The AACN essentials: An intentional framework for successful implementation.

Nursing education is shifting toward competency-based education (CBE) in line with the American Association of Colleges of Nursing's (AACN) 2021 Essentials. This pedagogical shift from knowledge-based leaner outcomes to competency-based learner and program outcomes affects how faculty teach, how students learn, and how programs allocate resources to support this change. The initial move toward CBE necessitates scrutiny of current curricula and alignment of curriculum, teaching strategies, and assessment tactics framed within the ten domains of the Essentials.

Developing Nurse Practitioners for Hospitalist Roles: Lessons Learned From an Academic Practice Partnership.

There are numerous benefits to academic practice partnerships. While there is great emphasis on the new graduate nurse transition to practice, there is less intention placed on the new nurse practitioner (NP) role transition. In a rural teaching hospital, leadership perceived a need for more support to successfully transition NPs into hospitalist practice roles.

Inpatient Unit Heart Failure Discharge Volume Predicts All-cause 30-Day Hospital Readmission.

Background: All-cause 30-day hospital readmission is a heart failure (HF) quality of care metric. Readmission costs the healthcare system $30.7 million annually.