Peer Review in Nursing: Essential Components of a Model Supporting Safety and Quality.

This article introduces an accountability-focused nursing framework to systematically organize and promote quality and safety nursing outcomes. The 4 essential components of this framework include a responsive environment; shared decision making, personal empowerment, and transformational management. These elements promote a professional practice environment that supports clinical nurses to practice at their highest level of autonomy and promotes accountability for patient outcomes.

Nursing peer review: the manager's role.

Aim: This article explains the unique role of nurse managers in facilitating nursing peer review and clarifies the issues of ownership about peer review processes and performance evaluations.

Background: The authors' review of the literature and experiences as organizational consultants, found no examples of principled peer review using the authoritative American Nurses Association (ANA) Guidelines for Peer Review.

Evaluation: The foundation for the work includes the author's recently published book, which includes a literature review, research on nursing peer review along with the ANA Guidelines for Peer Review.

The development of expert performance in nursing.

Developing expert nurses is essential for effective and quality-based healthcare outcomes, yet little is understood about what conditions foster expert development. This study examined expert nurses' perceptions of personal and environmental influences on attainment of expert performance. Findings indicate the developmental importance of risk taking, deliberate practice, social models/mentors, and recognition.