Nursing Articles by Topic: Leadership and Management
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 1, January 9, 2012
Here's a rundown of the most-read posts from 2011:
1. Analyzing nurse staffing: Understanding...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 1, January 9, 2012
Nurses made a strong showing in this year's HealthLeaders 20, our annual profile of individuals who...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 1, January 9, 2012
A rule proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to allow changes in the...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 1, January 9, 2012
Q: My organization is developing a charge nurse orientation this year and we are having difficulty...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 51, December 19, 2011
Americans trust nurses more than any other professionals. Nurses have topped Gallup's list every...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 51, December 19, 2011
A "culture of safety" is a central value in most healthcare institutions. One crucial...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 51, December 19, 2011
When Gerald Healy was surgeon-in-chief at Boston Children's Hospital a few years back, a medical...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 51, December 19, 2011
Q: My unit has been having difficulty deciding which prevention method to use for pressure ulcers...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 50, December 12, 2011
Many patients who kill themselves in general hospital inpatient units don't have a psychiatric...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 50, December 12, 2011
A new nursing study out this week brings hospitals some welcome good news: The nursing shortage may...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 50, December 12, 2011
This year's Institute for Healthcare Improvement forum, which ended Wednesday in Orlando, provided...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 50, December 12, 2011
Q: When assessing the competency of a staff member, what is the best way to offer constructive...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 49, December 5, 2011
I helped pick the winners of the 2011 HCPro Nursing Image Awards, which marks the third year that...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 49, December 5, 2011
Last week I was writing about hot topics at the annual Nursing Management Congress. This week I've...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 49, December 5, 2011
This year's search for nurse leaders and staff who have helped elevate the image of nursing is...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 49, December 5, 2011
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With all of my responsibilities at work, it is easy to get side-tracked. Any tips on how I can...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 48, November 28, 2011
During the November 10th audio conference "Put Shared Governance Into Practice At the Unit...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 48, November 28, 2011
Healthcare workers have seen it all when it comes to safety training videos. A throaty narrator...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 48, November 28, 2011
Uninsured patients spend less time in the hospital than insured patients, according to a study that...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 48, November 28, 2011
Q: What are some strategies to help monitor the effectiveness of patient hand-offs during my...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 47, November 21, 2011
Hospital chief Sandra Coletta is making waves throughout the healthcare community after being frank...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 47, November 21, 2011
The holiday decorations are going up in my neighborhood, Thanksgiving is next week, and my mind has...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 47, November 21, 2011
There isn't much good news in the latest nationwide survey of workplace violence against emergency...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 47, November 21, 2011
Q: Some of my staff members seem lethargic lately. Any advice on how I can boost staff motivation?
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 46, November 14, 2011
The three topics on everyone's lips at last week's Nursing Management Congress were transforming...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 46, November 14, 2011
Health information technology is said to be key to improving quality and safety. But even as...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 46, November 14, 2011
Q: How can I identify nursing indicators during a peer review process?
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 45, November 7, 2011
I just returned from the annual Nursing Management Congress and it was a pleasure to meet so many...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 45, November 7, 2011
Add another voice to the call for mandatory influenza vaccinations for healthcare workers.
This...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 44, October 31, 2011
Kathleen Bartholomew, RN, MN, dared to ask the question, how can a profession that is based on...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 44, October 31, 2011
Hospitals have been working toward better patient satisfaction for years. Now, with patient...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 44, October 31, 2011
Healthcare organizations have checked a lot of technologies off their to-do lists. According to the...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 44, October 31, 2011
Q: How can I prepare myself before presenting my budget plan to a supervisor?
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 43, October 24, 2011
Staffing: what a problem! Developing and monitoring the staffing budget is one of the most, if not...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 43, October 24, 2011
Nurses are feeling the pinch from the economy as much as anyone else and a new study reveals many...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 43, October 24, 2011
Federal health, trade and anti-trust agencies on Thursday released their long-awaited set of final...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 43, October 24, 2011
Q: When hiring new nurses, I often wish I could see into the future and whether they will work out...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 42, October 17, 2011
One of the most important, although sometimes time-consuming, activities that are frequently...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 42, October 17, 2011
"What should we do with a manager who screams at employees in the hallways, gossips, and has...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 42, October 17, 2011
The American Medical Association wants Medicare to start paying doctors for four types of...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 42, October 17, 2011
Q: We frequently give out formal recognition and rewards on our unit, but I'm wondering if you...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 41, October 10, 2011
It is common for highly driven organizations to develop goals and objectives annually. In...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 41, October 10, 2011
We all know that the title "doctor" refers both to physicians with medical degrees and to...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 41, October 10, 2011
More than 135 groups of nurses, physicians, and other healthcare staff have entered the Pink Glove...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 41, October 10, 2011
Q: We recently had a patient who suffered from Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and really...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 40, October 3, 2011
How do you feel about unrestricted visiting hours? More and more organizations are moving toward...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 40, October 3, 2011
Changing reimbursement incentives are forcing hospitals to focus on preventing readmissions...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 40, October 3, 2011
Not everyone feels the same way about the blue "H" sign indicating a hospital's...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 40, October 3, 2011
Q: I am concerned there may be cases of nurse-to-nurse hostility occurring at my facility. How do I...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 39, September 26, 2011
By now, most of us involved in patient safety understand the importance of reporting, collecting...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 39, September 26, 2011
Nurses at NYU-Langone Medical Center didn't bat an eyelid when Hurricane Irene started barreling...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 39, September 26, 2011
Editor's note: A few weeks ago, we asked you to submit best practices regarding culture change...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 39, September 26, 2011
Q: How can I facilitate collaboration between nursing and medical staff at my hospital?
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 38, September 19, 2011
Yet another company outside the field of healthcare has offered its services to teach hospitals...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 38, September 19, 2011
Even with all the effort IPs put into data collection, surveillance, and education on a daily basis...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 38, September 19, 2011
Two weeks ago, this column focused on Medicare's latest HospitalCompare spreadsheet, which shows...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 38, September 19, 2011
Q: A lot of my nurses have been complaining about back and foot problems. Do you have any tips?
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 37, September 12, 2011
Improving patient satisfaction is a financial imperative. Nurses are on the frontline of patient...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 37, September 12, 2011
The possibility that Parkland Memorial Hospital could lose $417 million in federal pay stemming...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 37, September 12, 2011
Q: We don't really have a succession program in place. How do you suggest we get this off the...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 36, September 5, 2011
Medication errors are twice as likely to occur with agency and temporary emergency room (ER) nurses...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 36, September 5, 2011
How do you deal with horizontal hostility among your employees? Do you have one staff nurse who...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 36, September 5, 2011
Q: My organization does not have a new graduate nurse residency program in place. What are some...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 34, August 29, 2011
A live, free, 60-minute webcast, A Conversation with Kathleen Bartholomew: End Bullying and Toxic...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 34, August 29, 2011
Evidence shows that patient outcomes improve when nurses have baccalaureate degrees. The Future of...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 34, August 29, 2011
How do you deal with horizontal hostility among your employees? Do you have one staff nurse who...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 35, August 29, 2011
Q: When should I engage staff nurses in constructive coaching?
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 34, August 26, 2011
The last thing most hospitals want to do in a time of financial uncertainty is spend money on...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 34, August 22, 2011
New nurses need to have four-year degrees, according to the readers of...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 34, August 22, 2011
The last thing most hospitals want to do in a time of financial uncertainty is spend money on...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 34, August 22, 2011
The nursing profession is in an upheaval.
On one hand, there is pressure to push registered...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 34, August 22, 2011
Q: How can I ensure educational activities take into account the different learning styles of the...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 33, August 15, 2011
Your nurses have one eye on the door if you do any of the following.
Although economic woes...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 33, August 15, 2011
Advanced practice nurses can provide care with patient outcomes that are at least as good as, and...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 33, August 15, 2011
Q: How can I retain my older, more experienced nurses?
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 32, August 12, 2011
Your nurses have one eye on the door if you do any of the following.
Although economic woes...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 32, August 8, 2011
One day you're part of the group. Helping each other out, complaining about never having the...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 32, August 8, 2011
Patient-centered care is a healthcare buzzword, but what does it really mean? A bedside nurse would...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 32, August 8, 2011
When Joe Smith walks into a bar, chances are he isn't going to order an "alcoholic...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 32, August 8, 2011
Q: How do we develop our shared governance unit-council bylaws?
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 31, August 1, 2011
Do you have favorite nurses on your unit? Are there a couple of nurses who make you want to roll...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 31, August 1, 2011
Until the economy imploded a few years ago, every other article on the profession of nursing...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 31, August 1, 2011
Hospitals that spend more money on emergency department care for cardiac patients have lower...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 31, August 1, 2011
Q: How should we educate charge nurses about policies and procedures?
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 30, July 25, 2011
Want to build a nurse residency program for new graduates but not sure where to start? Kendra...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 30, July 25, 2011
The introduction of a new role in the emergency department at St. John's Hospital in Springfield...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 30, July 25, 2011
There's still time to nominate someone for the 2011 HCPro Nursing Image Awards. The nomination...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 30, July 25, 2011
Q: How can I find good candidates for my open staff nurse positions?
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 29, July 22, 2011
There's still time to nominate someone for the 2011 HCPro Nursing Image Awards. The nomination...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 29, July 18, 2011
A couple of weeks ago, I was running a workshop on The Language of Caring and how to communicate in...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 29, July 18, 2011
Hospitals across the country are welcoming recently graduated nurses to their units and hoping to...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 29, July 18, 2011
The Great Recession offers few silver linings, but the economic downturn has played a huge part in...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 29, July 18, 2011
Q: What's the first step to implement a Just Culture?
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 28, July 11, 2011
A pediatric patient at Shands Healthcare at the University of Florida, Gainesville made it to the...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 28, July 11, 2011
With positive role transition, graduate nurses experience a renewed confidence, sense of calm...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 28, July 11, 2011
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2012 OPPS proposed rule late...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 28, July 11, 2011
Q: How can I make sure I'm providing feedback to all my staff nurses?
