Coherence in Nursing Paper Given in Ireland

Patricia Reid Ponte, RN, DNSc (right), and Rosanna DeMarco, PhD, RN, ACRN (left), represented a team of authors at the International Nursing Research Conference in Dublin, Ireland. Reid Ponte and DeMarco presented their paper “Organizational Restructuring and Newly Employed RNs in Professional Practice,” regarding nurses and the importance of coherence. “Today’s nurse leader is challenged to create a practice environment that fosters multidisciplinary collaboration, professional development and a culture of safety…When nurses have a coherence about their work setting, they are more likely to feel confident that their care of patients and families is fully supported by the organization in which they work,” the authors wrote. The paper was based on a collaborative research project with Northeastern University and the BWH Nursing Department. Funding for the research project was provided by Sigma Theta Tau, the Kravitz Award and the National Nursing Staff Development Organization, and research for the paper was conducted by a group of then-graduate nursing students, including Judy Catalan, MS, RN; Jonathan Judy, MS, RN, and Rosemarie Spada, MS, RN.