Today in Nursing Leadership

Empowering Nurses: How Professional Governance Transformed a Culture

February 26, 2024 06:00 - 19.4 MB

Common challenges in healthcare today include decreased nurse retention, patient satisfaction, quality of care, system outcomes, and nurse engagement. Learn how executive nurse leaders in a critical access hospital and ambulatory clinics collaborated with clinical nurses to implement a professional governance model that positively influenced key outcomes. The model prioritized nurse autonomy and a just culture that provided a positive practice environment for all team members.

A Revolutionary Interprofessional Collaborative Care Delivery Model

January 22, 2024 06:00 - 16.4 MB

The time is now to revolutionize care delivery at the bedside. Come inspire to think differently. Learn how a large academic hospital transformed through an interprofessional, innovative approach. Patient quality, safety, experience, and decreasing turnover have been positively impacted after a successful launch of the new model. Learn how to work with existing resources, elevate practice to the highest level, and produce high quality outcomes while attracting and retaining team members!

Building Resilience Together: Peer Lead Approach to Nurse Manager Wellness

December 18, 2023 06:00 - 19.3 MB

This session will describe the approach that a nurse manager took in response to signs of burnout and a lack of well-being among their peers. A nurse manager wellness program was established to strengthen team relations, provide sustainable strategies for self-care and reduce turnover risk. This simple and sustainable program received positive feedback from nurse managers in the organization and can be easily translated to any practice setting or applied to groups outside of nurse managers.

Improving Ambulatory Outcomes: A CNO, CNS, Educator & Nurse Scientist Team

December 04, 2023 06:00 - 24.4 MB

Using a panel discussion format, this session will describe the improved nursing and patient outcomes associated with a synergistic ambulatory leadership team, including a Chief Nursing Officer (CNO), Staff Development Specialist/Educator (SDS/Educator), Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS), and Nurse Scientist (NS). Professional roles, associated nurse and patient outcomes, and critical team interactions will be examined, with plenty of time left for questions.

Gratitude to Cultivate Joy in Work for Nurse Leaders

November 20, 2023 06:00 - 17.4 MB

Compassion fatigue contributes to role dissatisfaction, turnover, low morale and engagement, safety and satisfaction concerns. Within the past 2 years, this institution’s nurse leader turnover was over 50%. Nurse leaders performed a daily gratitude exercise, experiencing statistically significant results-80% had an increase in compassion satisfaction and turnover decreased to 3.4%. Gratitude is beneficial in increasing compassion satisfaction and decreasing turnover in this population.

A Culture of Inquiry

November 06, 2023 06:00 - 15.9 MB

In alignment with American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) strategic initiatives, the AONL Workforce Committee and subcommittees identified best practices and innovations to help strategize and manage the complexities of the nursing workforce. The goal of the AONL Workforce Compendium is to bring these best practices and innovations together to be shared widely, to support and empower nurse leaders in attaining, retaining, and sustaining environments where nurses want to work and ...

Professional Governance and the Role of the Chief Nurse Executive

October 23, 2023 05:00 - 22.6 MB

The Chief Nursing Officer sets the vision for professional practice recognizing they are leading peers, and setting the context of collaboration and respect. Hear from a System Chief Nurse Executive what the role of the CNO is in fostering professional governance as a way to actually exercise that accountability for practice quality, knowledge, and competence of professional nurses.

The Impact of a Professional Governance President and Council Chair

October 09, 2023 05:00 - 26.4 MB

Clinical nurses are at the core of professional governance and their understanding of professional practice and leadership in professional governance is essential. Hear from two clinical nurses who have served as presidents of their professional governance organization as they reflect on the role of the clinical nurse in leading the profession of nursing, taking ownership and accountability.

Nursing Leadership Behaviors in Professional Governance

September 25, 2023 06:00 - 29.1 MB

Leadership is an essential component of successful professional governance. This podcast with two leadership experts discusses leadership behaviors necessary for nurses to have ownership and accountability for nursing practice. While shared governance focused on more on structure, professional governance is grounded in the leadership needed by individual nurses through the highest levels of executive practice, leading peers through professional governance structures as well as taking account...

Foundations of Professional Governance

September 11, 2023 06:00 - 70.4 MB

There is a shift happening in the profession of nursing from the historic shared governance to professional governance. This conversation with two experts on professional governance discusses the foundations of professional governance, where it's going, why it's important in the future and how it differs from shared governance. Professional governance reminds nurses of the authentic power they have been given as professionals to determine nursing practice.