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 27, July 4, 2011
During the "being" or transition crisis phase, the real work of role transition occurs...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 27, July 4, 2011
"I ask my nurses: 'When you're sitting around the table with care managers, physicians...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 27, July 4, 2011
Nominations are open for the HCPro 2011 Nursing Image Awards, which honor nurses whose leadership...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 27, July 4, 2011
The unit council is the core structure for nursing shared governance. Unit-level shared governance...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 26, June 27, 2011
It's the time of year when hospitals are welcoming new graduate nurses to their units and nurse...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 26, June 27, 2011
Mistakes are a fact of life. As the Institute of Medicine said, "To err is human." What...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 26, June 27, 2011
The American Nurses Association (ANA) has thrown its support behind a bill that would give advanced...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 26, June 27, 2011
Q: How does my organization establish a Just Culture that encourages nurses to report errors and...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 25, June 20, 2011
Everyone is talking about patient experience these days and the term is often used interchangeably...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 25, June 20, 2011
The advent of value-based purchasing has thrown everyone into a mad scramble. You can't stand in a...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 25, June 20, 2011
Nominations are open for the HCPro 2011 Nursing Image Awards, which honor nurses whose leadership...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 25, June 20, 2011
Q: How can I explain shared governance to direct-care nurses?
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 24, June 13, 2011
A new proposed rule by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) would allow the use...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 24, June 13, 2011
Nurses are rallying in Washington, DC, today to bring attention to average Americans' healthcare...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 24, June 13, 2011
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) and the Department of Health and Human...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 24, June 13, 2011
Q: How do I create an engaging classroom setting for new nurses?
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 23, June 6, 2011
The American Nurses Association (ANA) has recommended the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 23, June 6, 2011
The Joint Commission has released the latest in a series of short animated videos in its Speak Up...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 23, June 6, 2011
Q: How do I calculate the new graduate nurse turnover at my facility and use it properly to make...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 22, May 30, 2011
The American Nurses Association (ANA) issued a press release applauding The Joint Commission for...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 22, May 30, 2011
Imagine if every time you came to work, there was a pretty good chance you would face a threat of...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 22, May 30, 2011
Nurses at St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Joplin, MO carried patients from their...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 22, May 30, 2011
Q: How can nurse managers use performance evaluations to enhance healthy communication among their...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 21, May 23, 2011
Who likes to get in trouble? I know that I sure don’t! Yet, reporting a near miss event...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 21, May 23, 2011
Working long hours can compromise patient safety, yet 12-hour shifts are the norm in nursing...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 21, May 23, 2011
The Joint Commission has approved a new National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) set to go into effect...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 21, May 23, 2011
Q: How can I make sure the many alarms, systems, and other technologies I use are helping me...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 20, May 16, 2011
Q: How does crew resource management use task load division to ensure attention distribution, and...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 20, May 16, 2011
A nurse who administered a medication overdose to a child, causing that child to die, took her own...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 20, May 16, 2011
Beep. Beep. Beep.
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 20, May 16, 2011
“I work days and try to have everything ready when the doctors come in (labs in charts...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 19, May 9, 2011
According to the latest edition of the Archive of Surgery, a basic bedside technique of gently...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 19, May 9, 2011
National Nurses Week is upon us once more, giving hospital leaders an opportunity to spend time...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 19, May 9, 2011
In the coming years, the demand for nurses is projected to increase as the wealth of baby boomers...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 19, May 9, 2011
Q: After a research project, how do I effectively communicate my findings?
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 18, May 6, 2011
Has Google cracked the secret of how to be a good boss? The data geeks at Google have come to some...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 18, May 2, 2011
The Joint Commission recently told The Boston Globe that it would work with the Food and Drug...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 18, May 2, 2011
Has Google cracked the secret of how to be a good boss? The data geeks at Google have come to some...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 18, May 2, 2011
The University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago has recently installed the HyGreen system, a...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 18, May 2, 2011
Q: What decision-making strategies can I teach my charge nurses?
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 17, April 29, 2011
The average nurse is in cognitive overload, completing about 100 tasks per shift with an...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 17, April 25, 2011
A new study by the Beryl Institute, an organization that promotes better patient experiences...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 17, April 25, 2011
The average nurse is in cognitive overload, completing about 100 tasks per shift with an...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 17, April 25, 2011
HCPro will be hosting a complimentary live demo of Patient Safety Monitor on April 26! Patient...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 17, April 25, 2011
Q: What are some strategies I can teach to my charge nurses to develop and facilitate talent in...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 16, April 22, 2011
How many quality improvement projects are going on in your organization right now? How many...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 16, April 18, 2011
Just culture. This term has been thrown around in the nursing literature for many years. Many...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 16, April 18, 2011
Shelley Lockard, RN, BSN, physician marketing coordinator at Indiana (PA) Regional Medical Center...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 16, April 18, 2011
Q: How do I implement effective briefings that are used in the operating room on the nursing unit?
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 15, April 11, 2011
The Joint Commission’s Speak Up ™ campaign has launched the second in a series of...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 15, April 11, 2011
Discharge planning is a process that should begin as soon as patients are admitted to the...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 15, April 11, 2011
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released its long-awaited proposed regulations...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 15, April 11, 2011
Q: How has crew resource management used in the aviation industry been applied to healthcare and...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 14, April 4, 2011
Thomson Reuters has announced its annual study naming 100 top U.S. hospitals that have shown...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 14, April 4, 2011
How many quality improvement projects are going on in your organization right now? How many...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 14, April 4, 2011
To date, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has enrolled 25,217 hospitals and...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 14, April 4, 2011
Q: What are some important things to look for when I’m considering who to hire for a nurse...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 13, March 28, 2011
The Health & Human Services Department has released the National Strategy for Quality...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 13, March 28, 2011
Gary Sculli responds to both "nurse" and "captain" and the interesting...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 13, March 28, 2011
A survey by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) found that 75% of hospitals...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 13, March 28, 2011
Q: What are some important things to avoid when evaluating the performance of my staff?
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 12, March 21, 2011
Save the date, and enter our contest, too!
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 12, March 21, 2011
So far in 2011, nursing executives have been focused on CMS’ value-based purchasing and what...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 12, March 21, 2011
In response to the tragic earthquake, tsunami, and potential nuclear disaster in Japan, the...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 12, March 21, 2011
Q: How do nurse managers conduct a charge nurse evaluation?
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 11, March 14, 2011
According to HealthGrades annual report Patient Safety in American Hospitals, certain medical...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 11, March 14, 2011
Now that patient satisfaction and patient experience are set to be tied to reimbursement, nurse...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 11, March 14, 2011
According to a new study by The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, most recent...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 11, March 14, 2011
Q: How do I know when to give constructive feedback and coaching, and when to confront?
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 10, March 7, 2011
After almost a year of on-again, off-again contract talks and labor disputes over wages, benefits...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 10, March 7, 2011
An article about robotic technology caused a minor controversy last week when it appeared to imply...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 10, March 7, 2011
A coalition of several health organizations, including the ANA and other groups representing...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 10, March 7, 2011
Q: I just took on the role of a nurse mentor. How do I build a trusting relationship between myself...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 9, February 28, 2011
How the media portrays the nursing profession and how the public views nurses has been a...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 9, February 28, 2011
Kay Renny, RN, is on the frontlines of the preventive care battlefield. As manager of corporate...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 9, February 28, 2011
Johnson & Johnson Healthcare Systems, Inc. has released a new website for healthcare...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 9, February 28, 2011
Q: What are some interview questions I should ask candidates who are applying for a charge nurse...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 8, February 21, 2011
The search is on! HcPro is once again looking for nurse leaders and staff who have helped to...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 8, February 21, 2011
Patient satisfaction scores will soon be tied to reimbursement and the change has shifted...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 8, February 21, 2011
Nurses who work directly with patients in hospitals report higher levels of unhappiness with their...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 8, February 21, 2011
Q: What should be my end goals when trying to make a transition to a just culture in my...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 7, February 14, 2011
Q: What are some ways that leadership can communicate patient safety and a just culture to staff?
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 6, February 7, 2011
U.S. researchers report that confusion caused by look-alike and sound-alike drugs account for a...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 6, February 7, 2011
“Think globally, act locally” is a familiar idiom from the green movement, and...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 6, February 7, 2011
Physicians and nurses continue to battle over the right for nurse anesthetists to administer...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 6, February 7, 2011
Q: I get a lot of pushback from my staff when it comes to advent error reporting. They often say...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 5, January 31, 2011
How many times have you tried teaching a new skill to new orientees only for them to not...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 5, January 31, 2011
An exhibition of nursing photographs is on display this week at the Russell Senate Office Building...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 5, January 31, 2011
Rating organization HealthGrades has announced its first-ever list of America’s Top 50 Cities...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 5, January 31, 2011
Q: What is a just culture principle document, and what should it include?
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Nurse Manager Website, Issue 1, January 28, 2011
A just culture principle document in essence articulates quite clearly the organization’s...
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AHAP Staff Challenge, Issue 4, January 25, 2011
AHAP’s next working group call is TODAY, January 25th at 3 pm EST (2 pm Central, Noon...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 4, January 24, 2011
The American Nurses Association (ANA) has sent a letter to all members of the House of...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 4, January 24, 2011
The stagnant nursing job market is set to pick up in 2011, according to recent reports. After...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 4, January 24, 2011
According to a study published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, 5% of patients in a Boston...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 4, January 24, 2011
Q: What are some nurse-driven projects I can implement to improve nurse satisfaction?
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 2, January 17, 2011
It’s exciting to see the epidemic of commitment to patient and family-centered care! The...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 2, January 17, 2011
Yesterday, my mother joined Facebook. When she told me she wanted to sign up, I was perplexed. Who...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 2, January 17, 2011
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently published a report examining certain...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 2, January 17, 2011
Q: What are some nurse-driven projects I can implement to improve patient satisfaction?
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 1, January 10, 2011
The Truth About Nursing, a non-profit organization in Baltimore that seeks to increase public...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 1, January 10, 2011
Patient satisfaction is on everyone’s minds in 2011 as we face the prospect that these scores...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 1, January 10, 2011
HealthLeaders Media has put together a list of 11 healthcare buzzwords that every care provider...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 1, January 10, 2011
Q: I want to use computer-based learning, but how do I justify the cost on a tight budget?
