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Clarificative evaluation of a nurse practitioner-led heart failure clinic
(2012-09-17)
Nationally, heart failure (HF) is the leading cause of disability, hospitalizations, and death among veterans. Health care providers continue to struggle to maximize the quality of life and functional status of their ...
Pre-training readiness assessment phase of a TeamSTEPPS ® Interprofessional Collaboration Program in employee health clinics for a school system
(2012-10-01)
The purpose of this inquiry was to perform a pre-training readiness assessment prior to undertaking a TeamSTEPPS ® (Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance)based-initiative in employee health clinics for a ...
An evaluation of rapid response team impact
(2012-08-22)
Rapid response teams (RRTs) are widely implemented in hospitals today. Little research exists in the use of RRTs in the pediatric population (Chan et al., 2010; Pringle et al., 2011; Winberg et al., 2008). Regardless of ...
Facilitating Client Centred Learning
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2012-09)
The aim of this guideline is to provide evidence-based recommendations for Registered Nurses, Registered Practical Nurses and other health-care providers to facilitate client centred learning that promotes and enables ...
Lessons in Leadership: Jennie Chin Hansen
(Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, 4/10/2012)
Lessons in Leadership: The Betty Irene Moore Speaker Series embodies Betty Irene Moore's vision and hope for nurses to lead within their teams, organizations and communities, with the ultimate goal of improving the experience and outcomes of patient care. Through personal experience, Betty recognized that nurses play a critical role in providing safe, high-quality patient care and outcomes. They are caregivers, mentors, teachers and researchers; and they provide 95 percent of direct patient care in hospitals. This recognition gave rise to the Betty Irene Moore Nursing Initiative, with building leadership skills in nurses as one of its main strategies.
This video is one of a collection of 13 short videos featuring nationally-recognized nurse leaders whose leadership spans nursing, health care, government and other sectors.
This video features Jennie Chin Hansen, RN, MS, FAAN:
CEO of the American Geriatrics Society
Former President of AARP and MedPAC Commissioner
Long-time leader of On Lok, Inc., a community-based program for frail older adults that became the federal PACE legislation
Elected member of the American Academy of Nursing
Board member of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement
This interview took place 10, April, 2012.
To quickly locate other leader videos in this collection, please click on the publisher link below.
To learn more about this series, or to request a copy of the video collection, please click here....
Promoting safety: Alternative approaches to the use of restraints
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2012-02)
This guideline provides evidence-based recommendations for Registered Nurses (RNs) and Registered Practical Nurses (RPNs) related to the care of individuals who are at risk for behaviours that may result in harm to self/others ...
Toolkit: Implementation of best practice guidelines (2nd ed.)
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2012-09)
Best practices are recommendations that may evolve based on ongoing key expert experience, judgment, perspective and continued research (Health Canada, 2008).They are also known as systematically developed statements of ...
Managing & mitigating conflict in health-care teams
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2012-09)
This Best Practice Guideline (BPG) focuses on nurses, Health-care teams and processes that foster healthy work environments. The focus for the development of this guideline was managing and mitigating interpersonal conflict ...
Primary solutions for maximizing and expanding the role of the primary care nurse in Ontario
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2012-06)
This report is a blueprint to maximize and expand the role of primary care nurses, paving the path for other health professionals in Ontario. To benefit the public, we call on government and its agencies, professional ...
Woman abuse: Screening, identification and initial response
(Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario, 2012-05)
The overall purpose of this guideline is to facilitate routine universal screening for woman abuse by nurses in all practice settings. The intended outcome is increased opportunity for disclosure, which will promote health, ...