Health care organizations can provide comprehensive, formal learning opportunities to develop nurse leaders for advanced leadership roles. The purpose of this doctoral project was to create an evidence-based nursing leadership academy focused on development of advanced leadership skills and competencies to cultivate frontline and midlevel nurse leaders for executive nursing and health care leadership positions. The practice-focused question addressed how an advanced nursing leadership education program would affect the knowledge level and competencies of nurse leader participants. The American Organization of Nurse Executives' (AONE) 5 nurse executive competency domains served as the framework for this project. Data were collected from 10 nurse manager and nurse leader participants, selected based on their performance and desire to succeed into an advanced leadership role, who completed the AONE nurse executive competency assessment. Findings indicated that greatest improvement was observed in the knowledge of the health care environment domain, followed by the communication and relationship building domain. Findings may be used to provide advanced leadership education to frontline and midlevel nurse leaders to support succession planning and development of nurse leaders to advance into executive leadership positions.

The complex nature of healthcare requires nurse leaders to be skilled in professional practice, communication, teamwork, and problem solving to improve staff satisfaction and patient outcomes. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing and Institute of Medicine promotes graduate education for nurse leaders to enhance the delivery of quality care to the nation's diverse patient populations. Guided by the diffusion of innovation theory, this project explored the differences in nursing care hours, staff turnover, nurse quality indicators, as well as leadership characteristics on units lead by masters-prepared and non-masters-prepared nurses. Forty-eight nurse leaders completed the impact of graduate education among nurse leaders (IGENL) survey addressing perceptions of their ability to change practice, teamwork, communication, and problem-solving skills. Staffing reports, Nurse Quality Indicators (NQI), and Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) data were collected from 34 hospital units. Data were summarized and t tests were conducted to examine the differences in NQI and HCAHPS data from units lead by nurses with and without a graduate degree. No significant differences were noted in these measures. In the IGENL survey data, the nurse leaders with a graduate degree had significantly higher scores on the leadership characteristic subscales of professional practice, communication and teamwork, and problem solving than did those without. The outcome of this project can contribute to positive social change within healthcare organizations by supporting the pursuit of graduate education for nurse leaders, which could enhance leadership attributes and subsequently improve staff satisfaction and patient outcomes.

Creation and implementation of changes is not always popular. Yet many people engage in them. Therefore, the 19th century had its Florence Nightingale; this century has its leading figures as well. Their names are not often known to professionals and the general public, but we can see the results of their work around us every day. Overall, there were three objectives of this paper. The first was aimed at defining the concept of leadership in nursing, the second one at defining the events that led to key changes in the profession, and the third one at mapping the system of changes in the present. Five research questions had been defined prior the start of the research and the questions concerned the first part of this paper. The first one: "What does the concept of leadership in nursing include?" The second one: "How is leadership in nursing applied in practice?" The third one: "What events were crucial for changes in nursing in the world?" The fourth one: "What events were crucial for changes in nursing in the Czech Republic?" The fifth one: "What is the basis of changes in current nursing in the Czech Republic?" These questions have been answered using a historical data analysis and individual interviews with pre-selected respondents in a qualitative investigation. This completed the first and second objective of this paper. To achieve the third objective of the paper, four hypotheses were established. Their verification has used a quantitative survey using questionnaires. Based on the gathered data, I can say that the first and the second hypotheses have not been confirmed. The impact of respondents{\crq} age on their interest in nursing as well as their approval of changes in the profession today has not been demonstrated. The third hypothesis has been confirmed. The data obtained showed that university-educated nurses agree with the changes in nursing more than the second group of respondents. Last fourth hypothesis has not been confirmed. The data obtained showed that the length of practice does not affect the opinion of doctors. Both the groups mostly disagreed with the changes. From this, it is clear that the third objective of this paper has been met. Paper can be used in practice as a theoretical basis for training students of nursing and other paramedical disciplines. It may also serve to complement the ideas of what leadership means and how it applies in the nursing profession. It also provides an overview of the current state of nursing and its leading figures.

