Nurse Leader
Volume 5, Issue 2 , Pages 42-46, April 2007

Discovering nursing excellence through appreciative inquiry

  • Karen Stefaniak, RN, PhD

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    • Karen Stefaniak, RN, PhD, is the chief nursing officer/associate hospital director for the University of Kentucky Hospital in Lexington.

University of Kentucky/Kentucky Children's Hospital (UKH/KCH) is a 473-bed, licensed, quaternary, full-service, acute care facility. This teaching facility provides clinical experiences for nursing, pharmacy, chaplain, medicine, nutrition, social services, diagnostic technicians, and rehabilitation services. As a major referral center and Level I trauma center, bed availability and patient throughput are extremely important, and adequate numbers of qualified registered nurses are critical to those initiatives.

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PII: S1541-4612(07)00027-4

doi:10.1016/j.mnl.2007.01.010

Nurse Leader
Volume 5, Issue 2 , Pages 42-46, April 2007

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