Press Ganey, Building a High-Performing Workforce

Written by Barbara Reilly, Press Ganey’s SVP for Employee, Nurse and Physician Engagement, this paper outlines the core principles of engagement and delivers an effective, data-driven method to establish engagement tiers, measure action planning readiness and enact sustainable, meaningful change. Insights detailed in this paper provide innovative approaches to create a culture that drives positive patient experiences, retains top talent and unites employees around organizational goals to reduce patient suffering.

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Press Ganey, 2018 Press Ganey Nursing Special Report- Optimizing the Nursing Workforce: Key Drivers of Intent to Stay for Newly Licensed and Experienced Nurses

The report delivers actionable insights and targeted strategies for maintaining a robust, engaged nursing workforce that is essential to the delivery of safe, high-quality, patient-centered care.

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Organization of Nurse Leaders, Nursing Summit 2020 Report

In January 2020, the Organization of Nurse Leaders (ONL) and the American Nurses Association – Massachusetts sponsored a Nursing Summit in central Massachusetts to bring nurses together and to develop their leadership skills by using stories to drive change. This was the second annual Nursing Summit organized by ONL, and it was co-led by a number of diverse professional nursing organizations from the New England region. The Nursing Summit focused on engaging clinical nurses and leaders alike in learning how to use stories to advance influence.

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Organization of Nurse Leaders, Nursing Summit 2019 Report

In January 2019, ONL led ten nursing organizations through a Nursing Summit in central Massachusetts to bring nurses together, hear their concerns and feedback, and enhance trust among nurses. The Nursing Summit focused on engaging clinical nurses, listening, and elevating their voice.

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Organization of Nurse Leaders, Nursing Summit 2019 Follow-up Survey Report

In January 2019, ONL, together with nine other professional nursing organizations led a first-of-its-kind Nursing Summit in central Massachusetts that brought together 380 Registered Nurses to hear their concerns and feedback and enhance trust among nurses. With a robust amount of data from the Nursing Summit, ONL sought to gain further understanding and insight from Nursing Summit participants by conducting an online survey of attendees.

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New England Journal of Medicine, The Path Forward — An Antiracist Approach to Academic Medicine

Reversing the effects of hundreds of years of racism is a daunting undertaking, but academic medicine can begin by adopting an antiracist approach to training and supporting physicians centered on three main goals: adequate representation, increased power and influence, and the transfer of institutional wealth and resources.

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New England Journal of Medicine, Health Care Equity: From Fragmentation to Transformation

Achieving health equity is increasingly understood to be an essential priority for providers and for organizations throughout the larger health care system. The authors describe a four-tier model that offers a pragmatic framework to establish measurements that will advance equity for both the patients and the staff of the health care provider organization.

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Journal of Nursing Administration, Nurse Engagement in Shared Governance and Patient and Nurse Outcomes

The objectives of this study were to examine differences in nurse engagement in shared governance across hospitals and to determine the relationship between nurse engagement and patient and nurse outcomes.

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Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Framework for Improving Joy in Work

This white paper is intended to serve as a guide for health care organizations to engage in a participative process where leaders ask colleagues at all levels of the organization, “What matters to you?” — enabling them to better understand the barriers to joy in work, and co-create meaningful, high-leverage strategies to address these issues.

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HR Pulse Magazine, Enhancing the Engagement Strategy at Mayo Clinic

The complex radiology department at Mayo Clinic includes 1,200 employees, 200 physicians and physicists, 80 work units and 14 specialty divisions. To understand the diverse perspectives to cultivate joy in the workplace, various employees met to discuss practical interventions that could be deployed to improve employee joy at work.

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