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2020 Pathway Nurse of the Year Award™ winners
(Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc., 2021-02)When nurses are recognized for the vital role they play and their contributions to a positive work environment, it helps organizations create and sustain a culture of excellence. Meaningful recognition, a critical component ... -
2021 Pathway Nurse of the Year Award™ winners
(Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc., 2022-02)When organizations recognize their employees for their contributions, it sends a powerful message that they're valued, a key component of a positive work environment. Meaningful recognition involves an organization recognizing ... -
2022 Pathway Nurse of the Year Award™ winners
(Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc., 2023-02)When meaningful recognition occurs in organizations, nurses are acknowledged and appreciated for their contributions. It sends a powerful message that they're valued, which is a key component of a healthy and productive ... -
Academic nursing administrators' experiences with social distancing during COVID-19: A qualitative study
The COVID-19 pandemic brought about many unpredictable challenges requiring flexible and adaptable solutions for higher education, especially in nursing academia. The COVID-19 pandemic challenged nursing academia, including ... -
Addressing manager retention with the Pathway to Excellence® framework
(Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc., 2018-08)Nurse managers play a significant role in creating and sustaining a positive practice environment. Yet they're met with numerous challenges, such as engaging and retaining clinical nurses, improving patient care outcomes, ... -
Addressing workplace violence with the Pathway to Excellence® framework
(Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc., 2019-08)Workplace violence, incivility, and bullying play a significant role in nurse job satisfaction and intent to leave. This emerging trend is alarming and requires attention for several reasons. According to the 2019 ... -
Bioidentical hormone therapy: A look at standard of practice, attitudes, and knowledge
Traditional hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is considered the gold standard for management of hormonal deficits. The findings generated by the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) trials concluded in July 2002 revealed ... -
Breastfeeding classes: A quality improvement project to increase intent to breastfeed
Breastfeeding education has been shown to improve a mother’s intent to breastfeed and self-efficacy rates. The PICOT question developed was as follows: “In prenatal and perinatal women, how will the participation ... -
Does Using a Surgical Safety Checklist Improve Surgical Readiness?
Previous studies supported training multidisciplinary teams using an evidence-based tool such as the Comprehensive Surgical Checklist (CSC) to promote communication, teamwork, and safety. Evidence showed the CSC’s four-phased ... -
The effect of nurses' use of a focused protocol to decrease distractions during medication administration
Medication administration errors (MAE) are often the result of system problems that lead to patient injury, increased hospital costs and nurses being blamed for the incident. Contributing factors include distractions, lack ... -
The Effects of Implementing TeamSTEPPS® on Operating Room Staff Communication
Improving communication in the OR can lead to better patient outcomes. Tibbs and Moss (2014) pointed out that Joint Commission (JC) found over two-thirds of surgical adverse events were the result of poor communication and ... -
Goals of care conversations: Palliative care practice change
Advance Directive (AD) documentation in the Electronic Healthcare Record (EHR) remains critical for palliative care (PC) patients to avoid unwanted treatments. Closer management of PC patients may close the AD completion ... -
Improving patient outcomes in nurse-placed vascular access devices
A lack of standardized practice in IV placement and inconsistent availability of advanced-skilled vascular access nurses was identified at an approximately 275-bed hospital. To address the gap in practice, a performance ... -
Improving stress test procedural outcomes through effective communication tools
Low health literacy may lead to a lack of understanding of disease management and preparation needed before a procedure. Healthcare professionals must implement evidence-based measures that will facilitate healthcare ... -
Increasing pneumococcal vaccinations for patients with lung cancer
Pneumococcal vaccinations are recommended for patients with lung cancer either before or during treatment to prevent pneumonia. During oncology care, infectious complications contribute to treatment interruptions, poor ... -
Introducing the 2020 Pathway to Excellence® manual: Building positive practice environments around the globe
(Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc., 2020-04)The American Nurses Credentialing Center's (ANCC) Pathway to Excellence® Program recognizes organizations that create positive practice environments for nursing. To achieve Pathway designation, organizations must ... -
Maintaining peiroperative normothermia with a thermal warming package
Perioperative normothermia must be maintained to safeguard the colorectal patient from development of postoperative surgical site infections (SSIs). Colorectal patient hypothermia throughout the perioperative period was ... -
Nurse-policymaker process improvements: Legislative action interest group participation in policymaking
Governmental officials influenced health care decision-making rather than dialoguing with nurses, which was a call to action for Doctor of Nursing Practice leaders to mitigate the legislative governance process problem. ... -
Operating room traffic and surgical site infections: A quality improvement project
The gap in practice was the excessive movement through the sub-sterile doors of the operating room. The Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses Guidelines for perioperative practice (2018) was used to guide the ... -
Pressure injury care bundle application and increased surveillance in the care of pressure injuries
This is the presentation on the impact of a pressure injury care bundle application and increase nurse practitioner surveillance in the care and prevention of pressure injuries at an inpatient acute rehabilitation facility.