The multicenter impacts of an emergency physician lead on departmental flow and provider experiences.

Introduction: Emergency department (ED) flow impacts patient safety, quality of care and ED provider satisfaction. Throughput interventions have been shown to improve flow, yet few studies have reported the impact of ED physician leadership roles on patient flow and provider experiences. The study objective was to evaluate the impacts of the emergency physician lead role on ED flow metrics and provider experiences.

Public health nurse perceptions of evolving work and how work is managed: A qualitative study.

Aim: To explore public health nurse (PHN) perspectives of their evolving work and how public health nurse work is managed in a Canadian health region.

Background: Professional and public health organisations describe public health nurse practice roles as population-focused work. Health care management directs public health nurse work to achieve specific goals.

Nurses' clinical reasoning practices that support safe medication administration: An integrative review of the literature.

Aims And Objectives: To review the current literature about nurses' clinical reasoning practices that support safe medication administration.

Background: The literature about medication administration frequently focuses on avoiding medication errors. Nurses' clinical reasoning used during medication administration to maintain medication safety receives less attention in the literature.

Nurse retention strategies: advice from experienced registered nurses.

Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to explore the insights of experienced nurses regarding initiatives they believe would effectively retain nurses like themselves in the nursing profession.

Design/methodology/approach: As part of a qualitative investigation into the perceptions of nurses regarding issues affecting their profession, experienced nurses were asked to describe what retention strategies they would recommend to policy-makers. A total of 16 semi-structured interviews were conducted with long-term nurses in a health region in western Canada.