Caring Leadership in a Nonlinear World.

This introduction discusses the results of a survey of Italian nurses' views of their work performance and correlates those perceptions with their reported age, gender, and years of nursing work experiences, considering nursing leadership theory based on caring science and quantum leadership. Implications for nurse managers at the site of care are provided.

Voices of women veterans: My Life, My Story.

Purpose: To explore women veterans' experiences by writing short stories of their lives as part of a program, My Life, My Story (MLMS), and qualitatively analyzing the aggregate stories to identify themes, risks, and opportunities for changes in care.

Methods: We interviewed women veterans receiving care and/or working at the James J. Peters VA Medical Center in the Bronx, N.

Hepatitis C virus screening at a Veterans Administration Hospital in New York City.

Background: Asymptomatic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has the highest prevalence in "baby boomers" born in 1945 through 1965. New York State mandates that all persons born during this period be screened at least once for hepatitis C.

Local Problem: Military veteran HCV screening is often missed during primary care visits.

The Impact of Interprofessional Shared Governance and a Caring Professional Practice Model on Staff's Self-report of Caring, Workplace Engagement, and Workplace Empowerment Over Time.

Objective: To describe the impact of the implementation of interprofessional shared governance and a caring professional practice model (Relationship-Based Care [RBC]) on the staff's self-report of caring, work engagement, and workplace empowerment over a 4-year time frame.

Background: Shared or interprofessional governance has moved mainstream within healthcare settings, particularly within agencies seeking to sustain high reliability in the offering of quality patient care services and/or interest in meeting Magnet standards or embarking upon the Pathway to Excellence. Nurse leaders report that organizations having implemented shared governance thrive, citing professional governance as key to workplace engagement and empowerment, particularly related to quality care initiatives.

Interprofessional shared governance and relationship-based care: implementation and lessons learned.

Shared decision-making has become a hot topic in healthcare. This article describes a step-by-step, 'how-to' approach to implementation of an interprofessional shared governance and relationship-based care model at a 300-bed tertiary academic medical centre in a large metropolitan area in the US and outlines the lessons learned. The project, undertaken in 'waves', encompassed inpatient and ambulatory services and has been sustained for over eight years.

The Relationship Between and Factors Influencing Staff Nurses' Perceptions of Nurse Manager Caring and Exposure to Workplace Bullying in Multiple Healthcare Settings.

Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between, and factors influencing, staff nurse perceptions of nurse manager caring (NMC) and the perceived exposure to workplace bullying (WPB) in multiple healthcare settings.

Background: Workplace bullying is commonplace, increasing, and detrimental to the health and availability of our nursing workforce. Positive relationships between a nurse manager (NM) and staff increase staff satisfaction and reduce turnover.

Exploring and addressing faculty-to-faculty incivility: a national perspective and literature review.

This is the first-known quantitative study to measure nursing faculty perceptions of faculty-to-faculty incivility. A total of 588 nursing faculty representing 40 states in the United States participated in the study. Faculty-to-faculty incivility was perceived as a moderate to serious problem.

Fostering civility in nursing education and practice: nurse leader perspectives.

Incivility in healthcare can lead to unsafe working conditions, poor patient care, and increased medical costs. The authors discuss a study that examined factors that contribute to adverse working relationships between nursing education and practice, effective strategies to foster civility, essential skills to be taught in nursing education, and how education and practice can work together to foster civility in the profession.

Hospitalists: a chief nursing officer's perspective.

The hospitalist "specialty" is sweeping the inpatient setting with numbers of physicians choosing this specialty expected to exceed 20,000 by 2010. Yet, little is known about the involvement of nursing in the design, implementation, and evaluation of a hospitalist initiative. The author suggests the chief nursing officer's pivotal role in proactively encouraging the design and implementation of a hospitalist-nurse manager patient-centered care delivery model.