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 52, January 3, 2011
I occasionally peruse online nursing forums to see what the hot topics are. Last night, I was on a...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 52, January 3, 2011
In the next few years, will we look back at 2010 and identify it as the year healthcare began to...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 52, January 3, 2011
A recent publication of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) suggests that the nurses have a...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 52, January 3, 2011
Q: I’d like to start using computer-based learning (CBL) for my staff training. How do I...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 51, December 27, 2010
Newspapers and websites have been inundated this year with protests, strikes, and complaints of...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 51, December 27, 2010
As educators, we place great emphasis on the effect of continuing education and training and on...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 51, December 27, 2010
The American Nurses Association (ANA) recently announced the appointment of new members to...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 51, December 27, 2010
Q: I’ve been hearing a lot about applications for mobile devices being used for...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 50, December 20, 2010
Welcome to your new e-newsletter, where we’ll provide best practices, news, and tips for...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 50, December 20, 2010
Medication reconciliation has received a facelift: revisions to the medication reconciliation...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 50, December 20, 2010
In October, the Institute of Medicine released its landmark report, sponsored by the Robert Wood...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 50, December 20, 2010
The American Nurses Association (ANA) has added a resource section in the ANA Nurse's Career Center...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 50, December 20, 2010
Q: How do I incorporate evidence-based practice into my staff orientation?
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 49, December 13, 2010
Each year, HealthLeaders Media chooses 20 people who make a difference for good in healthcare, and...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 49, December 13, 2010
Starting next week, Nurse Manager Weekly will change its name to Nurse Leader Weekly to expand its...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 49, December 13, 2010
Nurses are the most trusted professionals in the nation and once again top a list they have...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 49, December 13, 2010
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has asked U.S. health organizations to...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 49, December 13, 2010
Q: How do I incorporate communication skills into my staff orientation?
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 48, December 6, 2010
Bob Sutton, a professor at Stanford University, is the author of the book Good Boss, Bad Boss. He...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 48, December 6, 2010
Mass hospital layoffs hit the news in October, and the news probably came as no surprise to recent...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 48, December 6, 2010
The Leapfrog Group announced its annual list of top-performing hospitals in 2010 at its 10th...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 48, December 6, 2010
Q: How do I incorporate critical thinking and persuasive discussion skills into my staff...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 47, November 29, 2010
Whenever I conduct a preceptor workshop, I always ask the question, “What is the most...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 47, November 29, 2010
The winners of HCPro’s 2010 Nursing Image Awards have been announced, and this year’s...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 47, November 29, 2010
Starting in 2011, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) plan to add new standards...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 47, November 29, 2010
Q: How do I incorporate Joint Commission survey requirements into my staff orientation?
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 46, November 22, 2010
According to the recently released 2008 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses, a...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 46, November 22, 2010
The winners of HCPro’s 2010 Nursing Image Awards have been announced for two categories...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 46, November 22, 2010
Q: How can I enhance a lecture-style presentation to make it more interesting for my staff?
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 45, November 15, 2010
The Internet has proved to be a great resource for managers with the greatest challenge seeming to...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 45, November 15, 2010
In a few days, the winners of HCPro's 2010 Nursing Image Awards will be announced. This week, I'm...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 45, November 15, 2010
The study is based on HHI’s recently created Healthier Hospitals Agenda that uses...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 45, November 15, 2010
Q: What are some quality improvement (QI) programs I can start at my facility to monitor and...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 44, November 8, 2010
A survey published in a recent issue of Nursing Management revealed nurse leaders say they’re...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 44, November 8, 2010
Long after the TV news cameras have moved on, nurses keep going to earthquake-and now...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 44, November 8, 2010
Fiscal year 2010 data for OSHA fines shows that of the $708,314 in fines issued through...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 44, November 8, 2010
Q: My facility is considering an online education company to gain access to programs that offer...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 43, November 1, 2010
A friend of mine went into labor with her first child a few months ago and accounted that while she...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 43, November 1, 2010
There's no substitute for experience, especially in nursing. Experienced nurses accomplish all...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 43, November 1, 2010
A report published this week by the Healthcare Performance Management Institute suggests that...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 43, November 1, 2010
Q: How do I create an e-mail computer-based learning course?
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 42, October 25, 2010
Of course. That’s how people become empathetic in the first place. Children are...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 42, October 25, 2010
The nurse manager workforce is aging so rapidly that we face a succession planning crisis in the...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 42, October 25, 2010
Modern Healthcare announced the numeric rankings of the 2010 Best Places to Work in Healthcare at...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 42, October 25, 2010
Q: Is it necessary for my facility to have a process improvement team to see significant...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 41, October 18, 2010
When hospitals and medical groups transition to an electronic health record (EHR), many caregivers...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 41, October 18, 2010
An Institute of Medicine report emphasizes the importance of nurse education in healthcare reform...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 41, October 18, 2010
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has launched Wisdom at Work: Retaining Experienced...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 41, October 18, 2010
Q: When researching material for creating an educational or training activity, how can I find...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 1, October 14, 2010
An Institute of Medicine report emphasizes the importance of nurse education in healthcare reform...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 40, October 11, 2010
The Institute of Medicine has released a report called The Future of Nursing: Leading Change...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 40, October 11, 2010
In July, the Association for Healthcare Accreditation Professionals (AHAP) established a Facebook...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 40, October 11, 2010
The Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) and healthcare providers all over the country will join...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 39, October 4, 2010
A recent opinion piece published on the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s website brings to...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 39, October 4, 2010
Leadership development is an oft-overlooked issue in nursing, so it’s no surprise that charge...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 39, October 4, 2010
The American Nurses Association (ANA) is urging members and other nurses to take part in a...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 39, October 4, 2010
Q: A staff QI meeting for the frontline workforce in my facility is becoming increasingly...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 10, October 1, 2010
Systemic change requires visionary leadership. The board of trustees for our facility established a...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 10, October 1, 2010
When Athens (GA) Regional Medical Center (ARMC) implemented shared governance five years ago, the...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 10, October 1, 2010
If any of the excuses below sound familiar to you—if they’re excuses you’ve used...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 38, September 27, 2010
When hospitals and medical groups transition to an electronic health record (EHR), many caregivers...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 38, September 27, 2010
Last week, nurses from a Massachusetts health system were supposed to be gathered at a glittering...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 38, September 27, 2010
More males than ever are enrolling in Duquesne University's nursing program in Pittsburgh...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 38, September 27, 2010
Q: A group of new graduate nurses were recently hired at my facility. How do I ensure that I...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 37, September 20, 2010
There has been a spate of news articles in the last few months about nurse protests and threats of...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 37, September 20, 2010
A nursing appreciation gala for UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, MA, scheduled for...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 37, September 20, 2010
Q: I recently designed a quality improvement (QI) program for my facility, but staff nurses...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 36, September 13, 2010
Q: My organization is hiring a staff development specialist and I’m in charge of...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 36, September 13, 2010
Rebecca Hendren, for HealthLeaders Media, September 7th, 2010
I’ve been thinking about new...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 36, September 13, 2010
Congratulations! Modern Healthcare has named nine outstanding nurses on its 2010 list of Most...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 35, August 30, 2010
The management gap in healthcare is a real and increasing issue of concern. We do not seem to have...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 33, August 23, 2010
I’ve been doing a lot of communication skill training recently and I’m repeatedly...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 33, August 23, 2010
These are the dog days of August. We’re roasting in high temperatures and dreaming of trips...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 33, August 23, 2010
More than 1,000 nurses at two hospitals in Duluth, northern Minnesota, have rejected contract...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 33, August 23, 2010
Q: What educational programs are best conducted in a classroom setting?
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 32, August 16, 2010
You’re more likely to get burned if you don’t spend some time outside the hospital...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 32, August 16, 2010
The case management department at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA) developed a tool...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 32, August 16, 2010
A recent study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association found that the United...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 32, August 16, 2010
Q: Is there an effective way to have new charge nurses meet everyone in various departments without...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 31, August 9, 2010
Nurses are well aware of the stress that comes with the job. Taking care of numerous patients at...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 31, August 9, 2010
A grassroots campaign is underway to create an Office of the National Nurse. The initiative calls...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 31, August 9, 2010
Q. My organization is developing a quality improvement program and is going to start holding...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 30, August 2, 2010
To engage direct-care nurses in quality improvement, nurse leaders need to follow four basic rules.
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 30, August 2, 2010
How many patients one nurse can care for is a difficult question to answer with certainty. Some...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 30, August 2, 2010
Two large studies recently published in The New England Journal of Medicine say compression-only...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 30, August 2, 2010
Q. Many new orientees want guidance and support beyond the period of orientation. How can my...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 8, August 1, 2010
Inside:
Nursing excellence program provides framework for patient safety initiatives...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 8, August 1, 2010
At a time when hospitals are continually searching for ways to reduce costs while maintaining or...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 8, August 1, 2010
All staff development specialists face the challenge of motivating learners who are reluctant to...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 8, August 1, 2010
Systemic change requires visionary leadership. The board of trustees for our facility established a...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 8, August 1, 2010
How often do we hear leadership comment on the lack of ethics in the workplace? We think of ethical...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 29, July 26, 2010
Nominations are open for the HCPro 2010 Nursing Image Awards, which honor nurses whose leadership...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 29, July 26, 2010
Q. My organization is going back and forth about including staff members (non-managers) in the...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 29, July 26, 2010
Nearly half—45%—of hospital employees say they're disengaged, disempowered, and unhappy...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 29, July 26, 2010
Not being a nurse, I’ve never really thought about what happens when patients are admitted to...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 28, July 19, 2010
Q: My organization is developing a charge nurse orientation this year and we are having difficulty...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 28, July 19, 2010
Memorial Medical Center (IL) recently held an event for its staff to learn safe ways for about...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 28, July 19, 2010
A hospital stay often increases confusion and anxiety in patients with Alzheimer's disease or...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 28, July 19, 2010
Everyone has to undergo a performance review, including nurses. At some facilities, it can take...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 27, July 12, 2010
Nurses at 14 Minnesota hospitals have finally reached an agreement that will preserve nurses...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 27, July 12, 2010
Bedside nurses often grumble that the C-suite is clueless about what it's like in the trenches...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 27, July 12, 2010
Charge nurse is a term that has been around since the early 1980s and has often been used...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 26, July 5, 2010
Officials of the Minnesota Twin City hospitals say they are disappointed after the Minnesota Nurses...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 26, July 5, 2010
The Cancer Treatment Centers (CTC) of America at Midwestern Regional Medical Center in Zion, IL...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 26, July 5, 2010
In a recent post, I discussed the issue of nurses being double at risk for a heart attack. This...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 7, July 1, 2010
Mock trials are similar to debates since learners must review literature, gather evidence, and...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 7, July 1, 2010
Inside:
The verdict is in: Mock trials are guilty of teaching...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 7, July 1, 2010
Healthcare professionals tend to focus on the reason patients present to the hospital and sometimes...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 7, July 1, 2010
When Cheryl Burnette, MEd, BS, RN, CPLP, nurse retention coordinator at Centra in Lynchburg, VA...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 7, July 1, 2010
As an educator, how many times have you been asked to participate in changing a culture? The...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 7, July 1, 2010
As managers, we recognize the association of employee buy-in to outcomes. The Baptist Leadership...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 7, July 1, 2010
Next time you’re brainstorming a way to engage staff in a patient safety–related fair...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 25, June 28, 2010
Q. How can I engage the nurses on my unit in quality improvement initiatives?
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 25, June 28, 2010
In 2007, nurse Lorie Hentges was accused of killing a sick former bank executive. Now, three years...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 25, June 28, 2010
There are plenty of locations hospital security personnel have to worry about in their hospital and...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 25, June 28, 2010
Editor's note: This post comes from our monthly guest blogger; Wendy Leebov.
