Today in Nursing Leadership

Nov 03 2024 75 ep. 21

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Success for leaders means staying one step ahead. Tune into Today in Nursing Leadership for monthly conversations with nursing leadership experts, featuring information, insights and innovations that drive change and provoke action. In each episode, hear from experts highlighting challenges facing nurse leaders today and how to navigate these for success.

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Un Puerto En La Tormenta: Health Care for Asylum Seekers in Chicago

With 48-hour notice, our leadership team created a healthcare sanctuary for South/Central American refugees, caring for physical and behavioral health needs, providing immunizations and school physicals. Nurse leaders addressed unique healthcare challenges faced by asylum seekers in a large safety net healthcare system.

Empowering Nurse Leaders with Ethics Education & Professional Development

Frontline nurse leaders are responsible for ethical problem solving and creating ethical environments for patients and the care team. Learn about a one-year fellowship designed to bolster leaders' ethical confidence and leadership skills. Fellows attended monthly seminars and mediation training, gaining skills to repair communication breakdown and resolve value-laden disagreement.

Empowering Nurses to Complete Same Day Access Mental Health Appointments

Over the last two decades, the Department of Veterans Affairs has identified the need to improve access to health care as a high priority area. This session will discuss how our organization is utilizing Registered Nurses to the fullest scope of their practice by allowing RNs complete same day mental health appointment. It will discuss the framework for outpatient clinics, throughp

Strategies for Addressing Today's Critical Nursing Shortage

Across the U.S., health care systems are grappling with severe staffing shortages that have far-reaching implications. Despite efforts to address these ongoing workforce challenges, nursing turnover remains alarmingly high, with many nurses contemplating leaving their positions due to burnout and inadequate staffing. What can nurse leaders do to help their staff thrive while delive

Hospital to SNF: Partnership in Expert, Value-Based Heart Failure Care

Heart Failure is a complex and costly disease to manage. In an effort to increase patient quality of life while decreasing readmissions and cost of care, our organization hired a dedicated APRN to consult on patients in select Skilled Nursing Facilities and work collaboratively with the staff. The 30-day readmission rates of the SNF patients cared for by the APRN is on average, 12%

Innovative Rapid Response via Nursing Expertise and Predictive Analytics

This session shares how one organization’s Rapid Response Team (RRT) transformed from a reactive role in responding to acute situations bringing critical care resources to the bedside outside of the ICU, to a high reliability proactive response focused on improving patient outcomes and reducing safety events throughout the hospital. The use of artificial intelligence technology h

“Nailed It!” How Peer Mentorship Led to Successful CNO Transitions

This session is designed for leaders who may be embarking on new roles and want to increase their enjoyment and effectiveness during their transition. The audience will hear about a peer mentorship model that two new CNOs utilized in their parallel transitions in different organizations. This session will highlight the framework and associated positive outcomes. This will be a hope

Protecting Our Nurses: Leveraging Internal Experts To Prevent Assaults

Learn about how nurse leaders partnered with an interprofessional team of internal experts to reduce assaults on nursing staff through an interprofessional, proactive rounding team. The team comprised of mental health consultants, security and geriatric resource nurses.  Nurses and leaders can learn how to leverage internal experts to deploy crucial support to the bedside for nur

Building a Culture of Inquiry & Leadership: An International Collaboration

Collaborative partnerships have great potential to create long-lasting influential changes within the global healthcare environment. A U.S. academic-medical partnership established a joint venture with two international healthcare systems to build a culture of clinical inquiry, nurture clinician resiliency and empowerment, and advance nursing leadership. The success of this program

Transforming Safety, Quality and Experience by Modernizing Patient Education and Engagement Across the Patient Journey

The missing link in helping nurses save time, reduce costs, improve patient / provider experience is actually focusing on improving patient education. By keeping pace with technological advancements such as cloud based platforms and availing more modern content rooted in the science of microlearning patients can go much deeper in understanding their condition, preparing for their p