Showing papers in "Nursing Outlook in 2007"

TL;DR: The authors propose statements of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs) for each competency that should be developed during pre-licensure nursing education and invite the profession to comment on the competencies and their definitions.

TL;DR: The concept of IPE is explored, and how faculty in schools of nursing might take the lead to work with colleagues in other health profession schools to prepare graduates to understand each others' roles, and the importance of teamwork, communication, and collaboration to the delivery of high quality, safe patient care.

TL;DR: This article describes the implementation and evaluation of the Dedicated Education Unit (DEU) as an innovative model of clinical nursing education and reports on a 3-year project to operationalize the DEU concept with 6 nursing units in 3 hospitals.

TL;DR: Views of 195 nursing program leaders are presented, including information about satisfaction with faculty expertise and student competency development related to 6 domains that define quality and safety content: patient-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, safety, and informatics.

TL;DR: A national study to validate nurses' perceptions, values, and behaviors related to certification found certified and noncertified nurses showed a high level of agreement with the value statements on certified practice.

TL;DR: There are important opportunities to use the Internet to improve the image of the nurse, and scientific/research-oriented, competent, sexually promiscuous, powerful, and creative/innovative images increased from 2001-2004 while committed, attractive/well groomed, and authoritative images decreased.

TL;DR: A model of nursing viewed as a complex adaptive system, a discussion of key properties of a complexadaptive system, and potential implications of the use of complexity science in nursing and health care are offered.

TL;DR: The work ability of nurses was strongly associated with the quality and safety of the work environment and leisure time management and countermeasures such as enhancing the ability to cope with the job's mental demands for young nurses, and improving the job design to reduce physical workload for senior nurses are recommended.

TL;DR: Sweeping changes underway in health care to address quality and safety outcomes lend urgency to the call to transform nursing curricula so new graduate competencies more closely match practice needs, according to the authors.

TL;DR: If concerns about the work environment are to be remedied for patients and staff, nurse educators are urged to act quickly to identify requisite competencies and better align course content with them to better prepare nurse administrators to succeed in their arduous work.

TL;DR: A collaborative model in which a university-based school of nursing has collaborated with a tertiary care hospital, which has separate governing structures and each has its own personnel policies, job descriptions, and benefits is described.

TL;DR: New approaches to integrating quality and safety content into existing clinical practica are described and can be included in any clinical rotation in an acute care setting.

TL;DR: The current status of health care of individuals with disabilities in the US is described, and appropriate responses by the nursing profession to the Surgeon General's Call to Action are suggested.

TL;DR: The study demonstrates the importance of conducting effectiveness research in nursing and explains the cost of hospital care that includes nursing interventions for an older patient population hospitalized for a hip fracture and/or related procedure.

TL;DR: The process and lessons learned in expanding the scope and depth of the partnership and how this service learning experience was integrated throughout the nursing curriculum are described.

TL;DR: The pilot Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL(trade mark)) initiative which grew out of the work of the task forces represents an exemplary national partnership between nursing education and practice.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that translation of research on oral care practices into LTC practice through academic-practice partnerships is feasible, is associated with positive resident outcomes, and illustrates a process that has broader applicability to other common problems in LTC, where incomplete implementation of an extant research base for practice may inhibit student learning.

TL;DR: The study outcome suggests ready access to knowledge-based electronic information resources can lead to changes in behavior among some nurses.

TL;DR: The authors outline ways in which incorporating breastfeeding content into nursing curricula can improve the knowledge base of the bedside nurse and allow lactation specialists to have more time to consult with more complex patient cases.

TL;DR: Evidence of a weak positive correlation between the predominant transformational leadership style and empathy levels in both junior and senior students is yielded, which has implications for both nurse educators and future employers.

TL;DR: Analyses of population-based databases provide additional opportunities for nurse researchers to contribute to health policy and evidence-based practice within a framework of nursing-health services research.

TL;DR: Nursing students can apply principles of growth and development while providing important health screening to children in underserved populations while practicing in the community and applying their classroom instruction to the care of children.

TL;DR: In conclusion, outcomes assessment is essential for the success of healthcare information technology, and the CIS implementation team members must be prepared to conduct and/or facilitate these studies.

TL;DR: The current national focus on enhancing patient safety resonates with nurses because high quality, safe nursing care has been the raison d’etre for the nursing profession.

TL;DR: A framework for the evaluation of faculty practice at the Johns Hopkins University School Nursing (JHUSON) and the actions taken to align the scholarship of facultypractice with the academic research mission of the School are described.

TL;DR: It is argued that nurses must take an active leadership role, using a health advocacy approach to health promotion, to improve the health status of populations like Temporary Assistance to Needy Families recipients moving from welfare to work.

TL;DR: Three specific applications within the electronic record—computerized physician order entry (CPOE), electronic medication administration records (eMAR), and clinical documentation—are impacting patient safety in numerous ways by decreasing incorrect and unnecessary treatments and medications, as well as improving the timeliness of care.

TL;DR: Evaluations indicate that participants gained knowledge, skills, and networking abilities in terms of conducting research with vulnerable populations and a program like the SNRI can be successful in widening the research pipeline, in imparting knowledge, and in fostering positive attitudes as well as in improving research skills.

TL;DR: If managed well, this approach will unite the profession around its higher purpose of making a difference in the health of society and assuage the authors' greatest fear, the devaluation of nursing.