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January 13, 2006
This week's issue of AONE eNews Update is made possible in part by the support of RSI OnSite.
EDITOR'S NOTE: AONE offices will be closed on Monday, January 16, in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
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AONE AND ALERTNESS SOLUTIONS TO LAUNCH SLEEP SURVEY ON JANUARY 17.
Watch your e-mail next week for your invitation to participate in an exciting new survey that will examine issues related to sleep and fatigue and their impact on work-related outcomes. AONE encourages your participation in this important survey that is being conducted in collaboration with Alertness Solutions, a scientific consulting firm in northern California, and funded by Neurocrine-Pfizer. Access to the survey will be available beginning on January 17 and will end on January 29. Your participation in this survey will provide important data beneficial for all of us in healthcare. We would appreciate it if you would share the survey with nursing professionals within your hospital.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation and support.
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1. Blue Cross Donation to Address Nursing Shortage.
2. Study Shows Increasing Nursing Staff Improves Safety and Quality in Hospitals.
3. JCR Receives RWJF Grant to Develop Communication Training for Nurses, Physicians.
4. AHRQ Releases 2005 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports.
5. Nation's Emergency Care System Needs Urgent Attention.
6. National Study Evaluates Electronic Reporting of Medical Errors and Adverse Events.
7. Limited Space Available in 2006-2007 Class of Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship.
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1. BLUE CROSS DONATION TO ADDRESS NURSING SHORTAGE. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida has donated $1.2 million to the universities of North Florida and Florida to help address critical issues in nursing education, reports the Jacksonville Business Journal. Each university will receive $600,000 from the Jacksonville-based insurance company and the state of Florida will provide matching funds of $420,000 to each university, bringing the total in gifts and grants to more than $2 million. The BCBSF gift will enable UNF to hire a professor to work with a database that will help schedule clinical rotations for all schools and healthcare organizations in the Jacksonville area. At UF, the money will be used to expand the North Florida Ph.D. Consortium, a program that uses cost-effective distance technology to enable several Florida universities to access doctoral-level nursing education.
2. STUDY SHOWS INCREASING NURSING STAFF IMPROVES SAFETY AND QUALITY IN HOSPITALS. A study published in the January/February 2006 issue of the journal Health Affairs concludes that increasing the number of registered nurses and hours of nursing care per patient would save 6,700 lives and 4 million days of patient care in hospitals each year. The research also finds that for hospitals using both RNs and licensed practical nurses, greater use of RNs appears to pay for itself in fewer patient deaths, reduced lengths of hospital stay and decreased rates of hospital-linked complications such as urinary arrest and upper gastrointestinal bleeding.
3. JCR RECEIVES ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION GRANT TO DEVELOP COMMUNICATION TRAINING FOR NURSES, PHYSICIANS. Joint Commission Resources (JCR) has announced receipt of a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to develop a training series that will help nurses and medical staff members improve patient safety through better communication. JCR is an affiliate of Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. The JCR project will develop educational materials for nurses, physicians and other clinical professionals to encourage effective communication within their respective disciplines and across professions. The communication training series will include presentation materials, trainer guidelines, group- and individual-participant materials, and video scenarios about patient safety. The series, which is expected to be available for use in hospitals by the fall of 2007, will also include a website featuring a bulletin-board system and downloadable resources.
4. AHRQ RELEASES 2005 NATIONAL HEALCARE QUALITY AND DISPARITIES REPORTS. Quality of health care for Americans has continued to improve at a modest pace, and health care disparities are narrowing overall for many minority Americans. But for Hispanics, disparities have widened in both quality of care and access to care, according to reports by HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The findings are contained in the 2005 National Healthcare Quality Report and its companion document, the 2005 National Healthcare Disparities Report. These reports, issued annually, measure quality and disparities in four key areas of health care: effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, and patient centeredness. The quality report employs a wide range of measures, including health care outcomes such as hospital-acquired infections and reductions in deaths from certain diseases. It also measures how well the health care system is using specific treatments that are known to work most effectively. The disparities report compares these measures by race and ethnicity and by income. It also measures access to care, using indicators such as health insurance status and frequency of visits to a physician. This year, for the first time, the report also shows trends in health care disparities from year to year. The AHRQ reports are available online at http://www.qualitytools.ahrq.gov/
5. NATION'S EMERGENCY CARE SYSTEM NEEDS URGENT ATTENTION. The state of emergency care in America received low marks in a report released this week by an objective panel of emergency medical experts. The first-ever National Report Card on the State of Emergency Medicine finds an emergency care system characterized by overcrowding, declining access to care, soaring liability costs and a poor capacity to deal with public health or terrorist disasters. The nation's emergency medical care system received an overall grade of C-, which represents the average grades for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Read the complete report on the American College of Emergency Physicians website.
