Creating an Organizational Culture and Climate of Meaningful Recognition for Nurse Managers.

Objectives: To examine the current nurse manager (NM) recognition culture and climate in organizations and to develop a theoretical foundation for meaningful recognition.

Background: Nurse managers call for wider recognition, but the theoretical conceptualization and underpinnings of meaningful recognition are sparse in the literature.

Methods: A qualitative descriptive design was used utilizing individual interviews.

Nursing's Leadership Role in Advancing Professional Practice/Work Environments as Part of the Quadruple Aim.

Development of healthy professional practice/work environments (PPWEs) for nursing practice is critical to optimizing patient safety and workforce satisfaction while limiting turnover. Healthy PPWEs are linked with improved outcomes for patients, the workforce, and organizations. Nurses constitute the greatest professional segment of the US health care workforce and influence PPWEs, patient experience, health care quality, and cost per capita, all aspects of the quadruple aim.

Implementation of a Hydrotherapy Protocol to Improve Postpartum Pain Management.

Introduction: A growing number of women are seeking alternatives to traditional pharmacologic pain management during birth. While there has been an extensive array of nonpharmacologic options developed for labor, there are limited offerings in the postpartum period. The purpose of this quality improvement project was to implement a hydrotherapy protocol in the early postpartum period to improve pain management for women choosing a nonmedicated birth.

The VCU Pressure Ulcer Summit: Collaboration to Operationalize Hospital-Acquired Pressure Ulcer Prevention Best Practice Recommendations.

This executive summary reports outcomes of an interprofessional collaboration between experts in pressure ulcer prevention, bedside clinicians, regulatory agencies, quality improvement, informatics experts, and professional nursing organizations. The goal of the collaboration was to develop a framework to assist facilities to operationalize best practice recommendations to sustain organizational culture change in hospital-acquired pressure ulcer prevention, to develop a hospital-acquired pressure ulcer severity score, and to address topics related to the unavoidable pressure ulcer.