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 while
maintaining a commitment to supporting continued professional development
and safe care transitions for patients.
Goals:
- Improve patient outcomes and nursing retention through Practice Transition programs.
- Reduce patient readmissions through inter-professional and cross-continuum collaboration for safe care transitions.
- Enculturate High Reliability into nursing structure, support, tools, mentorship, and evaluation through analysis and reporting.
Priority Initiatives
-
Practice Transition Program (PTAP)
- Successfully Implement a nationally accredited RN residency transition to practice program
-
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
-
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
-
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
- Increase percentage of all nursing staff and nurse leaders certified by 2020.
- Sustain > 80% RN with BSN Degree or higher