Nursing Articles by Topic: Staff Education
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 47, November 11, 2019
The concepts of shared governance and shared decision-making are not new ones. Philosophy...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 39, September 18, 2019
One of the most important, although sometimes time-consuming, activities that are frequently...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 38, September 10, 2019
Patient classification systems (PCS), also known as patient acuity systems, are used to assist a...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 37, September 5, 2019
Developing and monitoring the staffing budget is one of the most, if not the most, difficult...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 48, November 29, 2012
Clinical resources for NPD
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 47, November 23, 2012
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 47, November 21, 2012
Advanced practice registered nurses (APRN) in Michigan are trying to pass legislation to expand...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 47, November 21, 2012
Last week I mentioned that simulation was a “hot” topic at the recent Professional...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 47, November 21, 2012
First and foremost, it goes without saying that we all want to do the right thing, at the right...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 46, November 15, 2012
I recently had the privilege of presenting a paper at the 39th annual Professional Nurse Educator...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 46, November 15, 2012
More than 6% of hospital patients received acetaminophen in excess of the recommended 4 g per day...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 45, November 9, 2012
Mismatched data in electronic health records, failures of medical devices and health information...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 45, November 8, 2012
In September, I asked about the composition of your NPD departments and if there were distinctions...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 45, November 8, 2012
Among the factors that can have a negative impact on reporting is an actual or perceived reporting...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 45, November 8, 2012
It's that time of year again, when infection preventionists (IP) and safety officers begin to plan...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 44, November 2, 2012
The anticipated impact of Hurricane Sandy undoubtedly led many hospitals on the east coast to...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 44, November 1, 2012
We’ve been talking about evidence-based monitoring for nursing professional development (NPD...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 43, October 25, 2012
Last week I talked about the importance of monitoring the effectiveness of orientation and...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 43, October 25, 2012
Nearly half of the 20,000 eligible professionals and 81% of eligible hospitals are registered for...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 42, October 18, 2012
Last week I mentioned some tips when identifying priorities for measuring the impact of education...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 41, October 11, 2012
After last week’s article pertaining to “other duties as assigned” I received...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 40, October 5, 2012
Hospital-acquired pressure ulcers, or bedsores, are a risk factor associated with morality in older...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 39, September 28, 2012
Nurses are more likely to report errors when they feel safe doing so, and feel more comfortable...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 39, September 27, 2012
Who doesn’t need to save money? How can we stretch our budget dollars? Nursing professional...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 38, September 20, 2012
Being approached by nurse managers to offer remediation education is nothing new for nursing...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 38, September 20, 2012
The so-called “July phenomenon,” in which patients at teaching hospitals supposedly...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 37, September 14, 2012
Just a reminder that HCPro will present a live, 90-minute webcast on Tuesday, September 18, 2012 at...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 36, September 10, 2012
An upcoming study will help determine whether or not a tablet-based application can be used to...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 36, September 10, 2012
This week, Adrianne E. Avillion defines an advanced beginner in staff development and gives...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 36, September 4, 2012
All of us have faced questions about what is, and what is not, appropriate for delegation...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 35, August 31, 2012
Working in a supportive practice environment, in which there is teamwork between physicians and...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 35, August 31, 2012
This past month, the George Washington University School of Nursing (GW) received a three-year, $1...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 35, August 30, 2012
I would be interested in hearing if any of you have trained PCAs to precept their peers. It seems...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 35, August 30, 2012
Nurse managers often see pockets of non-performance among their staff members, and many times it...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 35, August 30, 2012
Despite already being below the national average on patient falls, Lallie Kemp Regional Medical...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 34, August 24, 2012
Nurses are less likely than physicians to trust the credibility of medical information from mobile...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 34, August 24, 2012
Running on only a few hours of sleep? Just pump the coffee, right?
Wrong, according to the...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 34, August 22, 2012
I received quite a few emails from readers who wanted to share their own thoughts about future...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 34, August 22, 2012
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced its selection of nine states to receive funding...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 33, August 16, 2012
Over the years I have mentioned the superb Research Day education program, a collaborative effort...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 33, August 16, 2012
Perhaps one of the biggest challenges in conducting evidence based practice (EBP) projects is...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 32, August 10, 2012
Mistreatment of medical students by senior physicians and residents persists despite policies and...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 32, August 10, 2012
More than one-third of U.S. adults are obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 32, August 10, 2012
A study published in the August issue of the American Journal of Infection Control shows that nurse...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 32, August 10, 2012
This week, Adrianne E. Avillion, D.Ed, RN, explains fair use and provides instances in which...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 32, August 8, 2012
The Joint Commission is continuing to add to its Targeted Solutions ToolTM inventory. These tools...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 32, August 8, 2012
A New York hospital’s efforts to upgrade the skills of unlicensed assistive personnel...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 32, August 8, 2012
Crew resource management (CRM)-based briefings can and should be used wherever healthcare...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 31, August 3, 2012
Participating in cognitive behavioral intervention once a week can increases nurses’ sense of...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 31, August 2, 2012
About 25 years ago I presented a paper at a staff development convention describing the necessity...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 31, August 2, 2012
Reducing the number of burned-out nurses could prevent thousands of cases of hospital-acquired...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 31, August 2, 2012
Charge nurses customarily “manage the unit for a shift.” It is a leadership position...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 30, July 27, 2012
While healthcare providers are placing consumer engagement in health information technology (IT...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 30, July 27, 2012
The Los Angeles Times reported this week that healthcare firms are increasingly shifting clinical...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 30, July 27, 2012
The ED nurses at Boston Children's Hospital are never satisfied with the status quo. Whether it's...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 30, July 27, 2012
This week, Jim Hansen, MSN, RN-BC, explains which members of your organization are the most...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 30, July 26, 2012
I am frequently involved in discussions about the development of nurse residency programs. There...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 30, July 26, 2012
Frequent readmissions are still an issue at many hospitals nationwide, according to a recent update...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 30, July 26, 2012
Information and knowledge are crucial to staff engagement in meeting the strategic goals of the...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 30, July 26, 2012
Thrombosis, sclerosis, embolism-it might not require conjugating verbs, but medical terminology is...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 29, July 20, 2012
The ARCTIC assessment tool (adapted from Black & Gregersen [2003, p. 84]) can help identify...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 29, July 20, 2012
Nurses’ adoption and use of clinical practice guidelines is largely affected by external...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 29, July 20, 2012
A study from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, which examined the early results of the...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 29, July 20, 2012
This week, Pamela Hunt, BS, MSN, RN, and Deborah Laughon, RN, BSN, MS, DBA, CCRN, outline the...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 29, July 19, 2012
Horizontal violence, sometimes referred to as horizontal bullying, horizontal hostility...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 29, July 19, 2012
Patients are more likely to stay up to date with screenings and preventative medical tests when...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 29, July 19, 2012
Cultural competence is an ongoing process in which the healthcare provider continuously strives to...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 29, July 19, 2012
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 1, July 19, 2012
The Nurses Improving Care to Healthsystem Elders program, which aims to add...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 28, July 13, 2012
American Medical News released a story last month highlighting four ways that social media can be...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 28, July 13, 2012
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 28, July 13, 2012
An initiative among Tennessee hospitals to reduce infection rates, particularly central...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 28, July 13, 2012
This week, Eileen Dohmann, RN, BSN, MBA, NEA-BC, discusses accountability language and...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 28, July 12, 2012
Collaboration among local hospitals, Sigma Theta Tau, and a local college leads to the promotion of...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 28, July 12, 2012
Once you have evaluated change and benchmarked data to find areas for improvement, the job is not...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 27, July 3, 2012
The American Academy for Preceptor Advancement (AAPA) has selected The College Network® and...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 27, July 3, 2012
Duct tape and Ziploc bags were two main ingredients in a culture shift that's helped the Martinez...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 27, July 3, 2012
The percentage of nurses in positions at the World Health Organization (WHO) has dropped from 2.6...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 27, July 3, 2012
On June 28, 2012, the Supreme Court declared in a 5-4 vote that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 27, July 3, 2012
The number of nurse practitioners (NP) is projected to increase from 128,000 in 2008 to 244,000 in...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 27, July 3, 2012
Team building refers to a variety of techniques that leaders can use to improve team performance...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 26, June 29, 2012
It happens to everyone at some point: you wake up with a cough, a headache, or a stuffy nose, and...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 26, June 29, 2012
18% of hospital-employed nurses experience depressive symptoms; that's twice the rate of the...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 26, June 29, 2012
This week, Kathleen Bartholomew, RN, MN, outlines the reasons for implementing and adhering to...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 26, June 28, 2012
As I mentioned last week, nursing professional development (NPD) specialists often have little or...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 26, June 28, 2012
When looking at the media representation of nurses, it is clear that the nurse rarely is portrayed...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 26, June 28, 2012
In the quest to meet Joint Commission standards, it is very helpful to have a highly engaged...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 25, June 25, 2012
Most nurses would agree that a typical shift requires a high level of focus on tasks, good time...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 25, June 25, 2012
Much is made of successful hand-offs between hospital departments, but a newly implemented program...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 25, June 25, 2012
Teamwork is becoming a focus for many healthcare leaders, according to the 2012 HealthLeaders Media...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 25, June 25, 2012
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 25, June 22, 2012
For the past few weeks I have provided information about various topics that are relevant to nurse...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 25, June 22, 2012
Consultants are persons who help clients solve particular problems or enhance services...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 0, June 21, 2012
The California state Supreme Court issued an order last week in which it refused to prevent nurse...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 24, June 18, 2012
Across the country, APRNs are making strides toward practicing independently. One state currently...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 24, June 15, 2012
Nursing professional development (NPD) specialists are always on the lookout for ways to...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 24, June 15, 2012
Noises from hallway conversations, hospital pagers, and electronic monitors can wake sleeping...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 24, June 15, 2012
Good managers know that quality does not happen by fiat or executive order but is the result of...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 24, June 15, 2012
As anyone who works in an ED knows, long wait times are not an ED-specific issue. Most of the...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 23, June 11, 2012
You can ease a charge nurse's transition into the new role by assigning a preceptor devoted to...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 23, June 11, 2012
It's a no-brainer, really. The more education nurses receive, the better they'll be at their jobs...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 23, June 11, 2012
This week, Barbara J. Hannon, RN. MSN, CPHQ, and Cynthia Barnard, MBA, MSJS, CPHQ, explain the...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 23, June 8, 2012
Simulation is one of the most effective teaching/learning techniques and in past issues I've...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 23, June 8, 2012
Nurses in hospitals that have a fully implemented electronic health record (EHR) system reported...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 23, June 8, 2012
Part of the early mantra of crew resource management (CRM) was “authority with...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 23, June 8, 2012
According to a recent Office of Inspector General (OIG) report, Hospital Incident Reporting Systems...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 22, June 4, 2012
In just a few short years, the number of DNP programs in the country has skyrocketed from 20 in...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 22, June 4, 2012
This week, Adrianne E. Avillion, D.Ed, RN, and Debbie Buchwach, BSN, RN-BC, define the role of...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 22, June 1, 2012
As we become more and more involved in nursing and nursing professional development (NPD) research...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 22, June 1, 2012
Leadership training is an essential component to training a charge nurse. Orienting charge nurses...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 21, May 28, 2012
Patients' perceived quality of care varied greatly from the actual quality of care as defined by...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 21, May 28, 2012
When I'm sick, there are a handful of people who I'd want to take care of me, and my grandmother is...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 21, May 28, 2012
The rising weight of the population has hospitals and clinics across the country investing in...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 21, May 28, 2012
This week, Eileen L. Dohmann, RN, BSM, MBA, NEA-BC, explains the merits of active listening and...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 21, May 25, 2012
Over the past few months, I have made a point of writing about various organizations and...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 21, May 25, 2012
HealthGrades recently released the results of its annual survey of patient safety and patient...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 21, May 25, 2012
According to nurses, disruptive physician behavior most often occurs after they place phone calls...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 21, May 25, 2012
HIPAA and HITECH have resulted in a whole new career for Tom Dumez, CHP. As human resources...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 20, May 21, 2012
Nurse leaders are hard to come by. The solution? Create them yourself.
That's the strategy of...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 20, May 21, 2012
This week, Cynthia Barnard discusses the relationship between communication and quality improvement.
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 20, May 18, 2012
NPD specialists are always on the lookout for useful resources. Last week, I provided information...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 20, May 18, 2012
A recent survey conducted by the California Institute for Nursing and Healthcare found that 43% of...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 20, May 18, 2012
A catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) is diagnosed only when signs and symptoms of...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 20, May 18, 2012
Until recently, patients at the four hospitals operated by NorthShore University HealthSystem...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 19, May 14, 2012
We're marking the last day of HCPro's Nurses Week celebration with a fun nursing quiz! Entrants...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 19, May 14, 2012
One of the simplest tools to implement successful change is Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA). You might...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 19, May 14, 2012
Patient deaths at VA hospitals in Denver and New York City, as well as an overall indictment of...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 19, May 14, 2012
This week, Vivian B. Miller, BA, CPHQ, LHRM, CPHRM, FASHRM explains the importance of data...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 19, May 11, 2012
We're marking the last day of HCPro's Nurses Week celebration with a fun nursing quiz! Entrants...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 19, May 11, 2012
Most, if not all, nursing professional development (NPD) specialists incorporate simulation as...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 19, May 11, 2012
Healthcare sector job growth is slowing, according to April job figures from the U.S. Bureau of...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 19, May 11, 2012
When an organization begins to look at incident reporting, it often has to reconcile two divergent...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 18, May 7, 2012
This week, Kathleen Bartholomew, RN, MN advises on staff behavior and accountability.