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Bakgrund: Personcentrerad vård är en förutsättning för att omvårdnad ska bedrivas utifrån den enskilde patientens önskemål och för att patienten ska ses som en helhet och inte som en sjukdom. Sjuksköterskor på SÄrskilt BOende för äldre (SÄBO) har en viktig funktion i att leda omvårdnadsteamet för att nå gemensamma mål och utveckla det personcentrerade förhållningssättet. Syfte:  Att beskriva sjuksköterskors erfarenheter av att bedriva personcentrerad vård på SÄBO utifrån McCance och McCormacks (2021) ramverk för personcentrerad vård.  Metod: Genom semistrukturerade intervjuer samlades data in från tio sjuksköterskor på SÄBO. Datan analyserades genom riktad kvalitativ innehållsanalys med en deduktiv ansats med utgångspunkt i McCances och McCormack ramverk för personcentrerad vård.  Resultat: Resultatet är framställt i kategorierna: Förutsättningar, vårdmiljö, personcentrerade processer och personcentrerade resultat.  Sjuksköterskorna hade liknande uppfattning om vad personcentrerad vård innebär på SÄBO och att det handlar om att individanpassa vården utifrån varje patient man möter. Den personcentrerade vården påverkas av olika faktorer så som omvårdnadspersonalens attityder, tid- och personalbrist samt sjuksköterskans ledarskap.    Slutsats: Personcentrerad vård är ett komplext begrepp och det är svårt att tydligt beskriva vad som krävs för att personcentrerad vård ska vara möjlig på alla plan. Sjuksköterskor på SÄBO behöver stötta, motivera och skapa möjlighet för reflektion för att medvetandegöra det personcentrerade förhållningssättet. Vidare behövs organisatoriska resurser för att kunna införa en mer personcentrerad vård. / Background: With the increasing aging population, it is of great importance that person-centered care is implemented within nursing homes for older people. Person-centered care is a prerequisite for nursing care to be carried out based on the wishes of the individual patient and for the patient to be seen as a whole and not as a disease. Nurses at nursing homes have an important function in leading the nursing team to reach common goals and develop the person-centered relationship approach. Aim: To describe nurses' experiences of providing person-centered care at nursing homes based on McCance and McCormack’s (2021) framework for person-centered care.   Method: Through semi-structured interviews, data was collected from ten nurses working at nursing homes. Data were analyzed through targeted qualitative content analysis with a deductive approach based on McCance and McCormack’s framework for person-centered care.  Results: The results are presented in the categories: Prerequisites, care environment, person-centred processes and person-centred results. The nurses had a similar idea of ​​what person-centered care means at nursing homes and that it´s about customizing care based on each patient. Person-centered care is affected by various factors such as the nursing staff's attitudes, time, and staff shortages as well as the nurse´s leadership. Conclusion: Person-centered care is a complex concept, and it is difficult to clearly describe what is required for person-centered care to be possible on all levels. Nurses at nursing homes need to support, motivate and create opportunities for reflection in order to raise awareness of the person-centered approach. Furthermore, organizational resources are needed to be able to introduce a more person-centered care.

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Dans le système de santé québécois, il est attendu des infirmières qu’elles développent et démontrent un niveau élevé de leadership clinique infirmier [LCI] dans leur pratique. En effet, des auteurs soutiennent que le développement de cette compétence est primordial à l’optimisation de la qualité des soins et de la sécurité des patients (Goudreau, Pepin, et al., 2015; Stanley et Stanley, 2018). D’autres soutiennent que l’exercice du LCI présente un important défi pour les infirmières nouvellement diplômées [IND] qui continuent d’apprendre à prioriser, à organiser les soins et à déléguer (Benner, 2001; Ekström et Idvall, 2015). Une recension des écrits sur le LCI des IND n’a permis d’identifier que cinq recherches-clés. Elles portent sur le processus de développement du LCI (Pepin et al., 2011), ainsi que sur les moyens de soutenir ce développement et l’exercice de cette compétence en milieux cliniques (Chappell, & Richards, 2015 ; Ekström et Idvall, 2015 ; Larue et al., 2013 ; Won, 2015). À notre connaissance, seules une recension systématique (Chappell et Richards, 2015) et quatre études qualitatives (Ekström et Idvall, 2015 ; Larue et al., 2013 ; Pepin et al., 2011 ; Won, 2015) se seraient intéressées à l’exercice du LCI spécifiquement chez des IND. Ces articles illustrent les difficultés rencontrées très tôt dans la pratique des IND. Le