Nurse LeaderPub Date : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1016/j.mnl.2024.04.012
{"title":"Improving Professional Governance in Nursing","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.mnl.2024.04.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mnl.2024.04.012","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Unit councils serve as the foundation of professional governance in health care organizations<span><span>, helping to drive staff engagement and supporting high-quality outcomes. This quality improvement project, conducted amidst the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, sought to enhance the professional governance of a </span>medical intensive care unit council through targeted interventions implemented over a 4-month period. Following the intervention period, unit council attendance increased by 115.4%, underscoring the efficacy of the interventions. Postintervention feedback highlighted the clarity and effectiveness of the interventions in orienting and engaging new staff members. This project demonstrates the need to support professional governance, particularly amidst crises like COVID-19, as it helps sustain a high standard of clinical practice, enhance nursing engagement, and foster accountability within health care settings.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":44980,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Leader","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141036929","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 : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1016/j.mnl.2024.04.007
{"title":"Intervene: An Incentive-based Program to Increase Nurse Manager Self-care and Resiliency Following the Covid-19 Pandemic","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.mnl.2024.04.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mnl.2024.04.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>During the Covid-19 pandemic, nursing leadership face heightened stress levels, prompting concerns for their mental well-being. While hospitals implement various strategies to foster resilience, the effectiveness of these interventions remains largely unexplored. This study aims to investigate the potential of technology-driven interventions in enhancing health behaviors and resilience among nursing management. Conducted in 2021 at a major urban hospital, the study engaged 32 nurse leaders, and found that time was a major barrier to participating and the intervention did not improve resiliency. These preliminary findings underscore the need for further research to develop impactful resilience-focused interventions in nursing leadership.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":44980,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Leader","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141962158","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 : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1016/j.mnl.2023.11.014
{"title":"Testifying for Passage of the Dignity at Work Act: Bullying Victims’ Perceptions of Shared Benefits","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.mnl.2023.11.014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mnl.2023.11.014","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Workplace bullying upends workplace dynamics, socially isolating stakeholders workplace-wide, leaving them to question their personal safety and well-being. Those directly targeted by bullies’ well-honed, but petty and obscure, communications often are hesitant to report; when they do, their reports not infrequently are met with confusion—or in some cases, with dismissal—as organizations stand with the bully and deny reports’ veracity or significance. Following their participation in a virtual hearing to testify for passage the Dignity at Work Act (DAWA) in Massachusetts, study investigators assessed benefits accruing to 10 anonymous, self-reported workplace bullying victims who also had participated in the hearing. Constant comparative method structured the study. Findings suggested the importance of belonging to re-establishing a sense of personal dignity for participating workplace bullying victims. Assuring victim acceptance and voice is an essential component of anti-workplace bullying policies and leadership practices.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":44980,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Leader","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141962149","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 : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1016/j.mnl.2023.11.021
{"title":"Pathway to Emergency Nursing: An Innovative Academic-Practice Partnership","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.mnl.2023.11.021","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mnl.2023.11.021","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and recent state-level practice regulation changes, one health system sought innovative strategies to prepare new to practice registered nurses (RNs) to directly enter the specialty of </span>emergency nursing. The emergency department (ED) nurse leaders and educators collaborated with an affiliated college of nursing to develop an academic–practice partnership for prelicensure students interested in emergency nursing. The program included both classroom-based instruction and clinical learning in the health system’s EDs. A descriptive study was completed to evaluate the program participants’ opinions regarding the classroom-based and clinical learning experiences during this program, as well as their plans for employment as RNs.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":44980,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Leader","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141962147","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 : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1016/j.mnl.2024.04.010
{"title":"Building a Foundation for Excellence","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.mnl.2024.04.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mnl.2024.04.010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Nurse-generated research is imperative to improve patient outcomes and requires strategic investment and a proactive approach to supporting nursing research activities and education. This paper describes facets of a robust, comprehensive infrastructure to advance nursing research. Nurse leaders may adopt these strategies to meet Magnet Sources of Evidence and foster a culture of inquiry in their organizations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":44980,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Leader","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141029594","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 : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1016/j.mnl.2024.06.006
R. C. Wilson, Kelsey Zwang
{"title":"Call to Action: Supporting Teams when Cyberbullying and Doxing Occurs a New Form of Workplace Violence","authors":"R. C. Wilson, Kelsey Zwang","doi":"10.1016/j.mnl.2024.06.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mnl.2024.06.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44980,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Leader","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141704623","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 : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1016/j.mnl.2024.06.005
Maria Manzella, Kathryn Fleming, Mani Paliwal
{"title":"Examination of the Awareness of Health Care Providers on the Use of Music as an Intervention","authors":"Maria Manzella, Kathryn Fleming, Mani Paliwal","doi":"10.1016/j.mnl.2024.06.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mnl.2024.06.005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44980,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Leader","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141707188","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 : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1016/j.mnl.2024.06.004
Nancy Blake, Hunter J. Joslin, Daryl Joslin, Ria Sangalang
{"title":"Enhancing Nurse Satisfaction and Retention Through Real-Time Feedback: A Case Study at Los Angeles General Medical Center","authors":"Nancy Blake, Hunter J. Joslin, Daryl Joslin, Ria Sangalang","doi":"10.1016/j.mnl.2024.06.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mnl.2024.06.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44980,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Leader","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141712689","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 : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1016/j.mnl.2024.06.003
Joanne T. Clavelle, Lindsey Marie Tarasenko
{"title":"Nurse Leader Practices that Advance Professional Governance","authors":"Joanne T. Clavelle, Lindsey Marie Tarasenko","doi":"10.1016/j.mnl.2024.06.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mnl.2024.06.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44980,"journal":{"name":"Nurse Leader","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141708509","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}