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 18, May 4, 2012
Journal clubs have long been used as a way to help nurses learn. Presenting information about...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 18, May 4, 2012
Before you can work toward achieving accountability, you need to ensure that you understand what...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 18, May 4, 2012
The Joint Commission recently proposed a new National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) to take effect...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 17, April 30, 2012
Bit of a plug, but I think my visitors will find HCPro's webcast on CAUTIs (catheter-associated...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 17, April 30, 2012
Most people in most professions don't feel threatened when they go to work every day. But for...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 17, April 30, 2012
Underweight newborns are less likely to suffer infections and more likely to survive their first...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 17, April 30, 2012
This week, Pamela Hunt, BS, MSN, RN and Deborah Laughon, RN, BSM, MS, DBA, CCRN discuss common...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 17, April 27, 2012
Health and wellness of nursing professional development specialists: Taking care of ourselves
As...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 17, April 27, 2012
The Medical Society of Virginia and the Virginia Council of Nurse Practitioners teamed up to...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 17, April 27, 2012
One of the most common complaints organizations hear from their staff about the event reporting...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 17, April 27, 2012
The Joint Commission has three standards containing EPs that address medication contraindications...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 16, April 23, 2012
According to a recent news article, Allina Health System, a Minneapolis-based hospital group, will...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 16, April 23, 2012
The safety of nurses is always a hot topic, but there is a group that sometimes gets left behind...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 16, April 23, 2012
This week, Patty Kubus, RN, MBA, PhD, offers tips for improve staff readiness in the face of...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 16, April 20, 2012
We all know that outpatient care is rapidly becoming the norm for everything from medical issues...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 16, April 20, 2012
Despite sustained attention from hospital leaders, wait times in the University of California, San...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 15, April 16, 2012
Just like any good nurse would not give IV narcotics to a patient in pain and not reassess the...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 15, April 16, 2012
This week, Cynthia Barnard, MBA, MSJS, CPHQ, and Barbara J. Hannon, RN, MSN, CPHQ, recommend ways...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 15, April 13, 2012
Infection control issues are taking center stage as never before. Thanks to the CMS rulings on...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 15, April 13, 2012
Baxter Webb, an MBA student at Vanderbilt University, Tenn., is developing an electronic paging...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 15, April 13, 2012
There is not a great deal of time to introduce the topic of ethics in orientation with any...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 15, April 13, 2012
Navigating the new world of social media is challenging for many professions, but perhaps none...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 14, April 9, 2012
As advanced practice nurses gain ground in their battle for autonomy, the Missouri State Medical...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 14, April 9, 2012
The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) is introducing a hospital-based nurse...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 14, April 9, 2012
This week, Pamela Hunt, BS, MSN, RN, and Deborah Laughon, RN, BSN, MS, DBA, CCRN, offer tips on...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 14, April 6, 2012
EBP in Nursing Professional Development (NPD) requires that we communicate with each other and...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 14, April 6, 2012
An initiative in Alabama aims to use technology and a data-backed network to focus on hand hygiene...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 14, April 6, 2012
If you are responsible for providing data to the risk managers at individual facilities in your...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 14, April 6, 2012
The goal at all SNFs should be the same: provide the best possible care to each and every resident...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 13, April 2, 2012
Public reporting of surgical site infections is required in only eight states. That fact was...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 13, April 2, 2012
The nursing shortage is over and a survey published in the American Journal of Nursing shows that...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 13, April 2, 2012
Karen Daley, president of the American Nurses Association (ANA), testified before Congress on the...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 13, April 2, 2012
This week, Cynthia Barnard, MBA, MSJS, CPHQ, and Barbara J. Hannon, RN, MSN, CPHQ, recommend steps...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 13, March 30, 2012
Some Nursing Professional Development (NPD) specialists think that reactive data are something we...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 13, March 30, 2012
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) Premier Hospital Quality Incentive...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 13, March 30, 2012
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the arrival of "Get Smart...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 12, March 26, 2012
Nurses hold leadership roles in healthcare organizations, yet nurses are not perceived as leaders...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 12, March 26, 2012
Join Adrianne E. Avillion, DEd, RN, and Barb Brunt, MA, MN, RN-BC, NE-BC, for a live program on...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 12, March 26, 2012
Fatigue has recently been recognized in the medical literature to increase the incidence of...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 12, March 26, 2012
Improved work environments and smaller ratios of patients to staff led to increased quality...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 12, March 26, 2012
This week, Eileen Lavin Dohmann, RN, MBA, NEA-BC, discusses the three levels of conversation...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 12, March 23, 2012
On the occasions when we must develop our own tests, most of us rely on multiple choice questions...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 12, March 23, 2012
As warehouses and automobile plants are closing down, men who made a living working those jobs are...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 12, March 23, 2012
According to a hospital survey of nurses, nurses tend to use avoidance as a primary strategy to...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 12, March 23, 2012
Eighteen months ago, things were a lot different in the nursing units at St. Francis Hospital in...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 12, March 23, 2012
Join Adrianne E. Avillion, DEd, RN, and Barb Brunt, MA, MN, RN-BC, NE-BC, for a live program on...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 11, March 19, 2012
Although there has been substantial progress in reducing needlestick injuries in U.S. healthcare...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 11, March 19, 2012
Join Adrianne E. Avillion, DEd, RN, and Barb Brunt, MA, MN, RN-BC, NE-BC, for a live program on...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 11, March 19, 2012
Over the past decade, needlestick safety has become de rigueur, but according to a new study...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 11, March 19, 2012
A report from the Bureau of Labor statistics revealed that the healthcare industry added 49,000...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 11, March 19, 2012
This week, Patty Kubus, RN, MBA, PhD, advises on ways to structure feedback so as to reinforce...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 11, March 16, 2012
Falls and medication errors are a common source of concern and dismay among all healthcare...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 11, March 16, 2012
Patients perceived that a clinician spent more time at their bedside and reported higher levels of...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 11, March 16, 2012
No matter how much planning and communicating is done to prepare for a change in culture, folks...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 11, March 16, 2012
Join Adrianne E. Avillion, DEd, RN, and Barb Brunt, MA, MN, RN-BC, NE-BC, for a live program on...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 10, March 12, 2012
It can take a lot of courage to do the right thing. To speak up when something's wrong or to...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 10, March 12, 2012
A breakeven analysis or return on investment allows you to determine the point at which your...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 10, March 12, 2012
This week, Adrianne E. Avillion, DEd, RN, suggests several ways to meet training needs such as...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 10, March 9, 2012
Thanks to reports such as the Institute of Medicine's The Future of Nursing it is increasingly...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 10, March 9, 2012
New RNs reported a higher commitment to their employers, fewer injuries, and a better work...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 9, March 5, 2012
Aggression involving nurses is at the center of a he-said-she-said dispute that pits Douglas...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 9, March 5, 2012
Nurses can help newly diagnosed cancer patients come to terms with the impact of their disease on...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 9, March 5, 2012
This week, Jim Hansen, MSN, RN-BC, explains the need for self-directed learning as part of a nurse...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 9, March 2, 2012
Unsuccessful guest speakers are a problem that every nursing professional development department...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 9, March 2, 2012
A new healthcare messaging app allows nurses and hospital staff members to communicate through...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 9, March 2, 2012
Many organizations have developed institutional process models (Porter-O'Grady, 1991), where all...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 9, March 2, 2012
Determining and agreeing on how many hours per patient day (HPPD) it takes to care for your...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 8, February 27, 2012
It's no secret that nurses and physicians do not always maintain the friendliest interactions, and...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 8, February 27, 2012
In late 2011, CMS issued a memo to its state survey agency directors regarding updated guidance on...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 8, February 27, 2012
Nurse practitioners could play an essential role in minimizing the impact of a shortage in primary...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 8, February 27, 2012
This week, Pamela Hunt, BS, MSN, RN, and Deborah Laughon, RN, BSN, MS, DBA, CCRN, advise on the...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 8, February 24, 2012
Sooner or later we all face the uncomfortable prospect of dealing with an ineffective guest...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 8, February 24, 2012
A national shortage of primary-care physicians has led many medical schools to alter their...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 8, February 24, 2012
Our hospitals, care facilities, laboratories, and physician practices run based on a combination...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 8, February 24, 2012
The challenges to infection control are great. Whether a patient develops a hospital-acquired...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 7, February 20, 2012
New technology has been steadily working its way into all aspects of daily life, and healthcare is...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 7, February 20, 2012
Should vaccinations against influenza be mandatory for healthcare workers?
A debate is currently...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 7, February 20, 2012
Nurses identify rounding as a useful and valuable process, but find the documentation aspect of...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 7, February 20, 2012
This week, Jim Hansen, MSN, RN-BC, gives advice on developing a nurse residency program that uses...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 7, February 17, 2012
If you can demonstrate a link between educational products and services that you develop and a...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 7, February 17, 2012
A survey conducted by HealthLeaders Media uncovered a disconnect between nurses and physicians...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 7, February 17, 2012
Nurturing novices is not an easy task. They generally have extensive responsibilities as a staff...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 7, February 17, 2012
X-rays, CT scans, and MRIs are used widely and often in healthcare facilities across the United...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 6, February 13, 2012
This month's tool will help you develop the justification you need for purchasing new equipment...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 6, February 13, 2012
When the nurses at Cass Regional Medical Center in Harrisonville, Missouri, got to pitch in on the...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 6, February 13, 2012
Registered nursing will add more than 700,000 new jobs by 2020, representing the largest growth...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 6, February 10, 2012
Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia is planning to replace all CNAs with RNs within the...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 6, February 10, 2012
New graduates are learning to function within the controlled chaos of the hospital system while...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 6, February 10, 2012
Their jobs revolve around helping people recover from injuries and illnesses, yet healthcare...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 5, February 6, 2012
Is being a nurse bad for your health? A new survey indicates that this might be the case, and...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 5, February 6, 2012
Horizon Healthcare Solutions (HHI), Duke University School of Nursing, and Rutgers University...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 5, February 3, 2012
A few months ago I offered some information about nursing apps, the wonderful programs you can...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 5, February 3, 2012
Robert Freeman, a registered nurse at Beth Israel Hospital in New York, designed an app for nurses...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 4, January 30, 2012
Recognizing and building upon nurses' dedication to their line of work could be essential to...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 4, January 27, 2012
Simulation equipment allows learners to practice anything from CPR to intravenous insertion to...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 4, January 27, 2012
As part of a new initiative from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), 73...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 4, January 27, 2012
The cost of inventory in healthcare organizations is generally smaller than the dollar amount from...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 4, January 27, 2012
Because nurses comprise a huge chunk of labor costs, they often fall under the financial...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 3, January 20, 2012
We all have to deal with unexpected needs for just-in-time training. A patient arrives with a new...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 3, January 20, 2012
A study conducted by researchers in Australia found that many nurses are dedicated to healing and...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 2, January 13, 2012
The current economic conditions make it more important than ever to keep within our seemingly...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 2, January 13, 2012
Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis is now offering a program to help nurses battle compassion...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 2, January 13, 2012
In November 2010, The Joint Commission issued a Sentinel Event Alert requiring all hospitals to...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 1, January 6, 2012
As we look forward to all that the New Year will bring, consider collaborating with your local...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 1, January 6, 2012
A rule proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to allow changes in the...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 1, January 6, 2012
Some staff development colleagues automatically assume that all staff development personnel make...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 1, January 6, 2012
Nurses made a strong showing in this year’s HealthLeaders 20, our annual profile of...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 55, December 30, 2011
Most, if not all, NPD specialists have had to deal with requests for remediation education, which...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 55, December 30, 2011
Medical News Today reports that the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 55, December 30, 2011
In the last few years, academic and industry nurse leaders have worked from both sides of the...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 55, December 30, 2011
In response to the presidential memorandum, on November 19, 2010, CMS published a final rule for...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 54, December 23, 2011
A few months ago I recommended the Joint Commission’s weekly complimentary online publication...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 54, December 23, 2011
Strains in staffing, changes to health benefits, and an overall feeling of disrespect has prompted...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 54, December 23, 2011
Critical thinking is a learned skill. The ability to gather and assess relevant evidence and use...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 54, December 23, 2011
By now, HIPAA is well known to the healthcare community. Hospital staff and physicians have long...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 53, December 16, 2011
Much of our on-demand training and inservices have to do with equipment updates, psychomotor...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 53, December 16, 2011
"We understand that fatigue has been a contributing factor in many adverse events that we...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 53, December 16, 2011
Even if your organization does not require a 15-year capital budget plan, it is the best way to...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 53, December 16, 2011
A "culture of safety" is a central value in most healthcare institutions. One crucial...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 52, December 9, 2011
The plethora of information with which Nursing Professional Development (NPD) specialists must...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 52, December 9, 2011
A study of night-shift nurses, conducted by Frank Hu, MD, of the Harvard School of Public Health...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 52, December 9, 2011
Providing patients with current technology and staff with safe equipment is a primary goal of the...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 52, December 9, 2011
A new nursing study out this week brings hospitals some welcome good news: The nursing shortage may...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 51, December 2, 2011
Finding time to participate in education activities can be a challenge at any time of the year. But...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 51, December 2, 2011
This year's search for nurse leaders and staff who have helped elevate the image of nursing is...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 51, December 2, 2011
As with many things in healthcare, what happens at the top is a reflection of how things are at the...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 51, December 2, 2011
Last week I was writing about hot topics at the annual Nursing Management Congress. This week I've...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 50, November 18, 2011
Most of us have attended or provided education sessions on legal implications of clinical nursing...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 50, November 18, 2011
There isn't much good news in the latest nationwide survey of workplace violence against emergency...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 50, November 18, 2011
In healthcare, where virtually every process and activity can have a direct impact on the...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 50, November 18, 2011
The holiday decorations are going up in my neighborhood, Thanksgiving is next week, and my mind has...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 49, November 11, 2011
