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Characteristics of nursing excellence

September 11, 2017

What’s behind Magnet®-recognized organizations? By Lillee Gelinas, MSN, RN, CPPS, FAAN I’ve learned a lot through the years about the characteristics of healthcare organizations whose nursing excellence is evident,…

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Comparing Pathway to Excellence® and Magnet Recognition® Programs

March 12, 2018

Two roads to nurse engagement and quality outcomes. Takeaways: Magnet recognizes healthcare organizations for quality outcomes, patient care and nursing excellence, and innovations in professional practice Pathway emphasizes…

Creating the environment for nursing excellence

May 11, 2015

It’s not easy to define basic nursing care in terms relevant to academia, research, and practice. Yet ensuring the delivery of basic care has never been more important.…

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Global issues are our issues

August 28, 2017

Nurses around the world focus on healthcare quality and access. While a lack of access to health care, widespread poverty and hunger, low literacy, and poor population health…

Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation™

October 12, 2021

Year Four Highlights: 2020-2021 Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation (HNHN), just like all of you, has had quite a year. A banner year, we might add! We welcomed new…

Implementing and evaluating an oral chemotherapy tracking tool

January 18, 2019

An academic medical center develops guidelines for monitoring medication adherence and side effects in outpatients. Takeaways: A gap exists between recommendations for nursing staff who are monitoring patients…

Operationalizing Pathway to Excellence® standard for professional development

October 11, 2021

Strategies for developing a competent, collaborative staff. During this past year, nurses have been celebrated as heroes, receiving the well-deserved spotlight. Although long overdue, this recognition highlights the…

Operationalizing Pathway to Excellence® standard for shared decision-making

October 11, 2021

A principle that guides nursing practice. Piedmont Fayette Hospital in Fayetteville, Georgia, has been on a journey to promote a culture of interprofessional decision-making since before its first…

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Operationalizing the Pathway to Excellence® quality standard

June 26, 2022

Engage new nurses to ensure a sense of shared responsibility. Takeaways: The Pathway to Excellence Program quality standard requires that organizations have hard-wired processes for benchmarking, quality improvement,…

Pivotal role of the Magnet® program director

October 12, 2021

Fanning the flames of nursing excellence. Celebrating Magnet® designation is a day like no other. Whether it’s the first, third, or fifth designation, this achievement—which represents quality, excellence,…

Quality improvement in action: Revised critical blood glucose value

April 20, 2020

In January 2017, at a 253-bed, semirural hospital, a critical blood glucose value notification wasn’t automatically sent for a blood glucose level of 42 mg/dL. The patient was…

The ABCs of nursing research

June 18, 2022

Alleviate barriers with collaboration. Takeaways: An organizational infrastructure promoting a culture of inquiry is essential to advance nursing science with research and dissemination of findings. Minimizing barriers increases…

To nap or not to nap?

October 13, 2021

How to implement planned naps for hospital nurses. To nap or not to nap? That’s a question we recommend all hospital nurses and administrators ask and answer, especially…

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