The maddeningly...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 24, June 21, 2010
Q: Nursing research in my organization has just been completed. Can you suggest some effective ways...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 24, June 21, 2010
Back in February, the Washington (DC) Hospital Center (WHC) fired 18 staff members because they...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 24, June 21, 2010
More than two dozen hospitals are participating in the Maryland Patient Safety Center's SAFE from...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 24, June 21, 2010
In a continuing effort to recognize nurses, the Center to Champion Nursing in America (CCNA) is...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 23, June 14, 2010
Q: I just transferred to a new organization, and as a nurse manager, what kind of financial role...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 23, June 14, 2010
Members of the California nurses union have respected a judge's order barring them from striking at...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 23, June 14, 2010
Staff members are often trained to report a potential medical error or near-miss event. However...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 23, June 14, 2010
The New York Times recently blogged about studies regarding the ill effects of workplace stress...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 22, June 7, 2010
Q: My organization is developing a shared governance model. How can I help identify nursing’s...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 22, June 7, 2010
Finnish researchers report that nurses working on units that are filled to capacity have a higher...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 22, June 7, 2010
Staff members are often trained to report a potential medical error, or near-miss event. However...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 22, June 7, 2010
June 10 could mark the largest registered nurses strike in U.S. history if nurses from California...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 22, June 4, 2010
Bedside nurses often grumble that the C-suite is clueless about what it's like in the trenches...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 6, June 1, 2010
Inside:
Combating the nurse shortage
Colorado hospital evaluates ‘missed...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 6, June 1, 2010
Market-savvy healthcare organizations have implemented workforce development strategies to address...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 6, June 1, 2010
Over the past five years, rapid response teams (RRT) have been brought to the forefront of American...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 6, June 1, 2010
There are a number of methods organizations can use to help demonstrate visibility of their CNO...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 6, June 1, 2010
The perennial problem in healthcare facilities around the country usually comes back to a very...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 6, June 1, 2010
As managers and leaders, we all want to improve our patient outcomes while balancing staff...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 21, May 31, 2010
Q: I am a new nurse manager and am looking to develop a code of conduct for the unit. What should...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 21, May 31, 2010
The Joint Commission will be releasing new standards for hospitals surrounding language, culture...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 21, May 31, 2010
Nurse educators are taking a new approach to help nurses understand and feel competent in providing...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 21, May 31, 2010
Have a great IC policy, checklist, or tool? Enter our contest to win a free product!Take this...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 21, May 31, 2010
Nominations are open for the HCPro 2010 Nursing Image Awards, which honor nurses whose leadership...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 20, May 24, 2010
Q: My organization has just recently identified its nursing sensitive indicators. Is there a way I...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 20, May 24, 2010
Physicians and nurses of Olive View-UCLA Medical Center in Sylmar, CA, gathered outside on May 19...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 20, May 24, 2010
NPSG.15.01.01 requires that patients being treated for emotional or behavioral disorders be...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 20, May 24, 2010
After months of negotiations, nurses in Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN, have voted and authorized a...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 19, May 17, 2010
Q: How can I identify nursing indicators during a peer review process?
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 19, May 17, 2010
Rural Canadian hospitals share a common problem with their U.S. counterparts: Retention of health...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 19, May 17, 2010
Hospitalist programs could help all types of institutions, according to speakers at the pre-course...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 19, May 17, 2010
Nurses are all too familiar with stereotypes. Just a few weeks ago, nurses around the world spoke...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 18, May 10, 2010
Q: What kind of role does communication play in quality improvement?
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 18, May 10, 2010
Next time your nursing staff members complain about having too much paperwork and not enough time...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 18, May 10, 2010
Every year in May, as Nurses Week approaches, I stop and reflect about the gifts of caring that...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 17, May 3, 2010
Q: My facility is in the early stages of preparing to apply for American Nurses Credentialing...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 17, May 3, 2010
An extensive federal survey of nursing trends from 2004 to 2008 shows a growing diversity of...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 17, May 3, 2010
Nursing culture is shaped by many internal factors, including barriers such as poor communication...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 5, May 1, 2010
Staff development specialists have always believed in the intrinsic value of our services. We know...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 5, May 1, 2010
Inside: See the discharge process through the patient’s eyes Ohio hospital keeps...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 5, May 1, 2010
The most important people in a hospital are not the physicians, the nurses, or the executives; they...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 5, May 1, 2010
In October 2008, staff members at Riverside Methodist Hospital (RMH) in Columbus, OH, approached...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 5, May 1, 2010
The ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® requires hospitals to have evidence-based practice...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 5, May 1, 2010
Originally introduced by The Joint Commission to the standards in July 2002, staffing effectiveness...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 5, May 1, 2010
Simulation in healthcare is often considered an emerging field. In the past 10–15 years, we...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 16, April 26, 2010
Q: My unit has been having difficulty deciding which prevention method to use for pressure ulcers...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 16, April 26, 2010
Providing learning opportunities for evening and night shift staff requires innovation and...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 16, April 26, 2010
The University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) AACN Nurse Residency Program TM (NRP) has helped...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 15, April 19, 2010
Q: What are the differences between orientation and skills checklists?
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 15, April 19, 2010
Hospital nurses spend three hours of a typical 12-hour shift away from the patients' bedside to...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 15, April 19, 2010
In 2009, the University of Iowa conducted a study reviewing 201 health systems with a total of...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 14, April 12, 2010
Q: What kind of advice can I offer the few nurses on my unit who have begun research studies and...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 14, April 12, 2010
A recent study conducted by Jackson Healthcare, in Alpharetta, GA, found that 73% of the 2,439...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 14, April 12, 2010
Identifying patients at risk for suicide has been a requirement of the National Patient Safety...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 14, April 12, 2010
A recent benchmarking report posted on the Strategies for Nurse Managers Web site surveyed 179...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 13, April 5, 2010
Q: My facility has put an emphasis on quality improvement over the past few months. How can I...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 13, April 5, 2010
Over the past several years, MDROs have become a leading concern for medical facilities attempting...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 13, April 5, 2010
When the phrase “book club” comes up, one thinks of a group of people, meeting at a...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 4, April 1, 2010
Author’s note: I am the director of employee and organizational development at Aurora Health...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 4, April 1, 2010
Inside:
Matching the right people to the right responsibility
New code of conduct...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 4, April 1, 2010
In this issue, read how to enhance your credibility; learn best practices for providing education...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 4, April 1, 2010
Nurse managers are used to having to do morewith less, and finding staff to take on new duties to...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 4, April 1, 2010
When it comes to certain policies, it’s all about the details.
In 2006, Pam Harmon, RN...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 4, April 1, 2010
The “silo effect” can be very damaging to a hospital system. It occurs when hospital...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 4, April 1, 2010
Staffing and scheduling is a tiresome process for most organizations. Nothing causes more arguments...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 4, April 1, 2010
A successful new hire orientation requires planning, execution, and follow-up of learning...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 4, April 1, 2010
Just when you think we understand our staff, their needs, and how to motivate them, someone comes...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 12, March 29, 2010
Q: I am a new nurse manager on my unit and am wondering how I can improve communication and...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 12, March 29, 2010
Statistics show that one in every five nursing graduates will leave their jobs after the first year...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 12, March 29, 2010
The quick acquittal in February 2010 of Texas whistleblower Anne Mitchell, RN, has nursing...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 11, March 22, 2010
I am working on improving how staff members on my unit are recognized and rewarded. What are the...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 11, March 22, 2010
It’s no secret that hospitals across the country struggle with many challenges. Among them is...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 11, March 22, 2010
A new report in the Harvard Business Review contradicts the idea that employees value recognition...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 10, March 15, 2010
Q: How can I ensure I will not be brought to court for letting go a problem employee?
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 10, March 15, 2010
Guest writer Carol Anne Kozik, CAS, MS, FNP discusses the roles of nurse informaticists.
Imagine a...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 10, March 15, 2010
To those outside the nursing profession, it may be a bit frightening to hear the phrase...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 9, March 8, 2010
Q: How can I improve the nursing culture on my unit?
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 9, March 8, 2010
For years, workplace violence has affected many nurses because of the type of environment they work...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 9, March 8, 2010
Overcoming the cultural boundaries that can prevent a patient-physician relationship from forming...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 9, March 8, 2010
In the aftermath of what President Obama dubbed “Snowmaggedon,” the Washington, DC...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 8, March 1, 2010
Q: A new preceptor recently joined my unit and wants to develop a unit-specific competency-based...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 8, March 1, 2010
In one small New Jersey town, Irene Cavall is the lone primary care provider overseeing 4,000...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 8, March 1, 2010
Nurse anesthetists across the country are vehemently defending their ability to administer...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 8, March 1, 2010
AMN Healthcare recently conducted its 2010 Survey of Registered Nurses to address the issues of job...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 3, March 1, 2010
Inside:
Voice recording technology improves patient handoff process
RapidView provides real-time...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 3, March 1, 2010
When Kathleen Mikos, RN, MSN, CNO and vice president of patient care, came to Ingalls Memorial...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 3, March 1, 2010
A small room just off the admissions area at Tufts Medical Center in Boston contains what many in...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 3, March 1, 2010
It takes a special person to be a mentor. It takes time, energy, and commitment. “I became a...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 3, March 1, 2010
On December 3, 2009, the FDA issued a safety alert to healthcare providers concerning adverse...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 3, March 1, 2010
More than 90% of companies have instituted some form of cutbacks of late and, as a result, employee...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 3, March 1, 2010
In November 2006, CMS changed its requirement for security of medications, stating that...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 3, March 1, 2010
No manager wants to terminate an employee, but sometimes performance issues require you do so.
