Features
27	The White Paper: An Essential Tool for Evidence-Based Decision Making at the Unit Level
	Sherrie Gish, RN, BSN, CCRN, Stacey Beaven, RN, and Kathy Malloch, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN
	Nurses at a Midwestern hospital modified the traditional white paper to integrate key data elements into a brief, manageable document that summarized the overall unit services, patient care population, initiatives, performance standards, and outcomes.
30	Engaging Transformation: Constructing a New Model for Nursing Education and Practice
	Anne L. McNeill, RN, MSN, MBA, FACHE, and Tim Porter-O'Grady, EdD, APRN, FAAN
	One Dayton, Ohio, hospital has taken bold steps toward a new model of nursing education by establishing an onsite university based on innovative partnerships with area nursing schools.
35	Twelve Strategies to Enhance Nursing Practice in a Community Hospital
	Randall Hudspeth, MS, APRN-NP/CNS, and Carolyn Corbett, MSN, MBA, RN, CNAA, FACHE
	The identification and implementation of 12 strategies to enhance nursing practice and establishing a baseline for larger transformational change in the work environment and practice of nursing and an increase in staff satisfaction.
40	Improving Patient Safety and Nurse Engagement with a Dedicated Education Unit
	Sharon Pappas, PhD, RN, CNAA-BC
	The evidence of positive relationships among nurse staffing, nurse competency, and interdisciplinary relationships and patient-safety-inspired nurse leaders in the 10-hospital Centura system to create the dedicated education unit (DEU), a unit designed specifically for new graduate nurse orientation and socialization.
44	Mainstreaming Evidence-Based Nursing Practice
	Dolora C. Sanares, RN, MPA, Phyllis J. Waters, RN, MS, PhD(c), and David R. Marshall, RN, MS, CNAA, JD
	The power of collective actions can weave the common thread of a unified agenda in redefining nursing's distinctive contribution to patient care through evidence-based nursing practice.
50	Practice/Regulation Partnerships: The Pathway to Increased Safety in Nursing Practice, Health Care Systems, and Patient Care
	Mary Beth Thomas, RN, PhD(c), Debora Simmons, RN, MSN, CCRN, CCNS, Krisanne Graves, RN, BSN, CPHQ, and Sharon K. Martin, MED, MT (ASCP) SC
	Since workplace redesign is essential to creating a safer practice environment and depends on an in-depth analysis of the systems influencing nursing practice, pilot programs that incorporate such knowledge, such as HASP in Texas, are essential to moving safety forward.
55	Medical-Surgical Unit Team Nursing: Description Challenges and Measurement in a Complex System
	Christina Dobson, MSN, RN, FNP-C, Nancy Adamson, RN, BSN, and Diane Drexler, RN, BSN, MBA, CHE
	By providing classroom instruction that lays the foundation for concepts associated with team nursing and placing nursing students in clinical rotations within a patient-centered electronic environment, students are given the opportunities and experiences to become the nurses of the future.
Cover
14	LEADER TO WATCH
	Carol Reineck, PhD, CNAA-BC, COI
	Kathy Malloch, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN
Columns
6	Editorial
	Sustaining Change
	Roxane Spitzer, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN
8	Lessons Learned
	The Challenge of Vision
	Katherine Vestal, RN, PhD, FAAN, FACHE
12	The Coaching Forum
	This Box Is Very Small
	Catherine Robinson-Walker, MBA, MCC
American Organization of Nurse Executives
19	Putting the Patient First: Guiding Principles Provide a Road Map for More Collaborative Relationships Among Nurses and Support Service Groups