6. NATIONAL STUDY EVALUATES ELECTRONIC REPORTING OF MEDICAL ERRORS AND ADVERSE EFFECTS. About 34,000 patients a year could be seriously or permanently injured or die during hospitalization because of medical errors and adverse events, according to results from a multi-year survey of reports from hospitals using electronic adverse-event or error-reporting systems. The findings, based on a study designed and managed by Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston, come from analyses of 2.5 million patient days in 26 acute-care hospitals across the United States. The full study, funded partly by grants from the Ruth Kirschstein Individual National Research Service Award and the Agency for Health Research and Quality, will appear in the February 2006 issue of The Journal of General Internal Medicine. To read the study, go to www.blackwellpublishing.com.
7. LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE IN 2006-2007 CLASS OF PATIENT SAFETY LEADERSHIP FELLOWSHIP. The Health Research and Educational Trust (HRET) is still accepting applications for their acclaimed Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship. Applications are available at www.hretfellowships.org. Health care leaders are invited to apply, or to refer colleagues who would benefit from the program. The Fellowship is an intensive, year-long educational program for senior health care leaders, focused on advancing cultures of safety and promoting breakthroughs in patient care. HRET and the National Patient Safety Foundation sponsor the Fellowship in partnership with the AHA, Health Forum, American Organization of Nurse Executives, American Society for Healthcare Risk Management, and Society of Hospital Medicine. For more information, go to www.hretfellowships.org, e-mail fellowships@aha.org, or call Dawn Haglund at (312) 422-2625.
NOW AVAILABLE: AONE NURSE EXECUTIVE COMPETENCIES ASSESSMENT TOOL.
AONE is proud to announce the release of the Nurse Executive Competencies Assessment Tool. This document, while not intended to be an exhaustive list of all areas of expertise for
individual nurses in executive practice, illustrates how complex and important their roles have become. Nursing leadership/management is as much a specialty as any clinical nursing specialty. As such, it requires proficiency and competent practice specific to the executive role. The AONE Nurse Executive Competencies sets the standard for that practice. This tool can be accessed on AONE's website (see the 'AONE Resources' section on the homepage).
 LOOKING FOR DETAILS ON AONE'S 2006 ANNUAL MEETING AND EXPOSITION? Then visit the Annual Meeting website! This complete guide provides everything you need to know--from information on the educational sessions to travel/lodging to the great things to see and do in Orlando, Florida. Be sure to bookmark the site and visit often to get the latest details on nursing leadership's premier event of the year!
AONE EDUCATION CALENDAR
| Dates |
Event |
For More Information |
| January 22-26, 2006 |
Illinois Organization of Nurse Leaders
14th Annual Midwestern Institute for Nursing Leadership
Evanston, IL |
www.ionl.org
(847) 251-1400, x0 |
| February 5-8, 2006 |
Association of California Nurse Leaders
Annual Conference
Los Angeles, CA |
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, 2006 |
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 |
www.njha.com
(609) 275-4011 |
| 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 |
AONE 2006 Annual Meeting & Exposition
American Organization of Nurse Executives
Orlando, FL |
www.aone.org
(312) 422-2800 |
| April 26-28, 2006 |
Wisconsin Organization of Nurse Executives
Annual Convention
Wisconsin Dells, WI
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www.w-one.org
(608) 268-1806 |
| April 28, 2006 |
Minnesota Organization of Leaders in Nursing
Spring Conference
Minneapolis, MN |
www.moln.org
(651) 633-6475 |
| May 11-12, 2006 |
University of Michigan School of Nursing
Leadership Conference
Ann Arbor, MI |
www.nursing.umich.edu
(734) 615-8752
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Here are this week's featured job opportunities:
Administrator, Cardiac and Vascular Services, Chico, CANEW!
