Nursing Ideas

Judith Oulton International Nursing Leadership and Perspectives on Health Human Resources

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Judith Oulton

Frances Bloomberg International Distinguished Visiting Professor – University of Toronto

Sitting down with Judith Oulton, the former CEO of the Internaitonal Council of Nurses. We talk about her experience and how she came to the role and her current work on global health human resources. She is an incredible nursing leader and this interview provides sage advice like on international like taking “the right attidue & an understanding that you gain so much as well.”

Resources Mentioned:

• Judith Oulton’s talk at University of Toronto on Health Human Resources [video]
• ICN Competencies of Nurses Specialists [PDF]
• ICN International Nursing Leadership Institute
• Joint Learning Initiative: Human Resources for health: Overcoming the crisis
• Global World Health Workforce Alliance
• Honouring the Human Rights to Health and Freedom of Movement
• Workplace initiatives: 80/20

Research

• Google Scholar Search for Lina Aiken’s research on Nursing Skill Mix
• PubMed Search for Peter’s Research

Questions

• Judith Oulton: How are you finding your clinical experience? Where are you and what can we do to help improve your clinical experience?
• Robert Fraser: Have you ever done international work, before or after being nursing school? Where and what was it and how has it impacted your nursing career?

Irmajean Bajnok Sharing Nursing Best Practice Around the World

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Irmajean Bajnok RN PhD

Director of International Affairs and Best Practice Guidelines – Registered Nurses Association of Ontario

Sitting down with Irmajean Bajnok we discuss her experience and how she came to be Director of the IA-BPG. We talk about how the BPG came to be but also about how she hopes that they are able to support nurses in the workplace and create a health work environment for them to practice in.

Recently the RNAO won the an award from Sigma Theta Tau International, for Practice Academe Innovation Collaboration, below I posted a short video I took in Indianapolis of them accepting their award. Enjoy!

Links

• RNAO Best Practice Guidelines (BPG) Professionalism in Nursing
• Health Work Environments Best Practice Guidelines
• RNAO PhD Fellowships
• Condensed Guidelines for PDA’s
• Video on Kingston General Hospital implementation of BPGs
• REISS Project
• Submit Idea for BPG & Sign up to be a BPG Stakeholder

Question

• Irmajean Bajnok: Do you have any ideas for BPG that you would find useful? How many of you have downloaded the PDA version of the guidelines?
• Robert Fraser: What format of information is best for you to use knowledge in practice (i.e print, video, audio, PDA, etc)?

NursingIdeas.ca – Update

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Hello Everyone!

This episode is different. First of all, we are finally in High Definition! Yup, that’s right I was told you enjoyed this so much that it was time to stop filming with my Macbook and take it seriously. Second there are a ton of new ideas that I have to discuss. So take a look and see what you think. Let me know if you want to collaborate because I think that it is time to really push to make this a great resource for nurses and nursing students.

All the best,

Rob Fraser

Research Advancing Practice (Part II)

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Martha Schroder RN

St. Michael’s Hospital – Toronto

Research Advancing Practice Participant

Martha Schroder was one of the first cohort of nurses participating in the RAP program. We cover her motivation for signing up and both the challenges and rewards of her experience of participating in this innovative program.

Questions

• Martha: Are you excited about working in healthcare? Are you considering research and lifelong learning?
• Rob: What is your research question? What information you want know but you don’t have access too?

Caring for the Future of Nursing

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Dr. Judy Boychuck Duchscher RN, PhD

Executive Director  – Nursing the Future

Interview with Dr. Judy Boychuck Duchscher RN, PhD about her research on the transition of new graduate nurses into the profession and what has evolved from her research.

Links

Research

• Cowin, L. , Duchscher, J.E.B. (2007). Transitional programs. In E. Chang & J. Daly (Eds.). Transition in Nursing: Preparing for professional practice, 2nd ed. NSW, Australia: Elsevier Australia.
• Cowin, L. , Duchscher, J.E.B. (2006). The new graduates’ professional inheritance. Nursing Outlook, 54(3), 152-158.
• Cowin, L. , Duchscher, J.E.B. (2006). The experience of marginalization in new nursing graduates. Nursing Outlook, 52(6), 289-296.
• Cowin, L. , Duchscher, J.E.B. (2004). Multigenerational Nurses in the Workplace. Journal of Nursing Administration, 34 (11), 1-9.
• Duchscher, J.E.B. (2008). Glimmer of hope, ripples of change: The lived experience of the new nursing graduate. Self-publication in press, July, 2008
• Duchscher, J.E.B. (2008). Transition shock: The initial stage of role adaptation for newly-graduated Registered Nurses. The Journal of Advanced Nursing, Accepted for publication, In Press, July, 2008
• Duchscher, J.E.B. (2008). A process of becoming: The stages of new graduate professional role transition. Journal of Continuing Nursing Education, 39 (10), 441-450.
• Duchscher, J.E.B. (2004). Transition to professional nursing practice: Emerging issues and initiatives In M.H. Oermann & K.T. Heinrich, Annual Review of Nursing Education (Vol 2). New York: Springer Publishing Company, Inc.
• Duchscher, J.E.B. (2003). Critical Thinking: Perceptions of Newly Graduated Female Baccalaureate Nurses. Journal of Nursing Education, 42(1), 14-27.
• Duchscher, J.E.B. (2001). Out in the Real World. Journal of Nursing Administration, 31(9), 426-439.
• Duchscher, J.E.B., Myrick, F. (2008). The prevailing winds of oppression: Understanding the new graduate experience in acute-care. Nursing Forum, 43 (4), 191-206.

Question

1. Judy: What strategies have you used to maintain that spirit that you left your educational program with? The feeling that you can change your world. Who supported you? How did they support you? What can organizations do to help you?
   
2. Rob: Nursing Students are you thinking about the transition period, and how are you preparing for it? Nurses who have gone through the transition, when did you transition and what was the experience like?
   

Advocating for the Environment

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Hilda Swirsky, RN, BScN MEd

Links

• What is the Relationship between Climate Change and Weather?
• Spare the Air Actions
• What is climate change?
• Nursing and Environmental Health
• Canadian Nurses Association’s Position Statement – The environment a determinant of Health
• Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario – Environment and Health (many links on this page)

Research

• Google Scholar: Environmental Health nurse
  

Question

1. How do you work with people who are different than you, even if they look the same as you?
2. What is an example of when culture has positively/negatively impacted your experience as a healthcare provider or recipient?

Question

1. What are you doing to increase your green involvement and decrease your carbon footprint?
2. How are the organizations you work for and are apart of reacting to climate change?