TONL Monthly

University of Texas at Arlington is now offering new certificate courses in nursing administration. Click below for more information on the new Certificate in Nursing Administration as well as the new Post Master's Certificate in Nursing Administration.

The purpose of this writing is to bring awareness to the value of knowledge and application of Human Factor Science to the practice of nursing leadership and management. In health care, significant errors exact substantial toll in terms of financial costs as well as human life. A variety of factors contribute to medical errors, recognized among them are missed care, avoidable delays, administration of wrong medications, wrong site surgery, improper use of technology, equipment failure and failure in communications.

Read this month's Nurses on Boards Coalition newsletter by clicking on the link below.

By Denene Brox, Minority Nurse
Many people feel called into nursing careers. Nurses get the unique opportunity to directly serve people in achieving better health. But while nursing offers many rewards, the stress of the job can also lead to burnout. Left unchecked, career burnout can drive even the most dedicated nurses to leave the profession altogether.

Healthcare professionals in all disciplines are called upon frequently to deal with unique and difficult patient situations. As nurses, you spend more time with patients than any other profession and deal with difficult patient situations frequently because of the front line position you hold within healthcare. Situations can arise from a simple patient question or information from a medical record that gives you pause or concern.

Daily Nurse's Nurse of the Week is Frank Baez, who recently shared his journey from working as a janitor at New York University (NYU) to graduating from the university’s nursing program over 10 years later. Baez moved to New York from the Dominican Republic at 15 years old where he found a job working as a janitor at NYU’s Langone Tisch Hospital. This spring, he graduated from the school’s nursing program at 29 years old. 

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!

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!

Join TONE June 11, 2019 at 12 PM CST for a webinar on developing critical thought in leadership as a reflective experience that occurs physiologically through neuro-pathways in the brain. Reflection supporting critical thought, seems to elude the quick pace of day to day management activity. Often managers spend their day responding to urgent needs, multi-tasking along the way. Reflection for the sake of critical thinking becomes a rarity. However, there is an added risk to the development of critical thought that is far greater than what happens in the environmental work world. It is a risk you will find right in front of your eyes and at your fingertips. The threat is to the inner-working of the brain from constant contact and essential dependence on Internet interaction. In health care we use the internet to access patient records, analyze data, orient new employees, teach patients, provide in-service to staff, and communicate with colleagues. The Internet is used for every matter of business under the “health care sun” from accreditation to proposals of funding and research. We cannot escape the necessary use of the Internet. It has become a global phenomenon.

Now more than ever, providers are communicating with patients outside the walls of the hospital and the physician's office. Emerging technologies enable healthcare professionals to reach patients on their digital devices — encouraging them to work regularly at improving their overall well-being and positively influencing their health outcomes. With these new patient engagement technologies, providers can deliver care to patients outside of traditional care settings, while at the same time bolstering quality, safety and patient satisfaction.

After a survey by the state department of public health of a skilled nursing facility, violations of Medicare and Medicaid’s regulations were discovered. These included a failure to protect a resident from abuse and failure to implement adopted policies on abuse/neglect. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) held that these deficiencies placed residents in “immediate jeopardy.”

Using the banner, “4 Million Reasons to Celebrate,” the American Nurses Association took time out during National Nurses Week, May 6-12, to recognize nurses across the country. Each year for the past two decades, the Houston Chronicle has joined in this celebration with its annual Salute to Nurses, selecting 15 nurses from around the city who have been nominated by their peers, patients, physicians, administrators, family and/or friends for their outstanding contributions to the profession.