New Data on Access to Mental Health and Addictions Services and Home and Community Care.

As the population ages, more Canadians need home care to help manage their health conditions and live safely at home. For Canadians of all ages, timely access to mental health and addictions services is an area of growing concern. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its strain on health system resources have further highlighted the need to improve services in these areas.

Nurse Manager Succession Planning: Evaluating a Pilot Program's Effect on Self-perception of Readiness.

Objective: Perceived readiness to transition to nurse manager roles and demonstrated leadership behaviors were evaluated among participants in a nurse manager succession planning pilot cohort.

Background: Equipping nurses within an organization with the leadership competencies to transition to the next role is essential as we face an impending nurse and nurse leader shortage.

Methods: Quasi-experimental and correlational design methods were used to measure changes in readiness of nurses to enter nurse manager roles over a 90-day pilot.

Community-Based Home Health Programs and Chronic Disease: Synthesis of the Literature.

Purpose Of Study: This article reviewed and evaluated literature on the various community-based home health programs and their effectiveness at preventing hospital admissions in adults. The research question addressed is as follows: Do community-based home health programs decrease hospital admissions in adult patients with chronic disease?

Primary Practice Setting: The primary practice setting evaluated in this review of the literature was community-based home health programs.

Methodology And Sample: In this literature review, a seven-step review method was utilized to assess the evidence.

Strategies for Improving Patient Throughput in an Acute Care Setting Resulting in Improved Outcomes: A Systematic Review.

Patient throughput allows for the efficient flow of patients through the hospital, ensuring timely and appropriate level of care. Evidence supports the implementation of hospital-wide patient throughput initiatives. Hospitals who have prioritized patient throughput have realized improvements in quality patient care, patient satisfaction, as well as a positive financial impact.

Nurse leader certification preparation: how are confidence levels impacted?

Aim: The aim was to examine the effect of a nurse leader certification preparation course on the confidence levels of the participants.

Background: Limited literature is available regarding nurse leader development and certifications. Barriers exist related to lack of confidence, high cost, time and lack of access to a preparation course.

A systematic review: barriers to hourly rounding.

Aim: The purpose of this review of the literature is to identify a comprehensive list of the barriers that impact the effective implementation and sustainment of hourly rounding on the adult inpatient medical or surgical unit.

Background: Despite the benefits associated with hourly rounding, challenges with the implementation and sustainment of this intervention have been reported on medical-surgical units. Some hospitals have multiple campaigns to implement rounding, yet sustainment eludes them.

Nurse manager succession planning: synthesis of the evidence.

Aim: The literature supporting nurse manager succession planning is reviewed and synthesised to discover best practice for identifying and developing future nurse managers.

Background: Healthcare succession planning practices are lacking. Nurse managers are historically selected based on clinical skills and lack formal leadership preparation.