It's a challenge for all of us to find time to meet essential education needs let alone initiate...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 49, November 11, 2011
Just-in-time scheduling can often mandate when employees will work, when they'll work overtime, and...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 49, November 11, 2011
Schedule a day-long retreat away from the organization to prepare organizational and nursing...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 49, November 11, 2011
The three topics on everyone's lips at last week's Nursing Management Congress were transforming...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 48, November 4, 2011
Several recent publications have triggered a need for change to the ANCC Accreditation Program...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 48, November 4, 2011
When a provider makes a tragic mistake that harms a patient, most healthcare organization...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 48, November 4, 2011
Join shared governance expert Diana Swihart, PhD, DMin, MSN, CS, RN-BC, for a 90-minute multimedia...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 48, November 4, 2011
Hospitals have been working toward better patient satisfaction for years. Now, with patient...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 47, October 28, 2011
The topic of bullying in healthcare is receiving more and more attention as its negative impact on...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 47, October 28, 2011
Headache patients who come to the ED could die or become permanently disabled for lack of a brain...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 47, October 28, 2011
The million-dollar question most nurse leaders struggle with is, "How many FTEs do I need on...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 47, October 28, 2011
Nurses are feeling the pinch from the economy as much as anyone else and a new study reveals many...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 46, October 21, 2011
Simulation as a means of providing continuing education is growing with the rapidity of other...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 46, October 21, 2011
Four types of common healthcare-associated infections are in decline, according to the Centers for...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 46, October 21, 2011
"What should we do with a manager who screams at employees in the hallways, gossips, and has...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 45, October 14, 2011
Generation Y and the youngest of our healthcare colleagues were raised on technology that many of...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 45, October 14, 2011
More than 135 groups of nurses, physicians, and other healthcare staff have entered the Pink Glove...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 45, October 14, 2011
We all know that the title "doctor" refers both to physicians with medical degrees and to...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 44, October 7, 2011
Having recently entered the world of the smart phone, I find myself testing (reluctantly) and...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 44, October 7, 2011
Halloween is four weeks away, but infectious disease researchers already have a scary story to...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 44, October 7, 2011
It is common for highly driven organizations to develop goals and objectives annually. In...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 43, September 30, 2011
Learners demand education that is easy to access at times and places convenient to them. One...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 43, September 30, 2011
You're probably well aware of the performance-based penalties and rewards that accompany...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 43, September 30, 2011
You may remember the days when strategic planning was only the responsibility of those in the...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 43, September 30, 2011
Chronic wounds not only affect millions of patients, but they also represent a significant burden...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 42, September 23, 2011
Many of us are facilitating research and evidence-based practice among our clinical and...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 42, September 23, 2011
The use of cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIED) is accompanied by an increase in...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 42, September 23, 2011
What kinds of research questions can you think of that are appropriate for staff development...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 42, September 23, 2011
Even with all the effort infection preventionists (IP) put into data collection, surveillance, and...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 41, September 16, 2011
Joint Commission president Mark Chassin on Wednesday issued the agency's first collective...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 41, September 16, 2011
Staff development research may be defined as an organized, systematic approach to identifying and...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 41, September 16, 2011
Improving patient satisfaction is a financial imperative. Nurses are on the frontline of patient...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 40, September 9, 2011
Many Nursing Professional Development (NPD) specialists are fortunate to work in organizations that...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 40, September 9, 2011
A study showing that hand washing increases among medical professionals when the organizational...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 40, September 9, 2011
Generational differences affect the learning process, which makes it essential for educators to...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 40, September 9, 2011
When revenues fall, hospitals stop investing in the biggest budget expense: nurses. That's a bad...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 39, September 2, 2011
The recent publication of Educating Nurses: A Call for Radical Transformation (Benner et al, 2009...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 39, September 2, 2011
Temporary emergency room nurses who are unfamiliar with their surroundings may inadvertently be a...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 39, September 2, 2011
Generational differences affect the learning process, which makes it essential for educators to...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 39, September 2, 2011
Evidence shows that patient outcomes improve when nurses have baccalaureate degrees. The Future of...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 34, August 26, 2011
Sometimes we just wish we had time to surf the Internet and look for resources to help us with...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 34, August 26, 2011
Using a hospital safety checklist to reduce deadly bloodstream infections can save lives and...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 34, August 26, 2011
Generational differences affect the learning process, which makes it essential for educators to...
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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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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 33, August 19, 2011
I had not given much thought to virtual world education until I attended an educational session...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 33, August 19, 2011
The nursing profession is in an upheaval. On one hand, there is pressure to push registered nurses...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 33, August 19, 2011
Generational differences affect the learning process, which makes it essential for educators to...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 33, August 19, 2011
The Joint Commission released a new National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) on May 17. The new goal...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 32, August 12, 2011
Last month I had the privilege of attending the National Nursing Staff Development Organization's...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 32, August 12, 2011
Advanced practice nurses can provide care with patient outcomes that are at least as good as, and...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 32, August 12, 2011
Nurse residency program (NRP) coordinators can receive uncertain and conflicting information with...
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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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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 31, August 5, 2011
In October 2010, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published The Future of Nursing: Leading Change...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 31, August 5, 2011
CMS included a major surprise when it released its final rule for the FY 2012 Inpatient Prospective...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 31, August 5, 2011
Think about the way you advertise your education programs. Learners need to know what programs are...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 31, August 5, 2011
According to Joint Commission standards and federal law, patients have the right to effective...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 30, July 29, 2011
Nursing professional development (NPD) specialists may think that reactive data provides little or...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 30, July 29, 2011
The rate of serious adverse events involving wrong surgeries in the Veteran's Health...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 30, July 29, 2011
Today we reap the benefits of those nurses who persevered in their quest to establish the specialty...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 30, July 29, 2011
Until the economy imploded a few years ago, every other article on the profession of nursing...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 29, July 22, 2011
How many of you have had your inbox flooded with the announcement of final rules for value-based...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 29, July 22, 2011
Critical thinking is a skill that must be nurtured at all levels of practice. Even highly...
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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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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 29, July 22, 2011
When setting goals, use the SMART guide. Goals should be: Specific, Measureable, Achievable...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 28, July 15, 2011
Simulation is truly the latest hot topic in continuing education in the healthcare setting. Many of...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 28, July 15, 2011
An American Hospital Association (AHA) survey of 820 hospitals across the nation found that almost...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 28, July 15, 2011
Some staff development colleagues automatically assume that all staff development personnel make...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 28, July 15, 2011
Hospitals across the country are welcoming recently graduated nurses to their units and hoping to...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 27, July 8, 2011
We often need to explore innovative options to meet the continuing education needs of nurses and...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 27, July 8, 2011
With wrong-site surgeries occurring an estimated 40 times a week in the U.S., the Joint Commission...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 27, July 8, 2011
The first step in building the structure for unit-level practice councils is to select a structure...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 27, July 8, 2011
A pediatric patient at Shands Healthcare at the University of Florida, Gainesville made it to the...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 26, July 1, 2011
Most of us receive so many emails each day that it's almost impossible to differentiate between...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 26, July 1, 2011
A link on an infection surveillance website seemed to scream "Click Me!" It read: Noise...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 26, July 1, 2011
Being able to produce evidence that links staff development products and services to organizational...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 26, July 1, 2011
You can't read anything about patient safety and quality or health reform without running into the...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 25, June 24, 2011
A business plan is an excellent way to plan and organize your departmental priorities and to...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 25, June 24, 2011
Mistakes are a fact of life. As the Institute of Medicine said in 1999, "To err is...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 25, June 24, 2011
New graduate nurses often find directing care at the bedside particularly challenging. Yes, they...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 25, June 24, 2011
On Friday, March 11, a magnitude 8.9 earthquake occurred near the east coast of Honshu, Japan. The...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 24, June 17, 2011
Nursing professional development (NPD) specialists rely on professional association memberships for...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 24, June 17, 2011
Nominations are open for the HCPro 2011 Nursing Image Awards, which honor nurses whose leadership...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 24, June 17, 2011
Leading strategic change in transforming professional nursing practice through shared governance...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 24, June 17, 2011
In April, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Healthcare Infection Control...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 23, June 10, 2011
Have you ever dreamed of using your education skills in an independent setting? Have you reached...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 23, June 10, 2011
It's been established that one effective method for improving patient safety is to create an...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 23, June 10, 2011
Developing new graduate competency takes time, patience, and diligence, but it can be done and it...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 23, June 10, 2011
Nurses are rallying in Washington, DC, today to bring attention to average Americans' healthcare...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 22, June 3, 2011
Experts (using Benner's work as a foundation) have a minimum of 10 years of experience in staff...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 22, June 3, 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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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 22, June 3, 2011
The critical result itself, like all testing values, must be documented in the medical record. If...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 21, May 27, 2011
Using Benner's (1984) work as a foundation, I define Proficient NPD specialists as those who have...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 21, May 27, 2011
What's next for value-based purchasing metrics, hospital transparency, and quality scoring...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 21, May 27, 2011
Nursing professional development (NPD) educators can play a key role in improving cultural...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 21, May 27, 2011
Of all the challenges U.S. hospitals face, few are as unifying as hand hygiene—extremely...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 20, May 20, 2011
Sometimes we're so busy nurturing others that we forget about ourselves. This is especially true...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 20, May 20, 2011
A tragic story about the death of a child from a medical error turned even sadder last month after...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 20, May 20, 2011
To design an effective nurse residency program (NRP), you have to start with the end in mind. A...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 20, May 20, 2011
One of the ongoing challenges for Joint Commission survey coordinators is also one of the most...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 19, May 13, 2011
If you want to find out whether revising your educational methods to meet the needs of learners...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 19, May 13, 2011
Theresa Brown, RN, wrote an interesting opinion piece in The New York Times last week about how it...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 19, May 13, 2011
The topic of what new graduate nurses think, feel, and experience has been widely studied and...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 19, May 13, 2011
National Nurses Week is upon us once more, giving hospital leaders an opportunity to spend time...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 18, May 6, 2011
When a position opens up for a new staff development specialist, you will likely receive...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 18, May 6, 2011
ll too often staff development is the first department scrutinized when budget cuts and downsizing...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 18, May 6, 2011
Major hospitals in Hawaii are collaborating to launch a nurse residency program that aims to help...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 18, May 6, 2011
When a position opens up for a new staff development specialist, you will likely receive...
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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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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 17, April 29, 2011
Using Benner's (1984) clinical model as a guide, experts are the most sophisticated staff...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 17, April 29, 2011
As surprising as it may seem, the U.S. lacks a unified system to measure quality of care and health...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 17, April 29, 2011
It is important to differentiate between evidence-based clinical practice and evidence-based staff...
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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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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 16, April 22, 2011
Proficients have at least five years of experience in staff development. They perceive situations...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 16, April 22, 2011
HCPro will be hosting a complimentary live demo of Patient Safety Monitor on April 26! Patient...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 16, April 22, 2011
Competency checklists are one way of validating competence, but there are many methods for...
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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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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 15, April 15, 2011
Competents in staff development have been in the same job or worked in similar situations for two...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 15, April 15, 2011
Just when you thought you and your fellow providers have made hospitals safer, the April edition of...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 15, April 15, 2011
The right-brain learner processes information holistically, seeing the "big picture" or...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 15, April 15, 2011
Discharge planning is a process that should begin as soon as patients are admitted to the hospital...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 14, April 8, 2011
Advanced beginners are not nursing professional development (NPD) specialists. They have dealt with...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 14, April 8, 2011
More than 350 hospitals in 22 states in a national pilot project to tackle central line-associated...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 14, April 8, 2011
Computer-based learning (CBL) is any learning that involves a computer as the focal point for...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 14, April 8, 2011
Gary Sculli responds to both "nurse" and "captain" and the interesting...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 13, April 1, 2011
Differentiating among the various levels of expertise of clinical nurses was a ground-breaking...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 13, April 1, 2011
Eighty-five percent of nurses and nurse managers in a national survey said a safety tool had...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 13, April 1, 2011
If you organization does not have a nurse residency program or some other form of new graduate...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 13, April 1, 2011
Shelley Lockard, RN, BSN, physician marketing coordinator at Indiana (PA) Regional Medical Center...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 12, March 25, 2011
Not everyone is cut out to be a preceptor. Yet nursing departments often expect all nurses to...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 12, March 25, 2011
Preventing avoidable hospital readmissions is not only a hospital quality issue, it's a financial...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 12, March 25, 2011
Assessing learners' needs can become an exercise in futility. Have you ever been faced with a...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 12, March 25, 2011
Beep. Beep. Beep.
