AONL Foundation awards research grant

The AONL Foundation for Nursing Leadership Research and Education recently awarded research funding to Kelley Kostich, RN, a PhD candidate at University of Missouri, Kansas City, to investigate the nurse leader's role in patient experience, safety and clinician well-being. Kostich, who is administrative director of nursing operations at Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital in St. Louis, Mo., will study the relationship between staff nurses' perceptions of nurse manager caring behaviors and patient satisfaction. This study is made possible by a gift from Strategic Partners, Inc.