Evidence-Based Mentorship Program for New Nursing Managers

August 28, 2023 05:00 - 27.9 MB

Evidence suggests mentorship increases nurse manager competencies, self-efficacy, engagement, and safety outcomes. Yet less than 7% have formal mentorship programs, and many are promoted based on clinical success rather than leadership ability. 60% or more have less than four years’ experience and are leaving positions within two years. Consider the cost of learning through trial & error for a nurse manager vs providing the proper framework, tools, and ongoing support to remain effective.

"You May Be On To Something": A New Model for Frontline Nursing Leadership

August 14, 2023 05:00 - 28.4 MB

The role of the front-line nurse leader is one of the most difficult and expansive in healthcare. Learn how one health system is realigning leadership roles to support the critical nature of the nurse leader leading to more meaningful work, while simultaneously creating opportunities for entry level non-clinical leadership to support the work of nurses to create an inclusive and collaborative work environment.

Creating a Path to the BSN: A Diversity and Inclusion Strategy

July 31, 2023 05:00 - 17.9 MB

Associate nurse graduates can often find themselves locked out of employment. In this panel discussion, learn more about disparities in opportunities for nursing students who are not advantaged by race or socioeconomic status with regard to nursing education and employment; and how Beth Israel, Deaconess Medical Center recognized this and came up with an innovative solution to address the issue.

Collaboration with Rural Partners: Taking Care of the Region

July 24, 2023 06:00 - 22.4 MB

Healthcare in a rural setting is very challenging. With limited resources, including staff, equipment, and supplies, many organizations are struggling to stay open. There is an option that can help - a strong relationship with a regional partner. This session will provide details on how the regional partner can help ensure success by introducing methods used to collaborate, including educational support, clinical touchpoints, and routine meetings.

Virtual Nursing - The Future of Compassionate Care is Here

July 17, 2023 05:00 - 22 MB

Improving nursing engagement while struggling with staffing shortages, burnout, and unbalanced ratios of novice to experienced nurses can seem overwhelming. Then add the COVID-19 challenges. Determined to be innovative despite hardship, our team created a new model to provide compassionate bedside nursing, virtually. The outcomes were and continue to be impressive. We improved both patient experience and nursing satisfaction. You are invited to learn about our win-win virtual nurse care model.

Rise from the Ashes of a Pandemic: Changing Care Models, Changing Cultures

July 10, 2023 05:00 - 20.2 MB

Rise up from the ashes of the pandemic to create a sustainable future of the nursing workforce. This session will explain strategies to implement an effective care model that will change the culture of nursing departments and organizations to one of inclusiveness, teamwork, and support. Implementing this care model will help leaders deliver on quality outcomes, improve nursing engagement and patient satisfaction, decrease vacancy rates and turnover, and reduce agency spend.

Improve Safety Through Acuity-Based Scheduling and Data-Driven Patient Assignments

June 26, 2023 05:00 - 18.3 MB

The current nursing shortage is expected to worsen as the baby boomer generation continue to near retirement and many nurses retire while simultaneously our population will require more care due to age, leaving hospitals how to figure out how to do more with less. Clinical Science is a patient workload solution that uses data from the EMR to ensure staff are deployed in the most effective manner possible to provide the care required and helps leaders make fair, safe, and equitable patient a...

Nurse Leaders: Building Partnerships to Transform Health Care

June 19, 2023 05:00 - 28.6 MB

Nursing leaders can create valuable partnerships to help achieve their goals for innovation and change in health care. We discuss how to become innovation ready (ideas as seeds, fertile ground, ideas to grow) by supporting our nurses in a more intentional way. In leveraging the full capabilities and resources of key partners where goals are aligned and cultivating a healthy environment where nurses feel safe and heard, innovation can yield a simpler, better, more value add experience for bot...

Empowering Nurses through Innovation: Optimized Workflows for Medication Administration

June 12, 2023 05:00 - 23.5 MB

As a leading provider of medication management solutions and adherence tools, Omnicell delivers optimized outcomes through a set of Advanced Services, powered by a connected intelligent infrastructure. Supporting central pharmacy dispensing, IV compounding, point of care medication management, specialty pharmacy, retail pharmacy, and inventory optimization, these Advanced Services connect technology with experts and intelligence to drive clinical and financial outcomes across the entire cont...

