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Texas Organization for Nursing Leadership

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Bob Dent, co-author of Pickle Pledge: Creating a More Positive Healthcare Culture—One Attitude at a Time, has won the prestigious Richard Hader Visionary Leader Award from Nursing Management. He is also a candidate for President-Elect of the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE).

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Barbara Cherry, DNSc, MBA, RN, NEA-BC
Professor, Associate Dean and Department Chair, Leadership Studies Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Nursing

Dr. Cherry’s original nursing degree is a diploma from Methodist Hospital School of Nursing in Lubbock, Texas. She eventually progressed through the BSN and MSN degrees and also earned a Masters of Business Administration from Texas Tech University. In 2006, she received her Doctor of Nursing Science (DNSc) degree from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Join over 200 nurse leaders and sponsor community members February 23 – 24, 2017 at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, Texas for the 2017 TONE Annual Conference. As always, the conference will offer a line-up of dynamic speakers, networking opportunities, CNE credit offerings and industry insight, with a focus on this year’s theme: "Developing Emerging Leaders: Quality, Efficiency, Education and Policy."

Visit https://www.naylornetwork.com/tne-nwl/articles/index-v2.asp?aid=422853&issueID=52902 to view the full article online.

 
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Nursing Leadership
Jennifer Thew, RN, HealthLeaders Media
Nurse leaders say the standard recruitment and retention methods of sign-on bonuses, pay increases, and retention incentives won't be effective in improving the current nursing shortage.

Visit http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/nurse-leaders/insight-report-nursing-shortages-demand-disruptive-action to view the full article online.

Sallie Jimenez, nurse.com
In nursing, salaries increased on average about 1.3% per year from 2008 to the middle of 2014, and since then the rate has gone up 2.6% per year, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Visit https://www.nurse.com/blog/2017/01/05/nursing-salaries-are-on-the-upswing/ to view the full article online.

Jennifer Thew, RN, HealthLeaders Media
Frontline managers play an important role in improving patient experience, safety, and quality of care.

Visit http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/nurse-leaders/how-listening-nursing-leaders-speeds-time-care-metrics to view the full article online.

Robert G. Hess Jr., PhD, RN, FAAN, nurse.com
I became a nurse. But then I had to figure out what kind of nurse I wanted to be.

Visit https://www.nurse.com/blog/2017/01/20/career/ to view the full article online.

Diane Goodman, ADVANCE
Determining to pursue a career in nursing may be the easiest decision you make in life.

Visit http://community.advanceweb.com/blogs/nurses_23/archive/2017/01/05/planning-a-nursing-career-through-the-long-and-short-haul.aspx to view the full article online.

Julia Quinn-Szcesuil, Minority Nurse
You’re a nurse and you probably talk all day long.

Visit http://minoritynurse.com/how-can-public-speaking-help-your-career/ to view the full article online.

Maggie Van Dyke, Hospitals & Health Networks
On her first day of work at Florida’s Memorial Hospital Miramar, Grisel Fernandez-Bravo, R.N., was given a hospital ID badge displaying her new title: chief executive officer.

Visit http://www.hhnmag.com/articles/7982-rn-ceos-gaining-favor to view the full article online.

Lee Ann Jarousse, Hospitals & Health Networks
Diversity in the C-suite and on hospital boards is critical as hospitals push forward with population health and new models of care.

Visit http://www.hhnmag.com/articles/6615-leadership-diversity-the-path-to-value-based-care to view the full article online.

Education and Events
Employ the power of online professional networking! Nurses Lounge is all about bringing nursing professionals together in a way that advances our profession. Join TONE's Lounge today! The cost is free but the value is PRICELESS!

Visit http://www.nurseslounge.com/lounges/profile/50917/texas-organization-of-nurse-executives to view the full article online.

Your destination for exciting Nurse Executive job opportunities and the best resource for qualified candidates within the Nurse Executive Industry. Visit the TONE Career Center today!

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Baylor University - Louise Herrington School of Nursing
Healthcare Industry
Laura Dyrda, Becker's ASC Review
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 20 to lessen the economic burden of the ACA.

Visit http://www.beckersasc.com/asc-turnarounds-ideas-to-improve-performance/14-healthcare-thought-leaders-on-president-trump-s-executive-order-on-the-aca.html to view the full article online.

Jacqueline Belliveau, RevCycle Intelligence
Over 120 healthcare industry groups, including hospitals, healthcare systems, payers, and professional organizations, recently urged the Trump administration and Congress to not discontinue or slow the transition to value-based care.

Visit http://revcycleintelligence.com/news/industry-orgs-urge-lawmakers-to-continue-value-based-care-push to view the full article online.

Practice and Patient Care
Nancy J. Brent, MS, JD, RN, nurse.com
A reader submitted a question about using her experience with electronic health records, her clinical practice and her background in risk management to develop a niche focusing on EHRs and the legal issues therein to improve patient safety.

Visit https://www.nurse.com/blog/2017/01/19/nursing-informatics-and-patient-safety-a-vital-partnership/ to view the full article online.

Debra M. Foster, ADVANCE
Consider a scenario that is all too familiar: You arrive for your regular shift in the medical intensive care unit (MICU).

Visit http://nursing.advanceweb.com/Features/Articles/Intervening-in-Sepsis-Can-Nurses-Do-More.aspx to view the full article online.

HospiMedica
A new study mined a number of large routinely collected hospital data sets in an attempt to reveal relationships between nurse staffing and patient outcome variables, such as safety factors.

Visit http://www.hospimedica.com/patient-care/articles/294767568/nurse-staffing-levels-linked-to-patient-outcomes.html to view the full article online.

Dawna Martich, MSN, RN, DailyNurse
Telenursing is a care delivery method that has been used for decades.

Visit http://dailynurse.com/look-telenursing/ to view the full article online.

Rick Hellman, Medical Xpress
Modern hospital design—with all-private patient rooms, larger units and decentralized nursing stations – has raised concerns about nurses walking long distances and failing to maintain proximity to patients.

Visit https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-01-decentralized-nursing.html to view the full article online.

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UTHealth
Members in the News
Olivia Nguyen, D Healthcare Daily
Texas Health Fort Worth’s neurosurgical intensive care unit earned a silver-level Beacon Award for Excellence by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses for its successful patient outcomes and unit performance.

Visit http://healthcare.dmagazine.com/2017/01/24/texas-health-fort-worth-is-first-hospital-in-state-recognized-for-neurosurgical-icu-care/ to view the full article online.

Megan Wood, Becker's Hospital Review
Sworn in on Jan. 3, 2017, the 115th U.S. Congress includes three nurses. These veteran congresswomen include Reps. Karen Bass, APRN, Diane Black, RN, and Eddie Bernice Johnson, BSN.

Visit http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-management-administration/115th-us-congress-includes-3-nurses.html to view the full article online.

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