Empowering BMT nurses to speak up and be heard

Nurses speak up on new ORs design.

Autistics speak but are they heard ?

In this article, we argue that the exclusion of autistic people from meaningful involvement in research is both ethically and epistemologically problematic, and constitutes a significant barrier to research impact. By the term ‘meaningful’, we refer to the inclusion of different autistic voices not merely as sources of empirical material, but as active participants in the production of knowledg...

Shouting to Be Heard in Advertising

Advertising competes for scarce consumer attention, so more profitable advertisers send more messages to break through the others’ clutter. Multiple equilibria can arise: more messages in aggregate induce more "shouting to be heard", dissipating profit. Equilibria can involve a small range of loud shouters or large range of quiet whisperers. All advertisers prefer there to be less shouting. The...

Empowering frontline nurses to transform shared governance.

AS WE STARTED our Magnet® journey over 7 years ago, shared governance had a genuine appeal. The nurses at our organization were excited about having a voice in their workplace to impact patient care, patient safety, practice issues, and research. We wanted to set the world on fire with the latest and greatest shared governance ever seen within a Magnet organization! This article describes how w...

Optimizing nutrition in intensive care units: empowering critical care nurses to be effective agents of change.

Observational studies have consistently revealed wide variation in nutritional practices across intensive care units and indicated that the provision of adequate nutrition to critically ill patients is suboptimal. To date, the potential role of critical care nurses in implementing nutritional guideline recommendations and improving nutritional therapy has received little consideration. Factors ...