Dr. Dion’s Presentation Topic:
“A Retrospective Study of a Nurse Residency Program and Reports of Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment, and Turnover”
This 3 year retrospective study explored on the effects of a nurse residency program in Magnet, Magnet Aspiring and Non- Magnet Hospitals on the new graduate’s:
Job satisfaction
Organizational Commitment
Turnover
This presentation will take place on Sunday October 30th [...]
For a nurse, the curriculum vitae(CV) has long been the most appropriate vehicle within which to hold the depth of information and experience you won’t find in a mere resume. Whether you have just graduated or you are a seasoned executive, the CV is what many hospitals, schools, licensing boards and grant committees are requesting [...]
The ANCC’s Magnet Designation is a program which has evolved from its early model which laid out 14 forces of Magnetism into a more directed and focused 5 component model in 2008, which has its sights set on measuring improvements in outcomes. Patient outcome is the ultimate goal for any initiative that a hospital puts [...]
Meaningful use of technology is one of the tenets of the healthcare reform bill which helps in the authorization of payments to providers for their use of EHR systems. Having Electronic Health Records in full use in the healthcare system will certainly lead to an improved process and a level of efficiency that will benefit [...]
We spoke with Midland Memorial Hospital at this year’s Pathway to Excellence Conference in Austin, Texas. This designation from the ANCC joins their other program which has become an industry standard for nursing excellence, the Magnet Designation.
Jenny Delk-Fikes, BSN, RN-BC, Midland’s Clinical Excellence Manager and her team spoke with us regarding how they used the [...]
When you consider the factors which make people successful in their careers, the capacity to represent your value is nearly as important as the creation of that value in the first place. This is particularly true if you are building your career in the healthcare, academia or other technical profession where your competency indicators are [...]
In an effort to help drive the adoption of electronic medical records (EMR) within healthcare institutions, the HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) has developed a set of seven stages which relate to the implementation and use of an EMR system. The stages range from zero to seven and each mark an additional step [...]
The EMR has always promised some really big bennies. The doctors, patients and the insurance companies would all share in the cost savings, streamlined efficiency and all around better healthcare. Unfortunately, the bulk of the costs required to implement an EMR is more often than not been shouldered by the hospitals and physicians. Even though [...]
Nurses represent the front line force in a hospital setting. They have more contact with patients than any other worker at the facility. As a result, they are also directly credited with improved patient outcomes and an overall positive experience. However, in a recent survey by Press Ganey, it was cited that nurse job satisfaction [...]
Fierce Healthcare recently posted a story on the role of nurses in the successful implementation of Accountable Care Organizations (ACO). As many healthcare entities start calculating the qualification costs of being an ACO, it is clear that if you want your ACO to operate as efficiently and effectively as billed, you’d better pay some attention [...]
