VOICE | July 2021

How do you measure the value of nursing? Over the course of a nurse’s career, how can we quantify the impact he/she has had on unit, organizational, and patient outcomes? Should inpatient nursing care con-tinue to be bundled into the standard room-and-board charge? These are the questions that our profession has wrestled with for decades and require answers as our workforce evolves and the health care system becomes more value-based...continue reading.

Financial management and business acumen are critical to the success of nurse leaders. AONL recognized this with nurse executive competency 5A: Financial Management. Many nurse leaders learn about finance and budgeting on the job or informally through trial by fire, but nurse leaders can obtain the necessary skills for success in many ways. (AONE, AONL, 2015)...continue reading.

Novant Health, based in Winston-Salem, N.C., is a large integrated health system spanning four states with 18 acute care facilities, hundreds of outpatient centers and multiple infusion sites. Smart infusion pumps were implemented at 14 of Novant Health’s acute care clinics between late 2016 and early 2017. These pumps were initially implemented to align with best practices, improving the safety of infusion therapy...continue reading.

Society gives the nursing profession the power to self-regulate as a discipline, to grow, improve, to research and to add to its body of knowledge. In return, nursing is accountable in its contract with society, and mindful of the trust that has been given annually for at least 19 years, according to Gallup polls (Reinhart, 2020), to guard the health of the many populations that it serves (ANA, 2010)...continue reading.