Roles enacted by Clinical Nurse Leaders across the healthcare spectrum: A systematic literature review

A meta-synthesis study of literature review and systematic review published in nurse prescribing

  Background :Prescribing represents a new aspect of practice for nurses. To make qualitative results more accessible to clinicians, researchers, and policy makers, individuals are urged to synthesize findings from related studies. Therefore this study aimed to aggregate and interpret existing literature review and systematic studies to obtain new insights on nurse prescription.   Methods : Thi...

Information Avoidance in the mirror of literature: A systematic review

Purpose and background: One usually think of information as means to an end.  Despite the excessive worth of information - contrary to manchr('39')s inherent need for awareness - some avoid information, favoring ignorance over knowledge. The purpose of this study is to elucidate the concept of information evasion, consequences and factors influencing it. Methodology: The study was a systematic ...

Recognizing and defining clinical nurse leaders.

This article addresses the issue of clinical leadership and how it is defined. The concepts and definitions of clinical leadership are considered as well as the results of new research that suggests that clinical leaders can be seen as experts in their field, and because they are approachable and are effective communicators, are empowered to act as a role model, motivating others by matching th...

Teaching clinical nurse leaders how to diagnose the clinical microsystem.

Clinical care review systems in healthcare: a systematic review

BACKGROUND Clinical care review is the process of retrospectively examining potential errors or gaps in medical care, aiming for future practice improvement. The objective of our systematic review is to identify the current state of care review reported in peer-reviewed publications and to identify domains that contribute to successful systems of care review. METHODS A librarian designed and ...