Creative Solutions to Enhance Nursing Quality

The authors guide hospitals through implementing the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Magnet Recognition Program for quality improvement in hospital environments, providing evidence and solutions for transforming a hospital's work environment under real-life circumstances. The solutions are organized into chapters on creativity and innovation, project development and implementation, motivation and enculturation, and people, processes, and structures for the Magnet journey. There are also solutions for measuring and communicating outcomes, implementing evidence-based practice, turning nurses into writers, and institutionalizing nursing autonomy and professional development. Each chapter includes background on the issue, plus two step-by-step solutions, one for those beginning the Magnet journey and one for more advanced practitioners. Each solution includes icons noting financial and personnel resources and time needed. The audience for the book includes Magnet program directors, performance improvement coordinators, and quality managers, as well as nursing administrators, nurse managers, and healthcare educators. Boxer is director of nursing quality and the Magnet program at South Jersey Healthcare. Goldfarb is a cardiology nurse practitioner at Pennsylvania Presbyterian Medical Center. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)