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Nursing Management: With a circulation of 56,000, Nursing Management is the leading monthly source for practical, educational, cutting-edge information for nurse leaders. Each issue presents peer-reviewed articles that range from legal and ethical aspects of nursing leadership to personnel management, recruitment and retention, budget issues, product selection, and quality control. In addition, Nursing Management provides regular features, columns, continuing education, staff development education, and more. Impact score = 0.52.  In November 2022, Rebuilding Trust in Just Culture is the featured article for the Safety Solutions volume and approved for 2.0 contact hours for nursing continuing professional development activity.

Paradiso, L. (2022). Rebuilding trust in just culture. Nursing Management 53(11): 6-14 doi: 10.1097/01.NUMA.0000891456.44611.10

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Minority Nurse is an online and hard copy journal distributed four times per year.  More than 40,000 copies are distributed to 1,800 nursing programs and 4,500 of the nation’s largest hospitals and medical centers. In addition, it is  distributed at the annual conferences of both the National Black Nurses’ Association and the Philippine Nurses Association of America. MN is also distributed at many national and regional nursing and minority health care conferences throughout the year. I published a blog on October 7, 2022: Reducing mistakes: What every nurse can do

American Nurse Journal, the official, clinically and career-focused journal of the American Nurses Association (ANA), is a fresh voice of nursing across America. The printed journal reaches more than 200,000 dedicated nurses in a multitude of specialties and practice settings, and the site serves nearly four millions visitors each year.  American Nurse Journal is a peer-reviewed journal indexed in the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL). CINAHL databases are the most widely-used and respected research tools for nurses, students and allied health professionals around the globe.  My letter to the editor about the travesty of the RaDonda Vaught RN criminal prosecution was published on May, 18, 2022: #notmetoo or I am RaDonda

AmericanNurse.com is the online journal of the American Nurses Association.  I mentored and collaborated with a New York City College of Technology baccalaureate student who shared experiences about the pandemic and published the following peer-reviewed article: What do we learn when the unknown suddenly appears?

Singletary, K. & Paradiso, L. (August 25, 2020). What do we learn when the unknown appears? MyAmericanNurse.com, p 1-6.

What do we learn when the unknown suddenly appears?

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American Nurse Today, the official journal of the American Nurses Association (ANA), is a fresh voice of nursing across America. The journal reaches over 175,000 dedicated nurses in a multitude of specialties and practice settings. Published monthly, six times in print and six times in electronic format, American Nurse Today is a comprehensive, timely, trusted information source that nurses can rely on to: Enhance patient outcomes, Develop their professional careers, Build their educational foundation of best practices. As the only full-service professional organization representing the nation’s 3.1 – 3.6 million Registered Nurses, ANA is the driving force for nurses. I published a peer-reviewed article about the culture of safety, Everyone is responsible for a culture of safety, which expands on my Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) research.  It can be found on pages 33-34.

Paradiso, L. (2018). Everyone is responsible for a culture of safety. American Nurse Today, 13(3) p. 33-34.

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In 2014, to describe the transformation of patient care at Kings County Hospital’s Behavioral Health Department, I was fortunate to participate in writing a book chapter about how Lean Performance Improvement helped to support the dramatic improvements needed to become a Center of Behavioral Health Excellence. Lean Behavioral Health – The Kings County Hospital Story, My contribution is in chapter seven.

Paradiso, L. (2014). Lean and Inpatient Psychiatry. J.P. Merlino, J. Omi, J. Bowen (Eds.) Lean Behavioral Health – The Kings County Story (pp. 161-188). New York, Oxford University Press. ISBN-13: 9780199989522. DOI: 10.1093/med/9780199989522.001.0

https://oxfordmedicine.com/view/10.1093/med/9780199989522.001.0001/med-9780199989522

Lean Behavioral Health- The Kings County Story

In 2013, Nurse.com was a free journal sent to subscribed nurses throughout the country.  This journal converted to an online version and “End of Shift” editorials became blogs in later years.  I was fortunate to have been able to publish an editorial in their print journal. Frequent flyers: Treating returning psychiatric patients like valued customers

Paradiso, L. (2013, May 20). Frequent flyers: Treating returning psychiatric patients like valued customers. Nurse.com, 25(10), p. 30.

Frequent Flyers Nurse.com

My first venture at publication, with a CUNY colleague,  was to share findings from a study that demonstrated the presence of nursing students on a psychiatric unit positively affects patient care outcomes.  I had to look hard in my archives to find this Nursing Spectrum print article from the Research/Practice Connection section!

Lavin, J. & Paradiso, L. (1994, December 27). Impact of nursing students in the recovery of psychiatric patients. The Nursing Spectrum, 6A(26),  p. 11.

Nursing Spectrum 1994