Building on Early Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic Orientation Modifications to Improve Competency Validation for Newly Hired New-to-Practice and Experienced Nurses.

Nursing professional development and human resource leaders revised general nursing orientation content and structure based on changes because of COVID-19 in length, focus, and platforms from the early stages of the pandemic. The aim of this quality improvement project was to incorporate best of pandemic modifications with key stakeholders and new-to-practice and experienced nursing hire needs emerging from COVID-19 realities on the workforce. The benefit for nursing professional development practitioners is relatability of general nursing orientation revisions for sustainability of clinical excellence and safety.

The Effect of Nurse Practice Environment on Retention and Quality of Care via Burnout, Work Characteristics, and Resilience: A Moderated Mediation Model.

Objective: The aim of this study was to explore the influence of nurse work characteristics, resiliency, and burnout on retention, and patient quality and safety.

Background: With an ongoing nursing shortage, maintaining qualified nursing staff is critical. We explored the direct and indirect effects of practice environment, nurse work characteristics, and burnout on retention, and perceived quality and safety.

Impact of a Telephonic Outreach Program on Patient Outcomes Within the Heart Failure Community.

Background: Telephonic outreach programs (TOPs) can be an effective measure to improve 30-day readmissions and self-management behaviors.

Local Problem: Our health care providers identified that patients admitted with heart failure (HF) were among those with the highest readmission rate, so we implemented a TOP specific to HF.

Methods: This project evaluated retrospective data from a convenience sample of adult patients admitted to our hospitals between January 2015 and June 2017, with a primary diagnosis of HF, and discharged home (N = 6271).

Innovative Evaluation of the Graphic Depiction of a System Professional Practice Model.

Nursing professional development practitioners led the evaluation of the graphic representation of a health system's professional practice model (PPM) based on evolving expectations and key constructs of a PPM. The aim was to capture direct care nurse perceptions to guide adoption of a revised graphical depiction of the PPM. The specific benefit for nursing professional development practitioners is the ongoing relatability of the PPM to nursing for sustainability of clinical excellence.