développement et l’exercice du LCI permettent aux infirmières de faire face à l’exercice de leur rôle professionnel et ultimement à l’amélioration de la qualité de la prestation de leurs soins. Afin de mieux comprendre comment les IND exercent cette compétence auprès des patients, ce mémoire de recherche, publié par article, s’intéresse au parcours expérientiel du LCI chez des IND. Grâce et à une posture épistémologique constructiviste (Guba et Lincoln, 1994), cette étude descriptive interprétative (Thorne, 2016) avait comme but de décrire le parcours expérientiel de l’exercice de cette compétence infirmière à travers la première année de pratique professionnelle. De plus cette étude avait comme autre objectif d’identifier les éléments du contexte de pratique qui facilitent ou contraignent l’exercice de cette compétence chez les infirmières bachelières nouvellement intégrées dans le milieu professionnel. Pour y arriver, le cadre de référence de cette étude reposait essentiellement sur le modèle de développement de l’expertise professionnelle (Benner, 2001), ainsi que sur la notion d’individuation au travers des parcours de vie, élaborée par Carpentier et White (2013) Grâce à un échantillonnage de convenance, huit infirmières ayant respectivement 1, 5 (n=2), 6 (n=3), 10 ou 11 mois de pratique clinique, ont été recrutées dans un centre hospitalier universitaire francophone. Des entretiens semi-dirigés d’une durée de 45 à 60 minutes ont été effectués. Une analyse de contenu thématique (Thorne, 2016) selon la méthode proposée par Paillé et Mucchielli (2016) a été réalisée. Les résultats indiquent que pour les IND le LCI est difficile à exercer durant les premiers mois de pratique clinique. Néanmoins, l’exercice de cette compétence s’avère évolutif et exponentiel à l’expérience clinique. Sur une trajectoire de 12 mois, les IND décrivent cinq manières cumulatives d’exercer leur LCI dans leur pratique clinique au chevet des patients, soit par 1) le maintien d’une qualité des soins optimale ; 2) la collaboration et la communication efficace avec les équipes inter et intra professionnelle 3) l’adoption du rôle de précepteur clinique ; 4) l’implication professionnelle au-delà des soins aux patients 5) la consultation des résultats scientifiques à des fins d’amélioration des pratiques. De plus, celles-ci identifient différents facteurs facilitants et contraignants l’exercice de cette compétence. Ces facteurs se regroupent dans trois grandes catégories, soit : 1) les équipes de soins, 2) les quarts de travail, ainsi que 3) les ressources. Cette étude contribue au développement des connaissances sur le LCI et fournit des pistes quant aux stratégies permettant d’appuyer l’exercice de cette compétence critique au sein de la pratique infirmière. Les IND sont une ressource précieuse « et tout devrait être mis en œuvre pour améliorer la rétention des effectifs et réduire le roulement de personnel de ce segment important de la main-d’œuvre infirmière » (Fallatah, Laschinger et Read, 2017, p. 173, traduction libre). Ainsi, de nombreuses pistes de réflexion ont été proposées pour la pratique, la recherche, ainsi que la formation. / In the Quebec health system, nurses are expected to develop and demonstrate high level of clinical nursing leadership (CNL) in their practice. In fact, researchers argue that the development of this competency is essential to optimizing the quality of patient care and patient safety (Goudreau, Pepin & al., 2015; Stanley & Stanley, 2017). Other researchers argue that the exercise of CNL presents a significant challenge for newly graduated nurses (NGN) who are still trying to learn how to prioritize, organize and delegate care (Benner, 2001; Ekström & Idvall, 2015). We found only five key research studies from our review of the CNL of new graduated nurses. They focus on the development process of this competency (Pepin & al., 2011), as well as ways to support this development and exercise it in clinical settings (Chappell & Richards, 2015, Ekström & Idvall, 2015, Larue & al., 2013, Won, 2015). To our knowledge, a systematic review (Chappell & Richards, 2015) and only four qualitative studies (Ekström & Idvall, 2015; Larue & al., 2013; Pepin & al., 2011; Won, 2015) have focused on CNL practice in NGNs specifically. The literature provides an understanding of the development of this nursing competency, with landmarks of its exercise, but remains silent regarding the pathways of its exercise. In order to better understand and complement the existing research, this qualitative interpretive descriptive study (Thorne, 2016) based on a constructivist epistemological theory (Guba & Lincoln, 1994), described the experiential path of exercising CNL among NGNs in their first year of professional practice, including the identification of elements that facilitated or impeded its exercise, from their perspective. The conceptual