Voices of women veterans: My Life, My Story.

Purpose: To explore women veterans' experiences by writing short stories of their lives as part of a program, My Life, My Story (MLMS), and qualitatively analyzing the aggregate stories to identify themes, risks, and opportunities for changes in care.

Methods: We interviewed women veterans receiving care and/or working at the James J. Peters VA Medical Center in the Bronx, N.

Current and emerging vein identification technology for phlebotomy and peripheral I.V. cannulation.

New, evidence-based technologies can improve venous access for phlebotomy and I.V. insertion, especially in patients with difficult I.

Creating a Comprehensive Hospital-Based Skin and Wound Care Program to Improve Outcomes and Decrease Pressure Injuries.

The author describes implementing a comprehensive skin and wound care program during her tenure as chief nurse executive to address challenges related to a lack of expert resources and knowledge of pressure injury (PI) prevention and treatment. This multifaceted program included the creation of a comprehensive, interprofessional, evidence-based skin and wound care committee; establishing a "Wound Board" for case presentations and expert consultation; providing educational programs; streamlining the processes for product evaluation, procurement, and use; decreasing costs; and hiring additional wound, ostomy, and continence nurse specialists. As a result, hospital-acquired PI incidence dropped significantly.

The Impact of Interprofessional Shared Governance and a Caring Professional Practice Model on Staff's Self-report of Caring, Workplace Engagement, and Workplace Empowerment Over Time.

Objective: To describe the impact of the implementation of interprofessional shared governance and a caring professional practice model (Relationship-Based Care [RBC]) on the staff's self-report of caring, work engagement, and workplace empowerment over a 4-year time frame.

Background: Shared or interprofessional governance has moved mainstream within healthcare settings, particularly within agencies seeking to sustain high reliability in the offering of quality patient care services and/or interest in meeting Magnet standards or embarking upon the Pathway to Excellence. Nurse leaders report that organizations having implemented shared governance thrive, citing professional governance as key to workplace engagement and empowerment, particularly related to quality care initiatives.

Developing a transcultural nursing leadership institute in China.

Globalization has been the hallmark of the 21st century. This article focuses on developing the Transcultural Nursing Leadership Institute (TCNLI) in China. This project built a leadership program in Wenzhou, China, empowering and supporting nurses to solve problems in their own practices with evidence-based approaches and local resources using the Dreyfus International Health Foundation's method Problem Solving for Better Health (PSBH).

Structural empowerment and anticipated turnover among behavioural health nurses.

Aim: The aim of this pilot study was to examine the relationship between structural empowerment and anticipated turnover among behavioural health nurses.

Background: There have been several studies relating structural empowerment to a range of organizational characteristics and personal attributes of nurses themselves. There are also previous studies linking the key variables in the present study, but no previous research of behavioural health nurses was available.

The effect of a holistic program on health-promoting behaviors in hospital registered nurses.

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to examine the effect of a holistic program, the Collaborative Care Model (CCM) Program, and the development of a self-care plan on health-promoting behaviors in hospital nurses.

Design: A quasi-experimental, pretest, posttest, repeated measure, comparison-group design was used.

Method: The study was conducted in a large, academic medical center in the northeast.

Perinatal patient safety from the perspective of nurse executives: a round table discussion.

Six nurse executives across the United States discussed issues related to perinatal patient safety. Gaps in communication were identified as one of the biggest challenges facing nurse executives. Other issues included expectations of regulators and accreditors, the pressure for productivity with limited resources and staffing, and undercapitalized technology versus safety and staff competence.

Evidence for healing interventions with perinatal bereavement.

The purpose of this article is to explore the concept of perinatal grief and evidence-based healing interventions for it. The loss of a pregnancy or death of an infant causes profound grief, yet society has long minimized or ignored this grief, which is among the most painful of bereavement experiences. Throughout the last century, research on grief and the special needs of bereaved parents has changed the context of professional intervention from protective to supportive.

Perinatal grief online.

Objective: To describe and interpret the culture of an online perinatal loss group.

Study Design And Methods: This qualitative study used ethnography, the study of culture. Methods included participant-observation, review of 447 e-mails, and participants' feedback about the findings.