Nursing leaders' perceptions of the impact of the Strengths-Based Nursing and Healthcare Leadership program three months post training.

Background: Development of nursing leadership is necessary to ensure that nurse leaders of the future are well-equipped to tackle the challenges of a burdened healthcare system. In this context, the Strengths-Based Nursing and Healthcare Leadership program was delivered to 121 participants from 5 organizations in Canada in 2021 and 2022. To date, no study used a qualitative approach to explore nursing leaders' perceptions of a leadership Strengths-Based Nursing and Healthcare Leadership program three months post training.

Evaluation of the effectiveness of a Strengths-Based Nursing and Healthcare Leadership program aimed at building leadership capacity: A concurrent mixed-methods study.

Background: Targeted interventions have been found effective for developing leadership practices in nurses. However, to date, no leadership training program based on the Strengths-Based Nursing and Healthcare Leadership approach exists.

Objectives: Demonstrate the effectiveness of a Strengths-Based Nursing and Healthcare Leadership 6-month program designed for nurse and healthcare leaders on leadership capacity and psychological outcomes.

Facilitated engagement approach: A novel approach to guide mentor conversations.

Background: Mentorship has been recognized as a strategy to develop leadership competencies in clinical leaders and has been integrated into leadership programs. However, there are few published frameworks to guide mentor conversations with mentees training to assume nursing leadership roles.

Objective: This study explores mentors' perceptions of 6-month mentorship, a component of the Strengths-Based Nursing Leadership program, the effectiveness of the Facilitated Engagement Approach, a pedagogical strategy developed to facilitate conversation between the mentor and mentee, and the impact of mentorship on leadership practice of mentees.

Implementation Leadership in the Point of Care Nursing Context: A Systematic Review Comparing Two Measurement Tools.

Introduction: Implementation leadership (IL) are effective point of care (POC) nursing leadership behaviors that facilitate contexts conducive to the successful implementation of evidence-based practices (EBPs). However, no systematic evaluation of IL tools validated for the nursing context existed.

Aims: The purpose of this systematic review was to compare iterations of two IL measurement tools, the Implementation Leadership Scale (ILS) and the iLEAD, for application in a nursing context; and to critically appraise and summarize the methodological quality of studies assessing their psychometric properties.

A hermeneutic-phenomenological study of paediatric intensive care unit nurses' professional identity following hospital redesign: Lessons learned for managers.

Aim: To provide insights for health care managers by exploring paediatric intensive care unit nurses' lived experience of professional identity in the context of organisational change.

Background: While professional identity improves retention of nurses and provision of quality care, outcomes of importance for managers, organisational change perturbs this identity.

Method: The study used a hermeneutic-phenomenological design.

When the paediatric intensive care unit becomes home: A hermeneutic-phenomenological study.

Background: Family-centred care is the dominant model for providing nursing care in paediatrics. Unit layout has been shown to impact nurses' ability to provide family-centred care. Little is known about the meanings and experiences of paediatric intensive care unit nurses concerning the care they provide to families within their unique physical setting.

Exploring a hermeneutic perspective of nursing through revisiting nursing health history.

In this article, the nursing health history is revisited with a hermeneutic lens to uncover means by which this tool can better serve nursing practice. It is argued that further distanciation from the developmental and medical model is necessary to accurately uncover health and history in the nurse-client encounter. Based on the works of prominent hermeneutic philosophers, such as Heidegger, Gadamer, Merleau-Ponty, Ricoeur, and Taylor, four orientations to health history and nursing are explored: orientation to caring, orientation to narrative, orientation to time, and orientation to the body.

Impact of unit design on intensive care unit clinicians: a scoping review protocol.

Objective: This scoping review aims to identify the known impact of unit design on intensive care unit clinicians, and more specifically, to explore similarities and differences across critical care settings.

Introduction: Construction and infrastructure renewal represent great opportunities for designing units that enhance patient care, as well as support the work of clinicians. A growing body of evidence is showing how unit design can impact clinical staff, but no reviews have been found that focus exclusively on clinicians within intensive care units.

Shared Vision in Nursing: An Evolutionary Concept Analysis Revealing Dualities Within the Profession.

Shared vision has been used by the nursing community for over 20 years, but this concept and its language are not presented consistently. At its most basic level, shared vision consists of identifying what a group wants to create. The main objective of this study is to provide a concept analysis of shared vision from an evolutionary nursing perspective within health care organizations.

Essential Professional Nursing Practices in mental health: A cross-sectional study of hospital inpatient care.

Quality organizational structures and nursing practices are key to positive patient outcomes. Whereas structures have been largely studied over the past few decades, less is known of the nursing practices that account for patient outcomes, such as patient satisfaction. This is especially true in psychiatric, mental health care settings.

An exploratory study of safety culture, biological risk management and hand hygiene of healthcare professionals.

Aims: The objectives of the study were to: (1) examine the relationships between three different qualitative perceptions of safety culture and the Canadian Patient Safety Climate Survey factors; (2) determine whether these perceptions are associated with different hand hygiene practices.

Background: Healthcare-associated infections and safety cultures are a worldwide issue. During the A/H1N1 Influenza pandemic, Europe and North America did not have the same responses.

Hospital rules and regulations: The perspectives of youth receiving psychiatric care.

Background: Rules and regulations represent an aspect of psychiatric hospitalization about which little is known.

Study Purpose: To explore the perceptions of rules from the perspective of youth receiving hospital-based psychiatric services.

Design: Qualitative descriptive.

The Effects of the Transforming Care at the Bedside Program on Perceived Team Effectiveness and Patient Outcomes.

The objective of the study was to document the impact of Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) program on health care team's effectiveness, patient safety, and patient experience. A pretest and posttest (team effectiveness) and a time-series study design (patient experience and safety) were used. The intervention (the TCAB program) was implemented in 8 units in a multihospital academic health science center in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

The Experience of Patients Engaged in Co-designing Care Processes.

This article presents the experiences of patients engaged in co-designing care under a program entitled, "Transforming Care at the Bedside," based at an academic health sciences center. This descriptive, qualitative study collected data through individual interviews. Participants included patients from 5 units in an academic health sciences center in Quebec, Canada.

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Nurses Working in an Open Ward: Stress and Work Satisfaction.

There is some research on the impact of open-ward unit design on the health of babies and the stress experienced by parents and nurses in neonatal intensive care units. However, few studies have explored the factors associated with nurse stress and work satisfaction among nurses practicing in open-ward neonatal intensive care units. The purpose of this study was to examine what factors are associated with nurse stress and work satisfaction among nurses practicing in an open-ward neonatal intensive care unit.

The organizational attraction of nursing graduates: using research to guide employer branding.

In the context of the global nursing shortage, only the most attractive employers are able to recruit a sufficient number of nurses to maintain high quality of care and ensure positive patient outcomes. It is important for health care organizations to align their practices and their employer marketing strategies with attraction factors important to nurses. This article presents the results of a survey of 666 nursing students graduating in the spring of 2009 in the Canadian province of Quebec.

Optical characterization of Pseudomonas fluorescens on meat surfaces using time-resolved fluorescence.

A scanning optical system for the detection of bacteria on meat surfaces based on fluorescence lifetime and intensity measurements is described. The system detects autofluorescent light emitted by naturally occurring fluorophores in bacteria. The technique only requires minimal sample preparation and handling, thus the chemical properties of the specimen are preserved.