Evaluating and Enhancing Nursing Caregiver Well-being Using a Systematic Approach.

Objective: The aims of this study were to evaluate nursing caregiver well-being and identify interventions for improving well-being and practice environments.

Background: Healthcare worker well-being and burnout command increasing attention in the wake of the pandemic. Experts recommend utilization of validated measurements to assess burnout, well-being, and contributing factors.

Strategies to Stay: Role Enrichment Models for Retaining Millennial Nurses.

Nurse retention strategies are top of mind for nurse leaders as they face an unprecedented staffing crisis. A strategic approach that includes innovative models to enhance nurse satisfaction and nurse retention may include role enrichment strategies such as blended roles, alternative work arrangements, and shared staffing. Effective implementation requires authentic, transformational leadership, as well as structures and processes for replication, sustainability, and improved outcomes.

Equipping Nurses to Lead Evidence-Based Practice: An Opportunity for Professional Nursing Associations.

Objective: The aim of this study was to describe the evidence-based practice (EBP) attributes among California nurse leaders who are members of a professional nursing organization.

Background: Nurse leaders are pivotal for successful EBP implementation. The Association of California Nurse Leaders' (ACNL) mission to equip nurses to lead self, others, and systems propelled them to conduct a study of members' EBP beliefs, knowledge, competencies, and implementation.

Joy and Meaning in Nurse Manager Practice: A Narrative Analysis.

Nurse managers are an integral part of the healthcare system and have powerful influence at the point of service. The experience of joy and meaning in the work of healthcare contributes to achievement of positive outcomes. This study aimed to learn how nurse managers described joy and meaning in their practice.

The Impact of Boost Methodology on Nurse Knowledge Retention: A Longitudinal, Quasi-Experimental Sepsis Simulation Pilot Study.

Boost methods for reinforcing educational content have been found to train the brain to designate information as important. A longitudinal, quasi-experimental study design evaluated the effect of an interprofessional simulated patient sepsis video with educational boosts on knowledge retention among acute care nurses at a large academic health system using linear mixed-effects modeling. Findings suggest that boost methods may impact nurse knowledge retention, potentially eliminating the need to repeat costly, traditional educational efforts.

Meaning, Joy, and Critical Care Nurse Well-Being: A Call to Action.

Healthy nurses are essential for optimizing population health, patient care experiences, and health care cost-efficiency. Critical care nurses are at increased risk of developing physical and psychological symptoms due to their high-stress work environment and exposure to traumatic events. There is growing recognition for the value of implementing nurse-centered, team-based, and organizational-wide levels of intervention designed to mitigate the impact of high work stress and trauma on health professionals.

Feasibility of Online Mental Wellness Self-assessment and Feedback for Pediatric and Neonatal Critical Care Nurses.

Purpose: The primary goal of this study was to test the feasibility of an educational online self-assessment of burnout, resilience, trauma, depression, anxiety, and common workplace stressors among nurses working in a pediatric intensive care unit or neonatal intensive care unit setting. The secondary, exploratory objectives were to estimate the prevalence of psychiatric symptoms in this sample and to identify those variables that most strongly predict burnout.

Design And Methods: Data from optional and anonymous online measures were analyzed for 115 nurses (67.

A Narrative Analysis of Nurses' Experiences With Meaning and Joy in Nursing Practice.

Health care transformation is guided by the triple aim of improving health, enhancing the patient experience, and reducing costs. Experts have recommended the addition of a fourth aim, improving the experience of providing care. They advise that achievement of the triple aim will only be possible if we create the conditions where health care workers can find meaning and joy in their work.

Advocating for Patients: Honoring Professional Trust.

Perioperative nurse leaders create conditions for nurses in all health care settings that allow them to advocate for patients when they are unable to advocate for themselves; these conditions also enable nurses to enter into therapeutic relationships with patients and their families and establish trust. The nursing leadership practices that facilitate this advocacy include promoting continuity of care and patient relationships; helping to ensure practice environments support teamwork and collaboration; providing behavioral expectations for communication and conflict management; and supporting practices that promote self-care and ongoing professional development, flexibility, creativity, and innovation to meet patient care needs. A comprehensive professional practice model provides a framework for nurses to practice more fully and to skillfully care and successfully advocate for patients.

Dedicated Education Units: Partnerships for Building Leadership Competency.

Background: To enable nurses to lead in health care transformation, nursing education must include opportunities for developing leadership, as well as clinical competencies. Dedicated education units (DEUs) provide supportive environments for competency development in undergraduate students. This study's aim was to explore the effects of a DEU experience on the leadership development of baccalaureate nursing students.

Education as a springboard for transformational leadership development: listening to the voices of nurses.

Nurses must assume a transformational leadership role in increasing the quality, safety, access, and value in the health care system. To lead effectively in this transformation process, nurses must be prepared for leadership roles. A strong leadership knowledge based acquired through education provides the springboard for nursing leadership competency development.

Cultivating nursing leadership for our envisioned future.

Nurses have been called upon to lead and partner in the transformation of health care. Leadership is a component of the scope of nursing practice; however, the optimal approach to development of leadership competency has not been established. A metasynthesis of qualitative studies on leadership development was conducted to enhance an understanding of conditions that nurses reported to support or hinder their development as leaders.