New Graduate Nurses' Incivility Experiences: The Roles of Workplace Empowerment, Nursing Leadership and Areas of Worklife.

Aims: To determine what extent are workplace empowerment, New Graduate Nurses' (NGN) perceptions of nurse leaders, trust in management, and areas of worklife predict coworker incivility experiences?

Background: NGNs' perceptions of nursing leaderships' control over workload contribute to coworker incivility experiences were tested. The relationship between workplace empowerment, authentic leadership, and areas of work life (workload control and fair resource allocation) to coworker incivility experiences were examined.

Design: Secondary analysis of Starting Out, national survey, Time 1 dataset.

A review: Developing an ecological model approach to co-worker incivility experiences of new graduate nurses.

Aim: To explore how an ecological approach be used to explore relationships among workplace empowerment, authentic leadership, trust in management, areas of work life and co-worker incivility experiences of new graduate nurses.

Design: Key concepts related to new graduate nurses' incivility experience informed the research question building on the findings of our first author's integrative review. Second, relevant theories and concepts were identified by conducting a literature review.

Simulated patient scenario development: A methodological review of validity and reliability reporting.

Introduction: Some healthcare scholars (educators and researchers) develop their own simulated patient scenarios to address specific learning objectives. Clear processes of validity and reliability are needed in the development of simulated scenarios for the purpose of replication and the transfer of findings to other contexts.

Methods: This paper reports a methodological review of CINAHL to determine how valid and reliable simulated patient scenarios are developed.

Organisational antecedents, policy and horizontal violence among nurses: An integrative review.

Aim: To explore the organisational antecedents related to horizontal violence among nurses and the extent to which policy initiatives reduce its incidence.

Background: Organisational re-engineering initiatives affect registered nurse roles, adding complexity to organisational antecedents related to horizontal violence and policy. No previous systematic review has examined the role of organisational policies in reducing horizontal violence among nurses.

The impact of organisational factors on horizontal bullying and turnover intentions in the nursing workplace.

Aim: To examine the impact of organisational factors on bullying among peers (i.e. horizontal) and its effect on turnover intentions among Canadian registered nurses (RNs).

Evolution of Quality Review Programs for Medicare: Quality Assurance to Quality Improvement.

This article outlines the development, successes, and future directions of the Medicare Peer Review Organization (PRO) program. As established by the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982, the purpose of the PRO program is to promote the quality, medical necessity, and appropriateness of services reimbursed through Medicare. We describe the evolution of the PRO program from a retrospective quality review approach, focused on individual events, to a proactive, quality improvement approach.