Leadership

As we discussed in Engagement Part 1: What It Means For Your Organization, the consequences of low employee engagement on organizations can impact a range of areas from quality, patient experience, safety, turnover, productivity, and financial performance.  And while compassion fatigue can be a hazard of nursing, there are strategies leaders can employee to engage

According to the American Nursing Association, nurse engagement is best described as a nurse’s commitment to their profession, organization, job, and overall job satisfaction. More often than not, we tend to focus on the more obvious consequences of unengaged nurses and the impact on quality, patient experience and critical safety which do have very real

It should come as no surprise by now that research has repeatedly shown that teams made up of members from diverse backgrounds outperform teams composed of homogenous backgrounds overall. And while every leader aims to hire the most capable employees to create the strongest team possible, one aspect of diversity that is often overlooked is

What specifically constitutes staff bullying? According to the American Nurses Association, bullying is defined as the practice of using “repeated, unwanted harmful actions intended to humiliate, offend and cause distress in the recipient”.  At first, the idea of nurses using intimidation techniques against each other seems to completely go against the notion of nurses as