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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL)"”.
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Innovation through an Academic Practice Partnership: A New Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) Implementation Model
… for development of a new nursing role - the Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL). Academic practice partnership models are needed to integrate the CNL role in health care systems.</p> <p><strong>Context</strong></p> <p>A large integrated health care system in Northern California and a university …
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Entry-level Clinical Nurse Leader: Evaluation of Practice
<p>The Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) is a master-prepared generalist accountable for patient outcomes through application of evidenced-based practice at the microsystem level. Accelerated nursing programs are educating entry level nurses as CNLs in a novel Model C program. This doctoral project …
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Helping Diabetic Patients Reduce Their HbA1c by Follow-Up Phone Calls, Every Two Weeks
<p>Abstract</p> <p>This project focused on the Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) essential of <em>Quality Improvement and Safety</em>. I used the CNL competency of using performance measures to assess and improve the delivery of evidence-based practices for this project. The primary care practice in …
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Improving Early Sepsis Identification on Inpatient Units
… quality improvement project includes a team of clinical nurse leader (CNL) students and gathering information on the nursing compliance of the sepsis protocol at a large metropolitan hospital. The observations on different inpatient units and chart review conducted at the large metropolitan …
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Quality Improvement Project on Patient Falls in a Medical-Telemetry Unit
… by a group of University of San Francisco Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) students. Falls in the acute care setting are a major issue in the current health care system and are a main topic of interest for CNL students to address in order to demonstrate their competency in risk reduction, health …
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STANDARDIZATION OF SHIFT REPORT BY IMPLEMENTING A NURSING REPORT SHEET AND ADDRESSING PATIENT VALUES TO MEET PATIENT NEEDS
… failures between healthcare providers. Nurses remain inconsistent with information sharing during bedside shift report leading to communication gaps. The object of the clinical nurse leader (CNL) internship project is to provide true patient-centered by standardizing bedside shift report …
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Emergency Preparedness on an Inpatient Hospital Unit
… conducted by a University of San Francisco Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) student on an inpatient cardiac unit, Unit H, at an urban teaching hospital in Northern California, Hospital B. An assessment of the current state of emergency preparedness, a diagnosis of Unit H’s area of greatest needs, …
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Development and Implementation of a Patient Education Tool to Increase Fall Risk Awareness
<p>The Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) project is intended to identify a problem and implement an intervention that will change the current problem in a hospital setting. This project explores the reasons for patient falls on an inpatient unit at an urban hospital, referred to as Unit A and Hospital Y. …
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Improving Preadmission Testing Nurses' Knowledge of Aortic Stenosis and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement
<p>Abstract</p> <p>The purpose of this Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) project was to reduce gaps in nursing knowledge through staff education. Guided by the CNL theme of educator and information manager, the goals were to increase PreAdmission Testing (PAT) nurses’ knowledge of severe/critical aortic …
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Improving Medication Safety by Reducing Miscellaneous Orders Placed via CPOE
… in Northern California and the theme of this clinical nurse leader (CNL) project. “Improving Medication Safety by Reducing Miscellaneous Orders Placed via CPOE” aims to reduce the incidence of medication orders which bypass safety mechanisms when entered incorrectly in the computerized …
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Lactation Clinic: Improving Patient Lactation Support
… Clinic. In response to these findings, the Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) has made suggestions and taken a lead role in assisting and creating new patient handouts and surveys. While the clinic is preparing to open its doors, it is the goal of the CNL and the facility that the additional …
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Switching to Celsius to Improve Patient Outcomes
<p>The Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) collects and evaluates patient outcomes, assesses cohort risk, and has the decision-making authority to change care plans when necessary (AACN, 2007). The objective of this project is to change the way the microsystem of the Surgical Services department takes, …
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Reducing CLABSI in the NICU with IV Tubing Competency
… unit (NICU) on the West Coast of California. A clinical nurse leader (CNL) student joined a team consisting of the unit’s nursing manager, nursing educator, clinical nurse specialist (CNS), and CNS student. Literature review highlighted the association between the development of CLABSI and the …
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Reducing Delays in Follow-up Care through Process Optimization
… to emergency care. In alignment with the Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) roles of risk anticipator and lateral integrator of care, this project aimed to support improvement in care continuity for patients at a large primary care clinic in London. At this clinic, a team of physicians, nurses, …
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Clearing the Pathway to Chemotherapy Certification for Inpatient Nurses
<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p> <p> A clinical nurse leader (CNL) project was conducted, in a medical-surgical oncology unit in a community-based hospital, to evaluate and improve upon the decreasing number of chemotherapy certified nurses. A Likert survey of the nurses provided a self-assessment …
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Standardized Blood Transfusion Documentation
<p>The aim of this project was to improve nurse satisfaction through the use of a standardized blood administration documentation template. The goal was to reduce the time that nurses spend charting by offering a structured documentation template and to ensure that the procedure is correctly …
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Improving Staff Responsiveness to Patient-Initiated Call Lights
<p>This Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) project involves the nursing staff and patients of a 23-bed post-surgical medical-surgical nursing unit at a Bay Area community hospital. The goal of this project was to improve patient care, patient satisfaction and staff workflow. Assessment of the microsytem …
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Improving Value Based Purchasing Through the Implementation of the Clinical Nurse Leader Role: The Chief Nursing Officer’s Case for Change
… behaviors, and practices of medical and clinical staff directly impact patient care, quality, and subsequently cost and reimbursement. The imperative to balance quality and patient safety with cost effectiveness requires a complex orchestration of all the elements of care within the …
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Improved Communication for Safer Patient Care: The Implementation of SBAR
<p>This Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) quality improvement project aims to improve the consistency of intradepartmental communication between Urgent Care Center (UCC) staff, through standardized SBAR patient hand-offs. The aim is to improve; (1) the consistency and clarity of patient hand-offs, (2) …
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"Code Purple": Improving Pediatric Patient Safety through Education of the Frontline Staff
… session will be provided to all staff by the clinical nurse leader (CNL) and educator. Biomed personnel will continually do a weekly audit for any faulty tags or a defect in the computer system. Four weeks after the educational session an audit will be conducted to measure compliance. An …
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