The telltale noise of a hospital is the bleeps, the sweeps, and the creeps of...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 11, March 18, 2011
Staff development departments are often the recipients of tasks that management or administration...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 11, March 18, 2011
The American Nurses Association (ANA) has established a special fund within its American Nurses...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 11, March 18, 2011
Whether you are planning a confrontation or some other difficult conversation, or simply a...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 11, March 18, 2011
In July 2008, a diabetic patient at Methodist LeBonheur Germantown (TN) Hospital looked down at his...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 10, March 11, 2011
Publishing is rapidly becoming an expectation for those who are proficient nursing professional...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 10, March 11, 2011
A subtle but significant sign that mobile apps to improve quality of care have come of age appeared...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 10, March 11, 2011
Mobile devices and mobile platforms are rapidly changing and expanding due to ever-developing...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 10, March 11, 2011
There's good news when it comes to safe injection practices: The majority of healthcare workers are...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 9, March 4, 2011
Research shows that mentorships enhance job satisfaction and increase retention. In healthcare...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 9, March 4, 2011
Even for highly educated patients, following instructions to take multiple medications a day is a...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 9, March 4, 2011
New charge nurses are learning many new skills, which will be much easier if they are provided a...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 9, March 4, 2011
Think back to the last time you sought medical care. You went to a healthcare facility trusting...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 8, February 25, 2011
When orienting new members of your department, there are some department-specific elements of...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 8, February 25, 2011
Checklists and hand washing are again documented as strategies that have reduced...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 8, February 25, 2011
Patients and families are not the only ones affected by a medical error that results in an adverse...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 8, February 25, 2011
Nursing professional development is a specialized nursing practice that promotes the professional...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 7, February 18, 2011
Here's a pop quiz on street gang affiliation: Can you tell the difference between a Crip and a...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 7, February 18, 2011
Staff development professionals often wonder whether the work they use as resources when developing...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 7, February 18, 2011
Remember in August 2010 when The Joint Commission announced there would be no new National Patient...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 6, February 11, 2011
Those of us who specialize in staff development must do more to reduce the costs of our products...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 6, February 11, 2011
Turnover among first-year nurses remains a huge cost driver and source of frustration for hospital...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 6, February 11, 2011
To analyze data and revise orientation, you must have a plan that is implemented consistently...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 6, February 11, 2011
"Think globally, act locally" is a familiar idiom from the green movement, and it's...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 5, February 4, 2011
Q. How do I decrease the length of orientation and still provide new employees with the orientation...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 5, February 4, 2011
Aggressive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) screening of patients upon admission...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 5, February 4, 2011
In nursing, we often see checklists in the form of order sets, flow sheets, protocols, cognitive...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 5, February 4, 2011
An exhibition of nursing photographs was on display last week at the Russell Senate Office Building...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 4, January 28, 2011
There is so much information pertaining to healthcare on the Internet that it is virtually...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 4, January 28, 2011
Medical necessity determinations are not just a hot button issue with Recovery Audit Contractors...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 4, January 28, 2011
As part of a just culture, organizations need to make incident reporting much more user-friendly...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 4, January 28, 2011
The stagnant nursing job market is set to pick up in 2011, according to recent reports. After...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 3, January 21, 2011
Hand washing is the best and most cost-effective way to prevent the spread of MRSA in the ED and...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 3, January 21, 2011
Conflict is inevitable. Charge nurses will be leading and holding team members accountable, and it...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 3, January 21, 2011
In September, the New York State Department of Health released a report that listed infection rates...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 2, January 17, 2011
Q: What are some nurse-driven projects I can implement to improve patient satisfaction?
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 2, January 14, 2011
Historically, bulletin boards are one of the oldest methods of sharing information and offering...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 2, January 14, 2011
Hospitals with multi-bed intensive care units (ICU) are well advised to convert to single bed...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 2, January 14, 2011
Interviewing and hiring, like any other skill, takes practice. It is an art, and like all artists...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 2, January 14, 2011
Patient satisfaction is on everyone's minds in 2011 as we face the prospect that these scores will...
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Nurse Leader Insider, 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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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 1, January 7, 2011
Concept maps are actual visual representations of the relationships among important pieces of...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 1, January 7, 2011
In just 21 months, the federal government will start penalizing hospitals with higher than expected...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 1, January 7, 2011
Foreign-educated nurses have complex transitional needs that healthcare organizations should...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 1, January 7, 2011
Years ago, while working in nursing professional development and education, consultant Gen Guanci...
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Nurse Leader Insider, 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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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 50, December 31, 2010
Q: I am the manager of a staff development department and am in the process of compiling a list of...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 50, December 31, 2010
The National Labor Relations Board, which has leaned toward organized labor since President Obama...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 50, December 31, 2010
As educators, we place great emphasis on the effect of continuing education and training and on the...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 50, December 31, 2010
Nurses are the most trusted professionals in the nation and once again top a list they have...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 51, December 27, 2010
Q: I’ve been hearing a lot about applications for mobile devices being used for...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 49, December 17, 2010
The use of simulation as an education strategy is an effective way of teaching not only psychomotor...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 49, December 17, 2010
Tele-ICU technology could save 350 additional lives and more than $122 million annually if broadly...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 49, December 17, 2010
The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses' (AACN) Synergy(tm) Model is based on the concept...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 49, December 17, 2010
While your healthcare organization awaits a breach notification final rule from HHS, there are some...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 49, December 13, 2010
Q: How do I incorporate communication skills into my staff orientation?
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 48, December 10, 2010
Q: Lots of my friends and colleagues spend time on Facebook and love Twitter. Recently, a friend of...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 48, December 10, 2010
HealthLeaders Media's annual HealthLeaders 20 profiles individuals who are changing healthcare for...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 48, December 10, 2010
Nursing professional development is a specialized nursing practice that promotes the professional...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 48, December 10, 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 Insider, Issue 48, December 6, 2010
Q: How do I incorporate critical thinking and persuasive discussion skills into my staff...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 47, December 2, 2010
Q: I submitted a manuscript for publication that was rejected, and I am so discouraged. It was the...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 46, November 19, 2010
Q: It's so difficult to keep up-to-date with all of the changes that come up in healthcare on a...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 46, November 19, 2010
This week, HCPro, Inc. announced the winners of the 2010 Nursing Image Awards, which recognize...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 46, November 19, 2010
Staff development specialist (SDS) time is a valuable yet scarce commodity, so we must identify...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 46, November 19, 2010
How quickly can you call up your nurse training and skill set data? Midland (TX) Memorial Hospital...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 45, November 12, 2010
Q: Can I be personally held liable if someone is injured during one of my classes (e.g., skills lab...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 45, November 12, 2010
In the first study to look at the prevalence of pain experienced among older people during the last...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 45, November 12, 2010
When asked to report on staff development activities, many staff development specialists (SDS) use...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 45, November 12, 2010
Preventing medical errors and patient harm is a top priority for most hospitals. Physicians...
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Nurse Leader Insider, 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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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 44, November 5, 2010
Q: I've learned about a number of clinical nursing theories, but have been unable to find a...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 44, November 5, 2010
Emergency department personnel place unnecessary urinary catheters in nearly half of women age 80...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 44, November 5, 2010
It's that dreaded time of year again. All staff members must complete annual mandatory education...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 44, November 5, 2010
There's no substitute for experience, especially in nursing. Experienced nurses accomplish all...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 43, November 1, 2010
Q: How do I create an e-mail computer-based learning course?
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 43, October 29, 2010
Q: We expect our nurses to do literature reviews as part of their evidence-based practice and...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 43, October 29, 2010
Fall-related injuries can be some of the most common, disabling, and expensive health conditions...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 43, October 29, 2010
Nursing staff development specialists can extend our influence by creating a motivating...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 43, October 29, 2010
It's well known that caregiver fatigue is a huge cause of errors, whether the caregiver involved is...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 42, October 22, 2010
Q: We have both preceptors and mentor programs at our hospital and some nurses have served in these...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 42, October 22, 2010
Last week, Theresa Brown, RN, wrote an interesting piece in The New York Times' Well blog about...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 42, October 22, 2010
An updated edition of the Nursing Professional Development Scope & Standards of Practice was...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 42, October 22, 2010
An Institute of Medicine report emphasizes the importance of nurse education in healthcare reform...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 41, October 15, 2010
Q: I've been doing some part-time work as a private consultant in addition to my full-time job as a...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 41, October 15, 2010
In a victory for nurse anesthetists, a California Superior Court judge has rejected a petition...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 41, October 15, 2010
"How do we measure our impact on patient outcomes?" was an underlying question throughout...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 41, October 15, 2010
In February, a study—conducted by Extending the Cure, a research project under Resources for...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 40, October 8, 2010
Q: I recently submitted a manuscript for publication to a professional nursing journal. It is my...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 40, October 8, 2010
With ranks of more than 3 million, nurses represent the largest workforce segment in healthcare...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 40, October 8, 2010
Have you ever had a colleague ask you, "What is it you actually do?" Have you been able...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 40, October 8, 2010
A new report released by The Leapfrog Group shows that computer physician order entry (CPOE...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 39, October 4, 2010
Q: A staff QI meeting for the frontline workforce in my facility is becoming increasingly...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 39, October 1, 2010
Q: Many of my colleagues are interested in pursuing a master's degree and I'm thinking of earning...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 39, October 1, 2010
We all know that the more often a doctor performs a procedure, the better the chances of a good...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 39, October 1, 2010
As educators, we are asked to enhance outcomes, demonstrate results, and provide evidence of return...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 39, October 1, 2010
Leadership development is an oft-overlooked issue in nursing, so it's no surprise that charge...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 10, October 1, 2010
Inside:
Enhancing brain function, facilitating learning, and improving outcomes
What is it you...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 10, October 1, 2010
As educators, we are asked to enhance outcomes, demonstrate results, and provide evidence of return...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 10, October 1, 2010
Have you ever had a colleague ask you, “What is it you actually do?” Have you been able...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 10, October 1, 2010
NNSDO is the professional association representing more than 3,000 staff development specialists...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 10, October 1, 2010
An updated edition of the Nursing Professional Development Scope & Standards of Practice was...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 38, September 24, 2010
Q: A number of excellent certified nursing assistants have recently been hired by our organization...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 38, September 24, 2010
Last week saw a murder-suicide at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore that also left an attending...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 38, September 24, 2010
At Yale-New Haven (CT) Hospital, Pina Violano, MSPH, RN-BC, CCRN, PhD(c), was concerned that too...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 38, September 24, 2010
In July, the Association for Healthcare Accreditation Professionals (AHAP) established a Facebook...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 37, September 17, 2010
Q: Are there any options for journal clubs other than the old method of reading and discussing...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 37, September 17, 2010
During the past two decades, the adult population in the United States has not only become heavier...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 37, September 17, 2010
Patient safety initiatives are critical to all aspects of patient care. The Joint Commission's...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 37, September 17, 2010
Onboarding is a business management term that describes the process of assimilating new employees...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 36, September 10, 2010
Q. We have an excellent clinical ladder advancement program for nursing staff, but few apply. The...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 36, September 10, 2010
Older adults have different risk factors when it comes to indoor and outdoor falls. This subtle...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 36, September 10, 2010
A colleague recently approached me and shared a story about hiring an experienced, proficient staff...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 36, September 10, 2010
Imagine if you only had to walk to your mailbox or your local supermarket in order to be vaccinated...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 35, September 3, 2010
Q: I have been hearing a lot about using standardized patients as part of simulation training...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 35, September 3, 2010
Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) CEO Dennis D. Keefe says the nonprofit health system is reviewing...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 35, September 3, 2010
Are you a staff development educator who uses simulation techniques? Do you sometimes wonder how...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 35, September 3, 2010
In April 2008, Baystate Medical Center (BMC), a 653-bed teaching hospital in Springfield, MA, began...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 9, September 1, 2010
Inside:
Helping nurses climb the clinical ladder
Keeping it real: Standardized patients bring...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 9, September 1, 2010
Does your organization have a process for clinical advancement? Do many nurses pursue advancement...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 9, September 1, 2010
Are you a staff development educator who uses simulation techniques? Do you sometimes wonder how...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 9, September 1, 2010
I recently had a conversation regarding the orientation and professional growth of proficient staff...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 9, September 1, 2010
Patient safety initiatives are critical to all aspects of patient care. The Joint...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 35, August 30, 2010
Q: What are the advantages of using computer-based learning as an educational approach?
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 34, August 27, 2010
The California Nurses Association is alleging discrimination at two California hospitals based on...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 34, August 27, 2010
Does your organization have a process for clinical advancement? Do many nurses pursue advancement...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 34, August 27, 2010
Nurse managers are often promoted without enough training or support, which leads to burnout. There...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 33, August 20, 2010
Q. As a nursing staff educator, am I legally responsible if a nurse fails to apply knowledge...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 33, August 20, 2010
A study by the University of Maryland's school of nursing has found that working conditions for...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 33, August 20, 2010
The word "tracer" is sometimes interpreted negatively by staff. They perceive it as a way...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 33, August 20, 2010
It's that time of year again. Graduating nursing students are preparing to take the NCLEX and are...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 32, August 13, 2010
Q: Developing critical-thinking skills is an issue for new nurses. How can preceptors work on...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 32, August 13, 2010
Pressure ulcers are the most expensive and frequent avoidable medical error, according to a...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 32, August 13, 2010
Benchmarking is a systematic process of evaluating the work processes of organizations based on...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 32, August 13, 2010
The case management department at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA) developed a tool called...
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Nurse Leader Insider, 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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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 31, August 6, 2010
Q: I really enjoy working with our Generation Y nurses. As a baby boomer, I'm in awe of their...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 31, August 6, 2010
Allowing nurse anesthetists to provide anesthesia services without supervision from a doctor does...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 31, August 6, 2010
There are several reasons for characterizing staff development specialists. Clinical nurses are...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 31, August 6, 2010
How many patients one nurse can care for is a difficult question to answer with certainty. Some...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 30, August 2, 2010
Two large studies recently published in The New England Journal of Medicine say compression-only...
