Nursing Strategic Plan

Nursing Strategic Plan 2018 - 2021

The 2018 – 2021 nursing strategic plan is vital to moving the nursing division along the path of nursing excellence. Using the Magnet manual as a roadmap, this strategic plan focuses on clinical excellence through the high reliability organization process for safety and quality with maintaining a commitment to supporting continued professional development and safe care transitions for patients.

Goals:

1. Improve patient outcomes and improve nursing retention through Practice Transition programs.
2. Reduce patient readmissions through inter-professional and cross-continuum collaboration for safe care transitions.
3. Enculturate High Reliability into nursing structure, support, tools, mentorship, and evaluation through analysis and reporting.

Priority Initiatives:

1. Practice Transition Program (PTAP)
   • Successfully Implement a nationally accredited RN residency transition to practice program
2. CMS Star Readmission Team to reduce 30 day readmissions
   • Reviewing current readmission data
   • Literature Review
   • RWJBH Site Visits
   • Explore new model for inter-professional team focus on patients at high risk for readmissions
   • Continue focus on Medication Management across the continuum with complete & accurate home medications list upon admission
3. Enculturate High Reliability into Nursing
   • Education and training
   • Integrate into Shared Governance Councils: charters with patient outcome focus
   • Clinical Leadership: a department/unit will present their patient outcomes
   • Quarterly unit showcase meetings with the CNO with a focus on the unit’s patient outcomes
4. Partner with Ambulatory to promote excellence in ambulatory nursing practice
   • Implement bi monthly Ambulatory Shared Governance Council and Integrate into JCMC Shared Governance Structure
   • Review and achieve data requirements for Nurse Engagement, Patient Engagement, and Nurse Sensitive Indicators
5. Increase percentage of all nursing staff and nurse leaders certified by 2020
6. Sustain > 80% RN with BSN Degree or higher