Standardize, Engage, and Collaborate: An Initiative to Reduce Community Acquired Central Line Blood Stream Infections Across the Continuum of Care.

Background: Community acquired blood stream infections (CA-CLABSI) are a major source of morbidity and mortality for pediatric patients. Many organizations discharge pediatric patients to home health agencies to care for central lines. To reduce the incidence of CA-CLABSIs requires a concentrated effort between hospitals and home health agencies.

Orienting and Onboarding Clinical Nurse Specialists: A Process Improvement Project.

Purpose: Clinical nurse specialists (CNSs) have a unique advanced practice role. This article describes a process useful in establishing a comprehensive orientation and onboarding program for a newly hired CNS.

Description: The project team used the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists core competencies as a guide to construct a process for effectively onboarding and orienting newly hired CNSs.

Ensuring Safe Transfer of Pediatric Patients: A Quality Improvement Project to Standardize Handoff Communication.

Background: During a single hospital stay, a patient's care is transferred several times between health care clinicians requiring multiple handoffs. Nurses often voice concerns about feeling unsafe when receiving patients from other areas.

Aims: The aims of the intradepartmental quality improvement project were to identify the safest way to transfer care of pediatric patients and to improve bedside nurses' knowledge on conducting an evidence based practice project.

Perceptions of the influence of social media and therapeutic relationships on nurses: a systematic review protocol of qualitative evidence.

The objective of the review is to explore the perceptions of the influence social media has on professional boundaries and therapeutic relationships between nurses and their patients and families.