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National Inquiry of Clinical Nurse Leadership in the Operating Room

Slater, Michelle McHugh
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2298-6689
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=casednp1476639876263273

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2016, Doctor of Nursing Practice , Case Western Reserve University, School of Nursing.
Abstract This study describes the clinical nurse leadership skills of operating room nurses. Despite intense focus on patient safety cultures, two of the top ten reported sentinel events to the Joint Commission from 2012 – 2014 occurred in the surgical environment: unintended retention of foreign objects and wrong patient, wrong site, wrong procedure surgery. With leadership identified as a significant root cause for operating room error, no research exists to support evidence based practice specific to clinical nurse leadership at the bedside of the patient. This descriptive, correlational study will provide information regarding clinical nurse leadership within the operating room environment. This study will draw on the conceptual model of staff nurse clinical leadership by Chavez and Yoder to hypothesize the relationship amongst the variables of interest: (1) clinical nurse leadership competency, (2) certification in operating room specialty, (3) organizational culture, and (4) years of operating room experience. The hypothesis for this study is that clinical nurse leadership competency will be greater in operating room nurses within Magnet accredited institutions or specialty certification or greater than ten years of operating room experience. The Leadership Practice Inventory® tool will be used to evaluate clinical nurse leadership in operating room nurses. This is the first study to examine clinical nurse leadership skills of nurses in the operating room environment. Findings may provide evidence to support leadership training for operating room nurses making safety decisions that are essential to preventing patient errors.
Gayle Petty, DNP, RN (Committee Chair)
Ronald Hickman, PhD, RN (Committee Member)
Rebecca Patton, MSN, RN (Committee Member)
75 p.
Health Care; Nursing
nurse leadership; clinical leader; patient safety; leader competency; operating room; sentinel event; specialty certification; nurse characteristics; operating room culture; quality; patient errors; leader characteristics; nurse leader

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  • Slater, M. M. (2016). National Inquiry of Clinical Nurse Leadership in the Operating Room [Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=casednp1476639876263273

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Slater, Michelle. National Inquiry of Clinical Nurse Leadership in the Operating Room. 2016. Case Western Reserve University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=casednp1476639876263273.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Slater, Michelle. "National Inquiry of Clinical Nurse Leadership in the Operating Room." Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=casednp1476639876263273

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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