{"title":"Identification of the core competencies of board of nursing investigators.","authors":"Karla Bitz, Valerie Smith","doi":"10.1097/NHL.0b013e3181c4e6ed","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NHL.0b013e3181c4e6ed","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of the current study was to establish an evidence-based tool that could be used in the recruitment, training, and evaluation of investigative staff. Core competencies for board of nursing investigators are the knowledge, skills, and abilities that one must have to be a competent professional in the process of conducting investigations in the regulatory arena. To identify core knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary for board of nursing investigators and the development of a tool that may be used for the recruitment and hiring of well-qualified candidates, orientation and training, and performance evaluation of board of nursing investigators, a series of studies on the core competences for board of nursing investigators was conducted. The values and usefulness of these competencies are directly related to performance measurement and outcomes. The tool identified 4 primary categories of core competencies: communication/interpersonal skills, behavioral traits/professional conduct, knowledge and application of regulatory statutes and rules, and knowledge and application of investigative techniques and processes. It is the researchers' intent that by establishing a uniform competency assessment tool for board investigators, the setting of standards can then be defined, and ultimately, an investigator training program can be developed and best practices will be identified in this segment of regulation.</p>","PeriodicalId":80291,"journal":{"name":"JONA'S healthcare law, ethics and regulation","volume":"11 4","pages":"127-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1097/NHL.0b013e3181c4e6ed","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28526331","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":"Letter from the editor: the role of nurse ethicist.","authors":"Rebecca F Cady","doi":"10.1097/NHL.0b013e3181b6ca16","DOIUrl":"10.1097/NHL.0b013e3181b6ca16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80291,"journal":{"name":"JONA'S healthcare law, ethics and regulation","volume":"11 3","pages":"71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28383198","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":"Letter to the editor on \"Regulatory recommendations for nursing faculty qualifications\".","authors":"Joyce Perez-Paret","doi":"10.1097/NHL.0b013e3181b7a05a","DOIUrl":"10.1097/NHL.0b013e3181b7a05a","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80291,"journal":{"name":"JONA'S healthcare law, ethics and regulation","volume":"11 3","pages":"72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28383197","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":"Setting a passing standard for English proficiency on the internet-based test of English as a foreign language.","authors":"Anne Wendt, Ada Woo, Lorraine Kenny","doi":"10.1097/NHL.0b013e3181b4df50","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NHL.0b013e3181b4df50","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80291,"journal":{"name":"JONA'S healthcare law, ethics and regulation","volume":"11 3","pages":"85-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1097/NHL.0b013e3181b4df50","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28383200","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":"Identifying ethical issues from the perspective of the registered nurse.","authors":"Marcia Sue DeWolf Bosek","doi":"10.1097/NHL.0b013e3181b7a010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NHL.0b013e3181b7a010","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A review of the formal ethics consultations performed at a rural academic medical center during 2006 revealed that only 5 of 72 consultations were initiated by nurses. A descriptive exploratory convenience study used a 3-item survey to collect information from registered nurses who provide direct patient care at the rural academic medical center. The purpose of this study was to (1) identify and describe the ethical issues perceived by registered nurses employed at a rural academic medical center and (2) analyze the variables influencing the registered nurses' ethical decision making and the process used by these registered nurses when resolving ethical issues.The 17 registered nurses who completed the survey identified a total of 21 ethical issues that they had experienced during the last year. The ethical issues that nurses recalled were significantly more likely to be relationship issues, whereas issues documented within the ethics consultation service were significantly more likely to involve limiting treatment. Communication was a major variable influencing nurse's ethical decision making. Nurses felt the ethical issue resolved satisfactorily when the patient's needs were met, communication occurred with the patient and/or family, the entire healthcare team was involved and in agreement, and there was sufficient time available to make a decision. The nurses did not feel that the ethical situation was resolved satisfactorily when not handled from the patient's perspective; the patient suffered; there was a lack of teamwork, agreement, and/or support; and the process took too long. The nurses' recommendations for resources needed to assist with the resolution of ethical issues included accessible ethics mechanisms, education, improved interprofessional relationships and collaboration, and unbiased support for patient and family decision making. Implications for nurse managers are discussed and future research questions are identified.</p>","PeriodicalId":80291,"journal":{"name":"JONA'S healthcare law, ethics and regulation","volume":"11 3","pages":"91-9; quiz 100-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1097/NHL.0b013e3181b7a010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28383203","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":"Legal Issues Related to Complementary and Alternative Medicine","authors":"R. Cady","doi":"10.1097/NHL.0b013e3181a9376f","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NHL.0b013e3181a9376f","url":null,"abstract":"Patient use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) appears to be increasing, according to research by the Federal Government. Several national studies have been performed in the last 10 years regarding the efficacy and safety of certain CAM therapies. It is important for nurse managers to know about the various forms of CAM, the evidence for and against the use of some of these therapies, and the legal risks posed by patients' use of these therapies. Nurses who are educated about these therapies can work more effectively to identify and document patient use and help ensure that CAM does not interfere with the patient's traditional medical treatments.","PeriodicalId":80291,"journal":{"name":"JONA'S healthcare law, ethics and regulation","volume":"43 1","pages":"46-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85285273","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 No Outcome-No Income Tsunami is Here: Are You a Surfer, Swimmer, or Sinker?","authors":"C. Denham","doi":"10.1097/NHL.0b013e3181acf19d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NHL.0b013e3181acf19d","url":null,"abstract":"Aperfect storm is developing as this decade closes. Hospital investment revenue is in a free fall, selfpay revenue streams are at risk, and capital acquisition is challenging against a backdrop of a global financial collapse. However, just when it could not get any worse, a tsunami that has been quietly building offshore for years in a climate of stakeholder unrest now threatens all but the best prepared. New cresting workforce issues, transparency pressure, strained hospital-physician relations, and now Pay-for-Performance demands have been hammering our health care leaders in ever more powerful waves. They have now coalesced into an enormous force that is bearing down on our hospitals. We contend that the drama that will play out on the health care stage will star what Malcolm Gladwell would call the Boutliers[ from his book of the same name. They will be the leaders and organizations that exhibit true greatness in a new arena of quality performance.","PeriodicalId":80291,"journal":{"name":"JONA'S healthcare law, ethics and regulation","volume":"87 1","pages":"57-69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74750749","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":"11th year of JONA Law.","authors":"Rebecca F Cady","doi":"10.1097/NHL.0b013e31819aca0f","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NHL.0b013e31819aca0f","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80291,"journal":{"name":"JONA'S healthcare law, ethics and regulation","volume":"11 1","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1097/NHL.0b013e31819aca0f","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28026677","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}