Browsing Open Dissemination Materials - Groups and Individuals by Posting Date
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Rapid intraosseous vascular access while wearing personal protective equipment
(2011-10-17)Purpose: The ability to obtain rapid vascular access for fluid or medication administration is standard of care when working in emergency conditions. Hazardous material incidents require more sophisticated levels of personal ... -
Triage Space Redesign to Facilitate Application of Relationship Based Care
(2011-10-17)Purpose: The previous Emergency Department triage space was inadequate to meet the hospitalÆs mission and vision to provide a patient centered focus of care. The Goal established for this project was to create an environment ... -
Observation Assistants: Sitter Effectiveness and Industry Measures
(2011-10-17)[ENA Leadership Conference] Evidence-based Practice Presentation: Observation Assistants: Sitter Effectiveness and Industry MeasuresPurpose: The use of observation assistants (sitters) is a means for direct observation ... -
Hemolysis of Blood Specimens: Increasing Time in the Emergency Department
(2011-10-17)[ENA Leadership Conference] Evidence-based Practice Presentation: Hemolysis of Blood Specimens: Increasing Time In The Emergency DepartmentPurpose: The nurses in a rural Emergency Department (ED) noted an increased ... -
Retrieving a Reputation: A Story of an ED Turnaround
(2011-10-17)Purpose: The Emergency Department of a large suburban, level 2 hospital has been associated with very long waiting times (an average of 18 hours from presentation to disposition), hallway beds as regular treatment areas ... -
Increasing the Compliance of Suicidal and Homicidal Ideation Assessment in the Emergency Center
(2011-12-21)[ENA Annual Conference 2011 - Evidence-based Practice Presentation]Increasing the Compliance of Suicidal and Homicidal Ideation Assessment in the Emergency CenterPurpose: National Patient Safety Goal 15 A focuses on ... -
Planning Phase of Population-Specific Healthy Lifestyle Program
(2012-08-14)Childhood overweight and obesity in the United States are significant health problems that have a negative impact on a child’s physical and psychological well-being and that generate an extra financial burden for those ... -
An Evaluation of Rapid Response Team Impact
(2012-08-22)Rapid response teams (RRTs) are widely implemented in hospitals today. Little research exists in the use of RRTs in the pediatric population (Chan et al., 2010; Pringle et al., 2011; Winberg et al., 2008). Regardless of ... -
Clarificative evaluation of a nurse practitioner-led heart failure clinic
(2012-09-17)Nationally, heart failure (HF) is the leading cause of disability, hospitalizations, and death among veterans. Health care providers continue to struggle to maximize the quality of life and functional status of their ... -
Pre-training readiness assessment phase of a TeamSTEPPS ® Interprofessional Collaboration Program in employee health clinics for a school system
(2012-10-01)The purpose of this inquiry was to perform a pre-training readiness assessment prior to undertaking a TeamSTEPPS ® (Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance)based-initiative in employee health clinics for a ... -
Using evidence to answer clinical questions
(2013-04-03)The accompanying slideshow presentation is a resource to help nurses in all areas of the profession to have a better understanding about nursing research – what it is, what impact it has on practice, and what changes ... -
SOS - Save Our Staff: Designing a Safer Emergency Department
(2013-12-09)Purpose: Emergency department staff voiced concerns of increased physical and verbal assaults by patients/visitors. Department design and security presence were not optimal. Staff felt ineffective in how to de-escalate ... -
No hablo Ingles: Emergency department lived experiences of Spanish-speaking patients
(2013-12-09)Purpose: Few studies have specifically targeted the experience of Spanish-speaking patients in the Emergency Department. Studies have shown that patient populations are growing more diverse. This presents challenges to the ... -
Chronic Pain: Relationship to Depression
(2014-05-01)The experience of chronic pain often interferes with family and social life, work performance, and overall quality of life. Depression symptoms in people with chronic pain may synergistically effect pain perception, ... -
Impact of teaching breathing techniques on patient health outcomes: A systematic review
(2014-05-01)The United States has some of the most expensive health care world wide, with an increase in chronic illness, poorer outcomes, and fragmentation of care. Patients seek integrative or alternative methods of care in ... -
Development of a New Practice Model: Postmortem Sexual Evidence Collection Forensic Examiner Multimedia Training Module
(2014-05-02)The aim of this Forensic Nurse Examiner (FNE) practice improvement initiative was to design an online multimedia training module for postmortem sexual evidence collection. FNEs, as clinical experts in antemortem sexual ... -
Diabetes: What are the barriers to diet, exercise and medication adherence in a rural Southern Arizona clinic?
(2014-05-02)Purpose: To identify patient reported barriers to diet, exercise and medication adherence in adults who are diabetic patients in a rural Southern Arizona family practice clinic. Data Sources: A cross-sectional, quantitative ... -
Influenza Education to Improve Vaccination Rates Among College Students
(2014-05-02)Objective The purpose of this project was to provide influenza vaccine education and improve vaccine uptake among Eastern Arizona College dormitory residents. College students living in dormitories are considered a high-risk ... -
Transparency and Advanced Practice Nurse Value on an Interprofessional Team by Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing
(2014-05-09)Abstract To address the current challenge in the United States of increasing access to high quality healthcare, healthcare systems must analyze and understand the value of their resources in terms of patient outcomes ... -
Obesity Management: A Pilot Test of an Electronic Health Record Prompt
(2014-05-09)The project objective was to conduct a pilot study to discover primary care providers’ responses to using a newly developed obesity screening and management addition to an electronic health record (EHR). Seven providers ...