As...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 7, February 22, 2010
Q: On my unit, I am beginning to notice some hostility between nurses, and was wondering what...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 7, February 22, 2010
Physician-patient interaction is the key to a new telemedicine pilot program with community centers...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 7, February 22, 2010
The first section of the workshop presentation summarizes the charge nurse role. The role...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 6, February 15, 2010
This week, Diana Swihart, PhD, DMin, MSN, CS, RN-BC, discusses how to help new nurses overcome...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 6, February 15, 2010
The charges against Anne Mitchell, a former administrative nurse at Winkler County Memorial...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 6, February 15, 2010
Physicians have been doing it for decades, but nursing has been slow to adopt peer review as a...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 6, February 15, 2010
The workshop should open with an icebreaker activity called “Fear in the Bucket.” This...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 5, February 8, 2010
On February 2, more than 1,500 nurses from the Washington State Nurses Association (WSNA) held an...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 5, February 8, 2010
A gap appears to exist between policymakers' expectations of commercial electronic medical records...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 5, February 8, 2010
As the amount of patients admitted to hospitals every day increases, it becomes more pressing to...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 5, February 1, 2010
This week, Gina Boring, MSN, RN, NE-BC, senior nurse consultant, HealthLinx, Inc. discusses the...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 5, February 1, 2010
According to a recent survey conducted by Gallup on behalf of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 5, February 1, 2010
For the first time in history, there are four distinct generations in the American workplace...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 5, February 1, 2010
In one of our recent blog posts on The Leaders' Lounge, we talked about how a Tennessee hospital...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 2, February 1, 2010
The complexities of healthcare delivery systems require communication tools that are effective and...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 2, February 1, 2010
When the University of Colorado Hospital (UCH) moved to a new facility in July 2007, it saw an...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 2, February 1, 2010
Each year, medication errors are responsible for 7,000 patient deaths and cost the healthcare...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 2, February 1, 2010
Coughing children, teens with gunshot wounds, patients with broken bones; for many facilities, the...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 2, February 1, 2010
Although The Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goals force many organizations to...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 2, February 1, 2010
It takes more than one method to bring a hospital’s hand hygiene compliance rate above 90...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 2, February 1, 2010
Inside this issue, learn how to improve hand hygiene rates through a variety of reinforcement...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 4, January 25, 2010
Nominations are open for the HCPro 2010 Nursing Image Awards, which honor nurses whose leadership...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 4, January 25, 2010
While it might not qualify yet as a warm embrace, safety and facilities professionals in hospitals...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 4, January 25, 2010
The next time you get ready for a pre-employment drug test, remember to stay away from poppy seed...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 4, January 25, 2010
Q: I am beginning to develop a peer review process on my unit, but am concerned about the legal...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 3, January 18, 2010
A few of the nurses on my unit have approached me about nursing research. What information can I...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 3, January 18, 2010
Nurses on a med-surg unit at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, MI, used to spend only 30% of...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 3, January 18, 2010
Chronic wound care is among the procedures patients are not putting off amid the economic...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 3, January 18, 2010
Nurses are always trying to find ways to do more for the profession that they love. In most cases...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 2, January 15, 2010
As the amount of patients admitted to hospitals every day increases, it becomes more pressing to...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 2, January 11, 2010
What are the differences between orientation checklists and skills checklists?
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 2, January 11, 2010
When the first doses of the H1N1 vaccine became available to those at high risk of contracting and...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 2, January 11, 2010
There were no patients waiting for emergency care at Oregon's Sacred Heart Medical Center RiverBend...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 2, January 11, 2010
The amount of care required by hospitalized patients seems to grow every year, and many nurses in...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 1, January 4, 2010
What are some strategies to help monitor the effectiveness of patient hand-offs during my nurses...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 1, January 4, 2010
At noon on New Year's Day, the nursing staff of Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital (OLBH) joined other...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 1, January 4, 2010
When a new patient enters a hospital, staff members generally follow the same routine. The...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 1, January 4, 2010
On any given day at Sarasota Memorial Healthcare System in Florida, the overhead page was going off...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 1, January 1, 2010
Although we are in the midst of great financial challenges, do not let this mislead you regarding...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 1, January 1, 2010
Covered entities and business associates can protect themselves against the dangers of unsecured...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 1, January 1, 2010
In a world where consumers can collect encyclopedic knowledge on a car or home electronics...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 1, January 1, 2010
With Joint Commission standards requiring patient and visitor education on healthcare-associated...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 1, January 1, 2010
The phrase “simulation modalities” may conjure up a variety of images. For example...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 1, January 1, 2010
When nurses hear the word “research,” they often run in the opposite direction. But...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 1, January 1, 2010
Inside this issue, one organization shares how it engaged nurses in evidence-based practice through...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 51, December 28, 2009
Q: I am new to the nurse manager’s role and still have trouble distinguishing between the...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 51, December 28, 2009
Many intensive care units do not have enough doctors and nurses to care for their patients, so many...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 51, December 28, 2009
When a new patient enters a hospital, staff members generally follow the same routine. The...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 51, December 28, 2009
Have you ever needed to look up a hospital regulation in a neighboring state and not known where to...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 50, December 21, 2009
Q: Some preceptors on my unit are training to be mentors and I am unfamiliar with the role mentors...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 50, December 21, 2009
2010 marks the 100th anniversary of Florence Nightingale's death, and Holly Shaw, RN, PhD...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 50, December 21, 2009
When a patient visits his or her doctor, a certain level of trust is inherent in the interaction...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 50, December 21, 2009
The Initiative on the Future of Nursing was launched at the beginning of 2009 by the Institute of...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 49, December 14, 2009
Each year, HealthLeaders Media selects 20 people who are making a difference for good in...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 49, December 14, 2009
Designation as a stroke center requires that all clinical and nonclinical hospital employees...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 49, December 14, 2009
As a nurse manager, you have many legal concerns. Not only must you be concerned with your own...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 48, December 7, 2009
Q: Transitioning from a nursing student to an RN can be stressful. How can I help new RNs identify...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 48, December 7, 2009
Despite the recession, the number of vacant nursing positions still has most facilities concerned...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 48, December 7, 2009
In 1998, The University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City, KS, was faced with a patient...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 48, December 7, 2009
Trying to decide whether that cough and on and off fever is something you should go see your doctor...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 12, December 1, 2009
Kathleen Bartholomew, RC, RN, MN, is well known for her work related to nurse-to-nurse hostility...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 12, December 1, 2009
Those who plan to move patients into exit corridors when routine ED overcrowding occurs may want to...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 12, December 1, 2009
Keeping many new patient safety topics and initiatives fresh in the minds of frontline caregivers...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 12, December 1, 2009
Encouraging staff members to submit posters for presentation at local and national conferences or...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 12, December 1, 2009
When patients come into the hospital with an illness or health problem, staff members must do all...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 12, December 1, 2009
On June 31, the New York State Health Department released a report detailing the...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 12, December 1, 2009
Inside this issue: In this issue learn how a hospital quickly reduced its central line bloodstream...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 47, November 30, 2009
Q: What are the different methods used for calculating budgets?
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 47, November 30, 2009
Psychiatric nurse Trisha Pearce witnessed first hand what the war can do to returning soldiers and...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 47, November 30, 2009
If your organization doesn’t employ clinical nurse leaders (CNL), perhaps it’s time it...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 47, November 30, 2009
The July 28 blog post discussing ways to boost nurse morale in a time of uncertainty has been one...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 46, November 23, 2009
Q: As a nurse manager dealing with new nursing graduates, what are some key ethical concepts I...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 46, November 23, 2009
Like most nurses that have been practicing for more than three decades, Mary McMahon, a nurse from...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 46, November 23, 2009
The Joint Commission and the Department of Health and Human Services last week released a 30-minute...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 46, November 23, 2009
In one of our recent blog posts on the Leaders' Lounge, we talked about the public image of nursing...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 45, November 16, 2009
Every year, millions of dollars in unused medical supplies are thrown away because of strict...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 45, November 16, 2009
Some people love diagrams and charts. The concentric circles and interpretive arrows make...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 45, November 16, 2009
In one of our recent blog posts on the Leaders' Lounge, we talked about programs geared toward...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 44, November 9, 2009
Recently on my unit, I have noticed a strain between nurse-physician relationships. Are there any...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 44, November 9, 2009
In July 2009, Midland Memorial Hospital (MMH), in Midland, TX, went live with a telephone nursing...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 44, November 9, 2009
When a professional fighter allegedly went haywire in a Nevada hospital and attacked nurses, it...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 44, November 9, 2009
In one of our recent blog posts on the Leaders' Lounge, we talked about re-recruiting for...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 43, November 2, 2009
The New Jersey Hospital Association's Institute for Quality and Patient Safety (NJHA) has launched...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 43, November 2, 2009
In the wake of the country's nurse shortage, many nurses are wearing more than one hat during the...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 43, November 2, 2009
In one of our recent blog posts on the Leaders' Lounge, we talked about alternative therapies and...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 11, November 1, 2009
Managers everywhere are hearing the same song
played repeatedly, and the name of the tune is...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 11, November 1, 2009
Imagine the situation: You have just finished interviewing
a nurse for an open position. Her...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 11, November 1, 2009
In 2007, as part of an annual performance improvement
review, Leisa Butler, RHIA, CPHQ...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 11, November 1, 2009
Imagine you could interact with multiple patients, diagnose
and treat their illnesses, administer...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 11, November 1, 2009
In an effort to eliminate medication errors, Central
Vermont Medical Center (CVMC) in Barre has...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 11, November 1, 2009
For the first time in history, there are four distinct
generations in the American workplace...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 11, November 1, 2009
Inside this issue: In this issue learn how different generations’ characteristics affect...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 42, October 26, 2009
Q: As a nurse manager, how can I get staff members to be accountable?
