Vascular access teams: a global outlook on challenges, benefits, opportunities, and future perspectives.

Background: Specialized vascular access training for medical professionals organized into vascular access teams (VATs) was shown to improve patient outcomes, clinical efficiency, and cost savings. Professional perspectives on VAT benefits, organization, challenges, and opportunities on a global scale remain inadequately explored. Using detailed perspectives, in this study, we explored the global VAT landscape, including challenges faced, clinical and clinico-economic impacts of VATs, with emphasis on underresearched facets of VAT initiation, data dissemination, and metrics or benchmarks for VAT success.

Surge Planning and Implementation: A Required Competency for Today's Nurse Leaders.

The ability to respond effectively and efficiently during times of crisis, including a pandemic, has emerged as a competency for nurse leaders. This article describes one institution's experience using the American Organization of Nurse Leaders Competencies for Nurse Executives in operationalizing the concept of surge capacity.

Transitioning a Nonclinical House Administrator to a Nurse-Led Hospital Operations Role.

Nurse leaders must utilize diverse operational skills in today's healthcare delivery system. Thus, the purposes of this article are to describe 1 institution's experience in expanding the role of a nonclinical house administrator to a nurse-led Hospital Operations Administrator team. The skills reflective of the American Organization of Nurse Executives competencies needed to successfully implement the newly configured role are discussed.