Nursing Staff

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 5 competencies needed by new baccalaureate graduates. 
  • A Case for Mindfulness: Simulation-Based Six Strategy Framework. 
  • A leadership framework for culture change in health care. 
  • Academic-practice partnerships to promote evidence-based practice in long-term care: oral hygiene care practices as an exemplar. 
  • Achieving diversity, inclusion and equity in the nursing workforce. 
  • Addressing Differences and Challenges in the Pediatric Perioperative Setting. 
  • An education-service collaboration to address a perceived graduate RN readiness gap. 
  • Anticipate responses to change. 
  • Brief reports for disseminating systematic reviews to nurses. 
  • Caregiver staffing in nursing homes and their influence on quality of care: using dynamic panel estimation methods. 
  • Celebrate oncology nursing month by recognizing the achievements of nurses. 
  • Change strategies make for smooth transitions. 
  • Chronic pain-associated behaviors in the nursing home: resident versus caregiver perceptions. 
  • Clinical Decision Support for Nurses: A Fall Risk and Prevention Example. 
  • Community palliative care clinical nurse specialists: a descriptive study of nurse-patient interactions. 
  • Complexity science and the dynamics of climate and communication: reducing nursing home turnover. 
  • Day care for persons with dementia: the impact of the physical environment on staff stress and quality of care. 
  • Developing trust and connection with patients and their families. 
  • Disabling back injuries in nursing personnel. 
  • Education and service: bridging the gaps. 
  • Effectiveness of an intervention for disseminating Cochrane reviews to nurses. 
  • Emerging Theories Influencing the Teaching of Clinical Nursing Skills. 
  • Feasibility of a web-based dementia feeding skills training program for nursing home staff. 
  • Focused anesthesia interview resource to improve efficiency and quality. 
  • Graphics for dissemination of meta-analyses to staff nurses. 
  • How staff development specialists can promote and facilitate research. 
  • How to Join a Board: A Practical Guide. 
  • Influences on nurses' management of pain in children. 
  • Inter-disciplinary focus groups on telephone medicine: a quality improvement initiative. 
  • Jurisdiction over nursing care systems in nursing homes: latent class analysis. 
  • Licensed practical nurse scope of practice and quality of nursing home care. 
  • MDS coordinator relationships and nursing home care processes. 
  • Measuring activities in clinical trials using random work sampling: implications for cost-effectiveness analysis and measurement of the intervention. 
  • Measuring nursing care time and tasks in long-term services and supports: one size does not fit all. 
  • New graduates' perceptions of clinical practice. 
  • Nurse educators and the future of nursing. 
  • Nurses' acceptance of the decision support computer program for cancer pain management. 
  • Nursing home staff perspectives on adoption of an innovation in goals of care communication. 
  • Nursing homes as complex adaptive systems: relationship between management practice and resident outcomes. 
  • Obesity prevention in schools: current role and future practice of school nurses. 
  • Our Work to Define the Elusive Optimal Staffing Levels. 
  • Pain medication management in nursing homes and nursing scope of practice. 
  • Patterns of medical and nursing staff communication in nursing homes: implications and insights from complexity science. 
  • Paying attention: A leap toward quality care. 
  • Predictors of shoulder and back injuries in nursing home workers: a prospective study. 
  • Presenting research to clinicians: strategies for writing about research findings. 
  • Professional reflection: have you looked in the mirror lately? 
  • Qualitative evaluation of South Carolina's Postpartum/Infant Home Visit program. 
  • Quality improvement initiative for chronic pain assessment and management in the nursing home: a pilot study. 
  • RN participation in organizational decision making and improvements in resident outcomes. 
  • Re-examining definitions of spirituality in nursing research. 
  • Recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce in nursing: from evidence to best practices to policy. 
  • Registered nurse retention strategies in nursing homes: a two-factor perspective. 
  • Research utilization: reconnecting research and practice. 
  • Resident Vignettes for Assessing Care Quality in Nursing Homes. 
  • Ripple effect: Shared governance and nurse engagement. 
  • Spirituality: opportunities for advanced practice nursing and primary care. 
  • State of the science: relationship-oriented management practices in nursing homes. 
  • Successful associations are volunteer led, staff run. 
  • Taking a risk to save a life. 
  • Teamwork training with nursing and medical students: does the method matter? Results of an interinstitutional, interdisciplinary collaboration. 
  • The evolution of volunteerism and professional staff within hospice care in North Carolina. 
  • The experience and self-management of fatigue in patients on hemodialysis. 
  • The implication of environmental turbulence for nursing-unit design in effective nursing homes. 
  • The palliative care education needs of nursing home staff. 
  • The power of relationship for high-quality long-term care. 
  • The retention of recalled United States Navy nurse reservists. 
  • The significance of cognitive modeling in building healthcare interfaces. 
  • The social distribution of risk at work: acute injuries and physical assaults among healthcare workers working in a long-term care facility. 
  • The use of the Minimum Data Set to identify depression in the elderly. 
  • Tool for evaluating research implementation challenges: a sense-making protocol for addressing implementation challenges in complex research settings. 
  • Top nurse-management staffing collapse and care quality in nursing homes. 
  • Two-way talks. 
  • United for strength and growth. 
  • Use of Mobile Health Apps and Wearable Technology to Assess Changes and Predict Pain During Treatment of Acute Pain in Sickle Cell Disease: Feasibility Study. 
  • Using a modified nominal group technique to elicit director of nursing input for an osteoporosis intervention. 
  • Utilization of electronic modified early warning score to engage rapid response team early in clinical deterioration. 
  • When coaching new grads.... 
  • Writing research reports for clinical audiences. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Anderson, Ruth A., Professor Emerita in the School of Nursing, School of Nursing
  • McConnell, Eleanor Schildwachter, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, with tenure, School of Nursing