Using nurse managers' perceptions to guide new graduates toward positive nurse relationships.

One of the greatest challenges new graduates confront when transitioning to practice is establishing positive relationships with experienced nurses. Nursing faculty must prepare graduates for this challenge. However, nursing faculty are often removed from everyday practice and must rely on the perceptions of those entrenched in practice in order to ground teaching endeavors in authenticity.

Nurse Managers Speak Out About Disruptive Nurse-to-Nurse Relationships.

Objective: The purpose of this study is to explore nurse managers' (NMs') perceptions regarding disruptive nurse-to-nurse relationships.

Background: Nurse managers play a pivotal role in creating and sustaining healthy practice environments. They must understand how to recognize and confront disruptive nurse relationships that can threaten the health of their units.

Nurse managers' insights regarding their role highlight the need for practice changes.

Aim: The purpose of this study was to understand the insights of nurse managers regarding the nurse manager role.

Background: Nurse managers are vital to the success of healthcare organizations. Vacancy rates of nurse manager positions are on the rise.

Less is more: development and evaluation of an interactive e-atlas to support anatomy learning.

An Interactive electronic Atlas (IeA) was developed to assist first-year nursing students with interpretation of laboratory-based prosected cadaveric material. It was designed, using pedagogically sound principles, as a student-centered resource accessible to students from a wide range of learning backgrounds. It consisted of a highly simplified interactive interface limited to essential anatomical structures and was intended for use in a blended learning situation.

Understanding nurse-to-nurse relationships and their impact on work environments.

Introduction: Nurse-to-nurse relationships are a key component in determining the health of a work setting. Because of the impact that such relationships can have on patients, health care organizations, nurses, and the nursing profession, it is imperative to understand how nurses relate to each other.

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to present findings from a study that explored how direct-care nurses relate to each other in everyday interactions on patient care units.

Implementing the new clinical nurse leader role while gleaning insights from the past.

This qualitative study explored the experiences of clinical nurse leaders (CNLs) as they implemented this new role. Twenty-four CNLs participated. Data were collected via an e-mail-distributed questionnaire.