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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
All staff development specialists face the challenge of motivating learners who are reluctant to...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 8, August 1, 2010
Critical thinking is the ability to recognize problems and raise questions, gather evidence to...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 8, August 1, 2010
Benchmarking is a systematic process of evaluating the work processes of organizations based on...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 30, July 30, 2010
Q. I am orienting a new staff development specialist who had about a year of experience in the...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 30, July 30, 2010
Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, the man who landed his plane on the Hudson River in...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 30, July 30, 2010
Critical thinking is the ability to recognize problems and raise questions, gather evidence to...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 30, July 30, 2010
Some nurses and administrators recoil at the term "scripting," envisioning robotic...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 29, July 23, 2010
Q: I work as an educator for a traveling nurse agency. Many of our nurses are thinking about...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 29, July 23, 2010
Physicians often fail to consider socio-economic factors when making diagnoses, says a Chicago...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 29, July 23, 2010
One strategy to use when teaching communication skills is to have learners observe examples of good...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 29, July 23, 2010
Hospitals with ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® (MRP) designation are always seeking better...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 28, July 16, 2010
Q: I'm frustrated with some of my older colleagues who are in their late 60s and even early 70s. I...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 28, July 16, 2010
Only three in 10 hospital administrations are willing to spend what's necessary to prevent...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 28, July 16, 2010
The Periodic Performance Review (PPR) is an annual self-assessment process designed to enhance...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 28, July 16, 2010
The road to ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® (MRP) status is not a new journey for University...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 27, July 9, 2010
Q: I have shared an idea with my boss, the director of my staff development department, to form a...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 27, July 9, 2010
A new study has found that automated phone calls made people more likely to undergo routine...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 27, July 9, 2010
Communication skills can be taught in a variety of ways. Distance learning is an efficient...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 27, July 9, 2010
All you need to take advantage of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) latest...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 26, July 2, 2010
Q: I work full time in staff development at a large metropolitan health system. I also work...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 26, July 2, 2010
The temperature is rising in the dispute between the Minnesota Nurses Union and Twin Cities...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 26, July 2, 2010
Whether your organization is new to shared governance or is trying to revitalize a current program...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 26, July 2, 2010
On June 16, President Obama spoke in front of more than 1,000 cheering nurse delegates and RNs at...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 7, July 1, 2010
The Periodic Performance Review (PPR) is an annual self-assessment process designed to enhance...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 7, July 1, 2010
Whether your organization is new to shared governance or is trying to revitalize a current program...
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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
As an educator, how many times have you been asked to participate in changing a culture? The...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 8, July 1, 2010
The word “tracer” is sometimes interpreted negatively by staff. They perceive it as a...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 25, June 25, 2010
Q: I would like to use some classical music by Mozart as part of a convention presentation on...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 25, June 25, 2010
Raising the price of non-diet sodas by 35% reduced consumption by 26% at Boston's Brigham and...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 25, June 25, 2010
Mock trials are similar to debates since learners must review literature, gather evidence, and...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 25, June 25, 2010
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released Common Formats Version 1.1...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 24, June 18, 2010
Q: We have large bulletin boards on every nursing unit and at strategic points throughout the...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 24, June 18, 2010
Nearly half—45%—of hospital employees say they're disengaged, disempowered, and unhappy...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 24, June 18, 2010
Dr. Lucian Leape, a member of the Quality of Health Care in America Committee at the Institute of...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 24, June 18, 2010
A hospital stay often increases confusion and anxiety in patients with Alzheimer's disease or...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 23, June 11, 2010
Q: I've been a staff development specialist for more than 10 years. Some colleagues in other...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 23, June 11, 2010
A judge in California has issued a temporary ban on a planned strike by nurses at several...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 23, June 11, 2010
The Survey Activity Guide (SAG) was last updated by The Joint Commission in February. According to...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 23, June 11, 2010
There are plenty of locations hospital security personnel have to worry about in their hospital and...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 22, June 4, 2010
Q: Years ago, we had a Journal Club that met at lunchtime, but people didn't want to give up their...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 22, June 4, 2010
Every year, medical facilities plead with employees to get their annual influenza vaccinations...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 22, June 4, 2010
All staff development specialists face the challenge of motivating learners who are reluctant to...
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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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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 6, June 1, 2010
The Survey Activity Guide (SAG) was last updated by The Joint Commission in February. According to...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 6, June 1, 2010
Just culture refers to a values-supportive model of shared accountability. It’s a culture...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 6, June 1, 2010
All staff development specialists face the challenge of motivating learners who are reluctant to...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 6, June 1, 2010
Inside:
Professional growth and development of educators
Facilitating the establishment of...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 6, June 1, 2010
As staff development specialists, we generally focus our time and attention on the continuing...
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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
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
As managers and leaders, we all want to improve our patient outcomes while balancing staff...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 21, May 28, 2010
Q: I've been reading about mock trials as an educational strategy? Is the intent just to simulate a...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 21, May 28, 2010
British researchers have discovered Clostridium difficile (C. diff) can travel through the air...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 21, May 28, 2010
Just culture refers to a values-supportive model of shared accountability. It's a culture that...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 21, May 28, 2010
More than two dozen hospitals are participating in the Maryland Patient Safety Center's (MPSC) SAFE...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 20, May 21, 2010
Q: We are in the beginning stages of establishing a nursing research council. One of our first...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 20, May 21, 2010
University HealthSystem Consortium, an alliance of 107 academic medical centers with 234 affiliated...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 20, May 21, 2010
As staff development specialists, we generally focus our time and attention on the continuing...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 20, May 21, 2010
Although a relatively minor clinical concern in a nurse's day, relatives tend to call to check on...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 19, May 14, 2010
Q: I work as the only staff development specialist in a 150-bed community hospital in a rural...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 19, May 14, 2010
When patients leave the ER at Ridgeview Medical Center in Waconia, MN, there aren't a lot of...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 19, May 14, 2010
Here's an example of an ethical scenario to use as a basis for ethical discussions:
Cynthia is a...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 19, May 14, 2010
The Joint Commission will be releasing new standards for hospitals surrounding language, culture...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 18, May 7, 2010
Q. I work in a small hospital with limited technology tools, but I've been hearing a lot about...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 18, May 7, 2010
Two weeks ago, surgeons in Massachusetts and California enrolled the first three of 140 patients in...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 18, May 7, 2010
Patient education remains a problematic standard. Many, if not all, healthcare organizations rely...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 18, May 7, 2010
Innovation and design thinking is a fascinating methodology that holds much promise for healthcare...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 5, May 1, 2010
Patient education remains a problematic standard. Many, if not all, healthcare organizations rely...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 5, May 1, 2010
Ethical dilemmas occur with increasing frequency in the healthcare environment. Examples of...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 5, May 1, 2010
As an educator, how many times have you been asked to participate in changing a culture? The...
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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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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 5, May 1, 2010
In this issue, read how a vice president of professional development enhances education across a...
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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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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 17, April 30, 2010
Q: I am on the education planning committee for my local chapter of NNSDO. I also am responsible...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 17, April 30, 2010
The Joint Commission's January 2011 hospital manual will include new standards for hospitals...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 17, April 30, 2010
Ethical dilemmas occur with increasing frequency in the healthcare environment. Examples of...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 17, April 30, 2010
Next time your nursing staff members complain about having too much paperwork and not enough time...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 16, April 23, 2010
Q: I'm struggling with a generational issue. Within the past couple of years, we have hired several...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 16, April 23, 2010
If California's mandatory nurse-patient ratios had been in effect in Pennsylvania and New Jersey...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 16, April 23, 2010
As an educator, how many times have you been asked to participate in changing a culture? The...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 16, April 23, 2010
When Barbara Wilson, PhD, RNC, begins any new patient safety project, she first examines the...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 15, April 16, 2010
Q: I am the manager of a staff development department in a 500-bed community hospital. Our...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 15, April 16, 2010
A recent round of edits to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) interpretive...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 15, April 16, 2010
Staff development specialists have always believed in the intrinsic value of our services. We know...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 15, April 16, 2010
Hospitalist programs could help all types of institutions, according to speakers at the pre-course...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 14, April 9, 2010
Q: I am a one-person staff development department. I am feeling overwhelmed and need to organize my...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 14, April 9, 2010
A recent study from the University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City, KS, revealed patients feel...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 14, April 9, 2010
The recent economic downturn will have lasting effects, and the recession, which officially started...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 14, April 9, 2010
Identifying patients at risk for suicide has been a requirement of the National Patient Safety...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 3, April 2, 2010
Q: I am the manager of a small staff development department of three people. I rely on...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 13, April 2, 2010
While the number of patient safety incidents that occurred among hospitalized Medicare patients...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 13, April 2, 2010
Staff development specialists are essential to Joint Commission preparedness. We...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 13, April 2, 2010
An extensive federal survey of nursing trends from 2004 to 2008 shows a growing diversity of...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 4, April 1, 2010
Staff development specialists are essential to Joint Commission preparedness. We...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 4, April 1, 2010
Market-savvy healthcare organizations have implemented workforce development strategies to address...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 4, April 1, 2010
Providing learning opportunities for evening and night shift staff requires innovation and...
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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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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 3, April 1, 2010
Joint Commission experts identify medication storage as a problem, even though storage requirements...
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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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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 12, March 26, 2010
Q: I’ve decided to take the plunge and sit for the Nursing Professional Development...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 12, March 26, 2010
Many of the provisions included in the healthcare reform legislation approved Sunday—and the...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 12, March 26, 2010
Providing learning opportunities for evening and night shift staff requires innovation and...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 12, March 26, 2010
Overcoming the cultural boundaries that can prevent a patient-physician relationship from forming...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 11, March 19, 2010
Q: I’ve been a staff development specialist for nearly 20 years and I seem to have lost the...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 11, March 19, 2010
Older women aged 55 and older will become 30% of the nation’s direct-care workforce by...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 11, March 19, 2010
In our fast-paced environments, we often ask, "How can I extend my influence? And how can I...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 11, March 19, 2010
The emergence of the H1N1 flu put a spotlight in early 2009 on a question: Should healthcare...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 10, March 12, 2010
Q: I have just earned my certification in Nursing Professional Development. I know I need...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 10, March 12, 2010
Hospital nurses spend three hours of a typical 12-hour shift away from patients' bedside to...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 10, March 12, 2010
Simulation in healthcare is often considered an emerging field. In the past 10-15 years, we have...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 10, March 12, 2010
Hospitals look for ways to improve patient education all the time. Once in a while, this education...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 9, March 5, 2010
Q: Am I legally responsible if a nurse fails to apply knowledge from one of my educational programs...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 9, March 5, 2010
When it comes to workplace violence in hospitals, emergency departments (ED) act as a potential...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 9, March 5, 2010
Each year across the United States, numerous healthcare organizations begin a full court press...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 9, March 5, 2010
Even as the Joint Commission introduced standards for medical interpreters, a new study reveals...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 3, March 1, 2010
Author’s note: I am the director of accreditation and clinical professional development at...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 3, March 1, 2010
Author’s note: I have worked in staff development and academic teaching as a nurse educator...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 3, March 1, 2010
You probably address legal concepts when talking about documentation, medication administration...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 3, March 1, 2010
In this issue, learn how to incorporate legal concepts in orientation programs; find out about the...
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HCPro's Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®, Issue 3, March 1, 2010
Preparing and writing the documentation for the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® (MRP) was an...
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HCPro's Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®, Issue 3, March 1, 2010
Q: What are some ways to evaluate the effectiveness of MRP education?
A: Integral to the MRP...
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HCPro's Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®, Issue 3, March 1, 2010
Inside this issue, read how scheduling software helps improve nurse satisfaction; understand the...
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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
In November 2006, CMS changed its requirement for security of medications, stating that...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 8, February 26, 2010
Q: I switched one of my ongoing, regular programs on safety from classroom style to computer-based...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 8, February 26, 2010
The term "observed but corrected on-site" has been cropping up in survey terminology in...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 8, February 26, 2010
Starting today, you will notice a change in the name of this e-newsletter and the companion monthly...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 8, February 26, 2010
It's no secret that hospitals across the country struggle with many challenges. Among them is a...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 7, February 19, 2010
Q: I really need another position in my staff development department, but the budget is tight...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 7, February 19, 2010
"Why are nurses so mean to each other?" asks Theresa Brown, RN, in The New York Times...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 7, February 19, 2010
Starting next week, you will notice a change in the name of this e-newsletter and the companion...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 7, February 19, 2010
The National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) has sponsored Patient Safety Awareness Week (PSAW...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 6, February 12, 2010
Q: The ANA's Professional Development Scope and Standards of Practice always refer to the role of...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 6, February 12, 2010
Anne Mitchell, RN, a former compliance officer at Winkler County Memorial Hospital, TX, says she...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 6, February 12, 2010
A successful new hire orientation requires planning, execution, and follow-up of learning...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 6, February 12, 2010
Nurse anesthetists across the country are vehemently defending their ability to administer...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 5, February 5, 2010
Q: I am a one-person staff development department. I barely have time to conduct orientation and...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 5, February 5, 2010
HealthGrades recently released its eighth HealthGrades Annual Hospital Quality and Clinical...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 5, February 5, 2010
Becoming certified in professional development is a way of gaining professional recognition while...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 5, February 5, 2010
Physicians have been doing it for decades, but nursing has been slow to adopt peer review as a...
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HCPro's Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®, Issue 2, February 1, 2010
Inside this issue, read how scheduling software helps improve nurse satisfaction; understand the...
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HCPro's Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®, Issue 2, February 1, 2010
The ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® (MRP) requires hospitals to have evidence-based practice...
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HCPro's Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®, Issue 2, February 1, 2010
Starting your first job as a nurse is a difficult transition for any new graduate, but the process...
