Expanding the scope of staff education: brain injury to polytrauma.

Staff members who care for the polytrauma population need diverse educational programs even if they have many years of experience working in the brain-injury rehabilitation field. This article explores key concepts that help guide rehabilitation nursing practice, strengthen clinical skills, increase family involvement, and identify educational resources.

Administration and union partnership: one Magnet hospital's story.

For each hospital that has achieved Magnet designation as an organization of excellence, a unique story exists about its experience. Our story of excellence is founded in a long partnership between administration and union leadership spanning 2 decades. We recognize that excellence is not a steady state, rather a continued commitment to improved patient, staff, and organizational outcomes.

Reducing serious injury from falls in two veterans' hospital medical-surgical units.

A large veteran's hospital participated in a year-long collaborative project across 9 hospitals to reduce serious injury from falls in acute care, targeting medical-surgical units. The primary objective of this project was to develop and test a set of interventions (bundles) to prevent serious physical injury (fractures and hemorrhagic bleeds) from patient falls. The interventions were implemented using tests of change on 2 medical-surgical units focused on engaging unit-based staff and combining innovations for vulnerable populations at greatest risk for injury if they fall.

Nursing leadership collaboration for rehabilitation of polytrauma patients.

This article describes a variety of nursing issues that emerged over a 3-year period on polytrauma rehabilitation nursing units and the leadership roles and strategies that were used to meet the rehabilitation needs of newly injured servicemembers who served in Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). Nursing's leadership responsibilities focus on three primary areas: patient advocacy, family centeredness, and advocacy for staff Collaboration among the four national polytrauma rehabilitation centers (PRCs) run by the U.S.