title: Recognizing clinical excellence.
abstract: Questioning the effectiveness of clinical ladders in recognizing excellence in practice, nursing administration developed a program in which staff nurses receive monetary and professional recognition. By completing a number of performance criteria over the course of 1 year, participants demonstrate self-growth in leadership, teaching, and role modeling. The authors explain their recognition program and how staff, administration, and patient care benefited.
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D002322:Career Mobility; D002983:Clinical Competence; D004649:Employee Incentive Plans; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D010559:Personnel Management