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The article announces winners of the 2023 Pathway Nurse of the Year Award which includes Holly Weaver, and Rebekah Mitchell.

The article describes how a collaborative, interdisciplinary leadership team within the hospital designed and implemented a Behavioral Emergency Response Team (BERT) to continue efforts toward the goal of zero employee and patient harm, and its impact, utilization, and successes. Topics discussed include healthcare worker incidence rate of nonfatal workplace violence from 2011 to 2018, reasons for BERT activations, and benefits of BERT to patients.

In the article, the author discusses how the coronavirus pandemic has allowed nurse leaders in fostering positive, creative and effective leadership and showed their hidden abilities. Also cited are the need for leaders to continue using the tools and leadership behaviors they show during normal times, and the set of organized strategies developed by the author to promote personal and team joy.

The article presents a framework for achieving the recommendations of the National Plan for Health Workforce Well-Being. Cited are the seven priorities of the plan that further strengthens its potential to positively impact the well-being of the healthcare workforce, and the findings of a crosswalk comparing the alignment between the National Plan for Health Work-force Well-Being's recommendations and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Pathway to Excellence Program requirements.

The article discusses mental health stigma in nursing and healthcare in 2022. Topics covered include nurses' burnout due to work stressors, the stigma phenomenon, nurses' deficient use of mental health resources that was heightened during the pandemic, and the pitfalls of employee assistance programs (EAP). Also noted are such strategies for addressing stigma as looking within, and viewing of support reach-out as an act of integrity, and recommendations for fighting mental health stigma.

The article discusses a nurse staffing model used by the academic teaching hospital Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic to serve as guide in dealing with unprecedented event. Topics include the need for nursing leadership to prepare for critical shortages of supplies, space and staff, and the benefits of the model like promoting good teamwork, ensuring hospital staff safety, and maintaining high-quality patient care.

The article focuses on burnout and moral distress among nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic and offers institutional policy recommendations for supporting nurses to promote resilience in health system and retain patient outcomes quality. It examines the status of nurse burnout and moral distress in the U.S. and its effects. Recommendations from the National Academy of Medicine to support clinicians' health and well being are given.

The article offers information on the Pathway to Excellence framework as a means of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. It cites the pandemic's impact on health care services and health workers. It discusses the Pathway program adopted at Wellstar Douglas Hospital in Georgia which acted as a guiding force in making decisions and changes in care delivery and care processes. It mentions how the shared decision-making standard offers guidance to St. Luke's Medical Center in the Philippines.

The article examines how a 13-bed critical access hospital in the midwestern U.S. identified a need for an improved safety culture. Topics mentioned include a football-themed program in the hospital called "Flag the Play," topics discussed in the program to foster a culture of transparency and intentional reporting, and improvement in the institution's safety culture through education of staff on the psychological aspects of team dynamics and the potential for groupthink.

The article provides a question on how leaders could establish an environment of psychological safety during volatile, uncertain, changing, and ambiguous (VUCA) conditions in healthcare.

The author emphasizes the role of nursing leaders in maintaining psychological safety in the workplace. She describes psychological safety as a culture that welcomes open and honest communication. She cites the importance of supporting staff members who are victims of a psychologically unsafe culture. She points out the significance of communication skills to nursing practice as clinical skills.

The article discusses strategies for healthcare professionals to cope with short and long-term challenges associated with the COVID-19 response. Topics covered include the importance of communicating in an open, honest, and direct way, self-awareness and emotional intelligence in a crisis demonstrated by the best leaders, and the use of social media to recognize clinicians.

The author reflects on the qualities of felt leadership in an organization. Topics discussed include felt leaders' constant engagement with staff at all levels and their practical application of organizational values to show the way for team members. Also noted is the need for nursing leaders to provide constant feedback, recognize efforts and achievements, and employ multiple communication strategies.