CRITICALCARENURSE Vol 27, No. 2, APRIL 2007 53 Angela Smith Collins has more than 30 years of experience in nursing, the past 13 years as an advanced practice nurse. She is an associate professor of nursing at the Capstone College of Nursing in Tuscaloosa, Ala, where she teaches pharmacology, critical care nursing, and perioperative nursing. She holds APN certification as a medical-surgical cli...

Staffing needs affect the nursing department's budget, staff productivity, the quality of care provided to patients and even the retention of nurses. It is unclear how the role players (the nursing agency manager, the nurse manager and the agency nurse) perceive the staffing of agency nurses in intensive care units (ICUs). The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the factors that g...

Aims To understand nurse leader and manager perspectives on employee engagement their own role to foster engagement. examine differences between managers of units with high versus low Background Health systems recognize the impact engagement, yet alignment frontline–manager remains unclear. Methods A qualitative study at Veteran Affairs New England Healthcare System. Leaders five facilities (N ...

BACKGROUND A comparative effectiveness intervention by this team improved initial fecal occult blood testing (FOBT) rates from 3% to 53% among community clinic patients. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness and costs associated with a literacy-informed intervention on repeat FOBT testing. METHODS Between 2008 and 2011, a three-arm quasi-experiential comparative effectiv...

behaviors of nurse managers that staff nurses identify as supportive? If nurse managers are to be optimally effective, they must know and enact the behaviors that convey support to staff. Only staff nurses can identify these supportive behaviors and, through valid measurement, provide the necessary feedback to nurse managers, who in turn have the power to change and alter that aspect of the wor...

The restructuring mania of health care settings of the 1980s and 1990s was driven by the need to save money, with organizations emphasizing efficiency over patient safety. A common action that took place in the restructuring was the elimination of nurse manager positions and the perceived reduction in power of chief nurse executives.2 The nursing managers who remained employed in most health ca...

From an apprenticeship model at the time of Florence Nightingale, nursing has moved out of hospitals and today has taken a university-based education approach. In addition, regulatory bodies have called for the baccalaureate degree as entry to practice for the profession of nursing beginning in the year 2020. The role of the nurse has expanded from that of bedside nurse and handmaiden of the ph...

The purpose of this integrative review is to explore the presence of the oncology nurse as navigator on measurable patient outcomes. Eighteen primary nursing research studies were found using combinations of the following key words: advocate, cancer, case manager, coach, certification, guide, navigator, nurse, oncology, patient navigator, pivot nurse, and continuity of care. Nurse researchers i...