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Karlene M Kerfoot

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The power of collaboration with patient safety programs: building safe passage for patients, nurses, and clinical staff.

Patient safety is a relatively new field, with many opinions and few effectively proven approaches. One factor is clear: optimal patient safety outcomes cannot be achieved in isolation. Although it is well recognized that multidisciplinary collaboration in the healthcare setting is necessary to effect patient safety, collaboration with resources external to healthcare-academia and industry in particular-will not only aid but also quicken the patient safety efforts. The authors outline a healthcare system's use of all available resources to build a patient safety program.

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The synergy model: the ultimate mentoring model.

Clarian Health Partners is a system that includes Methodist Hospital of Indiana, Indiana University Hospital, and Riley Hospital for Children. The nurses of Clarian Health Partners are the recipients of many national awards for their leadership and innovations in critical care. Nurse leaders at Clarian have developed and implemented a unique framework for professional development based on the synergy model. In this article, the Chief Nurse Executive for the System, Dr. Karlene Kerfoot, and Marilyn Cox, the Senior Vice President for Nursing and Patient Care at Riley Hospital for Children, describe their vision of and strategies for a new approach to mentoring professional nursing staff.

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Keeping nurses in nursing: the executive's challenge.

A view of the nursing shortage from the perspective of a nurse executive proposes that the blaming must stop and everyone must own the problem if the nursing shortage is to be corrected. Strategies that include and extend beyond a local nursing unit or institution are proposed that require everyone to invest in synergestic strategies to improve the quality of the work environment for all nurses.

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