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December 9, 2005
This week's issue of AONE eNews Update is made possible in part by the support of Vanderbilt University.
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AONE INSTITUTE AWARD & RECOGNITION PROGRAM NOMINATIONS DUE
DECEMBER 12!
The AONE Institute is accepting nominations for the 2006 Award & Recognition program for awards that honor outstanding nurse leaders and AONE Chapters, as well as provide scholarships in the amount of $2,500 for AONE members who are currently enrolled in Masters or PhD programs in nursing administration. Click here for the application.
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1. RWJF and NWHF Launch Initiative to Address Nursing Issues in Communities Nationwide.
2. NCHL Study to Focus on Nursing Leadership.
3. Aetna Grants $500K for Minority Nurse Training.
4. Nursing in Trouble in New Zealand.
5. Unexpected Increase in Mortality with Use of CPOE Systems.
6. Economic Disparities Widen Gap in Health Care Access.
7. Quality Health Foundation Announces Call for Proposals.
8. U.S. Prepares for Bird Flu Pandemic.
9. IOM Issues Report on Health Care Performance Measures.
10. JCAHO Issues Proposed New Patient Safety Goals for 2007.
11. JCAHO, JCR Issue Guide on Surge Hospitals.
AONE News and Resources
AONE Online Career Center
1. RWJF AND NWHF LAUNCH INITIATIVE TO ADDRESS NURSING ISSUES IN COMMUNITIES NATIONWIDE. To ameliorate the myriad challenges contributing to the nation's nursing shortage, the Northwest Health Foundation (NWHF) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) have together developed a new initiative, Partners Investing in Nursing's Future, that will support partnerships led by local foundations to address the most pressing nursing issues in their communities. The call for proposals issued for this five-year, $10-million initiative encourages local or regional foundations to collaborate with nurses, workforce investment boards and community organizations to develop projects that can serve as the building blocks for the comprehensive approach that is vital to establishing a stable, adequate nursing workforce. The Partners Investing in Nursing's Future call for proposals is available at www.rwjf.org/ and www.nwhf.org/. Brief proposals are due by February 16, 2006.
2. NCHL STUDY TO FOCUS ON NURSING LEADERSHIP. The National Center for Healthcare Leadership (NCHL) has received a $380,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study the role and responsibility of nurse leaders within senior management teams of hospitals and health systems. With this new initiative, the NCHL will assess the effectiveness of senior leadership teams in 15 organizations participating in a learning collaborative in order to enhance the visibility and importance of nursing leadership and nursing. The project will use evidence-based leadership development methods to improve senior leadership team effectiveness as a predicate to achieve quality and patient safety performance goals in hospitals and health systems. For more information, visit the NCHL website at http://www.nchl.org/.
3. AETNA GRANTS $500K FOR MINORITY NURSE TRAINING. Aetna's Walnut Creek,CA-based Western region recently announced a $500,000 grant to Adventist Health System to help train minority nursing students at four of the system's California hospitals faced with nursing shortages. The grant will cover tuition, books and supplies for two years. Recipients will commit to working at an Adventist Health hospital for at least three years after graduation. The four hospitals targeted by the Aetna program, all in areas with large minority populations, include National City's Paradise Valley Hospital, White Memorial Medical Center in Los Angeles, Bakersfield's San Joaquin Community Hospital, and Hanford Community Medical Center in Hanford. Seven local nursing colleges are participating in the program. (SOURCE: San Francisco Business Times, December 2, 2005)
4. NURSING IN TROUBLE IN NEW ZEALAND. Nursing is in trouble in New Zealand, where one in five new nursing graduates are leaving to work overseas and more than a third of the resident nursing workforce is over 40 years old. According to New Zealand Health Information Service statistics, less than 7 percent of New Zealand's 34,660 active registered nurses and midwives are between 25 and 29. Anecdotal evidence and low nursing graduate numbers also suggests few secondary school students are interested in nursing. (SOURCE: The New Zealand Herald, December 3, 2005)
5. UNEXPECTED INCREASE IN MORTALITY WITH USE OF CPOE SYSTEMS. Although computerized physician order-entry prescribing (CPOE) systems are thought to improve patient safety and outcomes, researchers at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh have discovered that mortality rates actually increased at their facility after implementation of a "commercially sold" CPOE. According to a report in the December issue of Pediatrics, a journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the mortality rate rose to 6.57% (36 out of 548 patients who were admitted for specialized, tertiary-level care) during the five months after implementation, from 2.8% (39 of 1,394) during the 13 months prior to implementation. Click here to read the abstract in the December issue of Pediatrics, a journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
6. ECONOMIC DISPARITIES WIDEN THE GAP IN HEALTH CARE ACCESS. As health care gobbles up an ever-larger share of the U.S. economy, the inability or unwillingness to ensure equal access to high-quality health care is fueling a widening rift between rich and poor Americans, according to a study published earlier this week as a Health Affairs Web Exclusive.