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 42, October 26, 2009
The nursing shortage threatening to plague the country over the next decade was recently addressed...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 42, October 26, 2009
In today's culture, many hospitals are increasing their focus on patient-centered...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 42, October 26, 2009
In one of our recent blog posts on the Leaders' Lounge, we addressed the issue of nurse...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 41, October 19, 2009
Our new feature highlights one free downloadable tool each month. Click over to our Web site...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 41, October 19, 2009
The amount of sleep a healthcare worker receives each day or night affects everyone in the...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 41, October 19, 2009
The head wound patient in the emergency department's bay three just threw up and a patient...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 41, October 19, 2009
In one of our recent blog posts on the Leaders' Lounge, we posted some time management tips for...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 40, October 12, 2009
Q: What are the steps for creating a culture that drives great nurse performance?
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 40, October 12, 2009
Texas Health Resources, a large nonprofit health system primarily operating in north Texas, has...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 40, October 12, 2009
The first doses of the H1N1 vaccination have officially arrived in the United States and a nurse...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 39, October 5, 2009
Q: How can I create a healthy environment for nursing students?
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 39, October 5, 2009
The official version of the 2010 National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) have been released by the...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 39, October 5, 2009
In recent years, multi-drug resistant organisms (MDRO) have come under increased scrutiny...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 39, October 5, 2009
This past summer, nurses Mary Cohn and Annette Bargmann of Anne Arundel Medical Center (AAMC) in...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
Preventing the spread of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO) in your facility is increasingly...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
We received close to 200 nominations for the two categories in the HCPro 2009 Nursing Image...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
Perhaps one of the biggest challenges in conducting
EBP projects is learning how to search the...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
Training staff members on HIPAA is tough because two things are certain: You have to train nearly...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
Inside this issue: Discover how customizing HIPAA training for different employee groups can make...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 38, September 28, 2009
Wednesday saw the season premiere of NBC's new nursing series, Mercy, and we want to know what you...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 38, September 28, 2009
The National Quality Forum (NQF) included modifications to the medication management chapter in its...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 38, September 28, 2009
A new technology to monitor hand hygiene being tested at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 38, September 28, 2009
Q: What are the criteria for treating a catheter-associated urinary tract infection?
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HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, Issue 38, September 22, 2009
Q: Our senior leadership is enthusiastically supportive of our effort to achieve ANCC Magnet...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 37, September 21, 2009
Peter Druker, often called the Father of Modern Management, made the following observation...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 37, September 21, 2009
The Joint Commission has announced it will adopt a new accreditation decision for 2010. This...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 37, September 21, 2009
A universal floor plan instituted at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in LA since 2007 has been shown to...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 37, September 21, 2009
Q: What role do critical thinking skills play when charting?
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 35, September 7, 2009
Studies show that up to 60% of new nurse graduates leave their first job within their first year...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 35, September 7, 2009
It seems like potential pandemics require an animal in the title—especially if the word...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 35, September 7, 2009
HCPro, Inc. is proud to announce the winners of the 2009 Nursing Image Awards. The awards recognize...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 35, September 7, 2009
The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) hospital survey was...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
When you ask nurse managers what their style of leadership is, you may hear responses such as...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
Many staff nurses at The Methodist Hospital System in Houston have experienced the racing heart...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
A nurse residency must be more than an extended orientation. New graduate nurses are not just...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
Inside this issue: Discover how to implement a successful nurse residency program; how public...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 34, August 31, 2009
This week, Bonnie Clair, MSN, RN, retention project manager at CoxHealth in Springfield, MO, shares...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 34, August 31, 2009
On May 12, The Joint Commission released proposed changes to the National Patient Safety Goals...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 34, August 31, 2009
A practice most Americans assumed belonged to a bygone era could be about to make a comeback. A...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 34, August 31, 2009
Q: What risk factors should my nurses watch for to identify patients who may have a...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 33, August 24, 2009
This week, Bonnie Clair, BSN, RN, retention project manager at CoxHealth in Springfield, MO, shares...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 33, August 24, 2009
A divide commonly exists between rural communities and healthcare access, but a grant will soon...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 33, August 24, 2009
The U.S. will have only accrued 45 million doses of the H1N1 vaccine—also known as the swine...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 33, August 24, 2009
Q: Can you provide me with scripting techniques that will help my staff confidently discuss pain...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 32, August 17, 2009
We all try to shape up our physical appearance at one time or another. Or we may make an internal...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 32, August 17, 2009
If a patient walked into a physician's office or a hospital and saw evidence that the facility...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 32, August 17, 2009
What’s the secret to a long, healthy life? According to a new study, there isn’t just...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 32, August 17, 2009
This week, learn how to enhance educational PowerPoint presentations with advice from staff...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 31, August 10, 2009
This week, experts Sandra Petersen, DNP, APRN, GNP-BC, program track administrator and assistant...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 31, August 10, 2009
A recent national study conducted among 23,000 people by the Centers for Disease Control and...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 31, August 10, 2009
A New York City nurse slapped a lawsuit on her hospital after allegedly being forced to assist in a...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 31, August 10, 2009
A growing number of Americans are seeking medication—rather than therapy—to treat...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 30, August 3, 2009
Improving nursing satisfaction is tough in bad economic times, when many hospitals are experiencing...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 30, August 3, 2009
Peer Assistance Services, a Colorado nonprofit organization that provides guidance, support, and...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 30, August 3, 2009
More than half of emergency department (ED) nurses who participated in a national online survey by...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 30, August 3, 2009
Effective communication is complex in the healthcare setting. Emotions, thoughts, and reactions to...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 8, August 1, 2009
Our reliance as managers on the interview process has served us well in the past—or has it?
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 8, August 1, 2009
Peer evaluations and self appraisals can be useful tools to measure competence and professional...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 8, August 1, 2009
Editor's note: This article is part one of a two-part series about nurse residency programs. Keep...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 8, August 1, 2009
Discover how nurse residency programs help new graduates overcome the difficult transition from...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 29, July 27, 2009
This week, expert Judith "Ski" Lower, RN, MSN, CCRN, CNRN alumnus, independent lecturer...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 29, July 27, 2009
As the terms "podcasts", "wikis", and "blogs" fill the vocabulary of...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 29, July 27, 2009
Nurse salaries are climbing considerably across the nation, according to recently released employer...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 29, July 27, 2009
More Maryland men are entering nursing schools and seeking nursing jobs during the current...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 28, July 20, 2009
It can be helpful for adult learners to identify their own learning style so they can determine...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 28, July 20, 2009
Nearly three-quarters of nurses who participated in an American Nurses Association (ANA) online...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 28, July 20, 2009
The World Health Organization (WHO) stated the H1N1 virus was "unstoppable" last week and...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 28, July 20, 2009
This week, expert Carole Eldridge, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, dean, campus director, and associate professor...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 27, July 13, 2009
This week, staff development expert Adrianne Avillion, DEd, RN, owner of Avillion’s...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 27, July 13, 2009
Twitter, the social networking site that allows users to keep friends, family, and colleagues...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 27, July 13, 2009
Nurses cure the sick, heal the wounded, and comfort the dying, but are they doing so at their own...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 27, July 13, 2009
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently set an environmental public health...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 26, July 6, 2009
More than 60% of nurses end up leaving their job within the first two years of becoming a nurse. In...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 26, July 6, 2009
Nurses all too often see the brutal aftermath of gun shootings, sexual assault, child abuse, and...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 26, July 6, 2009
An advisory panel of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued a report last week identifying 100...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 26, July 6, 2009
This week, Kathleen L. Garrison, MSN, RN, clinical educator in the nursing practice, education, and...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 7, July 1, 2009
Inside this issue: The new multi-drug resistant organism that’s worrying infection control...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 7, July 1, 2009
Although much of the focus of multidrug-resistant organisms has been on MRSA, a relatively new and...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 7, July 1, 2009
Patient discharge usually takes a backseat to ¬other quality and patient safety measures that...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 7, July 1, 2009
Delegation is critical to time management and productivity. Each member of the team has a valuable...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 7, July 1, 2009
Interviewing for a nursing job can be daunting. Your body stiffens, your mouth goes dry, and your...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 7, July 1, 2009
Finding ways to motivate staff nurses to conduct nursing research can be difficult. From the...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 7, July 1, 2009
Data collection is a hallmark for nursing as a process to measure and assess the care we provide to...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 25, June 29, 2009
This week, Bonnie Clair, MSN, RN, retention project manager at CoxHealth in Springfield, MO...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 25, June 29, 2009
Hospitals commonly display visual aids, such as banners, posters, and signs to remind staff to...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 25, June 29, 2009
Lengthy wait times are not patients' top concern in hospital emergency departments (ED), according...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 25, June 29, 2009
Nurses are patient advocates who play a lead role in helping manage and relieve their patients...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 24, June 22, 2009
Along with sorting through the emotions and memories from her medical mission trip to Haiti, Bonnie...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 24, June 22, 2009
One survey. Five hospitals. More than 40 ambulatory and outpatient locations. When Joint Commission...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 24, June 22, 2009
The declining economy has led to surging nurse employment rates that could soon end the nation's...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 24, June 22, 2009
The right and left hemispheres of the brain process information differently, and learners tend to...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 23, June 15, 2009
We have all been in the situation where we are talking with a manager or supervisor about something...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 23, June 15, 2009
Propped up on a pillow, wearing a baseball hat and a pink cast on his ankle, the patient is...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 23, June 15, 2009
Slimmer budgets have led to trimmer infection prevention staff and resources in several U.S...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 23, June 15, 2009
This week, expert Diana Swihart, PhD, DMin, MSN, CS, APRN,BC, clinical nurse specialist at the Bay...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 22, June 8, 2009
Last week, we released a report on the state of nursing in the current economy on...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 22, June 8, 2009
Two new fictional nurses, “Jackie Peyton” (portrayed in Showtime’s Nurse Jackie...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 22, June 8, 2009
Fast food establishments have come to a halt at several hospitals in the U.S. Farmers markets, on...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 22, June 8, 2009
This week, Jo-Ann C. Byrne, RN, BS, MHSA, director of education and organizational development at...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 21, June 1, 2009
In a meeting, you want participants to process information in a useful way that adds value. Each...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 21, June 1, 2009
Marsha-Gaye Elson-Joseph, BSN, knew her nursing career could take her anywhere. Different...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 21, June 1, 2009
As part of our Nurses Week celebration, HCPro, Inc. included a quiz about Florence Nightingale in...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 6, June 1, 2009
