The Impact of Nurse Residency Programs on Patient Quality and Safety Outcomes: A Review of the Literature.

Schools of nursing are struggling to prepare registered nurses to practice in today's complex healthcare settings. Nurse residency programs are a good solution to support the transition to practice. Nursing education leaders must be informed of the nursing quality and safety outcomes of nurse residency programs.

Diversity Practices for Hiring the New Graduate Nurse.

A multistep selection process was established to assist in securing top talent while achieving diversity objectives for a nurse residency program. The selection process incorporated objective scoring tools, diverse panel interviews, unconscious bias training, and standardized interview questions to decrease unconscious and implicit bias. As a result, the entry-level nursing workforce has become more diversified by race, gender, age, and academic training.

Exploring nurse beliefs and perceived readiness for system wide integration of evidence based practice in a large pediatric health care system.

Purpose: Evidence-based practice (EBP) within healthcare leads to improved patient outcomes, high-quality care, job satisfaction, reduced turnover, professional autonomy, and validates nursing practice. Although a plethora of research focuses on implementing EBP, there has been little attention on assessing organizational readiness for integration. The primary aims of this study were to explore nursing beliefs and attitudes about EBP and explore the culture and readiness among pediatric nurses for system-wide integration of EBP.

Implementing a Watcher Program to Improve Timeliness of Recognition of Deterioration in Hospitalized Children.

Purpose: Early recognition and response to clinical deterioration is critical to patient safety. Failures or delays in recognition and response often manifest as emergency transfers to the intensive care unit (ICU). We describe implementation of a program to improve recognition and response to clinical deterioration within the pediatric inpatient acute care setting (i.

Taking the Fall for Kids: A Journey to Reducing Pediatric Falls.

Purpose: To reduce harm related to pediatric falls, a quality improvement project was conducted at a children's hospital.

Design And Methods: An interprofessional team designed and implemented evidence-based interventions to align with the hospital's journey to reduce patient harm. These interventions included selection and implementation of a fall risk assessment tool, implementation of fall bundle elements, and implementation of fall prevention education to patients and families.

The Emotional Cost of Caring for Others: One Pediatric Hospital's Journey to Reduce Compassion Fatigue.

Objective: This study examined the prevalence of compassion fatigue and life stress of pediatric nurses.

Background: Distressing patient situations over time may affect nurses' professional quality of life and result in compassion fatigue. If not addressed, compassion fatigue may have personal and organizational consequences.

Career Mapping for Professional Development and Succession Planning.

Career mapping facilitates professional development of nurses by education specialists and nurse managers. On the basis of national Nursing Professional Development Scope and Standards, our education and professional development framework supports the organization's professional practice model and provides a foundation for the professional career map. This article describes development, implementation, and evaluation of the professional career map for nurses at a large children's hospital to support achievement of the nursing strategic goals for succession planning and professional development.