Open Dissemination Materials - Groups and Individuals
This community houses resource papers, research, educational and evidence-based practice materials from individuals and non-Sigma nursing organizations and nursing-related groups. “Groups” may be from any professional setting where nurses* or nursing students* work or learn, such as schools of nursing, hospitals, other clinical settings, national/international nursing organizations, professional groups/consortia, or health-related businesses.
Participants are assigned their own collections after meeting criteria listed on the Group Participant Policies page.
Materials do not undergo peer review upon submission, acceptance, and posting to this repository. Refer to the Review Type and Acquisition Type listed in each item record to determine the vetting standard that has been applied.
*Nurses must hold degrees BSN and above from accredited programs. Retired nurses are still eligible to submit.
Copyright remains vested in the authors (individual and corporate) unless otherwise noted in an individual item record.
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Lowering stress, anxiety and distress levels in medical oncology patients actively receiving intravenous treatment with utilization of art therapy
Problem: Cancer remains prevalent in the United States despite new and evolving advancements in pharmacology. There is also a high prevalence of cancer-related emotions experienced during treatment. There is currently not ... -
NPWH position statement: Prepregnancy genetic carrier screening
(Healthcom Media, 2020-06)The National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health advocates for equitable access to informed, voluntary prepregnancy genetic carrier screening for individuals/couples who desire information about potential ... -
Anesthetic management of an adult brain-dead organ donor: A quality improvement project
Objective: Anesthesia plays a critical role in the management of an adult brain-dead donor. It is imperative that the anesthesia provider understand the pathophysiology of brain death and its subsequent effects on the body, ... -
Indications for HEPA filter use in patients undergoing general anesthesia with a breathing device: An integrative review
Aim and Purpose: This integrative literature review aims to provide evidence-based recommendations for high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter use within the anesthesia breathing circuit. The purpose of the recommendations ... -
Anesthesia protocol for bariatric surgery: A quality improvement process
Objective: The purpose of this quality improvement process was to review current enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocols for bariatric surgeries, analyze the current anesthesia protocol used at a midwestern medical ... -
Prevention of emergence delirium in veteran patients with post-traumatic stress disorder: A descriptive study
Introduction: CRNAs are in a unique position to directly impact the surgical experience for veterans with PTSD during and after general anesthesia. The purpose of this descriptive study is to evaluate anesthetic management ... -
Implementation of an orientation program for student registered nurse anesthetists (SRNAs) and their support persons: A program evaluation
Research has shown that the support persons of graduate students may experience stress just as their students experience stress. This effect is known as the crossover effect. Prior surveys from support persons of Student ... -
Intraoperative hypotension management for microvascular reconstruction surgery using free tissue transfer: An integrative review
Introduction: Anesthetic management for free flap surgery contributes to flap survival, as hypotension is an independent predictor of flap loss. The optimal blood pressure range is unknown and there are no standardized ... -
Standardized patient simulation to recognize and treat behavioral health patients safely in emergent settings
Increasing complex behavioral health visits to the Emergency Department necessitated comprehensive inter-professional team training to ensure therapeutic behavioral patient management. The purpose of this training was to ... -
Education and reminders to increase cervical cancer screening: An evidence-based report
Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women worldwide. Regular screening can find abnormalities early and prevent morbidity and mortality. But CCS rates are low in the U.S. and at the project site. A comprehensive ... -
Undergraduate student nurse ACLS Certification to improve practice transition and confidence
A code blue curriculum, with an integrated an ACLS certification, was designed to facilitate student confidence for transition into clinical practice. The 12-item Code Blue Self Confidence survey was developed to measure ... -
A smartphone intervention to reduce hospital readmission rates in adult patients who have heart failure
Heart failure is a progressive disease with cyclical patterns of symptom exacerbation that necessitate frequent hospitalization, and often hospital readmission within 30-days of discharge. Financial incentives imposed ... -
Student's safety perception after a perioperative experience
Safety, one of the six QSEN competencies, is an important concept for prelicensure nursing students (Cronenwett et al., 2007). The perioperative environment has a strong safety focus and culture. While didactic information ... -
The impact of implementing Mental Health First Aid with prelicensure nursing students in rural Indiana
Rural communities in the United States suffer significantly from a lack of mental health resources (Schroeder and Peterson, 2017). With a lack of mental health providers and community resources, police, Emergency Medical ... -
Comparison of basic NI competencies using TANIC over two-year period in graduate entry level NI course
The TIGER-based Assessment of Nursing Informatics Competencies (TANIC)© instrument represents an operationalized version of competencies first identified by the TIGER Initiative (Technology Informatics Guiding Education ... -
What GREAT looks like...and how do we get there?
The purpose of this presentation is to help Critical Care nurses be aware of the expectations of communication and performance in the different roles they are in as a bedside nurse. During meetings with the Critical Care ... -
The efficacy of using Dexmedetomidine compared to Midazolam in pediatric anesthesia: An integrative review
Aims and objectives: The aim of this integrative review is to provide a practice recommendation for the administration of dexmedetomidine versus midazolam in the pediatric population prior to undergoing anesthesia. Methods: ... -
Coadministration of ketamine and magnesium: An integrative review
Objective: The object of this integrative review was to investigate the analgesic benefit and side effect profile of the coadministration of ketamine and magnesium. Secondary goals were to provide an evidence-based ... -
Human Papillomavirus (HPV) reduced missed opportunities
The purpose of this project was to test an evidence-based bundle intervention within a military hospital-based outpatient clinic to improve HPV vaccination rates among military-affiliated females ages 11-26 years. -
Barriers to inquiry about history of sexual assault during initial assessment
History of sexual violence is a pertinent concern when providing comprehensive nursing care. One in three women and one in four men experience sexual violence within their lifetime, leading to a host of adverse health ...
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