{"title":"Driving Innovations","authors":"Kelly Aldrich DNP, RN, NI-BC, FHIMSS, FAAN, Esther Chipps PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAONL, Patricia J. Mook DNP, RN, NEA-BC, CAVRN, FAONL","doi":"10.1016/j.mnl.2025.04.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mnl.2025.04.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) in health care presents a transformative opportunity for nursing leadership, influencing clinical operations, workforce management, education, and industry partnerships. The American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) Foundation convened nursing leaders from clinical practice, academia, and industry to explore AI’s role in nursing operations, professional education, and interdisciplinary collaboration in a Think Tank entitled <em>AI for Nurse Leaders: Learning Together</em>. The resulting white paper is available at <span><span>https://www.aonl.org/2025-think-tank-artificial-intelligence-and-nurse-leaders-learning-together</span><svg><path></path></svg></span>. This article covers key insights from the convening.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":44980,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Leader","volume":"23 3","pages":"Pages 236-238"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144137973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Real-Time Sensing and Nursing Culture: A Path to Innovativeness and Work System Resilience?","authors":"Dana Womack PhD, RN, FAMIA, Rosemary Kennedy PhD, RN, MBA, FAAN","doi":"10.1016/j.mnl.2025.03.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mnl.2025.03.009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44980,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Leader","volume":"23 3","pages":"Pages 226-227"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144138161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nurse LeaderPub Date : 2025-04-03DOI: 10.1016/j.mnl.2025.03.008
Patricia A. Patrician PhD, RN, FAAN, Jill Stewart DNP, RN, CNOR, Aoyjai Montgomery PhD, BSN, Dana M. Morson MSN, CRNP, FNP-C, Ja-Lin Carter MSN, RN, CNL, Joseph R. Travis MSN, CRNP, FNP-C, Cindy Blackburn MSN, RN, Jacqueline Westbrook DNP, RN, Toni Beam MSN, RN, NE-BC
{"title":"Building an Effective Team to Improve Wellness Outcomes Among Nurses","authors":"Patricia A. Patrician PhD, RN, FAAN, Jill Stewart DNP, RN, CNOR, Aoyjai Montgomery PhD, BSN, Dana M. Morson MSN, CRNP, FNP-C, Ja-Lin Carter MSN, RN, CNL, Joseph R. Travis MSN, CRNP, FNP-C, Cindy Blackburn MSN, RN, Jacqueline Westbrook DNP, RN, Toni Beam MSN, RN, NE-BC","doi":"10.1016/j.mnl.2025.03.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mnl.2025.03.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Improving well-being in a large organization takes a dedicated team. It also takes leaders who understand that although the intervention team needs direction and goals, they also need decentralized governance to innovate strategies without management interference. Well-being programs must employ regular data collection, with feedback loops to executives who are poised to act on nursing personnel concerns, and back to staff. Using organization and safety science principles, we show decreases in burnout, distress, compassion fatigue, improved perceived organizational support, and net promotor scores. Perhaps the key success indicator is hardwiring the program into the organization’s operations and budget.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":44980,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Leader","volume":"23 3","pages":"Pages 277-283"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144137859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Role of Academic Practice Partnership in Developing Workplace Violence Prevention Simulation Training","authors":"Ashley Kellish DNP, RN, CCNS, NEA-BC, Sinhye Kim PhD, RN, Brittany Kenyon-Flatt MA, PhD, Becky Peterson BSN, RN, Lorie Rhine MSN, RN, NE-BC, Jacci Jacobs DHAc, MHA, MBA, RN, NE-BC, Angela Overman MSN, RN, NEA-BC, Julia Aucoin DNS, RN, NPD-BC, Valerie M. Howard EdD, MSN, RN, CNE, ANEF, FAAN","doi":"10.1016/j.mnl.2025.03.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mnl.2025.03.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Academic practice partnerships are crucial for advancing nursing education and practice, especially considering recent challenges with the nursing workforce. Here, we discuss the adoption and implementation of an academic practice partnership. Then, we share a major, successful initiative of the academic practice partnership to promote healthy work environments for nurses and nursing students, ensuring their quality work and safety. We implemented a simulation-based training program to teach nurses the necessary skills for a healthy and safe work environment and developed a training manual to share our project with others.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":44980,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Leader","volume":"23 3","pages":"Pages 256-261"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144137977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nurse LeaderPub Date : 2025-04-01DOI: 10.1016/j.mnl.2025.01.003
M. Lindell Joseph PhD, RN, FAAN, FAONL
{"title":"Reimagining Nursing Leadership and Care Delivery: One Tool at a Time","authors":"M. Lindell Joseph PhD, RN, FAAN, FAONL","doi":"10.1016/j.mnl.2025.01.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mnl.2025.01.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44980,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Leader","volume":"23 2","pages":"Pages 119-120"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143767622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nurse LeaderPub Date : 2025-04-01DOI: 10.1016/j.mnl.2024.12.001
Paula Seaman MSN, DA, RN, CENP, Susan Odden LMHC, MSN, RN
{"title":"From Trauma Informed to Trauma Active","authors":"Paula Seaman MSN, DA, RN, CENP, Susan Odden LMHC, MSN, RN","doi":"10.1016/j.mnl.2024.12.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mnl.2024.12.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The mental health and wellbeing of the nursing workforce is pressing issue for nursing leaders. A multitude of interventions have been developed to address this crisis. Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing is a proven intervention to treat post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and depression. It has not been well researched as part of an embedded mental health program for nurses. This article highlights the early promising results of a pilot at this organization that led to significant improvements in the mental health and distress scores for nurses.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":44980,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Leader","volume":"23 2","pages":"Pages 201-204"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143768215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nancy Blake, PhD, RN, CCRN, NEA-BC, FACHE, FAONL, FAAN","authors":"Giancarlo Lyle-Edrosolo DNP, RN, CENP, NEA-BC, FAONL","doi":"10.1016/j.mnl.2025.01.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mnl.2025.01.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div><em>Nancy Blake, PhD, RN, CCRN, NEA-BC, FACHE, FAONL, FAAN, is the Chief Nursing Officer at Los Angeles General Medical Center, one of the largest and most complex public hospitals in the U.S. She served as a national board member for the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (2003–2006) and is a sought-after speaker on healthy work environments and staffing challenges. Nancy coedited Nursing Management of Pediatric Disaster and is an Associate Adjunct Professor at UCLA School of Nursing. In 2021, she received the DAISY Health Equity</em> <em>Grant for her research on vaccine acceptance. Nancy is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, the American Organization for Nursing Leadership, and the American Academy of Nursing.</em></div></div>","PeriodicalId":44980,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Leader","volume":"23 2","pages":"Pages 126-129"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143767623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bridging the Gap","authors":"Kerry Martin MSN, RN, CNML, Tracey Abitz DNP, RN, CTN-B, NEA-BC","doi":"10.1016/j.mnl.2024.10.013","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mnl.2024.10.013","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As the healthcare workforce shortages grow, the need to identify alternative sources of talent has become evident. Partnering with Project SEARCH, a nationwide program, has proven to be an innovative way for an academic medical center to bridge the gap.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":44980,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Leader","volume":"23 2","pages":"Pages 183-186"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143768198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}