Addressing immunizations in nursing education: Immunization resources for undergraduate nursing.

Nursing faculty are challenged to integrate immunization content in prelicensure nursing curricula. Historically, most immunization content has been delivered in pediatrics courses, with less emphasis on other populations across the lifespan. Skills related to vaccine administration may be prioritized over the most current immunization science, such as pathophysiology, immunology, and epidemiology.

Eight Ways Nurses Can Manage a Burnt-Out Leader.

Health professionals, including nurses, are vulnerable to burnout, which occurs when chronic stress is not managed. COVID-19 led to nurses working in stressful environments, and being required to work mandatory overtime. The result was an increase in burnout.

Comparison of Factors Associated with Physician and Nurse Burnout.

Burnout is a condition resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been effectively managed, described in 3 dimensions: (a) feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion, (b) increased mental distance from one's job, and (c) reduced professional efficacy. Burnout is a widespread problem reaching concerning levels among health care professionals, with more than 50% of physicians and one-third as many as 80% of nurses reporting symptoms. The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) action collaborative on clinician well-being and resilience has prioritized exploring ways to enhance baseline understanding of clinician well-being and promotion of multidisciplinary solutions to burnout.

The Effect of Burnout on Quality of Care Using Donabedian's Framework.

Donabedian's framework offers a model to evaluate the relationship between patient outcomes, influenced by clinical care delivery structures and processes. Applying this model proposes that adequate and appropriate structures and processes within organizations are necessary to realize optimal outcomes; it is imperative that leadership focuses on those structures and processes to reduce the risk of burnout. Current research cannot determine whether burnout causes decreased quality or working in a setting with decreased quality causes burnout.

How Do We Reduce Burnout In Nursing?

Burnout syndrome has been defined as a state of chronic stress characterized by high levels of emotional exhaustion and depersonalization with low levels of professional efficacy. The effects of nurse burnout include poor job satisfaction and turnover. Nurses' physical and mental well-being are both essential to sustaining a healthy nursing workforce with factors such as an empowering work environment showing positive effects on reducing burnout.

Systematic Review of Burnout in US Nurses.

Nurses experience high levels of burnout, and this has become a major factor in recruitment and retention of nurses. Several factors have been associated with burnout, but it is not clear which factors are the most significant predictors. Understanding the most prevalent factors that are associated with burnout will allow for the development and implementation of interventions to ameliorate and/or reduce burnout in the nursing workforce.

Completion and attrition of DNP students of the 2006-2015 matriculating cohorts.

Background: Despite the strong support for DNP education, we have limited knowledge about completion and attrition of DNP students, which are important measures of achievement of DNP programs.

Purpose: To examine completion and attrition of students in DNP programs.

Methods: The data were obtained from AACN's Doctoral Student Roster Survey and Annual Survey of Baccalaureate and Graduate Programs in Nursing.

A call to action: next steps to advance diagnosis education in the health professions.

Objectives: Improving diagnosis-related education in the health professions has great potential to improve the quality and safety of diagnosis in practice. Twelve key diagnostic competencies have been delineated through a previous initiative. The objective of this project was to identify the next steps necessary for these to be incorporated broadly in education and training across the health professions.

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Future of Nursing Education.

Nursing is the largest health profession, with nearly 4 million providers practicing across acute, primary, and public health care settings. In response to the pandemic, nursing schools halted on-site course delivery and redesigned programs to attenuate risks to students and faculty. Key challenges faced by schools included financial cutbacks, rapid increases in online learning technology, maintaining student academic progression, disruption to clinical learning opportunities, and meeting accreditation standards, while addressing the stress and loss experienced by faculty, staff, and students.

Using Data from a 360° Leadership Assessment to Enhance Nurse Manager Transformational Leadership Skills.

Objective: The aim of this study was to compare self-perception of leadership practices among nurse managers (NMs), day shift nurses, and night shift nurses (NSNs).

Background: Nurse managers have complex roles in healthcare, with clinical, administrative, and 24-hour accountability for unit activities. Transformational leadership inspires performance beyond expectations, while transcending self-interest for the good of the organization.

Value-Based Payment: What Does It Mean for Nurses?

Among the many lessons that have been reinforced by the SARS-COVID-19 pandemic is the failure of our current fee-for-service health care system to either adequately respond to patient needs or offer financial sustainability. This has enhanced bipartisan interest in moving forward with value-based payment reforms. Nurses have a rich history of innovative care models that speak to their potential centrality in delivery system reforms.

