• Clinical impact of nursing leadership: A scoping review 

      Palermo, Antonio; Cheda, E.; Cavatorti, S.; Bonetti, L.; Bianchi, M.
      In Switzerland as well as many other countries, the role of the Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNL/CNS) can be seen within the skill mix, whose leadership is oriented towards patient care at the bedside. To disseminate knowledge ...
    • Disaster preparedness for undergraduate baccalaureate nursing students 

      Smithers, Bonnie L.; Tenhunen, Monica L.
      Purpose: The Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice state that graduates should be able to use clinical judgment and make decisions during disaster situations. All nurses need training in ...
    • Disposable blood pressure cuffs: A safer alternative 

      Goeckner, Jessica; Lansden, Joseph; Blanke, Katherine; Campbell, Laura; Minnette, Rebekah; Phelps, Reagan; Neidig, Christopher; Robinson, Megan; Schentrup, Samuel; Bailey, Rachel; Hicks, Megan (6/9/2016)
      Background: Health care acquired infections are avoidable and not only cause patient suffering but are also costly to the hospitals.  These unintentional infections cost hospitals approximately 35-45 billion dollars ...
    • Electronic handoff process for ED boarders admitted to medical-surgical and telemetry units 

      Medina, Katherine
      The telephonic hand off process utilized to transfer ED boarders with assigned beds was causing major delays. The time from bed assignment to admission on the inpatient medical-surgical and telemetry units was 2 hours on ...
    • Influencing undergraduate nursing student attitudes on older adults 

      Tenhunen, Monica L.
      Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine baccalaureate nursing student attitudes toward older adults and whether gerontological nursing education affects those attitudes. As the number of older adults increases, ...
    • Interventions for preventing and solve bullying in nursing: A scoping review 

      Luca, Corina Elena; Sartorio, Alessia; Bonetti, Loris; Bianchi, Monica
      The aim of this scoping review is to summarise different research evidence and to understand whether there are interventions that enable the prevention and resolution of bullying in nursing in health care settings and to ...
    • Kangaroo care and postpartum depression: The role of oxytocin 

      Badr, Hanan A.; Zauszniewski, Jaclene A. (2017-04-28)
      Problem: Postpartum depression (PPD) occurs in about 10–15% of women after birth and adversely affects their health and the health of their newborn.  Kangaroo care (KC) is known to have many health-related ...
    • Lean Healthcare from the institutional, professional, and patient perspectives 

      Fernandes, Hellen Maria de Lima Graf; de Jesus, Mariana Véo Nery; da Silva, Dirceu; Guirardello, Edineis de Brito
      Lean is a management philosophy derived from the Toyota System, widely applied in the industry and adapted to the health area in order to reduce costs and optimize resources by reviewing processes to generate value for the ...
    • A smartphone intervention to reduce hospital readmission rates in adult patients who have heart failure 

      Crisman, Jami
      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 ...
    • Spread the word! Five ways to make a difference in nursing 

      Abel, Sarah E.; Howard, Matthew S. (2017-10-26)
      The purpose of this presentation is to provide participants with a first-hand look at how an idea could become a published work.
    • Updates to the INACSL Standards of Best Practice: The debriefing process 

      Decker, Sharon; Alinier, Guillaume; Crawford, Scott; Gordon, Randy; Jenkins, Deborah; Wilson, Cheryl
      Debriefing is a key component of all simulation-based educational (SBE) activities and is an activity for which myriad approaches and models have been developed and implemented  (Oriot & Alinier, 2018). To improve ...

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