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Linda D'Angelo, MBA, MSN, RN,C, is president, American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing, Pitman, NJ, and associate administrator, Carle Clinic Association, Urbana, IL. In this interview, Ms. D'Angelo discusses the key issues facing ambulatory care and ambulatory care nursing.
Sue Hall Esleck, MSN, RN, cardiovascular case manager, AMI Brookwood Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama, received the 1994 Nursing Economic + Excellence Award. In this interview, she discusses challenges facing outcomes management, motivating staff, skill requirements for case managers, and partnership.
Susan VanDeVelde-Coke, is vice president, Health Science Center Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Pat Hosang, is vice president patient care, St. Boniface General Hospital, Winnipeg, Canada. In this interview they discuss the similarities and differences between nursing, health care, and restructuring issues in Canada and the United States.
Trauma has significantly impacted our operating rooms with increases in care costs, staffing, and procedural needs. This article presents an interview with a frontline player in perioperative trauma, a night perioperative care coordinator. The coordinator provides a look into what it is like to plan, coordinate, and give perioperative trauma care on the night shift of a level I trauma center.
Sandra C. Matherly, MA, RNC, FNP, is senior vice president, business development, and Shannon Hodges, MBA, is vice president, clinical development, Nurse On Call, Inc., Norcross, GA. Founded in 1993, Nurse on Call is a software and services company offering nursing, medical, and business expertise in setting up and operating a patient management unit using telecommunications and information systems. In this interview, Ms. Matherly and Ms. Hodges discuss the history and development of Nurse on Call, and offer advice for starting a successful nurse entrepreneur enterprise.
Nursing leaders have long advocated that nurses should take risks and begin operating their own enterprises in which patient care services are delivered. One such effort in the U.S. is being undertaken by ANNA member Patricia J. Clark, BSN, RN, CNN, a past president of the Keystone Chapter who is president and CEO of Nephrology Nursing Service, Inc. (NNSI) in Philadelphia. NNSI, which opened in the Fall of 1994, provides any nursing service related to the care of renal patients, including consultation to other professionals, hospitals, and dialysis facilities. In this interview, Clark details the challenges of forming a nurse-operated nephrology service, her relationships and dealings with other patient care providers, and her company's long-term prospects.
With health care reform initiatives sweeping America, nurses must now more than ever strive to create environments to enhance positive patient outcomes. In this interview, Beverly Malone, PhD, RN, FAAN, dean of the School of Nursing at North Carolina A & T State University in Greensboro, NC, describes nurses' roles in today's managed care climate. Dr. Malone, who will deliver the keynote address at ANNA's 26th National Symposium on June 10 in Philadelphia, discusses future recruitment of students, minority issues, transforming the nursing work force, validating nursing's worth, and the future of nursing.
Donna J. Denniston, MA, RN, is health care executive education director, Johnson & Johnson Hospital Services, Inc., Piscataway, NJ. Ms. Denniston manages the health care industry programs for key customer groups including the Johnson & Johnson-Wharton Fellows Program in Management for Nurse Executives. In this interview, she discusses the program's goals and accomplishments, as well as the important career and leadership issues facing nurse executives today.
Margaret D. Sovie, PhD, RN, FAAN, is associate deputy executive director and chief nursing officer at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. In this interview, she discusses the pursuit of nursing excellence, the changing health care environment, innovations in documentation, and professional development.
Mary Beth Pais, MNEd, RN, ONC, the recipient of the 1993 Nursing Economic$ Excellence Award, is clinical nurse manager, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Montefiore University Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA. In this interview she discusses the challenges and lessons learned from developing a work redesign model, critical paths, and the implementation of a pre-operative patient assessment and education program.
Phyllis Ethridge, MS, RN, FAAN, CNAA, is vice president, patient care services, Carondelet St. Mary's Hospital & Health Center, Tucson, AZ. In this interview she discusses challenges for nurse executives, a nursing HMO, chronic patients, and team work.
The Greater Cleveland Hospital Association Center for Health Careers Development analyzes health care manpower issues and implements action plans to assist its members with image, retention, recruitment, and other staff development initiatives. In this interview, Ellen Canepa Brzytwa and Scott Sutorius discuss their work with the Center for Health Careers Development, the nurse's presence at the decision table, and nursing leadership development.
Among Dr. Joycelyn Elders' goals as Surgeon General is to work toward a national school-based clinic program. In this interview, she speaks with Pediatric Nursing regarding the implementation of school-based clinics in Arkansas, arguments for and against school-based clinics, the financial responsibility for these clinics, and the role of pediatric nurses in this segment of health care reform.
Mae Taylor Moss, MSN, RN, the recipient of the 1992 Nursing Economic$ Excellence Award, is assistant vice president of perioperative services, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, TX. In this interview, Ms. Taylor Moss discusses the challenges facing her department and her strategies for decreasing costs while increasing revenues and motivating staff.
In 1992, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) released the first in a series of clinical practice guidelines designed to assist hospitals, practitioners, insurers, and consumers in learning more about which medical practices work and how that knowledge should be applied to delivering health care. In this interview, Ada Jacox, PhD, RN, co-chair of the pain management panel, discusses the development of clinical practice guidelines, their importance to health care professionals and consumers, and their possible impact on future practice.
Duane D. Walker, MS, RN, FAAN, is vice president of patient services and the executive director of the Nursing Institute at The Queen's Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii. In this interview he discusses the history of The Queen's Medical Center, multidisciplinary care, accountability, and careers in nursing management.
C. Richard Weinberg, MD, began his career in 1941 at Newark Beth Israel Hospital. Dr. Weinberg was interviewed in an oral history project documenting the history of radiology in New Jersey. Dr. Weinberg's recollections provide a first-hand look at the changes in radiology.
Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber has been instrumental in developing a blueprint for universal access to basic and affordable health coverage. The Oregon Health Plan is a bipartisan plan, created by the people of Oregon through community, business, labor, and government participation. In this interview, Gov. Kitzhaber discusses the challenges and opportunities facing patients and providers in the U.S. health care system.