Global standards for professional nursing education: The time is now.

A well-educated, professional nursing workforce is essential to good health care outcomes. Although nursing education is being strengthened globally, considerable diversity persists in the level and standards of nursing education both within and across countries. An international framework of guidelines for nursing education has, therefore, been developed to promote greater international consistency and high-quality nursing education globally.

Emerging roles for research intensive PhD prepared nurses: Beyond faculty positions.

Research-intensive PhD programs need to prepare nurse scientists to bridge the chasms between research, and practice and policy in an increasingly complex healthcare system. In practice, nurse scientists are critical to building capacity for research, promoting excellence in patient-centered care, and achieving or exceeding national quality benchmarks. Moreover, they provide methodological expertise and insight to address pressing clinical questions.

From vision to action: Next steps in designing PhD programs of the future.

Declines in PhD enrollment, funding and support for PhD students, and the quality and quantity of the nursing research pipeline has fueled the concern about providing high-quality education in research-focused nursing doctoral programs. To address the challenges and opportunities facing research focused PhD education, the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing convened an invitational summit, Re-Envisioning Research-Focused PhD Programs of the Future, of research-intensive institutions. Both as a dissemination strategy and as an effort to engage perspectives from other Schools with PhD programs, we presented a summary of the Penn Summit discussion at the AACN Doctoral Education Conference (AACN Doctoral Conference).

Completion and attrition of nursing PhD students of the 2001 to 2010 matriculating cohorts.

Purpose: To examine completion and attrition of students in nursing PhD programs.

Methods: Total 5,391 students who matriculated into nursing PhD programs in 2001 to 2010 were selected from the AACN database.

Findings: The completion rate of the students was 74.

The critical need for nursing education to address the diagnostic process.

Diagnostic errors are among the most common medical errors and the deadliest. The National Academy of Medicine recently concluded that diagnostic errors represent an urgent national concern. Their first recommendation to address this issue called for promoting the key role of the nurse in the diagnostic process.

Preparing Advanced Practice Registered Nursing Students to Provide Primary Palliative Care.

Background: Advanced practice registered nursing students need primary palliative care education to care for the growing number of patients with serious illness and their families and to fill the serious resource gaps in specialty palliative care.

Problem: There has been a lack of primary palliative care education in most graduate nursing programs and little direction as to competencies and essential content.

Approach: In an effort to support faculty to teach palliative care content, the End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) has created an online curriculum that meets the new American Association of Colleges of Nursing Graduate-Competencies and Recommendations for Educating Nursing Students in primary palliative care for master's degree and doctor of nursing practice students.

An Innovative Approach to Advancing Academic Success for Underrepresented Nursing Students Using the Collective Impact Model.

This article describes the application of the Collective Impact Model as an innovative conceptual framework for developing a pedagogical process for advancing academic success and retention for underrepresented nursing students. A more diverse nursing workforce is critical to promoting health equity and supporting a culture of health by providing access to culturally and linguistically appropriate care. By strategically applying this framework to a complex issue in nursing education, we discuss a process that may lead to increased academic success and NCLEX®RN pass rates for underrepresented students.

Enhancing primary care and preventive services through Interprofessional practice and education.

Interprofessional (IP) practice and education are important when seeking to respond to the growing demand for primary and preventive care services. Multiple professions with synergistic expertise are needed to effectively provide health promotion, disease prevention, and patient education and to help patients with multiple comorbidities, chronic health conditions, and care coordination. A recent study by Schor et al.

Preparing Oncology Advanced Practice RNs as Generalists in Palliative Care.

Objectives: To train and support oncology advanced practice RNs (APRNs) to become generalist providers of palliative care.

Sample & Setting: APRNs with master's or doctor of nursing practice degrees and at least five years of experience in oncology (N = 165) attended a National Cancer Institute-funded national training course and participated in ongoing support and education.

Methods & Variables: Course participants completed a precourse, postcourse, and six-month follow-up evaluation regarding palliative care practices in their settings, course evaluation, and their perceived effectiveness in applying course content in their practice.

Developing, Promoting, and Sustaining Palliative Care Across Central Eastern Europe: Educating Nurses to Be Leaders Is a Critical First Step.

Worldwide, health care is becoming more complex and multifaceted. Nurses, who spend more time at the bedside or out in the community with patients and their families than any other health care professional, need leadership-building skills in order to navigate these challenging times. New guidelines focus on interprofessional and holistic care, emphasizing the importance of building leadership skills and abilities.