An Exploratory, Descriptive Study of Nurse Leaders' Personal and Work Experiences During Union Negotiations and Strike Events.

Objective: This study explored the experiences, perceptions and emotional state of nurse leaders during union activities to understand the impact on their personal and professional lives.

Background: Other than anecdotal stories shared during union negotiations and strike preparations, very little evidence exists in nursing and healthcare literature about nursing unions and their impact on nurse leaders and their organizational priorities.

Methods: This study used an exploratory, descriptive design with a convenience and snowball sample of Association of California Nurse Leaders members.

An exploration of nurse-physician perceptions of collaborative behaviour.

Interprofessional collaboration is a key element in providing safe, holistic patient care in the acute care setting. Trended data at a community hospital indicated opportunities for improvement in collaboration on micro, meso, and macro levels. The aim of this survey study was to assess the current state of collaboration between frontline nurses and physicians at a non-academic acute care hospital.

An innovative capstone health care informatics clinical residency: Interprofessional team collaboration.

Integrated information systems and wireless technology have been increasingly incorporated into health care organizations with the premise that information technology will promote safe, high-quality, cost-effective patient care. With the advancement of technology, the level of expertise necessary to assume health care information technology roles has escalated. The purpose of this article is to describe a clinical residency project whereby students in a graduate degree health care informatics program successfully fulfilled program competencies through a faculty-lead research project focused on the use of home telehealth with a group of heart failure patients.

A Critique of the Short Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults.

Effective healthcare relies on the ability to communicate with patients. Ninety-eight million Americans are estimated to have limited health literacy that can impair their ability to read and interpret health-related education and information. Low health literacy is associated with higher mortality and 30-day hospital readmissions.

Home telehealth and hospital readmissions: a retrospective OASIS-C data analysis.

Technology holds potential to improve the quality of healthcare delivery. The use of remote patient monitoring, or telehealth (TH), has been widely adopted by many home care agencies to facilitate early identification of disease exacerbation, particularly for patients with chronic diseases such as heart failure. TH has been successfully used to improve symptom detection and potentially reduce rehospitalization rates.

Moving into a new hospital: strategies for success.

The work of moving into a new hospital does not end with construction. Planning a move must include preparing staff and physicians for the changes in their usual routines in care delivery. This bimonthly department expands nurse leaders' knowledge and competencies in health facility design and enables them to lead in transition planning for operations in a new setting.

ICU nursing orientation and postorientation practices: a national survey.

A survey was conducted to obtain information regarding adult intensive care unit (ICU) orientation and postorientation practices throughout the nation. This article presents the results of a random sampling of ICUs throughout the nation regarding orientation practices of newly licensed registered nurses (RNs), experienced RNs new to the ICU setting, and experienced ICU RNs. Twenty-four hospitals from 7 geographic regions within the United States were surveyed.