According to the article, many recent health care investments and initiatives are focused on affluent communities and are accessible mainly to people with employer-based or Medicare coverage, while access to basic care for people with Medicaid or with no coverage at all is worsening in the wake of stalled coverage expansions and service cuts.
7. QUALITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES CALL FOR PROPOSALS. The Quality Health Foundation (QHF), the mission arm of Delmarva Foundation, a national not-for-profit organization committed to improving the quality of healthcare, has announced a call for proposals for the 2006 grant cycle, which will award grants to eligible organizations that work to improve healthcare for individuals and communities through measurable outcome improvement projects. In 2005, QHF awarded $250,000 to six different organizations. Projects of various types will be funded, including service demonstration programs that focus on producing high impacts on health outcomes. Projects may directly impact the lives of people in your communities or whose methods and results could be exportable to other organizations. Applications are available at www.qualityhealthfoundation.org. The deadline for 2006 proposals is January 15, 2006, and applicants will be notified in May 2006.
8. U.S. PREPARES FOR BIRD FLU PANDEMIC. Health and Human Services secretary Michael Leavitt said the government is preparing for a worst-case scenario in planning for a bird flu pandemic, projecting 92 million people could become ill, forcing schools to close and disrupting businesses. Leavitt, planning a series of meetings with state and local officials to discuss preparations for a pandemic, said "we are overdue and we are under prepared" for a pandemic. The H5N1 avian flu virus has infected 130 people in five Asian countries and killed 69 of them. But it is spreading steadily among poultry flocks from China to Ukraine, and experts fully expect it will affect birds all around the world. (SOURCE: Reuters, December 5, 2005)
9. IOM ISSUES REPORT ON HEALTH CARE PERFORMANCE MEASURES. In a report released last week, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) has recommended that Congress establish an independent board within the Department of Health and Human Services to coordinate a national system for health care performance measurement and reporting that builds on the work of key public and private organizations, including the Hospital Quality Alliance. In the first of three reports aimed at speeding implementation of a quality improvement system that measures and rewards the achievement of the six aims articulated in the 2001 IOM report "Crossing the Quality Chasm," the IOM panel also recommended that Congress fund research to address current gaps in quality measurement and reporting, test reporting formats, and evaluate the cost and care consequences of quality measurement and reporting, among other issues. The remaining reports by the IOM panel, to be released next year, will address pay-for-performance strategies and evaluate the Quality Improvement Organizations contracted by Medicare. The reports were mandated by the Medicare Modernization Act. (SOURCE: AHA News Now, December 1, 2005)
10. JCAHO ISSUES PROPOSED NEW PATIENT SAFETY GOALS FOR 2007. The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is accepting comments from the field through January 8 on five new patient safety goals proposed for JCAHO-accredited hospitals in 2007. A proposed new goal calling for hospitals to identify safety risks inherent in their patient population recasts two patient safety goals for 2006 as requirements under the new goal. Another new goal targets improved recognition and response to changes in patients' conditions. Other proposed goals call for hospitals to discourage disruptive staff behavior such as condescending language or refusal to answer questions, which can decrease morale and have a negative effect on patient safety; provide orientation to temporary or agency workers to minimize the potential for errors; and implement processes to identify health care worker fatigue that poses a threat to patient safety. A proposed new requirement for the existing goal to improve the safety of using medications calls for reducing the likelihood of patient harm associated with the use of anticoagulation therapy. (SOURCE: AHA News Now, December 1, 2005)
