5 results match your criteria: "Kennesaw State University Wellstar School of Nursing[Affiliation]"
Objectives: Nursing specialty certification validates nurses' mastery of specialty knowledge in disease management, education, or leadership above entry-level education and licensing. Research suggests direct relationships between nursing certifications and patient care quality. However, nurses' specialty certification rates are still low.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDeveloping and Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Nursing Leadership Mentoring Pilot Program.
Nurs Adm Q
March 2023
Kennesaw State University WellStar School of Nursing, Kennesaw, Georgia (Dr Hedenstrom); WellStar Center for Nursing Excellence, WellStar Health System, Atlanta, Georgia (Drs Spiva and Toney); Wellstar Paulding Hospital, Wellstar Health System, Hiram, Georgia (Dr Thurman); JoAnne Gay Dishman School of Nursing, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas (Dr Hale); WellStar Health System, Marietta, Georgia (Ms Case-Wirth); Department of Healthcare Management and Informatics, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia (Ms Kairu); and Coles College of Business, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia (Dr Sneha).
The nurse leader role is a vital role in ensuring quality, safety, and staff retention in the health care setting. A new nurse manager often receives little mentoring support when assuming a new role. Fifteen mentor/mentee pairs were provided with 6 training sessions specifically designed using the Hale Mentoring Up theoretical framework.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNurse leader training and strength-based coaching: Impact on leadership style and resiliency.
Nurs Manage
October 2021
LeeAnna Spiva is the assistant vice president of nursing operations and practice at Wellstar Center for Nursing Excellence in Atlanta, Ga.; Lisa Hedenstrom is an assistant professor at Kennesaw State University Wellstar School of Nursing in Kennesaw, Ga.; Nancy Ballard is an assistant professor and coordinator of the MSN-nursing leadership track at Kennesaw State University Wellstar School of Nursing in Kennesaw, Ga.; Paola Buitrago is the assistant vice president of operations, workforce engineering at Wellstar in Kennesaw, Ga.; Stephan Davis is the director of the master of health administration program and an assistant professor at the UNT Health Science Center School of Public Health in Fort Worth, Tex.; Vicky Hogue is the vice president and CNO at Wellstar Paulding Hospital in Hiram, Ga.; Melissa Box is the vice president of patient services and CNO at Wellstar Douglas Hospital in Douglasville, Ga.; Gita Taasoobshirazi is an assistant professor at the Kennesaw State University School of Data Science and Analytics in Kennesaw, Ga.; and Jill Case-Wirth is the senior vice president and chief nurse executive at Wellstar Health System in Marietta, Ga.
Weekly Email Reminders Increase Nursing Students' Use of Empathic Communication: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Nurse Educ
November 2021
Author Affiliations: Assistant Professor (Dr Varagona), Associate Professor (Dr Myers), and Professor Emeritus of Nursing (Dr Wilson), Kennesaw State University WellStar School of Nursing, Georgia.
Background: Empathic communication has numerous patient benefits, yet many nurses do not possess or utilize empathic communication skills.
Purpose: This study compared the efficacy of 2 low-cost, low-resource-intensive interventions to increase nursing students' use of empathic communication.
Methods: The study was a randomized controlled trial with a pretest, posttest, and 3-month follow-up test.
Roaming through Virginia with the public health nurse.
Public Health Nurs
August 2011
Graduate Nursing Programs, Kennesaw State University WellStar School of Nursing, Kennesaw, GA 30144-5591, USA.
Rural health nursing has long been considered a subspecialty within public health nursing, albeit one that required the nurse to be a generalist. In the excerpts of this article, Webb (1920) shares her observations as a State Supervising Nurse for the Red Cross in Virginia while traveling in rural areas of the state with the county public health nurses. Themes evident in these excerpts include the transportation issues associated with working in remote areas, as well as nursing work in the areas of maternal and child health, communicable diseases, case finding through health inspections, and health education.
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