Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicators in Public Health - 2012
The Research Question
“How is Public Health Nursing quality measured?”
- Search strategy
- Search results
- Findings of included studies
- Limitations of included studies
- Recommendations
Governance
Staff Mix: Decision-making Framework for Quality Nursing Care - 2012
This framework is intended to guide decision-making about staff mix through four phases: assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation.
Reducing Health Disparities: How Can Health System Structure Contribute - 2012
This paper develops, based on Canadian experiences, a picture of what organizational form would be effective for the health sector to do its part in reducing health disparities. The purpose is to inform discusiion and analysis of how to organize Ontario's health-care system to increase the potential for reducing health disparities, in the context of any possible reorganizing of Local Health Integrated Networks (LHINs).
Building Capacity for Evidence Informed Decision Making in Public Health: A Case Study of Organizational Change - 2012
Core competencies for public health in Canada require proficiency in evidence informed decision making (EIDM). However, decision makers often lack access to information, many workers lack knowledge and skills to conduct systematic literature reviews, and public health settings typically lack infrastructure to support EIDM activities. This research was conducted to explore and describe critical factors and dynamics in the early implementation of one public health unit’s strategic initiative to develop capacity to make EIDM standard practice.
Senior Nursing Leadership – Capacity Building at the Global Level - 2012
Background: The International Council of Nurses (ICN) and its member National Nurses Associations have for some time recognized the need and potential for a global level leadership development opportunity for senior and executive level nurses. Through ICN’s international health policy influencing activities and experience in the delivery of national and national association leadership development programmes, the need for more senior level global leadership development was increasingly evident.
Global Nurse Leader Perspectives on Health Systems and Workforce Challenges - 2012
Aim: As part of the 2011 annual American Organization of Nurse Executives conference held in San Diego, California, a session was presented that focused on nursing workforce and health systems challenges from a global perspective. This article includes content addressed during the session representing nurse leader perspectives from the UK, Singapore and the USA.
Background: Recent events in global economic markets have highlighted the interdependence of countries.
Nursing Leadership . . . From the Boardroom to the Bedside 2012
Nurses running hospitals is not new. Florence Nightingale could be considered the first hospital administrator. What is changing is the growth of RN chief executive officers (CEOs), from 10% in 2004 to 18% in 2010. Furthermore, nearly 20% of chief nursing officers (CNOs) aspire to be CEOs. Is this a natural growth of CNO to vice president of patient care services to chief operating officer . . . to RN CEO?
The research on RN CEOs is very small.
The Pivotal Role of Nurse Managers, Leaders and Educators in Enabling Excellence in Nursing Care - 2012
The aims of this paper are to present the findings from a discursive analysis of key issues associated with providing excellence in nursing care; and to provide an exemplar framework to support excellence in nursing care and describe the potential benefits when excellence in nursing care occurs.
International Profiles of Health Care Systems - 2012
This publication presents overviews of the health care systems of Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Japan, Iceland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. Each overview covers health insurance, public and private financing, health system organization, quality of care, health disparities, efficiency and integration, care coordination, use of health information technology, use of evidence-based practice, cost containment, and recent reforms and innovations.
Submission to the CNA National Expert Commission on Transforming the Health-Care System - 2011
RNAO Recommendations to the CNA National Expert Commission on Transforming the Health-Care System.
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