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Improving patient care outcomes through better delegation-communication among nurses and assistive personnel
(2016-06-08)
In acute care settings, registered nurses must depend on and delegate to unlicensed assistive personnel when providing direct care to patients. The nurses’ ability to effectively delegate can affect the safety and ...
Interprofessional Collaboration: A Healthcare Professional's Duty
(2016-02-29)
Abstract
Today’s patients have complex healthcare needs and require more than one discipline to address issues regarding health status. As care needs become more complex, delivery processes involve numerous interfaces ...
Evaluation of COMFORT in strengthening family communication skills
(2016-06-02)
The purpose of this project was to evaluate the effectiveness of a COMFORT communication strategy that combines a didactic and simulated experience to strengthen perceived confidence and competence of advance practice registered nurses communicating with families facing difficult decisions and situations. The project explored the impact of the COMFORT protocol as an intervention strategy to strengthen perceived confidence and competence in communicating with families in crisis at end of life using a pre-post design. There was no significant change in the COMFORT protocol’s ability to increase perceived confidence or competence levels. APRN participants positively indicated the COMFORT protocol as an effective strategy for guiding difficult discussion (M = 4.35, SD = 0.48) and an effective strategy for APRN communication at end of life (M = 4.4, SD = 0.6) using a five point Likert scale....
Improving communication in the clinical environment through bedside shift report (BSR): A quality improvement project
(2016-10-20)
Effective communication is required during the handoff process to ensure essential patient information is relayed for continuity and quality of care. The author conducted a quality improvement initiative at a 380 bed acute ...
Implementing strategies to improve patient perception of nursing communication
(2016-12-16)
According to the Joint Commission (TJC), effective communication and patient and family centered care impacts quality and safety (2014). The aim of this project was to improve patients’ perception of nurse communication ...