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Showing 1 to 20 of 95 for “"Clinical nurse leader"”.
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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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Developing a Clinical Nurse Leader Practice Model: An Interpretive Synthesis
… Future of Nursing report identifies the Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) as an innovative and necessary new role for meeting higher healthcare quality standards. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing CNL White Paper defines core competencies necessary for practice. The literature …
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The Clinical Nurse Leader: Improving Early Sepsis Identification on Inpatient Units
… improve patient outcomes. CNL students shadowed nurses in order to better un derstand the nursing culture and assess the microsystem. Chart audits were reviewed to determine whether nurses at the assigned units were completing sepsis screenings on time and used the appropriate vital signs and …
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A Clinical Nurse Leader Initiative: Promoting Mobility Among Long-Term Care Facility Residents
… a Veterans Affairs (VA) health care facility, a clinical nurse leader (CNL) initiative was done to promote mobility among the patients to mitigate functional decline. The patients, also referred to as clients or residents in long-term care facilities, were aged between 20s and 90s. The resident …
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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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The Clinical Nurse Leader as Risk Anticipator: Optimizing the Completion and Accuracy of the Code Blue Recorder Sheet
… documentation. As a risk anticipator, the unit clinical nurse leader identified suboptimal variation in documentation after a microsystem assessment. This led to a practice change project and targeted educational intervention for code blue recorders. Fifteen staff members were identified from …
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Implementation of Patient Mobility Assessment Tool: A Clinical Nurse Leader Initiative Towards Improved Patient and Nurse Health Outcomes
… Recently, our healthcare system is encouraging nurses to become more actively involved in assessing patient’s mobility status and managing their mobilization. However, since the high nursing workload affects the time that a nurse can assign per task, more often than not they have little time to …
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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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A success story in shifting the paradigm together : partnership between service and education in building an onsite clinical nurse leader program
… programs for the working professional nurse. Nursing education has a history of developing and implementing strategies to respond to their needs beyond the traditional, on campus classroom setting. Nursing programs were early adopters of distance learning technologies, from the first …
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The Clinical Nurse Leader as Outcomes Manager in the Emergency Department: Improving Door-to-ECG Time for Patients Presenting with Chest Pain
<p>A clinical nurse leader can develop a culture of quality in the emergency department (ED) through leading process redesign, workflow, and team engagement. The American Heart Association guidelines recommend that a 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) be performed and interpreted within 10 minutes of …
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The Role of the Clinical Nurse Leader in Reintroducing and Sustaining a Successful Cancer Risk Assessment Program in a Community Hospital Setting
… The development of a value proposition by the Clinical Nurse Leader student highlights the role in the advancement of the nursing profession as an interdisciplinary leader. Review of current literature facilitated development of program structure and identification of downstream revenue …
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Clinical Nurse Leader as Outcomes Manager in the Emergency Department: Redesigning the Triage Process to Reduce the Left Without Being Seen (LWBS) Rate
… A yearlong practice improvement project led by a clinical nurse leader was implemented in a local safety-net teaching hospital in its twenty-six bed, Level II ED. The community encompasses diverse; multicultural; low-income; uninsured; vulnerable; and underserved residents. The project aim is to …
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I’m a Big Kid Now: Enhancing Transition RN Residents’ Confidence During Pediatric Patient Care
<p>The title of the clinical nurse leader project is “I’m a Big Kid Now: Enhancing Transition RN Residents’ Confidence During Pediatric Patient Care”. The project aims to improve the support components for Transition RN residents during their Transition RN Residency at Children’s Hospital Los …
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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 Turnover Time to Improve Efficiency in the Operating Room
… reflected by the post-intervention survey. The clinical nurse leader student as the team manager has influenced the implementation of this project by providing the support and leadership needed in engaging and promoting the change in the microsystem.</p> <p><em>Keywords</em>: improve efficiency, …
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The CNL as Information Manager
… medical and nursing education. The role of the clinical nurse leader was introduced to the comprehensive breast center radiology staff and physicians to support a new quality initiative to optimize screening for high risk women. The project was conducted in the breast imaging microsystem and in …
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The CNL as a Systems Analyst- Standardizing Triage in Urgent Care
… team based practice change project was led by a clinical nurse leader in an outpatient urgent care center to optimize efficacy and efficiency related to standardization of the triage process. After a microsystem assessment revealed excessive wait times for patients and variation in staff …
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Intranasal Naloxone Adminstration Education
<p>The Clinical Nurse Leader project focused on the provision of education on intranasal naloxone administration to healthcare providers in Lake County in order to educate patients, their families, peers, and members of their social network. Fatal opioid overdose rates from prescribed or illicit …
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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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