Administrative Director, Behavioral Health Services Ft Lauderdale, FL
Assistant Vice President, Peri-Operative Services, Baltimore, MD
Associate Chief Nursing Officer, Tallahassee, FL NEW!
Associate Director/Director, H*Works, Washington, DC
Chief Clinical Officer, Houston, TXNEW!
Chief Nurse Executive, Coastal Maine
Chief Nursing Officer, Fayetteville, ARNEW!
Chief Nursing Executive/VP Patient Care, Watertown, NY
Chief Nursing Officer, Northern Arkansas
Chief Nursing Officer, Central/Southern California
Chief Nursing Officer, San Jose, CA
Chief Nursing Officer, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Chief Nursing Officer, Lexington, KY
Chief Nursing Officer, Middle South
Chief Nursing Officer, Opelousas, LA
Chief Nursing Officer, Central NH
Chief Nursing Officer, Littleton, NH
Chief Nursing Officer, Nashville, TN vacinity
Chief Nursing Officer, Corpus Christi, TX
Chief Nursing Officer, Dallas, TX
Chief Nursing Officer, San Antonio, TX
Chief Nursing Officer, Draper, UT
Chief Nursing Officer, Salt Lake City, UTNEW!
Chief Nursing Officer/VP, Patient Care Services, Plattsburgh, NY
Clinical Director Regulatory Compliance/Infection, Pittsburgh, PA
Director and Chief Executive Officer, Ann Arbor, MI NEW!
Director, Cardiovascular Services, Pacific Northwest/Washington
Director, Clinical Operations, Greensboro, NC
Director, Clinical Services, Newton, MA
Director, Emergency Department, Pittsburgh, PA
Director, Health Services, Houston, TX
Director, Health Services, Seattle, WA
Director, Maternal and Child Health Services, Erie, PA
Director, Nursing Practice and Development, Grand Rapids, MI
Director, Nursing Practice and Education, Grand Junction, CO
Director, Orthopedics/Neurology/Rehab, Southern CA
Director Surgical Services, Voorhees (Camden County), NJ
Director, Surgical Services, Pacific Northwest
Director, Professional Services, Brentwood, TN
Director of Emergency Services, Kansas City, KS NEW!
Director of Nursing--Medical Surgical Product Line, Grand Junction, CO
Director of Nursing Operations, Salt Lake City, UT
Director of Nursing Practice and Education, Salt Lake City, UT
Director of Nursing Services, Northwest US
Director of Performance Improvement & Risk, Sharon, CT
Director of Professional Nursing Practice, Grand Rapids, MI
Director of Quality & Performance Improvement, Columbus, GA
Director of Surgical Services, Sharon, CT
Executive Director of Ortho/Rehab/Neuro, Southern IN
Nurse Manager Orthopedics, Cedar Rapids, IANEW!
Nurse Managers - Outpatient Clinics, Chicago, IL
Nursing Director, Medical Surgical & Obstetrics, Langhorne, Pennsylvania
Online Nursing Adjunct Position, anywhere (telecommuting)
Patient Care Administrator, Juneau, AK
Patient Care Dir - 3A/Psych, Northern Virginia / Suburban Washington DC
Patient Care Management Opportunity, Miami, FL NEW!
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
Service Line Director, Critical Care, Washington state NEW!
Service Line Director, Women's Services, Eugene, OR
Vice President of Clinical Services, Great Falls, MT
Vice President of Nursing, Titusville, FL
Vice President, Acute Care Services/Chief Nursing Officer, Central MO
Vice President, Nursing, Media PA
Vice President, Patient Care Services, Buffalo, NY
Learn about these and and more than 50 additional job opportunities--including CNO and
VP-level positions--in the AONE Online Job Center.
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