11. JCAHO, JCR ISSUE GUIDE ON SURGE HOSPITALS. The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and its affiliate, Joint Commission Resources, Inc. (JCR), have issued a new guide on the establishment of "surge hospitals." Surge hospitals are designed to assist a community in absorbing an overwhelming number of patients seeking care during emergencies, such as mass casualty events or infectious disease outbreaks. Such facilities provide care when permanent facilities exhaust their capacity or cannot operate because of damage or other conditions. The guide describes the different types of surge hospitals and also explore the challenges of planning for, establishing and operating these facilities. It also include case studies on five of the surge hospitals that were created along the Gulf Coast following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
 MAKE PLANS NOW TO ATTEND AONE'S 2006 ANNUAL MEETING! The brochure for the 2006 Annual Meeting & Exposition, April 19-22 in Orlando, is now available. Just click on the Annual Meeting logo for more information, including the complete program agenda, hotel and travel information, and online registration. Register now to take advantage of early-bird rates for this "can't miss" event!
REGISTRATION FOR THE ASPIRING NURSE LEADERS INSTITUTE, JANUARY 12-15, 2006, IN SCOTTSDALE, AZ IS SOLD OUT. An additional Institute has been scheduled for June 21-24, 2006. More information will be available soon. Registration opens January 9. Check the AONE website for updates on this workshop.
AONE EDUCATION CALENDAR
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Dates
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Event
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For More Information
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| January 12-15, 2006 |
Aspiring Nurse Leaders Institute
American Organization of Nurse Executives
Scottsdale, AZ |
www.aone.org
(312) 422-2800 |
| January 22-26, 2006 |
Illinois Organization of Nurse Leaders
14th Annual Midwestern Institute for
Nursing Leadership
Evanston, IL
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www.ionl.org
(847) 251-1400, x0 |
| February 5-8, 2006 |
Association of California Nurse Leaders
Annual Conference
Los Angeles, CA
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www.acnl.org
(916) 552-7529 |
| February 8-9, 2006 |
Colorado Organization for Nurse Leaders
Annual Winter Symposium
Golden, CO |
robycm@aol.com |
| February 27-28 |
NICHE Leadership Conference
(Nurses Improving Care to HealthSystem Elders)
Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at NYU
New York, NY |
www.nicheprogram.org
(212) 998-5567 |
| March 8-9, 2006 |
Organization of Nurse Executives/New Jersey
Annual Meeting
Absecon, NJ
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www.njha.com
(609) 275-4011
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| April 5-6, 2006 |
Idaho Association of Leaders in Nursing
Spring Conference
Idaho Falls, ID |
www.nurseleaders.org
(208) 367-1171 |
| April 19-22, 2006 |
American Organization of Nurse Executives
2006 Annual Meeting and Exposition
Orlando, FL
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www.aone.org
(312) 422-2800 |
| April 26-28, 2006 |
Wisconsin Organization of Nurse Executives
Annual Convention
Wisconsin Dells, WI |
www.w-one.org
(608) 268-1806 |
April 28, 2006
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Minnesota Organization of Leaders in Nursing Spring Conference, Sofitel Hotel
Minneapolis, MN |
www.moln.org
(651) 633-6475 |
| May 11-12, 2006 |
University of Michigan School of Nursing
Leadership Conference
Ann Arbor, MI
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www.nursing.umich.edu
734-615-8752
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Here are this week's featured job opportunities:
Assistant Chief Nursing Executive, Anchorage, AK
Assistant Director of Nursing, West Texas
Associate Director/Director, H*Works, Washington, DC
Associate Vice President of Surgical Services, Scottsdale, AZ
Chief Nurse Executive, Falls Church, VA
Chief Nursing Executive/VP Patient Care, Watertown, NY
Chief Nursing Officer, Northern ARNEW!
