Browsing Sigma Healthy Work Environments Events by Posting Date
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Workplace bullying: More than eating our young
(2013-05-13)Session presented on Saturday, April 13, 2013: The playground bully who used physical means to demonstrate superiority has grown up, using social and psychological means to create hostility and fear. Bullying may be termed ... -
Nurse manager leadership behavior and staff nurse job satisfaction
(2013-05-13)Session presented on Saturday, April 13, 2013: Transformational leadership behaviors of nurse managers are related to staff nurse job satisfaction. Transformational leaders foster open communication horizontally and ... -
Building healthy workplace environments through collaborative care councils
(2013-05-13)Session presented on Saturday, April 13, 2013: Effective decision making is best achieved when those who have a stake in the decision have an opportunity to have input during the decision making process. As part of the ... -
Assessing healthy work environment: A rapid assessment tool
(2013-05-13)Session presented on Saturday, April 13, 2013: A 12-item instrument based on the standards for a healthy work environment developed by the American Association of Critical Care Nurses was used to assess nurses' work ... -
Mandatory nurse staffing models for patient safety
(2013-05-13)Session presented on Saturday, April 13, 2013: Dynamic, shared decision making models of nurse staffing that incorporate both patient factors and nurse characteristics provide a process where frontline nurses have direct ... -
Developing Competent Float Pool Nurses Through Collaboration and Communication
(2013-05-13)Session presented on Saturday, April 13, 2013: A float pool of nurses is an essential part of ensuring adequate staffing and providing safe care in our 500 bed tertiary care pediatric academic Magnet hospital. This resource ... -
A comparative study of cultural competence curricula in baccalaureate nursing programs
(2013-05-13)Session presented on Saturday, April 13, 2013: Background & Purpose of the Study: Although cultural competence education has been mandated in baccalaureate nursing education, there are currently three different forms ... -
A healthy work environment endeavor: Postoperative handover from the OR to ICU
(2013-05-13)Session presented on Saturday, April 13, 2013: In January 2005, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses published the Healthy Work Environment Standards in response to the concerns of acute and critical care nurses ... -
Authentic leadership-life support for a healthy work environment
(2013-05-13)Session presented on Saturday, April 13, 2013: The health of the work environment plays a critical role in optimal patient outcomes. While much emphasis is placed on the importance of technology, one cannot overlook the ... -
Threading nurse leader development on all levels of the nursing enterprise through a new role of senior nursing advisor
(2013-05-13)Session presented on Saturday, April 13, 2013: Strong effective leaders from the bedside to the board room are essential to achieve nursing's strategic priorities and institutional goals, including effective work environments. ... -
Work stress/strain, low job satisfaction, and intent to leave home healthcare nursing among home healthcare registered nurses (HHC RNs)
(2013-05-13)Session presented on Saturday, April 13, 2013: Background: The U.S. shortage of Home Health Care (HHC) Registered Nurses (RNs) is growing and the demand for HHC RNs is estimated to increase 109% by 2020. Factors associated ... -
Factors influencing retention among students in an RN-to-BSN program
(2013-05-13)Session presented on Saturday, April 13, 2013: The purpose of this study was to describe factors that restricted or promoted retention among RN-to-BSN students and examine if there was a difference in these factors between ... -
Turning painful orientation programs into pleasant preceptor experiences: A sneak peek of upcoming research
(2013-05-13)Session presented on Saturday, April 13, 2013: With 35-65% of new graduate nurses leaving their initial job during their first year as a nurse (Willemsen-McBride, 2010), one problem could be orientation not functioning ... -
Peer coaching program between graduating seniors and incoming juniors in a clinical setting
(2013-05-13)Session presented on Saturday, April 13, 2013: The complexity of patient care challenges nurse educators to develop new approaches to clinical education that foster communication, decision-making and critical reasoning ... -
The Practice Environment Scale of the Nurse Work Index: Translating scores for practice
(2013-05-13)Session presented on Saturday, April 13, 2013: The Practice Environment Scale of the Nurse Work Index is a valid, reliable tool to assess the quality of professional nursing practice environments and is endorsed by several ... -
E-mentoring: A new model of mentoring to support healthy nurse work environments
(2013-05-13)Session presented on Saturday, April 13, 2013: The purpose of this presentation is to present a new model of nurse mentoring that can meet the needs of a multigenerational workforce, working in fast-paced and highly ... -
National network study of operational failures in frontline nursing: Scaling up for policy
(2013-05-13)Session presented on Saturday, April 13, 2013: Nurses are aligned to drive frontline policy in quality improvement. Yet studies often lack rigor and sample sizes large enough to be definitive. While smaller studies show ... -
Creating a national research agenda for improvement science
(2013-05-13)Session presented on Saturday, April 13, 2013: Quality improvement and patient safety are high priorities yet insufficient progress has been made in improvement science. Improvement projects are often focused at the ... -
Horizontal violence among student nurses: It's time we stop eating our young!
(2013-05-13)Session presented on Saturday, April 13, 2013: This presentation will provide an in depth description of causes and effects that horizontal violence has on the student nurse in the clinical setting. Where does horizontal ... -
The Dedicated Education Unit: A model for fostering healthy work environments
(2013-05-13)Session presented on Saturday, April 13, 2013: Background: Healthy work environments are essential to optimize quality patient and family centered care. The American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN) has identified ...