Hospitals continue to search for ways to improve efficiency while promoting patient safety and enhance the experience of patients and their families. Healthcare leaders and administrators feel compelled to adopt strategies to reduce cost by decreasing length of stay and by promoting patient throughput (El-Eid, Kaddoum, Tamim, & Hitti, 2015). The pressure to improve throughput for patients waiting in the emergency department, the operating rooms and procedural areas, along with referrals from other facilities, has provided the impetus for hospitals to make beds available for the next patient (Baim, 2012; Mayer, & Jensen, 2012). Across the U.S., hospitals continue to face the challenges of severe capacity constraints that contribute to bottlenecks in patient flow (Kane et al., 2016).

Paula McKinney, vice president, patient services at Woodlawn Hospital in Rochester, Indiana, shares her take on five issues that will likely garner the attention of CNOs in 2019, ranging from recruitment and retention to employee engagement.

Bonnie Castillo, R.N., is executive director of National Nurses United, the largest U.S. union of registered nurses, and in this op-ed, she explains why she and other nurses are marching in the 2019 Women’s March.

U.S. News & World Report released its annual rankings for the best online education programs Jan. 15. For the 2019 Best Online Graduate Nursing Programs rankings, the publication evaluated nursing schools on five weighted categories, including faculty credentials and training, engagement, and service and technologies.

Texas Health Dallas - Texas Health Resources University in collaboration with the Texas Organization of Nurse Executives presents: “Strategies to Inspire Nurse Leaders: Designing, Engaging, Responding.”

 

CONFERENCE DATES
Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019: Pre-Conference Session and Opening Reception
Friday, March 1, 2019: Annual Conference & Exposition

 

Join over 200 nurse leaders and sponsor community members at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas for the 2019 TONE Annual Conference. As always, the conference will offer a lineup of dynamic speakers, networking opportunities and industry insight. We hope to see you there!

The Women and Access to Health Daring Circle — a group of partners that include Google, AXA, Sanofi, BNP Paribas, RB, Gavi and the Vaccine Alliance — is calling for applications from startups with health IT solutions developed by women that can improve access to healthcare for women.

A longstanding, essential principle of nursing documentation is that it be truthful and accurate. Nurses are responsible for their own documentation, and if this legal and ethical standard is not met, the documentation is false and misleading.

Effective leadership is crucial to the success of initiatives like implementing a nurse residency program in a post-acute care (PAC) setting. These programs can be an asset for recruiting, educating and retaining desperately needed skilled and knowledgeable nurses.

Nurse leaders at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford have found success with improving patient satisfaction through an initiative called Rounding 1.0.

Based on the RISE (Resilience in Stressful Events) program launched in 2011 at Johns Hopkins, the hospital’s nursing leadership has discovered important ways to build and maintain the resiliency that health providers need to manage stress and feel good.

In this interview, TONE member Ben Dent, senior vice president, COO and CNO at Midland Health in Midland, Texas, shares what he believes are the essential traits of good nurse managers and how they can develop a culture of teamwork. Dent also is the president of the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE).