Clinical Work Environment

Coordinated Care Models and Interprofessional Care Teams

• Call an Ambulance — for Care
• 3 Best Practices for Partnering With Post-Acute Providers for Better Care
• Integrating Community Health Workers into Complex Care Teams: Key Considerations
• Closing the Chasm Between Inpatient and Outpatient Physicians
• How a Las Vegas Hospital United ED Docs with Hospitalists to Reduce ED Overcrowding
• Building a Community Health Worker Program
• 7 Approaches Leaders Can Take to Improve with Care Teams
• Tapping the Potential of Community Paramedicine
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), TeamSTEPPS 2.0 curriculum
• Lessons from the Field: Promising Interprofessional Collaboration Practices
• AONE: Building a Community Health Worker Program
• AONE and AAACN Partner in National Effort for Care Coordination
• The Unsung Lifeblood of the Hospital: Nursing Assistants
• HANYS 2015 nursing and allied health report 
• APNs and PAs Can Help to Optimize Care for Patients
• How to Lower Costs with Coordinated Patient Care
• A Professional Care Coordinator's Guide to Partnering with Family Caregivers
• Taking a Page from Racing and Aviation to Build Elite Health Care Teams
• Hospital Leaders Must Adapt to New Roles; Rewrite Rules for Improvement, Says Retiring IHI Chief
• California-based ACO Addresses Coordination Concerns Through Use of a Virtual Huddle
• How PAs Factor Into Improved CMS Patient Satisfaction Scores
• Nurse Helps Low-Income Patients Navigate the Health Care System

Workplace Safety 

• The alarming stats on violence against nurses
• Auditing Workplace Safety
• Workplace Violence in Health Care: A Critical Issue With a Promising Solution
• ENA, AONE address workplace violence
• OSHA’s Worker Safety in Hospital Resources
• National Patient Safety Foundation white paper “Through the Eyes of the Workforce: Creating Joy, Meaning and Safer Health Care” 
• Bureaucracy tops causes of burnout among physicians
• Strategies for Managing Aging Clinicians
• Depression in Nurses: The Unspoken Epidemic
• Dr. Renee Thompson’s Series on Nurse Bullying
• Charting Nursing’s Future
• Preventing Violence in Healthcare Gap Analysis
• U.S. Department of Homeland Security Active Shooter Preparedness
• The Joint Commission Sentinel Event Alerts: 
  • Sentinel Event Alert, Issue 40, “Behaviors that undermine a culture of safety”
  • Sentinel Event Alert, Issue 45, “Preventing violence in health care settings”
• The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• International Association for Healthcare Security & Safety  
• California Hospital Association Workplace Violence Prevention
• Minnesota Department of Health Prevention of Violence in Health Care Resources
• Active Shooter Training Resources
  • ALICE Training Institute
  • Incorporating Active Shooter Incident Planning into Health Care Facility Emergency Operations Plans
  • Planning for Active Shooter Incidents
  • RUN. HIDE. FIGHT.® Surviving an Active Shooter Event
  • Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Emergency Management Institute
• When Disaster Strikes: Nurse Leadership, Nursing Care, and Teamwork Save Lives

Work Environment Best Practices 

• Burnout Among Health Care Professionals: A Call to Explore and Address This Underrecognized Threat to Safe, High-Quality Care
• Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience
• Less than half of US doctors are happy at work
• Mayo Clinic's Secret Sauce to Addressing the Doc Burnout Epidemic
• Hospital Impact: Are you leading or labeling your multigenerational team?
• The protective role of self-efficacy against workplace incivility and burnout in nursing: A time-lagged study
• The 4 Forces that Will Reshape Nursing
• 5 Ways to Improve Physician-patient Relationships
• Tips for Retaining and Caring for Staff After a Disaster
• Burnout Syndrome in Critical Care Health Care Professionals: A Call for Action
• Data Again Show Nurse Staffing Improves Outcomes in a Variety of Settings
• 4 ways nurses can position themselves for hospital board seats
• Leveraging the Power of an Engaged Nursing Workforce
• 5 Ways to Design for an Intergenerational Healthcare Workforce