The Healthcare Environment Survey: A multicountry psychometric evaluation of nurses' job satisfaction.

Aim: To evaluate the properties of a reduced-item Healthcare Environment Survey measuring nurses' job satisfaction across eight countries.

Background: There is currently no rigorously tested international measure of nurses' job satisfaction that can be used internationally to improve the nurse work environment.

Methods: Nursing staff from 11 hospitals in eight countries participated in this study.

Advancing the clinical nurse leader model through academic-practice-policy partnership.

The nursing profession is tasked with identifying and evaluating models of care with potential to add value to health care delivery. In consideration of this goal, we describe the Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) initiative and the activities of a national-level CNL research collaborative. The CNL initiative, launched by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing in collaboration with education and healthcare leaders, has delineated CNL education curriculum and practice competencies, and fostered the creation of academic-practice-policy partnerships to pilot CNL integration into frontline nursing care delivery.

Developing the Clinical Nurse Leader Survey Instrument: A Modified Delphi Study.

Clinical nurse leader (CNL)-integrated care delivery is an emerging nursing model, with growing adoption in diverse health systems. To generate a robust evidence base for this promising nursing model, it is necessary to measure CNL practice to explicitly link it to observed quality and safety outcome improvements. This study used a modified Delphi approach with an expert CNL panel to develop and test the face, content, and construct validity of the CNL Practice Survey instrument.

Implementation of the Tobacco Tactics intervention versus usual care in Trinity Health community hospitals.

Background: Guided by the Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance (RE-AIM) implementation framework, a National Institutes of Health-sponsored study compared the nurse-administered Tobacco Tactics intervention to usual care. A prior paper describes the effectiveness of the Tobacco Tactics intervention. This subsequent paper provides data describing the remaining constructs of the RE-AIM framework.

Effectiveness of the Tobacco Tactics Program in the Trinity Health System.

Introduction: This study determined the effectiveness of the Tobacco Tactics intervention.

Design/setting/participants: This was a pragmatic, quasi-experimental study conducted from 2010 to 2013 and analyzed from 2014 to 2015 in five Michigan community hospitals; three received the Tobacco Tactics intervention, and two received usual care. Smokers (N=1,528) were identified during hospitalization, and sent surveys and cotinine tests after 6 months.

Dissemination of the nurse-administered Tobacco Tactics intervention versus usual care in six Trinity community hospitals: study protocol for a comparative effectiveness trial.

Background: The objectives of this smoking cessation study among hospitalized smokers are to: 1) determine provider and patient receptivity, barriers, and facilitators to implementing the nurse-administered, inpatient Tobacco Tactics intervention versus usual care using face-to-face feedback and surveys; 2) compare the effectiveness of the nurse-administered, inpatient Tobacco Tactics intervention versus usual care across hospitals, units, and patient characteristics using thirty-day point prevalence abstinence at thirty days and six months (primary outcome) post-recruitment; and 3) determine the cost-effectiveness of the nurse-administered, inpatient Tobacco Tactics intervention relative to usual care including cost per quitter, cost per life-year saved, and cost per quality-adjusted life-year saved.

Methods/design: This effectiveness study will be a quasi-experimental design of six Michigan community hospitals of which three will get the nurse-administered Tobacco Tactics intervention and three will provide their usual care. In both the intervention and usual care sites, research assistants will collect data from patients on their smoking habits and related variables while in the hospital and at thirty days and six months post-recruitment.

Charge nurses as front-line leaders: development through transformative learning.

Based on the results of a staff satisfaction survey, nurse leaders recognized that the role of charge nurse was a significant source of dissatisfaction. Little attention had been paid to how the charge nurse role was learned, and no organizational support was offered to develop nurses for this role. Collaborating with a nurse educator consultant, nurse managers developed and implemented a three-part educational program to reframe staff perceptions of the charge nurse role.

Considering a career change to a nursing faculty position? Key interview questions to ask and why.

Nursing is a practice profession that transitions some bedside clinicians to another career, such as a nursing faculty member in a university nursing program. Given the current faculty shortage, many clinicians may be considering this kind of transition. The nurse considering such a career change can benefit from learning about the job expectations of academe and being prepared to ask questions in the initial interview that may impact future satisfaction and retention.

Case manager role definitions: do they make an organizational impact?

Purpose Of Study: This study examined 2 case management delivery models related to defined case manager role responsibilities in a large midwest hospital. Of interest was whether organization-wide outcomes related to reduction in length of stay (LOS) could be achieved by altering the case manager's role functions across medical, surgical, and cardiology units in general, intermediate, and intensive levels of care. In addition, there was curiosity about the timing of the admission and whether LOS would be influenced by the experience of the case manager with new role functions.