{"title":"Growing the Next Generation of Nurses and Nurse Leaders.","authors":"M Maureen Lal, Lauren Turner","doi":"10.1097/NNA.0000000000001443","DOIUrl":"10.1097/NNA.0000000000001443","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It is imperative to support the next generation of nurses and nurse leaders facing the challenges of our complex health systems. A formal mentoring program provides a structure that allows nurses to have a relationship that promotes ongoing counsel, career development, and a myriad of other benefits with another nurse or other healthcare professionals. The 2023 Magnet® Application Manual requires organizations to implement and use mentoring and succession planning programs under the transformational leadership standard. Adopting and sustaining effective and meaningful mentoring and succession planning activities and programs promote an environment of inclusion and professional development. In addition to formal mentoring programs, the importance of informal mentoring relationships can have a lasting impact on nurses along their nursing journey.</p>","PeriodicalId":50108,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nursing Administration","volume":"54 7-8","pages":"385-386"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141724936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leadership Meeting Redesign: Optimizing Information and Collaboration.","authors":"Karen Collum, Matthew Kennedy, Tracy Gosselin","doi":"10.1097/NNA.0000000000001445","DOIUrl":"10.1097/NNA.0000000000001445","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Efficient and effective meetings are critical for busy health care leaders who are often juggling multiple demands on their time. Creating a shared sense of purpose post COVID and having engagement with all leaders are critical to a department's success. This improvement project offers leaders direction on thinking through meeting redesign.</p>","PeriodicalId":50108,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nursing Administration","volume":"54 7-8","pages":"390-392"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141724939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Highlighting the Benefits of the Clinical Education Resource Nurse for New Graduate Nurses.","authors":"Jamie Cox, Kathryn Witner, Kalei DePriest, Mariah Ramirez, Karen Hessler, Maureen Varty","doi":"10.1097/NNA.0000000000001446","DOIUrl":"10.1097/NNA.0000000000001446","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nurse residency programs provide a valuable transition to practice environment for graduate nurses. The Clinical Education Resource Nurse (CERN) role offers continued clinical assistance to graduate nurses who have completed orientation with a preceptor during the 1st year of practice including education and continued clinical oversight when needed. This column defines the role of CERN and provides a description of the clinical application and support provided.</p>","PeriodicalId":50108,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nursing Administration","volume":"54 7-8","pages":"393-396"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141724937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lauren Swant, Karin E Warner, Judith Zedreck-Gonzalez
{"title":"Legislating Nurse Staffing: Projected Impact on Hospital Economics, Process Flow, and Hospital-Associated Infections in Montana.","authors":"Lauren Swant, Karin E Warner, Judith Zedreck-Gonzalez","doi":"10.1097/NNA.0000000000001449","DOIUrl":"10.1097/NNA.0000000000001449","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>The aim of this study was to project the impact of legislated nurse staffing ratios on patient-, staff-, and system-level outcomes for Prospective Payment System (PPS) hospitals in Montana.</p><p><strong>Background: </strong>In 2023, House Bill 568 was introduced in Montana focused on legislating hospital safe nursing standards.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A quantitative design was used for a convenience sample of Montana PPS hospitals. Data were gathered through a newly developed survey and from other publicly available sources for the years 2018 to 2022. Independent t tests were conducted when appropriate with the significance threshold set at 0.05.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Projections indicate no significant change in patient outcome metrics accompanied by increases in labor requirements, slower emergency department throughput times, and decreases in hospital operating margins.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>In Montana, legislating nurse staffing ratios would have downstream implications inconsistent with the intended impact on patient safety, emphasizing the complexity of variables within and external to the healthcare system that drive patient-, staff-, and system-level outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":50108,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nursing Administration","volume":" ","pages":"409-415"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141629201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The DAISY Award: Meaningful Recognition's Impact on Patients, Nurses, and Organizations.","authors":"Ellen Swartwout","doi":"10.1097/NNA.0000000000001448","DOIUrl":"10.1097/NNA.0000000000001448","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This review demonstrates the impact of The DAISY Award and how meaningful recognition (MR) through gratitude affects nurse engagement, healthy work environments (HWEs), and patient/families' (PFs) experiences. MR has mutual benefits for nurses and PFs, promoting therapeutic healing and resiliency. MR in HWEs can impact organizations' care quality, fiscal health and influence public perceptions. Nurse leaders should create an environment where MR is a core strategic imperative that impacts nurse, patient, and organizational outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":50108,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nursing Administration","volume":" ","pages":"404-408"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141629203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Karen Stanzo, Marinetta DeMoss, Bria Hollingsworth, Sarah Schrah Sherrill, Maria Sarah Faye D Cruz, Allison Reynolds, Tina Jackson, James Nwawuihe
