Nursing

Expert Insights

• Reduce preventable admissions with a community hotline 

  January 18, 2012 | Expert Perspective | Nursing Executive Center

  Learn how Midland Memorial Hospital has developed a program to reduce unnecessary utilization by redirecting non-acute patients before they even arrive at the front door.

• Workforce imperatives for 2012 

  January 17, 2012 | Daily Briefing

  Advisory Board experts review the most important issues for members to watch in 2012, starting with the health care workforce—with a special focus on nursing and human resources.

• Successfully implementing joint bedside report on a med/surg unit 

  November 28, 2011 | Expert Perspective | Nursing Executive Center

  Jennifer Stewart, the Center's practice manager, interviewed Donna Morehead, nurse manager at Baylor Medical Center at Irving, about her strategies for successfully conducting joint bedside reports on a critical care unit.

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Research

• Instilling Frontline Accountability

  September 20, 2011 | Study | Nursing Executive Center
  

  Best practices to enhance frontline nurse investment in key organizational goals.

• Nurse-Led Strategies for Reducing Avoidable Readmissions

  July 11, 2011 | Study | Nursing Executive Center
  

  Best practices for preventing avoidable readmissions by equipping patients for long-term self-management and enabling smooth transfers to post-acute care settings.

• Preventing Avoidable Hospital Admissions

  April 1, 2011 | Study | Nursing Executive Center
  

  To help hospital-based nurse executives play an active role in guiding primary care investment decisions, we offer an executive framework for preventing unnecessary acute care episodes.

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Tools & Analytics

• Dynamic Magnet Crosswalk

  October 27, 2009 | Tool | Nursing Executive Center
  

  Interactive, online crosswalk enables nursing leaders to quickly map Center resources to Magnet components and subcomponents.

• Critical Thinking Diagnostic

  June 25, 2010 | Tool | Nursing Executive Center
  

  Evaluation of nurse performance across 25 critical thinking competencies to help nursing leaders provide the front line with actionable performance information and triage investment in advancing critical thinking skills.

• Nursing Practice Readiness Tool
  

  February 24, 2009 | Tool | Nursing Executive Center
  

  Survey of perceptions of new graduate performance across 36 key competencies enables nursing leaders to identify targeted opportunities for enhancing new graduate nurse performance.

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Multimedia

• Building a culture of shared accountability 

  October 27, 2011 | Video | Nursing Executive Center

  Jennifer Stewart discusses the three aspects critical to establishing frontline peer accountablity.

• Achieving excellence in cross-continuum care

  September 27, 2011 | Video | Nursing Executive Center

  Learn the action steps nurse executives should take now to deliver efficient and effective care across the continuum.

• Building a highly productive nursing organization

  October 18, 2010 | Multimedia | Nursing Executive Center
  

  Access individual best practices critical to building a highly productive nursing organization presented in an interactive format.

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Products & Services

• Nursing Executive Center

  Research membership providing nursing administrators with the surveys, tools, and best practice insights needed to address key challenges.

• Optilink

  Technology-driven tool for managing workload, schedules, and productivity using actual patient demand.