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HCPro's Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®, Issue 2, February 1, 2010
Inside this white paper, find out how to collect evidence from across the entire organization, and...
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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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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 4, January 29, 2010
Q: Based on staff feedback and a review of the literature, I believe that a mentor program would...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 4, January 29, 2010
Smokers may not want to apply to work for Memorial Hospital in Chattanooga, TN. As part of a new...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 4, January 29, 2010
Maintaining a constant state of readiness is a challenging prospect. The following are some tips...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 4, January 29, 2010
The first section of the workshop presentation summarizes the charge nurse role. The role...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 3, January 22, 2010
Q: Our hospital is having some financial difficulties and looking to cut costs. What can I do to...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 3, January 22, 2010
Nominations are open for the HCPro 2010 Nursing Image Awards, which honor nurses whose leadership...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 3, January 22, 2010
The charge nurse workshop should open with an icebreaker activity called "Fear in the...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 2, January 15, 2010
Q: I hear colleagues from other organizations talk about mission and vision statements for their...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 2, January 15, 2010
More than 300,000 patients develop a surgical site infection in the United States each year, and...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 2, January 15, 2010
It takes a special person to be a mentor, as being one requires time, energy, and commitment to the...
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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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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 1, January 8, 2010
Editor's note: Welcome to our new feature written by staff development expert Adrianne Avillion...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 1, January 8, 2010
The National Quality Forum (NQF) recently released an updated list of Safe Practices for Better...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 1, January 8, 2010
Helping nurses develop and enhance their critical thinking skills is part of the staff development...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 1, January 8, 2010
A gap appears to exist between policymakers' expectations of commercial electronic medical records...
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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
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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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 1, January 1, 2010
Maintaining a constant state of readiness is a challenging prospect. The following are some tips...
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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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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 1, January 1, 2010
Theoretical perspectives of adult education serve as useful guidelines for educators by helping...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 1, January 1, 2010
It takes a special person to be a mentor, as being one requires time, energy, and commitment to the...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 1, January 1, 2010
Helping nurses develop and enhance their critical thinking skills is part of the staff development...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 1, January 1, 2010
In this issue, read about helping new graduate nurses with critical thinking skills by teaching...
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HCPro's Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®, Issue 1, January 1, 2010
Q: We are currently working on our nurse-sensitive quality indicators, and I would like to get...
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HCPro's Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®, Issue 1, January 1, 2010
New grads have a tricky balancing act to perform involving learning new skills, committing policies...
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HCPro's Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®, Issue 1, January 1, 2010
Inside this issue, read how an Arizona-health system is incorporating simulation into new nurse...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 50, December 18, 2009
Q: I would like to start a new mentorship program. How can I demonstrate that there is a need for...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 50, December 18, 2009
In March 2008, a task force was formed to review and revise the American Nurses Association’s...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 49, December 11, 2009
Q: What is a journal club and how do they help implement evidence-based practices?
A: A journal...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 48, December 4, 2009
Q: Is it important to have our nurses do research? If it is something we think about trying to...
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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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HCPro's Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®, Issue 12, December 1, 2009
Inside this white paper, learn how to start organizing for the documentation writing stage. After...
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HCPro's Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®, Issue 12, December 1, 2009
Inside this issue, find out about the clinical nurse leader role that benefits organizations&rsquo...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 12, December 1, 2009
When prepping for Joint Commission surveys, “it’s best to take a look at the most...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 12, December 1, 2009
Just-in-time training (also referred to as inservice education or on-the-job training) is basic...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 12, December 1, 2009
In March 2008, a task force was formed to review and revise the American Nurses Association’s...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 12, December 1, 2009
Healthcare organizations have designed simulation scenarios, standards, and techniques for their...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 12, December 1, 2009
In this issue, read about the collaborative efforts to create a simulation training alliance; learn...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 47, November 20, 2009
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 46, November 13, 2009
Q: What are expenses we should consider when trying to cut orientation costs without losing...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 46, November 13, 2009
The phrase “simulation modalities” may conjure up a variety of images. For example...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 45, November 6, 2009
In the wake of the country's nurse shortage, many nurses are wearing more than one hat during the...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 45, November 6, 2009
Q. As a preceptor, how can I help new nurses overcome reality shock and move forward with their...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 45, November 6, 2009
Designation as a stroke center requires that all clinical and nonclinical hospital employees...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 45, November 6, 2009
The University of Phoenix introduced its new, state-of-the-art SIM Man 3G "patient"...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 11, November 1, 2009
The Joint Commission has announced the adoption of a new accreditation decision for 2010...
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HCPro's Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®, Issue 11, November 1, 2009
Inside this issue, one organization shares how it engaged nurses in evidence-based practice through...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 11, November 1, 2009
Most staff development specialists are familiar with Patricia Benner’s book From Novice to...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 11, November 1, 2009
Designation as a stroke center requires that all clinical and nonclinical hospital employees...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 11, November 1, 2009
In this issue learn how a hospital seeking stroke designation trained patient care technicians to...
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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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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 44, October 30, 2009
The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) recently launched an initiative...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 44, October 30, 2009
Q: How do the value, vision, and mission statement of a department aid in the education of staff...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 44, October 30, 2009
According to survey results from The Joint Commission, one of the most frequently cited National...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 44, October 30, 2009
The Health Resources and Services Administration has granted the University of Virginia School of...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 43, October 23, 2009
In 1751, Dr. Thomas Bond and Benjamin Franklin founded the first hospital of the 13 colonies. At...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 43, October 23, 2009
Q: How can I reiterate how important the peer review process is to staff?
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 43, October 23, 2009
Poster presentations are an excellent way to share knowledge and expertise, as well as give credit...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 43, October 23, 2009
As H1N1 concerns flood doctors' offices and emergency rooms, many facilities are looking for ways...
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HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, Issue 42, October 20, 2009
Component III: Exemplary professional practice addresses the practice of nursing as an independent...
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HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, Issue 42, October 20, 2009
Q: We have a large organization with many nurses to educate about our ANCC Magnet Recognition...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 42, October 16, 2009
In one of our recent blog posts on the Leaders' Lounge, we talked about the H1N1 virus and how...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 42, October 16, 2009
Q. How can I develop an effective competency assessment training program for staff?
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 42, October 16, 2009
Staff development specialists are well aware that the way new employees are oriented to an...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 42, October 16, 2009
The high-tech mannequin, Sim Man G3, costs $60,000, but that didn?t stop the Grambling School of...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 41, October 9, 2009
In one of our recent blog posts on the Leaders' Lounge, we focused on new nursing programs geared...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 41, October 9, 2009
Q: When a nurse wants to become a preceptor, what type of skills should I be looking for?
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 41, October 9, 2009
For the first time in history, there are four distinct generations in the American workplace...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 41, October 9, 2009
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) will help support the collaboration of New Hampshire...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 39, October 5, 2009
Q: How can I create a healthy environment for nursing students?
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 40, October 2, 2009
As the fall and winter months approach, hospitals are gearing up for more than the average flu...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 40, October 2, 2009
Q: How can I develop that "perfect" orientation program for staff development practice?
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 40, October 2, 2009
Much attention has been given to evaluating new employees’ performance. However, there has...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 40, October 2, 2009
A nursing professor at the University of South Florida is creating a modern way to educate college...
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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
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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HCPro's Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
Inside this white paper, read about Component V: Empirical quality outcomes and how to demonstrate...
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HCPro's Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
We have a large organization with many nurses to educate about our ANCC Magnet Recognition...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 10, October 1, 2009
According to survey results, one of the most frequently cited National Patient Safety Goal elements...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 10, October 1, 2009
Poster presentations are an excellent way to share knowledge and expertise, as well as give credit...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 10, October 1, 2009
Staff development specialists are well aware that the way new employees are oriented to an...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 10, October 1, 2009
Background
For the first time in history, there are four distinct generations in the American...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 10, October 1, 2009
In this issue learn how different generations’ characteristics affect education; a...
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HCPro's Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
Inside this issue, one organization shares how its innovative ambassador program helped prepare it...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 38, September 28, 2009
Q: What are the criteria for treating a catheter-associated urinary tract infection?
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 38, September 25, 2009
A room filled with patient safety horrors helped educate nurses about what to watch for during a...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 38, September 25, 2009
One of the Joint Commission issues that triggers the most questions is the use of restraints. Joint...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 38, September 25, 2009
Q: How can we focus on long-term assessment of nurses' critical thinking skills?
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 39, September 25, 2009
The final National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) that deals with a specific infection is...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 38, September 18, 2009
Hospitals around the country are hoping to prevent healthcare workers from becoming infected by...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 38, September 18, 2009
Interviewing prospective nursing employees is only the first step in the successful integration of...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 38, September 18, 2009
Q: How can educators make mandatory training less boring?
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 38, September 18, 2009
While they may look like common, innocuous problems to you, The Joint Commission life safety...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 37, September 11, 2009
A recent study published in the journal Archives of Surgery found that the overall system of care...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 37, September 11, 2009
Couldn't make the National Nursing Staff Development Organization's annual conference in July? The...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 37, September 11, 2009
Q: How can I help my experienced nurses who are heading back to school but worry about how they...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 37, September 11, 2009
It seems like potential pandemics require an animal in the title—especially if the word...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 35, September 7, 2009
The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) hospital survey was...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 36, September 4, 2009
This week, Polly Gerber Zimmermann, RN, MS, MBA, CEN, discusses how to use unfolding case scenarios...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 36, September 4, 2009
On May 12, The Joint Commission released proposed changes to the National Patient Safety Goals...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 36, September 4, 2009
Orientation is the process of helping nurses become part of an organization's culture; support its...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 36, September 4, 2009
HCPro, Inc. is proud to announce the winners of the 2009 Nursing Image Awards. The awards recognize...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
Over the five-year period from January 2002 to January 2007, NCH's rate of pressure ulcers dropped...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
The ways adults learn have a great effect on their ability to acquire and apply knowledge, seek...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
For years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has proclaimed that the potential of a...
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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
Inside this issue: Discover how to implement a successful nurse residency program; how public...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 9, September 1, 2009
In this issue discover orientation needs by looking at paradigm shifts in healthcare; catch...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 9, September 1, 2009
Orientation is the process of helping nurses become part of an organization’s culture...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 9, September 1, 2009
In addition to providing continuing education, this year’s convention was also a celebration...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 9, September 1, 2009
Interviewing prospective nursing employees is only the first step in the successful integration of...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 9, September 1, 2009
One of the Joint Commission issues that triggers the most questions is the use of restraints. Joint...
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HCPro's Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
Inside this issue, one organization shares how its scholars program prepares nurses for conducting...
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HCPro's Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
Q. As an MRP hospital, how can we anticipate new employees’ needs and expectations at...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 35, August 28, 2009
The rate of adverse events among hospitalized patients has risen by about 1% each of the last six...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 35, August 28, 2009
What types of policies, procedures, and protocols require immediate inservice education? Examples...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 35, August 28, 2009
Q: I am holding a long series of educational sessions and frequently attendees are late. They say...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 35, August 28, 2009
A divide commonly exists between rural communities and healthcare access, but a grant will soon...
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HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, Issue 34, August 25, 2009
Q: What are some best practices on how to run a mock code staff training event?
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 34, August 21, 2009
Twelve million dollars in bonus money is being shared among 230 hospitals who participated in the...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 34, August 21, 2009
Hospitals and healthcare systems are adjusting to the demand that organizations be prepared for...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 34, August 21, 2009
Q: How do we document whether a patient's CAUTI was hospital-acquired or POA?
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 34, August 21, 2009
A divide commonly exists between rural communities and healthcare access, but a grant will soon...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 32, August 17, 2009
This week, learn how to enhance educational PowerPoint presentations with advice from staff...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 33, August 14, 2009
One in 15 hospitalized children is harmed by a medical error, according to a 2008 report by the...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 33, August 14, 2009
The key to successful nursing research initiatives that lead to clinical evidence-based practice...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 33, August 14, 2009
Q: How can nursing staff development professionals best publicize educational offerings to ensure...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 33, August 14, 2009
A New York City nurse slapped a lawsuit on her hospital after allegedly being forced to assist in a...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 32, August 7, 2009
Emergency departments (ED) may not be able to continue providing their current level of care in...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 32, August 7, 2009
Nurses have an obligation to be aware of media representation of the profession and to take action...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 32, August 7, 2009
Q: How can we measure the critical thinking skills of new graduate nurses and other new hires?
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 32, August 7, 2009
What does going full tilt on environmentally green efforts get you, really, in this economy?
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 8, August 1, 2009
Providing unit-based educational resources without adding nursing professional development...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 8, August 1, 2009
Hospitals and healthcare systems are adjusting to the demand that organizations be prepared for...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 8, August 1, 2009
The key to successful nursing research initiatives that lead to clinical evidence-based practice...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 8, August 1, 2009
Nurses have an obligation to be aware of media representation of the profession and to take action...
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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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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 8, August 1, 2009
Inservice education is defined as simple, short-term programming that meets an immediate training...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 8, August 1, 2009
The Staff Educator has been following the progress of North Adams (MA) Regional Hospital’s...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 8, August 1, 2009
In this issue learn how a hospital’s first evidence-based practice project has improved...
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HCPro's Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®, Issue 8, August 1, 2009
When should we hold a mock code, and what are some best practices on how to run one?