Dynamic Staffing

June 05, 2023 06:00 - 23.5 MB

With labor and supply chain costs soaring, the need for workflow efficiencies that support a dynamic staffing model are more important than ever. During this episode, Corrie Halas and Samantha Glennon, two of UKG’s Regional Nurse Executives, will discuss how organizations are becoming more innovative in order to provide dynamic real-time staffing with the support of technology. Learn how self-scheduling and shift swapping can be performed on the UKG’s mobile app and how these tools support t...

Creating a Post Pandemic Positive Practice Environment

April 17, 2023 05:00 - 39.4 MB

This podcast explores how nurse leaders can foster a healthy nursing workplace environment where leaders can grow and thrive: Be well, be safe and stay well.

Supporting Frontline Nurse Managers with Recruitment and Retention

April 03, 2023 05:00 - 42.3 MB

Frontline Nurse managers have become the “shock absorbers’ for their staff during the pandemic. To give them better tools and support their work, this podcast looks at a redesign of the frontline nursing model; how individual nurse managers can be empowered and supported; and how a centralization of nurse staffing and scheduling can help.

Talent Attraction and Acquisition

March 20, 2023 05:00 - 26.1 MB

A discussion of the process to find the right nurse applicants and how to expedite. This conversation looks at the issue from three phases: how to attract and identify the appropriate candidates; submission of applicants, conducting interviews, offering the positions and getting acceptance; and the pre-board and onboarding processes.

Meaning and Joy in Nurse Manager Practice – Keys to Leader Fulfillment

December 12, 2022 05:00 - 31.4 MB

Nurse managers are at a crossroads and need our support. Explore strategies to bring meaning and joy in nursing manager practice through five themes: to mentor and be mentored, to focus on the patient, to create and cultivate environments, to be optimistic, and to be empowered by leaders.

Hold On to Your Nurse Managers Through a Comprehensive Retention Program

November 07, 2022 05:00 - 11.7 MB

Retaining effective nurse managers is critical to any organization as they impact financial and quality outcomes as well as nurse satisfaction and retention. The daily stressors for nurse managers are real. Implementing strategies and processes to hold on to your managers is needed now more than ever. This presentation will provide you with strategies you can use in building a comprehensive nurse manager retention program at your organization.

Empowering Nurse Leaders to Support Staff Well-Being and Resilience

October 10, 2022 04:00 - 12.7 MB

This session will engage participants in a discussion of research findings of several modifiable factors in the work environment affecting the well-being and resilience of nurses during the pandemic. The session will provide leaders with actionable takeaways to better support the well-being of the nursing workforce of the future.

Developing a Legacy through a Leadership Trajectory

September 26, 2022 04:00 - 55.5 MB

It takes more than one person to perpetuate a legacy. Though collective leadership, every nurse has the potential to be a leader and to leave a legacy. Learn effective tactics to develop an legacy leadership through three core areas — The Strategies, The Personal, and The Environment.

Community Care Teams: Breakthrough Strategy for Healthcare Equity

September 12, 2022 04:00 - 19.9 MB

Nurse leaders must continue to develop advanced leadership competencies as they move through their career, while helping diverse nurses within their sphere of influence also develop leadership skills. The Leadership Trajectory Tool offers a plan to gain ongoing leadership competence as individuals and environments change during their career. This presentation will help participants to plan strategies to develop a leadership legacy and support other nurses from diverse background to do the s...

Leading from the Heart

August 22, 2022 04:00 - 9.05 MB

People deserve to experience us at their best. Learn best practices on how to develop deeper connections and become an inspirational leader through work-life integration and being fully in the present.

12 Recommendations from Studying Burnout, Violence, and Turnover in Nurses

August 08, 2022 04:00 - 11.9 MB

Understanding where to start to address burnout, turnover, and violence in our nurses is often overwhelming for nurse leaders. This presentation provides a method to understanding where bedside nurses are struggling along five levels of Maslow’s Hierarchy and offers 12 clear recommendations for all nurse leaders to address the most common issues observed in an 11 hospital sample of over 3,500 nurses.

