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Using Visual and Narrative Methods to Achieve Fair Process in Clinical Care

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Published on: February 16, 2011

Improving professional practice through certification.

Sharon M Valente¹

¹Research and Education, Nursing Center for Learning, Innovation, and Research, Veterans Affairs, Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, USA. sharon.valente@med.va.gov

Journal for Nurses in Staff Development : JNSD : Official Journal of the National Nursing Staff Development Organization

|October 2, 2010

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Nursing certification enhances practice quality and knowledge. It improves patient and nurse satisfaction, quality of care, and reduces registered nurse vacancies, while increasing adverse drug event reporting.

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Using Visual and Narrative Methods to Achieve Fair Process in Clinical Care

Using Visual and Narrative Methods to Achieve Fair Process in Clinical Care

Published on: February 16, 2011

Area of Science:

Nursing Education
Healthcare Quality Improvement
Professional Development in Nursing

Background:

Ensuring quality of practice and current nursing knowledge is crucial.
Professional certification is a recognized mechanism for maintaining standards.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate the impact of nursing certification review courses.
Assess effects on patient satisfaction, quality of care, adverse drug events (ADEs), and registered nurse (RN) vacancies.

Main Methods:

Design and implementation of certification review courses.
Evaluation of key performance indicators including satisfaction, quality metrics, ADE rates, and RN vacancy rates.

Main Results:

Certification correlated with improved patient and nurse satisfaction.
Enhanced quality of care and increased reporting of ADEs by nurses were observed.
Certification showed an inverse correlation with RN vacancies, indicating a reduction.

Conclusions:

Nursing certification enhances nurses' knowledge, productivity, and quality of care.
Certification positively impacts patient and nurse satisfaction.
Certification effectively decreases registered nurse vacancies.