Mock or...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 8, August 1, 2009
For babies born prematurely, even the noise generated from a normal conversation can be too loud...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 31, July 31, 2009
Obesity rates in adults and children have risen in the past year, according to a new report...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 31, July 31, 2009
The Staff Educator has been following the progress of North Adams (MA) Regional Hospital's efforts...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 31, July 31, 2009
Q: We want to hold educational sessions to help bedside caregivers understand EBP and to let them...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 31, July 31, 2009
Peer Assistance Services, a Colorado nonprofit organization that provides guidance, support, and...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 29, July 27, 2009
This week, expert Judith "Ski" Lower, RN, MSN, CCRN, CNRN alumnus, independent lecturer...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 29, July 27, 2009
As the terms "podcasts", "wikis", and "blogs" fill the vocabulary of...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 30, July 24, 2009
This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released advice for outpatient...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 30, July 24, 2009
Joint Commission standard NPSG.07.04.01 deals with the prevention of central line-associated...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 30, July 24, 2009
This week, Debbie Buchwach, BSN, RN-BC, discusses how to help new graduate nurses prioritize their...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 30, July 24, 2009
Nearly three-quarters of nurses who participated in an American Nurses Association (ANA) online...
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Nurse Leader Insider, 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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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 29, July 17, 2009
Most of the members of the California Board of Registered Nursing were fired by Gov. Arnold...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 29, July 17, 2009
Multiple choice is arguably the most common testing method. When nurses will be taking a...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 29, July 17, 2009
This week, Eileen Lavin Dohmann, RN, MBA, NEA-BC, discusses how to ask yes/no questions that hold...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 27, July 13, 2009
This week, staff development expert Adrianne Avillion, DEd, RN, owner of Avillion’s...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 28, July 10, 2009
The Joint Commission recently announced it will be refocusing its examination of steam...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 28, July 10, 2009
There is increasing evidence that the learning preferences and styles of adult learners drastically...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 28, July 10, 2009
This week, Jo-Ann C. Byrne, RN, BS, MHSA, and Frances M. Moore, RNC, BSN, MSA, discuss how to help...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 28, July 10, 2009
Nurses cure the sick, heal the wounded, and comfort the dying, but are they doing so at their own...
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HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, Issue 27, July 7, 2009
Educators tell us that information should be presented in at least three different ways to reach...
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HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, Issue 27, July 7, 2009
This week, a reader asks about how to maintain momentum on the designation journey when facing...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 27, July 3, 2009
An advisory panel of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued a report last week identifying 100...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 27, July 3, 2009
Nurses at York (PA) Hospital are hard at work identifying best practices for patient care through...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 27, July 3, 2009
This week, Adrianne E. Avillion, DEd, RN, shares best practices for writing staff development...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 27, July 3, 2009
The slumping economy has led to surging nurse employment rates that could soon end the nation's...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 7, July 1, 2009
There is increasing evidence that the learning preferences and styles of adult learners drastically...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 7, July 1, 2009
Nurses at York (PA) Hospital are hard at work identifying best practices for patient care through...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 7, July 1, 2009
In this issue learn how to engage staff nurses in evidence-based practice and research; craft...
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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
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
Finding ways to motivate staff nurses to conduct nursing research can be difficult. From the...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 26, June 26, 2009
Nurses in New Jersey are being asked their opinion on a subject about which they have unique...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 26, June 26, 2009
Fall prevention guidelines mandate that every patient is assessed and findings documented on...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 26, June 26, 2009
This week, Bonnie Clair, BSN, RN, shares best practices for welcoming new nurses and educators.
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 26, June 26, 2009
On an all-too-regular basis, newspaper headlines depict grim trends related to MRSA, both in the...
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Nurse Leader Insider, 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 Insider, Issue 24, June 22, 2009
The right and left hemispheres of the brain process information differently, and learners tend to...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 25, June 19, 2009
Hospitals across the country are engaged in research about how they can assist patients with making...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 25, June 19, 2009
The Joint Commission Standard IC.02.04.01 relates to the administration of the influenza vaccine...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 25, June 19, 2009
This week, Adrianne Avillion, DEd, RN, shares how to develop a successful preceptorship/mentorship...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 25, June 19, 2009
Hospitals commonly display visual aids, such as banners, posters, and signs to remind staff to...
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Nurse Leader Insider, 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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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 24, June 12, 2009
The recession is causing many healthcare facilities across the nation to cut infection prevention...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 24, June 12, 2009
Time is always a challenge when it comes to educating staff nurses. So Peg Daly, RN, BS, education...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 24, June 12, 2009
This week, Shelley Cohen, RN, BSN, CEN, discusses how educators can set expectations for nurses at...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 24, June 12, 2009
Hospitals can be a frightening place for children, which in turn creates a barrier of distrust...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 23, June 5, 2009
The Joint Commission recently announced it is developing no new National Patient Safety Goals...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 23, June 5, 2009
Incorporating evidence-based practice (EBP) into staff development is an ongoing process that...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 23, June 5, 2009
This week, Marquetta Flaugher, ARNP-BC, DSN, discusses the forms needed by an institutional review...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 23, June 5, 2009
In a meeting, you want participants to process information in a useful way that adds value.
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 6, June 1, 2009
Incorporating EBP into staff development is an ongoing process that requires you to consider 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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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 6, June 1, 2009
After identifying an increase in patient falls, Debbie Durant, RN, BSN, director of the...
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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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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 6, June 1, 2009
Last month, Barbara A. Brunt, MA, MN, RN-BC, director of nursing education and staff development at...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 6, June 1, 2009
In this issue learn how to assess the clinical competency of staff development specialists; base...
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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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HCPro's Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®, Issue 6, June 1, 2009
The NurseSPEAK program was developed by Terry Leydon, RN, MSHCM, CPHQ, an ANCC Magnet Recognition...
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HCPro's Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®, Issue 6, June 1, 2009
Inside this issue, one organization shares how it utilizes APNs to mentor nurses on research...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 22, May 29, 2009
Marsha-Gaye Elson-Joseph, BSN, knew her nursing career could take her anywhere. Different...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 22, May 29, 2009
This week, Barbara Brunt, MA, MN, RN, BC, provides questions to consider before writing a nursing...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 22, May 29, 2009
In evidence-based staff development, educators must gather evidence to support ethical and legal...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 22, May 29, 2009
As part of our Nurses Week celebration, HCPro, Inc. included a quiz about Florence Nightingale in...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 21, May 22, 2009
Patients at North Broward Medical Center’s Joint Replacement Center in Deerfield Beach, FL...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 21, May 22, 2009
Evidence-based practice in staff development requires a continual analysis of healthcare practices...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 21, May 22, 2009
This week, Adrianne Avillion, DEd, RN, shares the role of the group leader during activities.
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 21, May 22, 2009
President Barack Obama’s proposed healthcare workforce development funding for fiscal year...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 20, May 15, 2009
Junior-level nursing students from Anderson (IN) University (AU) are prepared to take off in a...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 20, May 15, 2009
The Joint Commission standard APR.09.02.01 deals with the reporting of safety or quality of care...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 20, May 15, 2009
This week, Suzanne C. Beyea, RN, PhD, FAAN, and Mary Jo Slattery, RN, MS, share ways to...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 20, May 15, 2009
University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) in Philadelphia lowered its...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 19, May 8, 2009
Florence Nightingale is regarded as the founder of modern nursing. She helped establish the...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 19, May 8, 2009
Nurses enjoy being recognized and rewarded for their excellent work and the care they provide...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 19, May 8, 2009
This week, Debbie Buchwach, BSN, RN-BC, shares how to help nurses delegate tasks to the appropriate...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 19, May 8, 2009
Researchers at Boston Medical Center (BMC) are investigating whether a virtual patient advocate can...
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HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, Issue 18, May 5, 2009
Florence Nightingale is regarded as the founder of modern nursing. She helped establish the...
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HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, Issue 18, May 5, 2009
By Ron Bass, MAEd, BSN, RN-BC, clinical educator at Sarasota (FL) Memorial Healthcare System
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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
Constructing a tracer process from scratch for a 645-bed hospital is no simple matter, but that was...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 5, May 1, 2009
In this issue learn how to assess the clinical competency of staff development specialists; base...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 5, May 1, 2009
Assessing the clinical competency of healthcare professionals is, arguably, the center of attention...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 5, May 1, 2009
EBP in staff development requires a continual analysis of healthcare practices. Such analysis...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 5, May 1, 2009
Conducting research and publishing findings is an important way to add to the body of knowledge of...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 5, May 1, 2009
Each month, The Staff Educator will feature suggestions for Joint Commission survey preparation...
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HCPro's Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
Inside this issue, one organization shares how it gave staff nurses autonomy by putting the...
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HCPro's Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
The decision to put the hiring process into staff nurses’ hands came when Stephanie Alford...
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HCPro's Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
Nurses spend the majority of their time at patients’ bedsides and working with peers. They...
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HCPro's Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
Improving nursing satisfaction is tough in bad economic times, when many hospitals are experiencing...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 18, May 1, 2009
Stress can be around every corner of your facility. Nurses must care for complicated patients, work...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 18, May 1, 2009
Assessing the clinical competency of healthcare professionals is, arguably, the center of attention...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 18, May 1, 2009
This week, Shelley Cohen, RN, BS, CEN, shows ways to transition a novice staff nurse to a competent...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 18, May 1, 2009
It’s difficult to establish effective means of communication between the infection control...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 17, April 24, 2009
Are you in search of the ideal gift to show your gratitude to a fellow nurse? Is it time to reward...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 17, April 24, 2009
Evidence-based practice (EBP) in staff development requires a continual analysis of healthcare...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 17, April 24, 2009
This week, Adrianne Avillion, DEd, RN, provides tips on how to measure learning.
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 17, April 24, 2009
While many infection control (IC) training and practices focus on clinical procedures, a...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 16, April 17, 2009
As HCPro continues its countdown to Nurses Week, our focus moves to improving the image of nursing...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 16, April 17, 2009
Standard APR.09.02.01 deals with the reporting of safety or quality of care concerns to The Joint...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 16, April 17, 2009
This week, Barbara Brunt, MA, MN, RN,BC, provides a list of components that can be featured in a...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 16, April 17, 2009
Healthcare facilities nationwide are trimming staff, freezing pay, and cutting incentive programs...
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Nurse Leader Insider, 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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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 15, April 10, 2009
Nurses Week doesn’t start officially until May 6, but HCPro, Inc. is beginning the...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 15, April 10, 2009
Finding ways to motivate staff nurses to conduct nursing research can be difficult. Begin...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 15, April 10, 2009
This week, Suzanne C. Beyea, RN, PhD, FAAN and Mary Jo Slattery, RN, MS, share seven...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 15, April 10, 2009
Many hospitals and medical schools offer some variation of simulation-based training in which...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 14, April 3, 2009
Preventing patient readmissions in the emergency department (ED) is important for many hospitals...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 14, April 3, 2009
After identifying an increase in patient falls, Debbie Durant, RN, BSN, director of the medical...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 14, April 3, 2009
This week, Adrianne Avillion, DEd, RN, recommends ways to design cultural diversity education.
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 14, April 3, 2009
When a new document, such as the Centers for Disease Control and...
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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
In this issue: One facility's HIPAA video trains and entertains staff; boost nursing research...
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HCPro's Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®, Issue 4, April 1, 2009
Finding ways to motivate staff nurses to conduct nursing research can be difficult. At the outset...
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HCPro's Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®, Issue 4, April 1, 2009
The color purple is popping up nearly everywhere at Rochester (NY) General Hospital. From bookmarks...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 4, April 1, 2009
After identifying an increase in patient falls, Debbie Durant, RN, BSN, director of the medical...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 4, April 1, 2009
Questions and concerns about copyright are nothing new. Educators in all practice settings want...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 4, April 1, 2009
What is evidence-based practice (EBP) in staff development? We all know that EBP in the clinical...
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HCPro's Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®, Issue 4, April 1, 2009
Inside this issue, one organization shares how its ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® champions...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 4, April 1, 2009
Learn how to close the gap between staff development practice and evidence-based best practices...
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HCPro's Advisor to the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®, Issue 4, March 31, 2009
At Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago—an ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 13, March 30, 2009
Sometimes it seems as though the “e” in e-mail could stand for “easy.” With...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 13, March 27, 2009
Staff nurses at Silver Cross Hospital in Joliet, IL, are receiving more than just lectures...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 13, March 27, 2009
Evidence-based practice (EBP) in the clinical setting is the process of making clinical...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 13, March 27, 2009
Nurses are constantly on the go. And as staffing shortages become more common, it’s more...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 12, March 20, 2009
Nurses build the public image of nursing through daily interactions with patients, families, and...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 12, March 20, 2009
The Joint Commission Standard APR.09.02.01 deals with the reporting of safety or quality of care...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 12, March 20, 2009
This week, Suzanne C. Beyea, RN, PhD, FAAN, and Mary Jo Slattery, RN, MS, provide ways to...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 12, March 20, 2009
Ensuring patient safety is one of the most vital and challenging jobs in healthcare today...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 11, March 13, 2009
Health fairs be a great way to educate hospital staff and the community about living a healthy...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 11, March 13, 2009
By Rosemond Squirewell, RN, MHA, staff educator at Palmetto Health Baptist in Columbia, SC.
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 11, March 13, 2009
This week, Adrianne Avillion, DEd, RN, shares educational tips for Baby Boomers.
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 11, March 13, 2009
When staff satisfaction is high, staff turnover rates are low, collaboration is more effective, and...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 10, March 6, 2009
Patient satisfaction scores have jumped from 73% to 82% in 18 months at Crestwood Medical Center in...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 10, March 6, 2009
At Alexian Brothers Medical Center in Elk Grove Village, IL, staff members recently implemented a...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 10, March 6, 2009
This week, Diana Swihart, PhD, DMin, MSN, CS, RN-BC, provides ways to educate managers about...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 10, March 6, 2009
If you want to see someone’s true behavior, watch what they do when they think no one is...
