Nursing and Interdisciplinary Team Excellence
- Moving nurses and teams from novice-to-expert
- Facilitating interdisciplinary practice and collaboration
- Fostering nurse/patient synergy:
- Creating organizational space for dialogue and reflection on excellence and compassion (See Daily Miracles: Stories and Practices of Humanity and Excellence)
- Using exemplars to inform practice
- AACN Synergy Model*
- Whole-Person Caring Model**
- Transformational leadership development
- Creating healing environments
Organizational Excellence
- Patient-focused service excellence rounds
- Survey-readiness rounds
- Tracer-method
- Review of documentation, observation of practice, interviewing
- Tracking variations in practice - Individuals and nursing units
- Clinical outcomes management
- Integrative evidence-based practice***
- Facilitating leadership critical reflection, conversation and dialogue around excellence and compassion
*American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, Aliso Viejo, California. www.aacn.org.
** Adapted from Thornton, Gold, and Watkins (2002) Whole person caring: An interdisciplinary model for health care practice. International Journal for Human Caring, 6 (2), 38-47.
***Working from multiple research and evidence paradigms to create an optimal knowledge base for clinical excellence.
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