framework guiding this study encompasses the development of clinical nursing expertise (Benner, 2001) and the notion of individuation through life courses (Carpentier & White, 2013). Through convenience sampling, eight nurses with respectively 1, 5 (n=2), 6 (n=3), 10 or 11 months of clinical practice, respectively, were recruited from a francophone university hospital center. Semi-structured interviews varying in length from 45 to 60 minutes were conducted with each of the nurses recruited. A content analysis based on themes (Thorne, 2016) according to the method proposed by Paillé & Mucchielli (2016) was carried out. The results indicate that for NGNs, it is difficult to exercise CNL during the first months of practice. However, the exercise of this nursing competency is evolutionary and exponential to clinical experience. We found that over a 12-month period, NGNs identified five cumulative ways of exercising their CNL in their bedside clinical practice, either by 1) maintaining an optimal level of quality of their patient care; 2) collaboration and effective communication with the care team; 3) adopting the role of clinical preceptor; 4) professional involvement beyond the patient care; 5) improving practices through consulting scientific evidence. In addition, we identified various factors facilitating and impeding the exercise of their CNL. In all, these advanced-beginner nurses identified four facilitating factors and five impeding factors. We conclude that the influence of organizational contexts and institutional cultures plays a role in the exercise of this particular leadership competency at the beginning of clinical practice is present. These factors are grouped into three main themes: 1) teams; 2) shifts and 3) resources. We believe that this study contributes greatly to the literature and provides insights into strategies to support the practice of this critical competency in nursing practice. In addition, we hope that this study will serve as a guide for health institutions in adopting strategies that support the exercise of CNL in the nursing field. NGNs are a valuable resource “and every effort should be made to improve retention and reduce turnover of this important segment of the nursing workforce” (Fallatah, Laschinger & Read, 2017, p. 173). Thus, many recommendations have been proposed for practice, research, as well as education.

Le Québec a connu de multiples réformes au système de santé au cours des dernières années. Face à cette restructuration et réorganisation de soins, à la pénurie du personnel infirmier et aux demandes grandissantes des soins liées au vieillissement de la population et aux maladies chroniques, les infirmières gestionnaires sont interpellées à trouver des solutions novatrices et concrètes pour répondre de manière efficace et efficiente aux besoins de la population tout en offrant des soins et de services sécuritaires et de qualité optimale. À cet effet, plusieurs écrits sont d’avis que l’optimisation de l’étendue de pratique infirmière (ÉPI) et du champ d’exercice infirmier sont un levier essentiel pour répondre de façon efficace et efficiente aux besoins de la population en vue d’atteindre la performance du système de santé. Certes, les études réalisées au Québec ont démontré que l’ÉPI est déployée de manière insuffisante en raison des facteurs individuels et organisationnels qui l’influencent. Considérant que les infirmières gestionnaires exercent un rôle crucial pour soutenir le déploiement de l’ÉPI et qu’une sous-utilisation de l’éventail des activités professionnelles des infirmières constitue à la fois des enjeux professionnels, organisationnels et systémiques, il est opportun d’examiner et d’identifier les interventions favorables qui permettent à ces infirmières gestionnaires de contribuer à actualiser l’ÉPI optimalement. Suivant ces constats et dans une perspective de l’administration des soins infirmiers, ce projet d’étude avait pour but de d’identifier et de décrire les interventions émises aux infirmières gestionnaires afin de soutenir le déploiement optimal de l’ÉPI. Pour répondre à ce but, un rapid review selon les cinq principales étapes de Dobbins (2017) a été utilisé. Cette méthode a permis d’obtenir une synthèse des connaissances issues des écrits scientifiques et de la littérature grise systématiquement recueillie, évaluée et analysée afin de recommander des interventions prometteuses aux infirmières gestionnaires. Le modèle d’utilisation des ressources infirmières (MURI) de Dubois et al. (2012) a servi comme trame de fond tout au long de ce processus méthodologique. Au terme de cette étude, six recommandations et 38 pistes d’interventions prometteuses pour optimiser l’ÉPI ont été identifiées selon le type d’infirmières gestionnaires afin de répondre aux enjeux d’ordre professionnels, organisationnels et systémiques reliés à une sous-utilisation de l’ÉPI et du