Browsing by Level of Evidence "Observational Study, Other (e.g., Prevalence, Incidence)"
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Can Married State Onboarding Close the Transition Gap to Professional Practice?
(2016-02-05)Onboarding is process of advancing the behaviors that will be the foundation of an employee's long-term success with managers involved in the process. Five themes emerged in the literature review for onboarding new Registered ... -
The Effectiveness of Screening for Comorbid Depression Among Outpatients With Chronic Diseases in Maryland
(2018-05-08)Depression is a pervasive mental health disorder worldwide. Although being diagnosed with chronic illness exacerbates susceptibility to depression, detection and subsequent treatment of comorbid depression in primary care ... -
Evidence-based pilot for improved antibiotic prescribing
(2017-09-21)The nature and burden of inappropriate antibiotic prescribing for self-limiting respiratory tract infections (RTIs) in primary care settings, continues to pose great threats to public health. This high prevalence leads to ... -
Executive Leadership Rounding on Staff and Its Effect on Patient Satisfaction and Patient Outcomes
(2017-04-17)It has been recognized in healthcare organizations across the country that there is a significant relation between organizational quality, improved patient outcomes, and the financial success of an organization. Through ... -
How nurse work environments relate to the presence of parents in neonatal intensive care
(2016-10-12)Objective: Parental presence in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is essential for families, especially mothers to participate in infant care and prepare for transition from hospital to home. However, NICUs ... -
Increasing Patient Safety using Positive Patient Identification and Bedside Specimen Scanning
(2017-01-19)A hospital located in the Northeastern United States, has an opportunity to improve the number of specimens that are mislabeled. Mislabeled specimens increase costs, create patient inconvenience and can lead to unnecessary ... -
Interprofessional Simulation: TeamSTEPPS and Cardiac Arrest Simulation
(11/12/2015)Quality and Safety Education for Nurses and the Institute of Medicine recomment interprofessional education to foster open communication, encourage mutual respect, and support joint decision making among health professionals. ... -
The relationship between nursing skill mix, nurse sensitive patient outcomes and patient satisfaction
(2016-06-09)Literature Review: Hospitals are the largest components of the United States healthcare system, and are encountering pressure to provide better quality care and reduce cost. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ... -
Stress in the student registered nurse anesthetist’s support person: A descriptive study
(2018-05-15)An understanding of the stressors affecting support persons of Student Registered Nurse Anesthetists (SRNAs) could assist in the development of an intervention to mitigate that stress. A reduction in stress in support ... -
Talking about patients: nurses' language use during hand-offs
(2017-12-21)Miscommunication during end of shift hand-offs between hospital nurses has been implicated as a source of errors in patient care, yet little research evaluates the structure of language during communication in an attempt ... -
Using an epidemiological approach to critically analyze a population health problem - Al Hamsa Prison, Libya
(8/14/2014)Population health as defined by Nash, Reifsnyder, Fabius & Pracilio (2011) is the “distribution of health outcomes within a population, the health determinants that influence distribution, and the policies and ...
