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Nursing Leadership Team Orientation Program, Sheryl Capelle
Nursing Leadership Team Orientation Program, Sheryl Capelle
Theses and Graduate Projects
Nursing is a dynamic profession. Throughout the history of nursing, leaders have emerged. Some leaders have joined a nursing leadership team to provide care and support to the unit staff and patients. Developing a highly functioning leadership team comes through having a well-developed orientation plan. The nursing leadership team must learn, their roles and expectations from each other. This project explains nursing leadership teams and discusses the development of a new orientation program for the nursing leadership team. A conceptual model of a puzzle is used to describe how nursing leaders bring the ptzzle pieces of leading, caring and relationships …
Patient-Family Centered Advisory Council For The Emergency Department, Kelly Sanocki
Patient-Family Centered Advisory Council For The Emergency Department, Kelly Sanocki
Theses and Graduate Projects
Issues such as overcrowding and long wait times in the ED cause an increase in patient frustration and dissatisfaction, which may lower hospital satisfaction scores,, and reimbursement. This project proposes the implementation of a Patient-Family Advisory Council (PFAC) in the Emergency Department (ED) setting in a large urban hospital. The addition of a PFAC will offer patients and family members a voice in their care, as they work collaboratively with various healthcare providers to improve patient care, patient safety, and overall satisfaction. The addition of Watson's Caring theory will serve as the theoretical framework for the PFAC since it is …
Who Do You Think You Are? And Who Would You Like To Become?, Sandra Koeller
Who Do You Think You Are? And Who Would You Like To Become?, Sandra Koeller
Theses and Graduate Projects
Ultimately -y goal would be to enhance staff satisfaction to the point of better retention of nursing assistants on my floor. I thought this would also assist in improving RN satisfaction, as there would be solid, reliable assistive staff on the floor. Research of the literature shows staff retention has a direct impact on patient satisfaction as well. The constant cycle of replacing staff is costly to the organization and diminishes satisfaction to all staff as they become trapped in the endless cycle of training new staff in. Patient quality of care suffers, as newly trained staff needs time to …
Floattng Through Uncharted Waters, Amanda Moscatelli
Floattng Through Uncharted Waters, Amanda Moscatelli
Theses and Graduate Projects
The act of floating or flexible staffing is a cost effective way to maintain nursing staffing levels through times of shortages and surplus. While the financial and patient care benefits are abundant, the culture of floating tends to be negative. Nurses cite difficulty adapting to a changed environment, caring for different patient populations, and working with different staff members as the most difficult and anxiety provoking aspects of floating. Although nurses at a large Midwest medical center frequently float across a number of nursing units, they receive no formal education on the practice of floating. Introduction of an online floating …