champ d’exercice infirmier constatés au sein du système de santé au Québec. Ces recommandations et ces pistes d’interventions à caractère systémique, organisationnel et individuel qui sont proposées aux infirmières gestionnaires permettraient d’optimiser l’ÉPI et en conséquence, d’améliorer la sécurité, la qualité des soins et les services à la population ainsi que de valoriser l’expertise infirmière. / Quebec has undergone multiple reforms to the health care system in recent years. Faced with this restructuring and reorganization of care, the shortage of nursing staff and the growing demands for care related to the aging of the population and chronic diseases, nurse managers are challenged to find innovative and concrete solutions to respond effectively and efficiently to the needs of the population while providing safe and optimal quality care and services. To this end, several writings are of the opinion that the optimization of the scope of nursing practice (SNP) and the field of nursing practice are an essential lever to respond effectively and efficiently to the needs of the population in order to achieve the performance of the health system. Some studies conducted in Quebec have shown that SNP is deployed insufficiently because of the individual and organizational factors that influence it. Considering that nurse managers play a crucial role in supporting the deployment of SNP and that an underutilization of the range of nurses' professional activities constitutes both professional, organizational and systemic issues, it is appropriate to examine and identify the favorable interventions that allow these nurse managers to contribute to the optimal updating of SNP. Based on these findings and from a nursing administration perspective, this study project aimed to identify and describe interventions addressed to nurse managers to support the optimal deployment of SNP. To meet this goal, a rapid review according to the five main steps of Dobbins (2017) was used. This method provided a synthesis of knowledge from scientific literature and grey literature systematically collected, evaluated and analyzed to recommend promising interventions to nurse managers. The Nursing Resource Utilization Model (MURI) by Dubois and al. (2012) had served throughout this methodological process. At the end of this study, six recommendations and 38 promising interventions to optimize SNP were identified according to the type of nurse managers in order to respond to professional, organizational and systemic issues related to an under-use of the SNP and the field of nursing practice observed within the health system in Quebec. These recommendations and these systemic, organizational and individual interventions that are addressed to nurse managers would make it possible to optimize SNP and consequently, to improve safety, quality of care and services to the population as well as to enhance nursing expertise.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Evidence based practice (EBP) is essential to the practice of nursing for purposes of promoting optimal patient outcomes. Research suggests that the implementation of EBP by staff nurses is problematic and influenced by beliefs, nursing leadership and the work environment. The purpose of this descriptive study was to examine variables that describe the relationship among beliefs about EBP, the work environment and nursing leadership on the EBP implementation activities of the staff nurse. The variables of interest were 1) individual staff nurse characteristics, 2) beliefs about EBP, 3) the EBP work environment and 4) nursing leadership for EBP. A descriptive, quantitative method was used. A sample of 422 Registered Nurses from two urban hospitals (one Magnet and one non-Magnet) completed an online 58 item survey that included questions related to individual belief’s about EBP, the EBP work environment and nursing leadership for EBP as well as EBP implementation activities. Education, tenure and Magnet status were not significantly related to EBP implementation activities in either the univariate or multivariate analysis. EBP beliefs had a significantly positive relationship with EBP implementation activities in both the univariate and multivariate analyses. Work environment and nursing leadership support for EBP had significant positive relationships with self-reported implementation activities in only the univariate analysis. The most surprising finding was that there were no differences between Magnet and non-Magnet work environments for EBP implementation scores, yet the Magnet hospitals reported higher means on the EBP Beliefs Scale than the non-Magnet hospital. The results of this have implications for identifying and testing strategies to influence EBP implementation activities through development of nursing leadership skills for EBP and creating a more EBP friendly work environment.