Are you strapped in for the roller-coaster ride of change? It is a time when healthcare managers...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 6, June 1, 2009
By 2030, there will be more than 72 million Americans over 65 years old—almost 20% of the...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 6, June 1, 2009
Staff members at Abington (PA) Memorial Hospital (AMH) knew their patient handoff process needed...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 6, June 1, 2009
Reports from the field indicate that validation surveys by state surveyors on behalf of...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 6, June 1, 2009
At Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, the use of sitters (staff members who sit with...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 6, June 1, 2009
It's called survivor guilt, and many people are dealing with it as layoffs continue to affect their...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 6, June 1, 2009
Hospitals can be a frightening place for children, which creates a barrier of distrust nurses must...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 6, June 1, 2009
In this issue, find out how one facility's hall passes enhance patient handoffs; supporting your...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 21, June 1, 2009
This week, expert Judith “Ski” Lower, RN, MSN, CCRN, CNRN, former nurse manager of the...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 20, May 18, 2009
Last week, we provided a checklist to help you recognize the presence of fatigue at your facility...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 20, May 18, 2009
Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a constant headache for hospitals around the country. It...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 20, May 18, 2009
President Barack Obama’s proposed healthcare workforce development funding for fiscal year...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 20, May 18, 2009
This week, June Marshall, RN, MS, NEA-BC, Lucy Bird, RN, and Laura Maverick, BSN, RN-BC, provide...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 19, May 11, 2009
The difficult economy has added stress and anxiety to the workplace. Longer hours, smaller staff...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 19, May 11, 2009
The State University of New York (SUNY) New Paltz will say goodbye to 167 graduating nursing...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 19, May 11, 2009
President Barack Obama requested Congress disburse $63 billion over the next six years to drive his...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 19, May 11, 2009
This week, expert KT Waxman, DNP, MBA, RN, CNL, president of Waxman & Associates healthcare...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 18, May 4, 2009
Numerous cases of the new strain of the swine flu surfaced last week in several corners of the U.S...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 18, May 4, 2009
Florence Nightingale is regarded as the founder of modern nursing. She helped establish the...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 18, May 4, 2009
A Dean Health System physician made an incision during a recent routine surgery. A nurse manager...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 18, May 4, 2009
This week, Suzanne C. Beyea, RN, PhD, FAAN, director of nursing research at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
Learn how to get more infection control for your money; Web site lets facilities surf toward...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
If you work in the healthcare industry today, you are likely feeling the pressure of doing more...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
Imagine someone showing up with a suspicious package on one of your hospital floors. Would your...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
CAUTIs are the most common of all hospital-acquired conditions (HAC). Eighty percent of UTIs result...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
Achieving complete patient satisfaction is every facility’s goal when implementing a patient...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
Constructing a tracer process from scratch for a 645-bed hospital is no simple matter, but that was...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
Although flying to a tropical island or a snowy ski resort are great ways to spend a vacation, a...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
How do you handle a staff member who has made a medical error? Does your intervention vary...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 17, April 27, 2009
Stress can be around every corner of your facility. Nurses must care for complicated patients, work...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 17, April 27, 2009
Finding ways to motivate staff nurses to conduct nursing research can be difficult. At the outset...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 17, April 27, 2009
We want to hear from business associates about their need for HIPAA training. Business associates...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 17, April 27, 2009
This week, expert Debbie Buchwach, BSN, RN-BC, education consultant in the Center for Learning and...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 16, April 20, 2009
Are you searching for the ideal gift to show your gratitude to a fellow nurse? Is it time to reward...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 16, April 20, 2009
Hospitals can be a frightening place for children, creating a barrier of distrust nurses must work...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 16, April 20, 2009
Patients using Google Health—a new free online resource for storing and managing healthcare...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 16, April 20, 2009
This week, Carole Eldridge, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, dean, campus director, and associate professor at St...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 15, April 13, 2009
As HCPro continues its countdown to Nurses’ Week, our focus moves to improving the image of...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 15, April 13, 2009
It’s not uncommon for hospitals to offer some variation of simulation-based training in which...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 15, April 13, 2009
The economic downturn has led to a scarcity of available jobs and an abundance of job-hungry people...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 15, April 13, 2009
Nurse managers have many opportunities to expect accountability from their staff, both during...
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HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, Issue 14, April 7, 2009
As the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® (MRP) coordinator, your role and responsibilities can...
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HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, Issue 14, April 7, 2009
This week, a reader asks how to demonstrate in the written documentation that the CNO influences...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 14, April 6, 2009
Nurses’ Week doesn’t start officially until May 6, but HCPro, Inc. is starting the...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 14, April 6, 2009
In 2003, staff members at Iowa Health System (IHS) identified poor health literacy as an ongoing...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 14, April 6, 2009
The quest for specialized healthcare can take patients hundreds of thousands of miles away from...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 14, April 6, 2009
This week, learn how a self-assessment tool can shine a light on new nurses’ critical...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 4, April 1, 2009
Poor patient flow affects patient care, safety, and satisfaction. Patients often face obstacles to...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 4, April 1, 2009
In a healthcare facility, nurses, physicians, administrators, and other employees are likely to...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 4, April 1, 2009
Mandatory HIPAA training is usually met by staff members with the same excitement as a trip to the...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 4, April 1, 2009
For years we have placed great emphasis on the mission and value statements of our organizations...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 4, April 1, 2009
In 2005, Pam Stodghill, MS, RN, director of performance improvement and risk management at Shriners...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 4, April 1, 2009
In this issue: One facility's HIPAA video trains and entertains staff; boost nursing research...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 4, April 1, 2009
Since Shelley Cohen, RN, BS, CEN, president of Health Resources Unlimited, a healthcare education...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 4, April 1, 2009
The research director at Cleveland Clinic has successfully guided staff nurses through research...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 13, March 30, 2009
Nurse managers are in one of the most difficult roles in any organization. They must manage nursing...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 13, March 30, 2009
Sometimes it seems as though the “e” in e-mail could stand for “easy.” With...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 13, March 30, 2009
President Barack Obama’s plans to restructure the U.S. healthcare system would allot $634...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 13, March 30, 2009
This week, Patricia A. Duclos-Miller, MS, RN, NE-BC, associate professor of nursing at Capital...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 12, March 23, 2009
This week, Kathleen Bartholomew, RC, RN, MN, discusses how nurse managers can create collaborative...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 12, March 23, 2009
Only 9% of women who work in the healthcare industry are very satisfied with their work-life...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 12, March 23, 2009
March is patient safety month, and to celebrate, below are some tips for hospitals to increase...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 12, March 23, 2009
This week, Kathleen Garrison, MSN, RN, clinical educator of nursing education and professional...
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HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, Issue 11, March 17, 2009
This week, a reader asks for methods for organizing a steering committee. Read the response from...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 11, March 16, 2009
Being a nurse can be empowering. You and your staff have the knowledge to ease pain, heal injury...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 11, March 16, 2009
Patient satisfaction scores fell to 33% at CHRISTUS Hospital-St. Mary in Port Arthur, TX, in 2005...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 11, March 16, 2009
Nursing is an ever-changing profession. With every shift comes a new challenge to work through...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 11, March 16, 2009
This week, Jill Duncan, RN, MS, MPH, director of the IHI Open School for Health Professions in...
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Stressed Out Nurses Weekly, Issue 10, March 9, 2009
Since Shelley Cohen, RN, BS, CEN, president of Health Resources Unlimited, a healthcare education...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 10, March 9, 2009
Orientation is a critical, and often stressful, period for new graduate nurses. Adapting to a new...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 10, March 9, 2009
If you want to see someone's true behavior, watch what they do when they think no one is looking...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 10, March 9, 2009
Hospitals' median profit margins dropped to zero in the third quarter of 2008, an all-time low...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 10, March 9, 2009
This week, Laura J. Weber, RN, BSN, MBA/HCM, director of quality management, and Melissa A...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 9, March 2, 2009
This week, Shelley Cohen, RN, BS, CEN, president and founder of Health Resources Unlimited in...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 9, March 2, 2009
The OR can be a world unto itself. It's physically separated from the rest of the hospital, entry...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 9, March 2, 2009
Healthcare coverage for all would not only ease the pockets of ailing Americans—but also the...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 9, March 2, 2009
Pressure ulcers are among the most prevalent hospital-associated infections, making them a top...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 8, February 23, 2009
This week, Barbara Hannon, RN, MSN, CPHQ, coordinator for the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 8, February 23, 2009
Carving out time for additional meetings with staff can be difficult for nurse managers with...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 8, February 23, 2009
Healthcare hope may come in the form of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act President Barack...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 8, February 23, 2009
This week, Shelley Cohen, RN, BS, CEN, president and founder of Health Resources Unlimited in...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 7, February 16, 2009
This week, Gina Boring, MSN, RN, NE-BC, director of the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® (MRP...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 7, February 16, 2009
This week, Carole Eldridge, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, dean, campus director, and associate professor at St...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 7, February 16, 2009
Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, OH, is limiting nurses’ scrub attire to navy blue and white...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 7, February 16, 2009
Just because you aren’t in the hot seat doesn’t mean an interview shouldn’t take...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 6, February 9, 2009
We have many opportunities to work with physicians. It may be in caring for a specific patient or...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 6, February 9, 2009
This week, learn strategies staff can use to confront a peer's unprofessional behavior with expert...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 6, February 9, 2009
Overcrowded hectic emergency departments (EDs) seldom allow for speedy, serene patient stays. Lucky...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 6, February 9, 2009
Successful implementation of evidence-based practice (EBP) can bring a number of patient care...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 5, February 2, 2009
Research is a high-focus area in nursing departments across the country. It is highly emphasized in...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 5, February 2, 2009
This week, Kathleen Garrison, MSN, RN, shares some expert advice for acclimating travel nurses at...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 5, February 2, 2009
Hypothermia is a life-threatening condition rarely treated in the balmy climate of Palm Beach, FL...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 5, February 2, 2009
Your professional title might be nurse manager, but sometimes it could just as easily be nurse...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 4, January 26, 2009
This week, Laura Harrington, RN, MHA, CHCQM, FAIHQ, senior nurse consultant in the consulting...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 4, January 26, 2009
This week, Jill Duncan, RN, MS, MPH, director of the IHI Open School for Health Professions in...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 4, January 26, 2009
The solution to slashing surgical deaths and complications may come in the form of a 19-item...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 4, January 26, 2009
Today’s workforce is more generationally diverse than ever before. Thus, today’s nurse...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 3, January 19, 2009
It’s inevitable that some of your decisions will be unpopular. However, you are not a manager...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 3, January 19, 2009
This week, expert Suzanne C. Beyea, RN, PhD, FAAN, director of nursing research at the Dartmouth...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 3, January 19, 2009
A new nursing care model has staff at Oakwood Hospital in Dearborn, MI literally pulling up a chair...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 3, January 19, 2009
Even though the stress of holidays is behind us, the role of the nurse manager allows little time...
