Supervisory nurses caught in increasing tensions

Tensions and contradictions in nurses' perspectives of evidence-based practice.

AIM To explore nurses' understanding and interpretation of evidence-based practice (EBP). BACKGROUND EBP has been welcomed into the nursing lexicon without a critical examination of its interpretation by practitioners. The literature suggests that there is a great deal of confusion and contradiction over the meaning and application of EBP. Although work has been conducted on how EBP might be ...

NSW ICTN Local Project Fund Project: “Increasing supervisory capacity in rural and/or remote health care: Mentorship of transitioning new graduate nurses / undergraduate nursing students by registered nurses”

Collaborative and supervisory relationships between attending physicians and advanced practice nurses in long-term care facilities.

Recent years have seen an increased interest and use of advanced practice nurses (APN) in long-term care. Models of best practices of supervision and collaboration have been promulgated by many organizations, but none have specifically addressed how these interactions should occur in the nursing home setting. In order to better define the role of the attending physician and APN to provide optim...

Increasing the Value of Health Care: The Role of Nurses

Increasing health care value has become a central objective of payment policies, insurance design and purchasing, and patient and provider decision-making. The word “value” appeared in the title of seven sections of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and earlier this year CMS set a goal of having 50 percent of reimbursement based on value. This brief reviews nurses’ contribution to value, highlight...

Increasing the Number of Oncology Nurses Serving on Boards.

Nurses have knowledge about quality, safety, and the patient experience that is valuable to governing boards. In 2011, the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recommended that nurses be prepared and enabled to lead change to advance health care. Five years after the recommendation, work toward this goal is still needed.
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