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HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, Issue 9, March 3, 2009
As Edward Hospital and Health Services in Naperville, IL, pursued ANCC Magnet Recognition...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 3, March 1, 2009
At Alexian, staff members have recently implemented several initiatives to better meet the needs of...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 3, March 1, 2009
Inside:
Caring for the aging population: Plan for the future
Find your facility’s...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 9, February 27, 2009
Patients at Emory University Orthopaedics and Spine Hospital (EUOSH) in Tucker, GA, have the luxury...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 9, February 27, 2009
Physicians and nurses must work closely as a team to identify patients at high risk for...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 9, February 27, 2009
This week, Carole Eldridge, DNP, RN, CNAA-BC, provides two best practices for identifying...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 9, February 27, 2009
Successful implementation of evidence-based practice (EBP) can bring a number of patient care...
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HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, Issue 8, February 24, 2009
This week, a reader asks how to prepare staff nurses for the site visit. Read the response from our...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 8, February 20, 2009
Achieving high patient satisfaction scores is every facility’s goal, especially the...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 8, February 20, 2009
Staff members at Iowa Health System (IHS) in Des Moines identified poor health literacy as an...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 7, February 13, 2009
Nurses are using evidence-based practice (EBP) to question their provision of care and look for...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 7, February 13, 2009
Obese patients seeking healthcare often describe it as a battle. That’s why nurses must be...
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HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, Issue 6, February 10, 2009
This week, a reader asks how the project director communicates what ANCC Magnet Recognition...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 6, February 6, 2009
Many physicians, and some nurses, use smart phones (e.g., iPhone or Blackberry) to interact with...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 6, February 6, 2009
Nurses frequently become wrapped up in making sure their technical skills are done by the book, so...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 6, February 6, 2009
This week’s expert, Polly Gerber Zimmermann, RN, MS, MBA, CEN, identifies ways to create a...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 6, February 6, 2009
In 2005, Novant Health in Winston-Salem, NC, embarked on a three-year plan to improve the...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 5, January 30, 2009
Texas Tech University in El Paso is not waiting any longer for nursing vacancies to rise. It is...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 5, January 30, 2009
Has the state of your department’s budget left you looking for an economic bailout of your...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 5, January 30, 2009
This week’s expert, Barbara A. Brunt, MA, MN, RN,BC, discusses resources for new staff...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 4, January 23, 2009
Did you know that bruises and red marks on the skin of Vietnamese patients could be caused by a...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 4, January 23, 2009
Nationwide, healthcare organizations are implementing programs and initiatives aimed at improving...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 4, January 23, 2009
This week’s experts, Suzanne C. Beyea, RN, PhD, FAAN, and Mary Jo Slattery, RN, MS, explain...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 4, January 23, 2009
The youthful mind often flits rapidly over many options when considering future career choices. But...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 3, January 16, 2009
The University of Buffalo (NY) School of Nursing hopes a new approach to clinical nurse education...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 3, January 16, 2009
At the University of Utah Hospital, you’ll sometimes walk into the staff break room and...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 3, January 16, 2009
This week’s experts, Suzanne C. Beyea, RN, PhD, FAAN, and Mary Jo Slattery, RN, MS, explain...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 3, January 16, 2009
According to The Joint Commission (formerly JCAHO), communication breakdowns are the most common...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 2, January 9, 2009
This week’s expert, Adrianne Avillion, DEd, RN, explains how educators can encourage nurses...
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Stressed Out Nurses Weekly, Issue 1, January 5, 2009
Teaching adults presents certain challenges that a preceptor should be able to recognize and adapt...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 1, January 2, 2009
The nation’s baccalaureate nursing student population rose just 2% last year, leading the...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 1, January 2, 2009
A strong focus on oral care was critical to the reduction of ventilator-associated pneumonia cases...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 1, January 2, 2009
This week’s expert, Adrianne Avillion, D. Ed., RN, explains how educators can cater education...
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Strategies for Nurse Managers, Issue 1, January 1, 2009
From the ICU to pediatrics to the operating room, the choices available to new graduate nurses are...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 50, December 26, 2008
Imperial College London has created a virtual hospital using the Internet community of Second Life...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 50, December 26, 2008
When choosing your unit’s next preceptors, there are some warnings signs that may indicate...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 50, December 26, 2008
This week’s expert, Adrianne Avillion, D. Ed., RN, explains how educators can demonstrate the...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 50, December 26, 2008
It doesn’t matter whether a staff member peeks at the medical record of Tiger Woods, John...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 67, December 22, 2008
This week, expert Debra Nussdorfer, MS, RN, PMHCNS-BC, ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 67, December 22, 2008
Simulators are common teaching tools used in healthcare to heighten nurses’ awareness of the...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 49, December 19, 2008
Looking to decrease absenteeism and increase job satisfaction? Remind your nurses why they entered...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 49, December 19, 2008
Recognizing and rewarding nurses should not be a once-a-year event during Nurses Week; it should be...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 49, December 19, 2008
This week’s expert, Adrianne Avillion, D. Ed., RN, explains how educators determine the cost...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 49, December 19, 2008
As leaders in healthcare organizations, it is often a nurse manager’s responsibility to be a...
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HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, Issue 50, December 16, 2008
This week, a reader asks for ways to engage nonnursing departments on the road to ANCC Magnet...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 48, December 12, 2008
This week’s experts, Suzanne C. Beyea, RN, PhD, FAAN, and Mary Jo Slattery, RN, MS, explain...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 48, December 12, 2008
With the recognition that assessment is an important part of both healthcare and art, the...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 48, December 12, 2008
A two-part gift, totaling $1.3 million, will help the Medical College of Georgia’s (MCG...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 48, December 5, 2008
According to the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), some point-of-care handheld...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 48, December 5, 2008
Developing an effective preceptor program requires a varied approach, including choosing competent...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 48, December 5, 2008
This week’s experts, Suzanne C. Beyea, RN, PhD, FAAN, and Mary Jo Slattery, RN, MS, talk...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 48, December 5, 2008
Nurses of different generations are bound to hold different values, beliefs, and interests. For...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 12, December 1, 2008
Recognizing and rewarding nurses should not be an annual event during Nurses’ Week; it should...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 12, December 1, 2008
Developing your nurses’ assessment skills regarding changes in patients’ conditions is...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 12, December 1, 2008
Developing an effective preceptor program requires a varied approach, including choosing competent...
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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
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
Priming staff members for inevitable Joint Commission visits is one of the most daunting tasks for...
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HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, Issue 47, November 25, 2008
The Adopt-a-Student program at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne, IN, meets expectations for Force of...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 47, November 21, 2008
In a recent survey conducted by staffing company AMN Healthcare, most chief nursing officers said...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 47, November 21, 2008
St. Joseph’s Hospital in Tampa, FL, has boosted its retention and recruitment rates with a...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 47, November 21, 2008
This week’s experts, Suzanne C. Beyea, RN, PhD, FAAN, and Mary Jo Slatterly, RN, MS, explain...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 47, November 21, 2008
Accountability issues can arise with individuals, groups, and departments. Accountability can also...
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HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, Issue 46, November 18, 2008
Many healthcare organizations link the peer review process with the annual performance appraisal...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 46, November 14, 2008
Hoping to improve the healthcare available to residents of northwestern New Jersey, Warren County...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 46, November 14, 2008
There are several important questions to ask yourself before providing feedback to learners.
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 46, November 14, 2008
This week’s expert, Adrianne E. Avillion, DEd, RN, shares how educators can get buy-in from...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 46, November 14, 2008
While examining its incident reports, Hartford (CT) Hospital noticed many accidents resulted from a...
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Nurse Leader Insider, Issue 61, November 10, 2008
While examining its incident reports, Hartford (CT) Hospital noticed many accidents resulted from a...
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Stressed Out Nurses Weekly, Issue 45, November 10, 2008
Whether you are an experienced nurse looking for a change in your career focus or specialty or a...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 45, November 7, 2008
A Florida hospital has dismissed 20 employees for breach of privacy, saying the workers looked at...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 45, November 7, 2008
There never seem to be enough hours in the day for nurses. The ability to manage time and stay...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 45, November 7, 2008
This week’s expert, Adrianne E. Avillion, DEd, RN, shares why staff educators should never...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 45, November 7, 2008
The Joint Commission is set to survey hospitals’ anticoagulant therapy programs in January...
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Stressed Out Nurses Weekly, Issue 44, November 3, 2008
Appropriate treatment can help ease symptoms of depression in patients, but it’s essential to...
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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
Carnivals or fairs require substantial planning, but they can be a great way to train many...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 11, November 1, 2008
There never seem to be enough hours in the day for nurses. The ability to manage time and stay...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 11, November 1, 2008
Whether you’re assessing a new skill or conducting annual performance evaluations, giving...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 11, November 1, 2008
From the ICU to pediatrics to the OR, the choices available to new graduate nurses are exciting and...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 44, October 31, 2008
Researchers from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center have found that accessing healthcare...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 44, October 31, 2008
The focus on lifelong learning and ongoing education has become increasingly important in nursing...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 44, October 31, 2008
This week’s expert, Adrianne E. Avillion, DEd, RN, shares how to successfully implement...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 44, October 31, 2008
Use a memo like the following sample to notify your supervisor of a competency issue on your unit...
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Nurse Leader Insider, 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 Insider, 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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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 43, October 24, 2008
Pediatric patients with chronic diseases want to play a decision-making role in their own care, new...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 43, October 24, 2008
Increase the flexibility of your staff development programs by offering Web conferencing, which can...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 43, October 24, 2008
This week’s expert, Barbara A. Brunt, MA, MN, RN-BC, lends strategies for giving constructive...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 43, October 24, 2008
Recent polls on www.StrategiesForNurseManagers.com have asked for your take on topics such as The...
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HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, Issue 42, October 21, 2008
This week, a reader asks what best practices can help nurses overcome barriers with physicians...
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Stressed Out Nurses Weekly, Issue 42, October 20, 2008
You have accepted your first nursing position and will begin your orientation tomorrow. The first...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 42, October 17, 2008
We have all had our staff come to us because of a special need or request. Perhaps they need a day...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 42, October 17, 2008
This week’s expert, Carole Eldridge, DNP, RN, CNAA-BC, gives tips for conducting a check-up...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 42, October 17, 2008
The responsibilities of a charge nurse are continually growing. This key role requires a...
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HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, Issue 41, October 14, 2008
On October 2-3, attendees at HCPro’s Workshop on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®...
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Nurse Leader Insider, 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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Stressed Out Nurses Weekly, Issue 41, October 13, 2008
Your goal is to impress anyone who may see your resume come across their desk. A well constructed...
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Stressed Out Nurses Weekly, Issue 41, October 13, 2008
Military spouses are always searching for portable careers so they can easily follow their husbands...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 41, October 9, 2008
Working as a nurse can be gratifying, but a little encouragement, appreciation, and recognition can...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 41, October 9, 2008
This week’s expert, Adrianne E. Avillion, DEd, RN, helps you anticipate the questions your...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 41, October 9, 2008
Priming staff members for inevitable Joint Commission (formerly JCAHO) visits is one of the most...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 41, October 9, 2008
A New Jersey nursing school is welcoming new technology to help simulate real-life emergency care.
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HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, Issue 40, October 7, 2008
Missouri Baptist Medical Center in St. Louis will increase its number of baccalaureate nurses...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 40, October 2, 2008
We often hear the terms "engagement" and "employee satisfaction"...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 40, October 2, 2008
This week’s expert, Barbara A. Brunt, MA, MN, RN-BC, discusses the importance of...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 40, October 2, 2008
The rapidly-changing American population is exemplified within your hospital’s walls. With...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 40, October 2, 2008
In an effort to improve staff-patient communications, a California hospital is the first in the...
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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
Being open to change is a must at a hospital. Cecile Broussard, RN, MS, quality manager at Our Lady...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 10, October 1, 2008
The rapidly changing U.S. population is exemplified within your hospital’s walls.
With...
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HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, Issue 39, September 30, 2008
This week, a reader asks how to educate staff on peer review. Read the response below from our...
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Stressed Out Nurses Weekly, Issue 39, September 29, 2008
The nursing shortage places a heavy emphasis on the education and development of competent nurses...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 39, September 25, 2008
Most of your staff members are probably keeping an ear tuned to the presidential prospects for the...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 39, September 25, 2008
This week’s expert, Adrianne E. Avillion, DEd, RN, shares strategies for delivering diversity...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 39, September 25, 2008
When it comes to dealing with challenging students, the last thing an educator should do is ignore...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 39, September 25, 2008
Patients with Type 1 diabetes can turn to a new device that continuously monitors a patient’s...
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Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, Issue 38, September 18, 2008
When it comes to celebrating and appreciating staff, this is a practical idea that can easily be...
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HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, Issue 36, September 9, 2008
Many healthcare organizations have been waiting for several months to thumb through the 2008 ANCC...
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Stressed Out Nurses Weekly, Issue 36, September 8, 2008
Nurses who have good organizational skills can manage even the worst of days. They always look like...
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Stressed Out Nurses Weekly, Issue 35, September 1, 2008
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is usually seen in preschool children and those in...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 9, September 1, 2008
My experiences as a hospital patient—in relation to nursing care—have never been...
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Briefings on Evidence-Based Staff Development (formerly The Staff Educator), Issue 9, September 1, 2008
You've come across them before: the nurse who is convinced he or she doesn't need training, the...
