improvement,” Cavanagh says. “So with organizational support, [administration] discovered other ways to accomplish education and orientation activities to allow APNs, who had skills in research and quality improvement, more time to mentor nurses.”
But APNs were not the only ones who felt that lack of time was an issue with research—staff nurses felt the same way. That’s where the nurse manager came in.
“The nurse managers have really been the unsung heroes,” says Cavanagh. “They have been excellent with trying to help staff nurses carve out time to conduct research projects.”
To continue reading, click here.
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Nurse Leader Insider!
Related Products
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- CMS seeks comment on quality measures
- Practice the six rights of medication administration
- Don't forget the three checks in medication administration
- Note similarities and differences between HCPCS, CPT® codes
- ICD-10-CM coma, stroke codes require more specific documentation
- Nursing responsibilities for managing pain
- OB services: Coding inside and outside of the package
- Q&A: Primary, principal, and secondary diagnoses
- Clearing up the confusion: CPT codes 76376 and 76377
- CMS creates web portal for questions about 1135 waivers, PHE
- E-mailed
-
- Coronavirus vaccination: 4 best practices for communicating with patients
- Grievances, Complaints, and Patients’ Rights
- Including 46600 in E/M leveling systems
- How to get reimbursed for restorative nursing
- Five keys to creating a CHF disease management program
- Fetal non-stress tests represent important part of maternal and fetal health
- Coding, billing, and documentation tips for teaching physicians, interns, residents, and students
- Coding tip: Know how to correctly code each procedure an otolaryngologist can perform on turbinates
- Coding Clinic reiterates guidelines for provider documentation
- CMS creates web portal for questions about 1135 waivers, PHE
- Searched