Transformational Leadership (how our leaders support RNs making change)
Structural Empowerment (our professional development, STEPS, NPC, and UPC
Exemplary Professional Practice (How do we deliver patient care?)
New Knowledge, Innovation & Research
Empirical Outcomes. (Measuring outcomes)
100
Quality, Safety and Service
What are our nursing strategic goals?
(Same as the hospital KRAs and our UPC committees)
100
Nursing involvement in unit based activities, participate on hospital committees (falls, peer interview,
How do nurses participate in decision making?
100
Nurses pilot new equipment and provide feedback, nurses participate on the informatics team and committees to help develop new Care Connection ideas ( Iview)
How do RNs influence technology?
100
Diligent, systematic inquiry or investigation to validate and refine existing knowledge and generate new knowledge
What is research?
FYI - we collect data on many projects, process improvement, quality indicators, and some research projects.
100
Measurement of quality outcomes demonstrated by achieving our KRAs.
What are empirical outcomes?
200
Jane Denten, Barb Weber ( BTW they are both nurses)!
Who is our Chief Nurse Executive (CNE) and who is our Chief Operating Officer?
200
Provides NCEDs and/or tuition for conferences and encourages advancement in the clinical ladder (STEPS)
How does ALGH leadership support continuing education?
200
Safety huddles, safety event reporting, hotline, chain of command.
How do we report problems, safety events, med errors, unsafe or unprofessional conduct?
200
Using knowledge based on research findings, expert opinions, case study reporting.
What is Evidence Based Practice?
200
Guardrails and drug library, Care mobile for safe medication administration,
What helps us provide safe care?
300
Examples of nursing leadership improving work environment.
What are these examples of?
Establishing peer interview process
Providing financial support through nursing endowment, Providing lifting equipment, and IPADs for translation services.
300
Participate on CCAB ( STEPS) board, participate in budgeting meetings, restructure NPC, continue learning through formal education and continuing education, participate in research
How do nurses influence the profession practice model?
300
Decisions are made based on patient acuity and census.
How is staffing determined?
300
Measuring a process or procedure, evaluating it, modify if needed.
Plan Do Study Act PDSA
What is Performance Improvement?
300
Performance Improvement Showcase:
How do we share our improvement projects?
400
Nurses helped design the bed tower and individual floor remodels.
Nurses restructured NPC (Nursing practice council - did you know that 2 staff RNs chair the council?)
How does the input of nurses affect our work environment?
400
Tuition reimbursement, Nursing Endowment, reimbursement for certification exams and professional organization dues.
How does ALGH support RN's involvement in professional organizations, certification and higher education?
400
Use of goal setting,white boards, bedside shift report
How do we involve patients in their care?
400
Russel Research Institute, Julie Schaffner Research Fellowship, APN support
What assistance is there for nurses to be involved in research, EBP, innovation?
400
Falls, Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers (HAPU), Central line infections (Clabsi), Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI)
What are examples of hospital wide nursing indicators?
500
SBARs, leadership emails, The Momentum newsletter, leadership rounds, staff in-services, daily rounds, roll call.
How are important leadership initiatives communicated?
500
This guides how we practice professionally, how we professionally develop and advance. (STEPS), how we are recognized (spirit awards, MVPs) How we make decisions, and our shared governance (UPC and NPC).
What is the Professional Practice Model?
500
Our patients and families are in the center of our model (relationship based care). We surround this with our KRAs (Quality, Safety and Service) and we use PDSA (plan, do, study, act) the nursing process for planning and delivering care & improving processes.
this results in positive patient outcomes.
What is our patient care delivery model?
500
Clinicians seek and find solutions to problems.
What is innovation?
500
Results and outcomes from specific nursing practices can be measured and reported.