Dan Negoianu, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine Medical Director, Inpatient Dialysis Director, ICU Nephrology Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania “ nurse specialists play an integral role on the leadership team. Their expertise in practice and quality are drivers for patient outcomes. It is a pleasure to partner and collaborate with clinical nurse specialists on everyday projects and sy...

Increased public attention to the costs of healthcare in the United States has resulted in greater scrutiny of all aspects of the health industry, including the education of healthcare providers. Because Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists will, as in the past, have a major role in healthcare delivery systems of the future, knowledge of the educational costs and resulting benefits of this a...

The nature of the clinical learning environment has a huge impact on student learning. This article reviews current methods available for evaluating the clinical learning environment. Five instruments were identified that measure the clinical learning environment. All of these instruments focus solely on the student perspective of the clinical learning environment. Although gaining student inpu...

In addition to teaching and research, nurse lecturers are expected to maintain clinical credibility and competence by spending at least 20% of their time in practice; this requirement is included in many nurse lecturer/teacher employment contracts. The a imof this paper is to suggest a number of realistic, pragmatic approaches that can be used to enhance clinical credibility and competence, whi...

The clinical nurse leader (CNL) role is being rapidly implemented in healthcare settings. A major component of the CNL role is to provide a leader at the center of the microsystem to promote quality outcomes. To examine the impact of CNLs at the Department of Veterans Affairs Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, outcomes from 5 diverse microsystems were evaluated before and after CNL implementat...

1 Nurse, Ph.D. Professor, Universitat Jaume I –UJI-, Spain. email: [email protected] 2 Nurse, Ph.D. Professor, Universidad de Alicante, Spain. email: [email protected] 3 Nurse, Ph.D. Professor, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain. email: [email protected] 4 Nurse, Ph.D. Professor, Universitat Jaume I, Spain. email: [email protected] 5 Nurse, Ph.D. Professor, Universitat Jaume I, Spain. email: psala...

The successful orientation of new employees facilitates their transition to the complex and demanding world of perioperative nursing. Whether a nurse is a recent graduate or an experienced nurse who has recently joined the facility or department, a new nurse benefits from a transition period during which new skills, processes, and concepts can be learned. Training should offer new employees the...