Planning for post-pandemic cancer care delivery: Recovery or opportunity for redesign?

The delivery of cancer care has never changed as rapidly and dramatically as we have seen with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. During the early phase of the pandemic, recommendations for the management of oncology patients issued by various professional societies and government agencies did not recognize the significant regional differences in the impact of the pandemic. California initially experienced lower than expected numbers of cases, and the health care system did not experience the same degree of the burden that had been the case in other parts of the country.

Mentoring Clinical Nurses Toward a Just Culture: Successful Implementation of Nursing Peer Case Review.

The nursing peer-review process is an effective and underutilized method to enhance nurse accountability and ownership of patient care and nursing practice. This article describes how 1 hospital created a clinical nurse-driven, nonpunitive, peer case review structure and mentorship processes. This innovative structure provides a framework to support nurses through shared governance and supports organizational efforts including Magnet® and Just Culture initiatives.