When I first became a nurse manager—with only 3 years of nursing experience—it was an eye-opening experience. I knew early on that I wanted to be in nursing leadership. I wanted to affect bedside nursing while also leading down, across, and up in an organization to enhance patient care...
“For example, as a new graduate nurse working at a more specialized psychiatric hospital, I cannot accomplish anything without prior exposure to such an environment if I do not seek feedback actively.” (N7). “Other people’s evaluation of you may be different from what you think of your...
For healthcare workers, a good onboarding program should also facilitate a smooth transition to working in a new clinical setting. It should ensure that new hires have the necessary knowledge, skills, and resources to provide high-quality patient care and contribute ...
Management and Leadership for Nurse Administrators To succeed as leaders of a diverse, multigenerational workforce, nurse managers and executives need to have both traditional management skills and a contemporary, creative mindset. Management and ... Learn More Manual of Traumatic Brain Injury: Assessm...
Orientation means any introductory instruction into a new practice environment or employment situation where being a nurse is a requirement of employment or where the individual uses any title or abbreviation indicating that the individual is a nurse. Orientation is considered the practice of nursing in...
View LargeDownload Symptom Checklist–90 (SCL) depression scores over time for patients receiving initial antidepressant prescriptions from psychiatrists (n = 165) or primary care physicians (n = 204). An SCL depression score of 0.5 or less indicates remission; 0.5 to 1.3, mild depression; and ...
The study sample was based on uncomplicated deliveries, but management of complications, including management of newborns needing resuscitation, was also recorded using a standardized checklist. Related to quality of essential newborn care and resuscitation skills of health care providers, this study ...
Performance-based tools to assess IDT skills have not been well validated. A novel assessment tool, the standardized patient (SP) and standardized interdisciplinary team meeting (SIDTM), consisting of two stations, was developed. First, trainees evaluate a SP hospitalized after a fall. Second, ...
One of the areas of clinical education is the operating room, which is the primary environment for acquiring skills such as patient preparation and drape, setting up the environment. Surgical sterility and the arrangement of the surgical table with the use of surgical tools in the order of the...
Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York has ordered that 13 [screws] and a…nurse [collaborator]be fired after the [brutal murder] of a…[human being locked] in [one of the state’s filthy cages by] a…[gang] attack that [even] their [own] union called “incomprehensible”…[The murder of]...