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Opportunities for improving patient care through lateral integration: the clinical nurse leader.(PERSPECTIVE)

Journal of Healthcare Management

| January 01, 2006 | Begun, James W.; Hamilton, James A.; Tornabeni, Jolene; White, Kenneth R. | COPYRIGHT 2006 American College of Healthcare Executives. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Today, healthcare organizations are faced with the growing realization that functional and professional silos within the organization are counter to the provision of efficient and effective patient care and are fertile grounds for errors or sentinel events to occur. The improvement of patient care and prevention of errors require that collaboration among professionals occur at the patient care delivery level, not just within the leadership team.

A new nursing role--the clinical nurse leader, the first new nursing role advanced nationally in more than three decades--currently is under development in more than 180 pilot healthcare ...

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