{"title":"Nurse Certification and Test Anxiety.","authors":"Karen Stanzo, Marinetta DeMoss, Bria Hollingsworth, Sarah Schrah Sherrill, Maria Sarah Faye D Cruz, Allison Reynolds, Tina Jackson, James Nwawuihe","doi":"10.1097/NNA.0000000000001451","DOIUrl":"10.1097/NNA.0000000000001451","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To determine the relationship between scores on the Westside Test Anxiety Scale (WTAS) and nurse certification rates.</p><p><strong>Background: </strong>Nurse certification is associated with improved outcomes. Understanding intrinsic factors associated with low certification rates including test anxiety could help nurse leaders improve certification rates.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This descriptive, correlational study used a convenience sample of 577 RNs with at least 2 years of nursing experience. Participants completed a survey of their demographics and the 10-question WTAS.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Certified nurses were significantly older and had more years of experience. Noncertified nurses had significantly higher scores on the WTAS.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Facilities working to increase their nurse certification rates may consider adding test anxiety reduction interventions to other levels of support.</p>","PeriodicalId":50108,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nursing Administration","volume":"54 7-8","pages":"422-426"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141724940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"More Than a Game: Building a Workplace Culture of Positivity and Belonging Among Nurses.","authors":"Senem Guney, Kyle Robertson","doi":"10.1097/NNA.0000000000001434","DOIUrl":"10.1097/NNA.0000000000001434","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This performance improvement project introduced a mobile social gaming app for sharing positive feedback from patients and coworkers with nurses. After deployment, the app supported creating improvements as a supportive structure for engaging nurses in peer recognition to build a workplace culture of positivity and belonging. The authors discuss findings from the app's adoption and use among nurses and offer recommendations for leaders.</p>","PeriodicalId":50108,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nursing Administration","volume":" ","pages":"327-332"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11520333/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140923613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reducing the Innovation Knowledge Gap by Developing Innovativeness Across Academia and Practice for Healthcare Progress Scale.","authors":"M Lindell Joseph","doi":"10.1097/NNA.0000000000001419","DOIUrl":"10.1097/NNA.0000000000001419","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50108,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nursing Administration","volume":"54 5","pages":"253-254"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140871196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sharmila Soares, Heather Ritchie, Jorge L Almodovar
{"title":"Managing Patient Dissatisfaction and Billing Reconsideration Requests in Outpatient Clinics.","authors":"Sharmila Soares, Heather Ritchie, Jorge L Almodovar","doi":"10.1097/NNA.0000000000001409","DOIUrl":"10.1097/NNA.0000000000001409","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nurse leaders in many settings are responsible for clinic operations. Knowing the medical and financial stakes of each patient encounter, it is not surprising to encounter patients requesting reconsideration of bills after services are provided. This article provides recommendations on how to successfully navigate billing reconsideration requests in outpatient settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":50108,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nursing Administration","volume":"54 4","pages":"198-200"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140177438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anne Schmidt, David Marshall, Rosanne Raso, Maureen Sintich, Nicholas Poch, M Lindell Joseph
{"title":"A Culture of Inquiry: Practice-Based Knowledge for Nurse Leaders.","authors":"Anne Schmidt, David Marshall, Rosanne Raso, Maureen Sintich, Nicholas Poch, M Lindell Joseph","doi":"10.1097/NNA.0000000000001416","DOIUrl":"10.1097/NNA.0000000000001416","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A culture of inquiry has not traditionally been associated with nursing leadership. As healthcare evolves, leaders must reevaluate barriers to improving healthcare outcomes. One noted barrier has been a need for more inquisitiveness to innovate. Through an American Organization for Nursing Leadership workgroup, the authors advanced the understanding of a \"culture of inquiry,\" applying a practice-based learning approach for knowledge development. Three recommended foundational elements are psychological safety, building connections, and using design thinking at all organizational levels.</p>","PeriodicalId":50108,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nursing Administration","volume":"54 4","pages":"240-246"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140177435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}