Prioritizing Nurse Wellbeing

July 25, 2022 05:00 - 10.9 MB

The effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic are extracting a significant toll on the mental and physical health of our nurses. Prioritizing their well-being by creating and implementing a director of nurse wellbeing has allowed us to build and deliver critical resources, and education to nurses to help repair and improve their mental and physical health.

A Guide to Building Mentoring Relationships with Black, Indigenous and People of Color

July 04, 2022 05:00 - 24.3 MB

Deb Washington discusses strategies on how to recruit and retain a diverse nursing workforce of BIPOC professionals (Black, Indigenous and People of Color).

Adventures of an Amateur Advocate

June 20, 2022 05:00 - 14.9 MB

Hear from Rachel Culpepper on how to become an advocate to make an impact on nursing issues affecting your patients, community and nursing teams.

Patient C.A.R.E.

June 02, 2022 05:00 - 7.13 MB

Quantaira Health introduces Patient C.A.R.E (comprehensive access for remote evaluation). This platform enables providers to remotely observe patient biometrics from multiple medical devices and monitors and synchronizes it on to one screen. Join Dr. John “Skip” Williams, former Dean of Medicine at George Washington University and current CMO of Quantaira Health as he discusses their new Patient C.A.R.E. technology. He’ll discuss how this software technology, designed for Critical care units...

MEPRA: Cultivating Mindfulness, Ethical Practice and Resilience in Nurses

May 16, 2022 05:00 - 13.6 MB

Nurses experienced varying degrees of moral suffering in response to moral adversity, especially in the pandemic. The Mindful Ethical Practice and Resilience Academy (MEPRA) demonstrated significant impact in cultivating mindfulness, resilience, work engagement, ethical competence and decreasing depression, anger and intent to leave. Collaborative academic/practice partnerships are essential to create multi?faceted, experiential programs to support nurse's integrity and reduce moral suffering.

In Crisis and Beyond: Maximizing Nursing’s Impact through Professional Governance

May 02, 2022 05:00 - 14.6 MB

Health care is hungry for exemplary nursing leadership for the future. Traditional approaches/structures are no longer adequate. Professional governance provides the structural requisite for advancing this essential leadership. Now nurses must move PG center stage as a prime enabler of nurse leadership, engagement and partnership.

Creating Solutions in the Midst of a Pandemic

April 18, 2022 05:00 - 17.1 MB

An open culture of frontline innovation at an urban Midwest hospital generated 28 clinician-made devices in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. All hospital employees had access to a world-class medical device prototyping lab on the first floor of the hospital. These clinicians used their established prototyping literacy and hands-on making experience to build just-in-time devices for COVID-19 protocols in ICU patient care, PPE and patient transportation.

Promoting Mental Health & Wellbeing in Critical Care Nurses: An Urgent Call

April 04, 2022 05:00 - 22.8 MB

Critical care nurses report high levels of anxiety and depression. Nurses in worse mental & physical health report more medical errors than nurses in better mental & physical health. When nurses perceive high levels of wellness support from their organization, they are more than twice as likely to have better health than nurses who report not having worksite support. Hospital and healthcare system leaders need to create and sustain cultures of wellness to improve overall health and well-being.

A Journey Through The Dark: One Manager’s Story from Burnout to Success

March 21, 2022 05:00 - 17.9 MB

What is the compelling issue this session addresses or raises? The burnout that nurse leaders face and personal steps leaders can take to overcome it.

Pandemic Impact on Authentic Nurse Leadership and Work Environment

February 28, 2022 06:00 - 17.9 MB

This presentation will explore the implications of a large study of pandemic impact on nurses’ perceptions of authentic nurse leadership (ANL) and healthy work environment (HWE). Pandemic impact was high at 7.8/10. ANL was supported as an essential standard of AACN’s HWE model and was present for clinical nurses. HWE was present overall, but not for clinical nurses, a troublesome finding. Despite all, nurse leaders demonstrated ANL to “lead the troops” through the pandemic crisis.

Using Innovative Strategies To Combat Workplace Violence

February 03, 2022 06:00 - 16.6 MB

As there has been a rise in aggressive behavior and unprovoked physical and verbal assaults in society, violence in the workplace has also become increasingly common. The risk for healthcare workers, however, has been disproportionate. This organization has faced this alarming trend head on with data-driven and shared governance interventions that are innovative. The strategies are caregiver- and patient-centric taking the stance that team member safety is equally as important as patient safety.

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