Validity and Reliability of the New Innovation Culture Scale© for Use in Healthcare Settings.

Objective: To assess the psychometric properties of the new 10-item Innovation Culture Scale©.

Background: American healthcare is expensive with poor health outcomes as the norm. Nurses can disrupt this paradigm through innovation; however, innovation cannot flourish without a supportive organizational culture.

"They don't know what it's really like:" qualitative insights into inpatient cardiac nurses' perceived workload.

Background: Measurements of nursing workload often fail to reflect the complexity of nursing work. Nurses' perceived workload is shaped by many factors, including patient characteristics, personal, social, organizational, and environmental factors. There is a demonstrated interest in developing more comprehensive nurse workload measurement strategies, but little research has employed qualitative methods to investigate the beliefs and experiences of frontline staff.

Motivators and Barriers to Obtaining Cardiac Vascular Certification Among Acute Care Nurses.

Background: Cardiovascular diseases are highly prevalent in the United States. Nurses play a crucial role in supporting patients with these conditions and should seek verification of advanced cardiac knowledge through certification.

Method: This descriptive survey was conducted in a large academic hospital in the northeastern United States.

Innovation, Wellness, and EBP Cultures Are Associated With Less Burnout, Better Mental Health, and Higher Job Satisfaction in Nurses and the Healthcare Workforce.

Background: Staff shortages as well as poor nurse and clinician well-being are currently an epidemic within the health workforce and pose a substantial risk to healthcare quality and safety. Creating a strong wellness culture is one strategy to address the issue, but there is a paucity of research that investigates how other types of organizational cultures are related to nurses' mental health and well-being.

Aims: To describe the relationships among innovation culture, wellness culture, evidence-based practice (EBP) culture, and clinician well-being (healthy lifestyle behaviors, burnout, depression, stress, anxiety, and job satisfaction).

Evaluating the Perceived Value of Holistic Certification Among Nurses: A Descriptive Survey Study.

Specialty nursing certifications serve as a validation of nursing knowledge in specific areas. Holistic nursing emphasizes comprehensive patient care and incorporates complementary alternative modalities (CAM) into daily care. Despite its significance, limited research has evaluated the perceived value of holistic nursing certification among nurses.

Meditation for the reduction of perioperative anxiety in patients undergoing oncology surgery: A scoping review.

Objective: Patients undergoing surgery, particularly patients undergoing surgery for oncology diagnoses, experience anxiety. Surgery remains the primary treatment for many common types of cancer. One promising potential intervention to alleviate anxiety in the preoperative and postoperative period is meditation, an integrative medicine intervention.

Nursing Perceptions of Robotic Technology in Healthcare: A Pretest-Posttest Survey Analysis Using an Educational Video.

OCCUPATIONAL APPLICATIONSWe used a survey to evaluate the perceptions of nurses and nursing students on robotic technology for nursing care before and after reviewing an educational video that included examples of medical, care, and healthcare service robotic technology. We found that the perception of robotic technology was innately favorable and became more favorable after the video. It is beneficial for engineers to incorporate nurses' frontline knowledge into the design process from the beginning, while functional changes can be implemented since nurses comprise the largest group of healthcare professionals in hospitals and are the end users of technological devices.

Use of Complementary Pain Management Strategies in Postoperative Cardiac Surgical Patients.

Background: Complementary pain management strategies are effective at reducing pain in postsurgical patients.

Local Problem: Cardiac nurses at a large academic hospital reported inconsistent awareness of patient opioid utilization and poor implementation of complementary pain management strategies.

Methods: A pre/post-quality improvement project was conducted on 2 inpatient cardiac units.

Effects of the Interruption Management Strategy "Stay S.A.F.E." During Medication Administration.

Purpose: This study measured the impact of the Stay S.A.F.