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Barriers to and facilitators of initiation and retention in behavioral health services in Cape May County, New Jersey
(2018-06-05)
Mental illness is shown to increase healthcare costs and decrease quality and length of life. Barriers to access care must be removed in order to help increase access to vital behavioral health services. This project is a ...
Get the Beep Out: A QI Project to Decrease Nuisance Physiological Alarms in a Medical ICU
(2018-07-03)
Background: Upwards of 99% of physiological alarms may not require intervention and make monitoring devices unreliable. Over time, the unreliability of monitoring devices creates desensitization and can lead to patient ...
Faculty Burnout and Disempowerment in Nurse Educators and Their Relationship to Creativity in Teaching
(2018-05-11)
In an effort to ensure creativity and critical thinking are woven into the nursing curriculum and taught on a professional level, a healthy work environment, void of burnout and feelings of disempowerment, must be present ...
Management of facilitators and obstacles experienced by Hispanics in their first semester of a baccalaureate nursing program
(2018-07-03)
Although an ethnically diverse workforce is believed to enhance patient care quality, Hispanics are under-represented in nursing. Recruiting and retaining Hispanic students in nursing programs is essential for greater ...
An Assessment of Competencies of Clinical Instructors in Teaching and Guidance for Nursing Students in Clinical Areas: A Cross-sectional Study in Tanzania
(2018-07-03)
Nursing student’s clinical competence including psychomotor skills, attitude, values, and beliefs of professional practices depend on the quality of clinical instruction given by their preceptors in clinical settings. The ...
Impact of Interprofessional Orientation on New Employee Attitudes Regarding Interprofessional Teamwork
(2018-03-23)
Interprofessional teamwork is recognized as a major contributing factor to safe patient care and improved patient outcomes. Healthcare professionals’ attitudes impact successful teamwork. A large, not-for-profit healthcare organization in the southwestern United States conducted a new employee orientation that included content on interprofessional teamwork, and collected quality improvement data that included responses to the TeamSTEPPS® Teamwork Attitudes Questionnaire (T-TAQ). This retrospective, non-experimental, before-after, comparative study analyzed this quality improvement data to determine if there was a significant impact of the interprofessional teamwork-focused orientation on individual team member’s attitudes regarding teamwork as measured by the T-TAQ. The principles of Adult Learning Theory guided this study. The results of the paired-samples t-test (N= 81) showed a significant increase in mean scores between the pre-orientation T-TAQ (M = 4.44, SD = .328) and the post-orientation T-TAQ (M = 4.64, SD = .326; t (80) = -6.35, p CI: -.262 to -.137, d =.34). Recommendations include that healthcare organizations consider: the addition of teamwork content to their new employee orientations with the goal of improving new employee attitudes regarding teamwork, utilizing the TeamSTEPPS® tools and materials provided by the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality in the education that they provide to their staff to improve the teamwork within their organizations, use of the T-TAQ to evaluate teamwork attitudes within their organization, and evaluation of attitudes regarding teamwork prior to hire of new employees. ...
Exploring the Moderating Effect of a Caring Work Environment on the Relationship Between Workplace Mistreatment and Nurses' Ability to Provide Patient Care
(2018-03-22)
Workplace mistreatment (bullying, horizontal violence, and incivility) has been shown to impact nurses’ work satisfaction, job turnover, and physical and mental health. However, there are limited studies that examine its ...
Nursing Incivility and the Culture of Safety in an Acute Care Facility
(2018-05-09)
Background: Nursing incivility is a problem for the profession of nursing and interferes with the establishment of a culture of safety, placing patient safety at risk. Elements associated with incivility, Jean Watson’s ...
Nursing Students Perceptions of their Role in the Learning Process
(2018-05-10)
Nurse educators have identified oversaturated curriculum as a factor influencing adequate preparation of nursing students for beginning practice. The dynamic nature of healthcare contributed to content laden curriculum. ...
An Innovative Strategy to Increase Patient Hand Hygiene Autonomy of Hospitalized Adults
(2018-04-02)
Despite recognition that patients carry pathogens on their hands and demonstrate poor hand hygiene practice, little attention has been given to interventions that increase hand hygiene practices of patients. Studies that ...