Chief Nursing Officer, Kingman, AZ NEW!
Chief Nursing Officer, Central/Southern California
Chief Nursing Officer, Loxahatchee, FL
Chief Nursing Officer, Perry, FL RE-POSTED!
Chief Nursing Officer, Tucker, GA
Chief Nursing Officer, Lexington, KY
Chief Nursing Officer, Opelousas, LA NEW!
Chief Nursing Officer, Tulsa, OK
Chief Nursing Officer (Hospital), South Carolina
Chief Nursing Officer, Draper, UT
Chief Nursing Officer and Senior Vice President, Patient Care Services, Phoenix, AZ
Chief Nursing Officer/VP, Patient Care Services, Plattsburgh, NY
Director - Emergency Services, Nashville, TN
Director, Clinical Operations, Greensboro, NC
Director, Coordinated Care, WA NEW!
Director, Health Services, anywhere in U.S.
Director, Utilization Review/Management and Limited Stay, Northwest US NEW!
Director of Case Management, Augusta GA
Director of Critical Care Services, Southeastern MA
Director of Medical Surgical Services, St. Louis, MO
Director Nursing Operations, Critical Care Service, Northwest US NEW!
Director of Nursing--Medical Surgical Product Line, Grand Junction, CO
Director of Perioperative Services, Great Lakes Region, NY
Director of Professional Nursing Practice, Grand Rapids, MI
Director of Quality & Performance Improvement, Columbus, GA
Director, Medical/Surgical Nursing, Austin, TX
Director, Nursing Practice and Development, Grand Rapids, MI
Director, Patient Safety & Risk Management, Maywood, IL (Chicago)
Executive Director, Milwaukee, WI
Executive Director of Ortho/Rehab/Neuro, Southern IN
Manager Nursing - Psychiatry, Eugene, WA NEW!
Manager of Ambulatory Services, Normal, IL NEW!
NICN Nurse Manager, Charlotte, NC
Nurse Manager, Nashville, TN
Nurse Manager, Director level, Dallas, TX
Nurse Manager-ED, Richmond, VA
Nurse Manager - Orthopedics, Chicago, ILNEW!
Nurse Managers, Nationwide
Nurse Managers - Outpatient Clinics, Chicago, IL NEW!
Obstetrics/Neonatal ICU Manager, DuBois, PA
Online Nursing Adjunct Position, anywhere (telecommuting)
Patient Care Administrator, Juneau, AKNEW!
Patient Care Dir - 3A/Psych, Northern Virginia / Suburban Washington DC
Patient Safety Nurse, Tomah, WI
Performance Improvement Director - RN, Tomah, WI
Quality Management Analyst, Tomah, WI
Regional Director Health Services, Various Locations
RN Manager-Clinical Resource Services, Wilmington, NC
RN Manager-Cardiac Medical Telemetry, Wilmington, NC
RN Manager-Vascular Access & Radiology, Wilmington, NC
Senior Magnet Program Analyst, Silver Spring, MD
Vice President of Patient Care Services, Toledo, OH NEW!
Vice President, Nursing, Media PA NEW!
Vice President of Nursing, Plano, TX
Vice President, Nursing Practice and Operations, Seattle, WA
Vice President, Health Services, Houston, TX
Vice President - Patient Care Services, Willimantic, CT
Learn about these and and more than 45 additional job opportunities--including CNO and
VP-level positions--in the AONE Online Job Center.
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