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HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, Issue 2, January 13, 2009
The 14 Forces of Magnetism are now integrated under one of the new 5 Model Components in the 2008...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 2, January 12, 2009
This week, Shelley Cohen, RN, BS, CEN, president and founder of Health Resources Unlimited in...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 2, January 12, 2009
You piled your plate high and fell into a Thanksgiving turkey slumber. You raced through opening...
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HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, Issue 1, January 6, 2009
Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network (LVHHN) in Allentown, PA, is on the path to reducing its...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 1, January 5, 2009
This week, Kathleen Bartholomew, RC, RN, MN, discusses professional communication and simple steps...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 1, January 5, 2009
This week, Suzanne C. Beyea, RN, PhD, FAAN, director of nursing research at the Dartmouth Centers...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 1, January 5, 2009
It’s the start of a new year, and The Joint Commission (formerly JCAHO) expects nurse...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 1, January 2, 2009
There are no quick fixes for cutting costs within a facility. System issues and problems often...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 1, January 1, 2009
Nurse managers know that an environment in which staff members are accountable is one that fosters...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 1, January 1, 2009
Is your leadership approach out of style and ready for a makeover?Without realizing it, our work...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 68, December 29, 2008
This week, Kathleen Bartholomew, RC, RN, MN, peers into the crucial need for communication, and...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 68, December 29, 2008
This week, learn how deliver a successful budget presentation with expert advice from KT Waxman...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 67, December 22, 2008
Most interpersonal relationships in organizations are position-to-position relationships, rather...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 67, December 22, 2008
This week, expert Debra Nussdorfer, MS, RN, PMHCNS-BC, ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 66, December 15, 2008
This week, Bonnie Clair, BSN, RN, retention project manager at CoxHealth in Springfield, MO, shares...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 66, December 15, 2008
This week, KT Waxman, MBA, RN, provides nurse managers some guidance in conducting staff...
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HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, Issue 49, December 9, 2008
In Force of Magnetism 1: Quality of nursing leadership, which falls under Component 1...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 65, December 8, 2008
As leaders in healthcare organizations, it is often a nurse manager’s responsibility to be a...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 64, December 1, 2008
Nurses of different generations are bound to hold different values, beliefs, and interests. For...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 64, December 1, 2008
If you are overwhelmed by a growing to-do list, bulging calendar, and approaching deadlines, you...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 11, December 1, 2008
Carnivals or fairs require substantial planning, but they can be a great way to train many...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 12, December 1, 2008
In his book The Best Practice: How the New Quality Movement is Transforming Medicine, Kenney...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 12, December 1, 2008
The word “research” can send nurses running. Barriers such as a lack of knowledge on...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 12, December 1, 2008
Sometimes, it’s all about the journey, not the destination. And in hospitals, the journey a...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 12, December 1, 2008
It doesn’t matter whether your facility is located in the largest U.S. metropolitan area or...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 12, December 1, 2008
Many nurses have experienced disruptive physician behavior and the hostile work environment it can...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 12, December 1, 2008
Healthcare facilities are increasingly seeking ways to empower patients in their own care. When it...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 12, December 1, 2008
Priming staff members for inevitable Joint Commission visits is one of the most daunting tasks for...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 63, November 24, 2008
This week, Denise Danna, DNS, RN, NEA-BC, FACHE, assistant professor and acting associate dean for...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 63, November 24, 2008
This week, Brandon G. Bennett, MSN, RN, shares some expert advice on how to communicate effectively...
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HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, Issue 46, November 18, 2008
This week, our reader asks what role the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® (MRP) steering...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 62, November 17, 2008
This week, Debra Nussdorfer, MS, RN, PMHCNS-BC, ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® coordinator at...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 62, November 17, 2008
This week, expert Shelley Cohen, RN, BS, CEN, president and founder of Health Resources Unlimited...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 62, November 17, 2008
Nurse managers willing to put themselves to the test can extend their list of credentials by...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 62, November 17, 2008
As the sluggish economy comes down on hospital budgets across the country, many facilities are...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 61, November 10, 2008
This week, Shelley Cohen, RN, BS, CEN, president and founder of Health Resources Unlimited in...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 61, November 10, 2008
This week, Kathleen Bartholomew, RC, RN, MN, shares some advice for your staff when caring for...
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HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, Issue 44, November 4, 2008
In a time where money is tight and poverty is on the rise, Medical City Dallas Hospital is changing...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 60, November 3, 2008
This week, Bonnie Clair, BSN, RN, retention project manager at CoxHealth in Springfield, MO, peers...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 60, November 3, 2008
This week, consider some expert advice from Patricia A. Duclos-Miller, RN, MS, NE-BC, associate...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 11, November 1, 2008
All too often, nurse managers preparing for their new role feel as if they have to hit the ground...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 11, November 1, 2008
The rapidly changing U.S. population is exemplified within your hospital’s walls.
With...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 11, November 1, 2008
Curiosity. Malice. Efficiency. Rivalry. To be helpful. To be hurtful. Because they have a brief...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 11, November 1, 2008
Nurse managers and staff members communicate effectively every shift about a number of topics...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 11, November 1, 2008
Urinary tract infections (UTI) might not be the most expensive or life-threatening infections, but...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 11, November 1, 2008
Carnivals or fairs require substantial planning, but they can be a great way to train many...
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HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, Issue 43, October 28, 2008
A recent survey revealed that the actions of a hospital’s senior leadership often lead to...
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HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, Issue 43, October 28, 2008
On October 2-3, attendees at HCPro’s Workshop on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® in...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 59, October 27, 2008
This week, expert Deanna R. Miller, RN, MSN/Ed, HCE, gives us an inside look at the assistance and...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 59, October 27, 2008
This week, expert Kathleen Bartholomew, RC, RN, MN, shares some tips to help your staff balance...
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HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, Issue 42, October 21, 2008
On October 2-3, attendees at HCPro’s Workshop on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 58, October 20, 2008
This week, expert Deanna Miller, RN, MSN/Ed, HCE, sheds some light on how to handle staffs&rsquo...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 58, October 20, 2008
This week, expert Laura Cook Harrington, RC, RN, MHA, CPHQ, CHCQM, shares some insight on how...
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HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, Issue 41, October 14, 2008
This week, a reader asks for ways to encourage staff to complete an evidence-based practice (EBP...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 57, October 13, 2008
This week, retention expert, Bonnie Clair, BSN, RN, shares some strategies for recognizing staff...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 57, October 13, 2008
This week, expert Shelley Cohen, RN, BS, CEN, lends some advice to pass on to your preceptors when...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 57, October 13, 2008
Hospitals wanting to minimize healthcare-acquired infections have a new resource for prevention...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 57, October 13, 2008
Working as a nurse can be gratifying, but a little encouragement, appreciation, and recognition can...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 56, October 6, 2008
This week, Deanna R. Miller, RN, MSN/Ed, HCE, shares some insight on engaging staff in...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 56, October 6, 2008
This week, expert Jill Duncan, RN, MS, MPH, shares some tips to share with your nurses when...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 10, October 1, 2008
Fifteen years of research on hospital performance has given Thomson Healthcare’s senior vice...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 10, October 1, 2008
A report released by The Joint Commission calls on hospitals to improve patient care by eliminating...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 10, October 1, 2008
With fall under way, it’s time to start gearing up for respiratory virus season. That means...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 10, October 1, 2008
How many times have you heard yourself or another manager make a comment about how “you have...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 10, October 1, 2008
It takes a lot of work, but conducting nursing research projects at your facility can result in...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 10, October 1, 2008
Being open to change is a must at a hospital. Cecile Broussard, RN, MS, quality manager at Our Lady...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 55, September 29, 2008
This week, Deanna Miller, RN, MSN/Ed, HCE, reveals her secrets to successful staff engagement:
As...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 55, September 29, 2008
This week, expert Judith "Ski" Lower, RN, MSN, CCRN, CNRN, shares some insight on how to...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 55, September 29, 2008
Would you consider allowing hand washing to be optional in your organization? No. What about...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 10, September 23, 2008
The right person in the preceptor role boosts job satisfaction of new nurses and raises retention...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 54, September 22, 2008
This week, retention specialist, Bonnie Clair, BSN, RN, shares some thoughtful strategies to retain...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 54, September 22, 2008
This week, expert Kathleen Bartholomew, RC, RN, MN, lends some advice on how to prevent disruptive...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 54, September 22, 2008
Nurses are amazing individuals. Their nature is to be present and available to others. They enjoy a...
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HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, Issue 37, September 16, 2008
It’s important to start planning site visit activities once you submit your ANCC Magnet...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 37, September 15, 2008
This week, learn how to remove the tension during staff performance reviews:
Nurse managers and...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 37, September 15, 2008
This week, expert Shelley Cohen, RN, BS, CEN, gives us some tips on how to provide staff...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 36, September 8, 2008
This week, our retention specialist, Bonnie Clair, BSN, RN, shares a practical idea to recognize...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 36, September 8, 2008
This week, expert Brandon G. Bennett, MSN, RN, provides some advice on how to identify patient and...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 35, September 1, 2008
This week, learn how staff surveys can help boost collaboration at your facility:
You want your...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 35, September 1, 2008
This week, expert Shelley Cohen, RN, BS, CEN, tells us how to handle the termination of a...
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Nurse Leader Weekly, Issue 35, September 1, 2008
Almost all nurse managers want to spend more time with their staff, but they have so many...