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Coordination of Care: Strategies, Lessons, & Implications
(2017-01-11)
Background: Care Coordination was identified as a fundamental process that can decrease care fragmentation. IOM and ANA identified Registered Nurses as capable of spearheading care coordination initiatives that will close ...
Enhancing Critical Thinking Disposition and Clinical Judgment Skills in Senior BSN Students via Electronic Interactive Simulation
(2017-01-09)
The problem investigated in this study was the lack of empirical evidence available regarding the effectiveness of electronic interactive simulation (EIS) for developing critical thinking disposition and clinical judgment ...
The Art of Clinical Supervision Program for Registered Nurses
(2017-08-25)
Nursing students’ clinical placements should provide an environment in which they can apply their nursing education in the fast-paced world of health care and develop a framework for practice. Students rely on effective ...
The Lived Experience in Relation to the Educational Needs of Nurses Caring for Induced Hypothermia Patients
(2017-07-12)
Background: Ongoing educational development is essential to ensure the effectiveness of professional nurses’ learning experiences. Understanding the ways in which workplace learning occurs is fundamental to enabling nurse ...
The Effect of a School Nurse Led Education Intervention on Blood Pressure and Physical Activity Levels in Adolescents
(2017-07-12)
Regular physical activity (PA) is a necessary health promotion behavior for adolescents. Benefits of regular physical activity are optimal body weight, lowering blood pressure (BP), and decreasing risk factors for chronic ...
Information Literacy Competencies of Registered Nurses at Magnet Hospitals
(2017-03-01)
More patients are turning to the Internet as as source of health information. Nurses occupy the frontline of healthcare and must have information literacy (IL) competencies to guide themselves and their patients to the ...
The Effect of a Promotora-guided Educational Intervention and Partner Presence in Improving Condom Use Self-efficacy Amongst Partnered Latino Adults
(2017-03-01)
This study examined the effect of a promotora guided educational intervention in order to improve condom use within the Latino community. Effective and culturally appropriate strategies for promoting condom use within the ...
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 ...
Age appropriate treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa
(2017-07-19)
The purpose of this study was to describe the time from DR-TB diagnosis to treatment initiation for people in South Africa with DR-TB with and without HIV and to evaluate the influence of age on the timing of treatment ...
Towards an Informatics Competent Nursing Profession: Validation of the Self-assessment of Nursing Informatics Competency Scale (SANICS) Before and After Online Informatics Training
(2017-04-13)
Nurses should be involved in healthcare initiatives that incorporate informatics as an essential tool for improving health outcomes (IOM, 2010). However, nurses frequently report lack of competency to perform the most basic ...