Nicole Blodgett

Journal Article Clinical Simulation in Nursing · July 1, 2024 Background: "Cannot ventilate, cannot intubate" is a challenging airway emergency that can lead to negative patient outcomes. Screen-based simulation (SBS) as a learning adjunct could help anesthesia providers improve decision-making skills in difficult ai ... Full text Cite

Haunted hospital: An innovative and engaging approach to interprofessional education simulation

Journal Article Journal of Interprofessional Education and Practice · September 1, 2023 The purpose of this article is to describe the design and implementation a novel simulation interprofessional educational (Sim-IPE) activity. Healthcare students from medicine, nursing, physician assistant, physical therapy, occupational therapy, biomedica ... Full text Cite

Time-to-Task in Interval Simulated Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Training: A Method for Maintaining Resuscitation Skills.

Journal Article Journal of perianesthesia nursing : official journal of the American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses · June 2023 PurposeThe literature supports interval simulation training as a means of improving nurses' cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) skills. The aim of this project was to improve the time-to-task skills in single-rescuer basic life support (BLS) in an ... Full text Cite

Evaluation and Accreditation of Health Care Simulation Programs

Chapter · November 27, 2022 "The strategies offered in this book, itemized in detail by expert faculty, can be used to change the culture for nursing programs attempting to seek successful accreditation. ... Link to item Cite

A Standardized Positive Physical Approach to Improve Oral Hygiene for Nursing Home Residents With Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias.

Journal Article Journal of gerontological nursing · November 2022 Residents with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) in nursing homes (NHs) rely on direct care workers (DCWs) to assist with activities of daily living, such as oral hygiene. The current quality improvement project was implemented to evaluate t ... Full text Cite

Transforming nursing education in response to the Future of Nursing 2020-2030 report.

Journal Article Nursing outlook · November 2022 The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity report (NASEM, 2021) provides a comprehensive plan to improve the quality of health care and candidly acknowledges historical and contemporary issues that have stalled previous effor ... Full text Cite

Developing Virtual Simulations to Confront Racism and Bias in Health Professions Education

Journal Article Clinical Simulation in Nursing · October 1, 2022 Background: Bias and racism against Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) is omnipresent in health professions and healthcare. Healthcare educators indicate they need more training and resources to confidently confront racism and bias when it occur ... Full text Cite

Creating Inclusive Learning Environments for Chinese and American Pediatric Nursing Students.

Journal Article Clinical simulation in nursing · October 2022 During the COVID-19 pandemic, students from two schools of nursing, in China and the United States respectively, engaged in a transcultural simulation activity to explore how a global healthcare crisis has been managed within their different cultures. This ... Full text Cite

Nursing Faculty Workload: Balancing Fiscal Responsibility and Faculty Satisfaction.

Journal Article Nurse educator · May 2022 BackgroundNursing faculty and nursing program administrators share the goal of equitable faculty workload. Faculty teaching assignments and other academic workload can affect productivity and faculty satisfaction.ProblemModels for workloa ... Full text Cite

Melatonin and melatonin-receptor agonists to prevent delirium in hospitalized older adults: An umbrella review.

Journal Article Geriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.) · November 2021 BackgroundAlterations in circadian rhythm play an important role in the development of delirium. In this umbrella review, we examined the efficacy of melatonin and ramelteon for delirium prevention in hospitalized older adults.MethodsUmbr ... Full text Cite

Skills, community, and rapport: Prelicensure nursing students in the virtual learning environment.

Journal Article Teaching and learning in nursing : official journal of the National Organization for Assciate Degree Nursing · October 2021 IntroductionThe coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic forced changes in program delivery across nursing education. This article describes the innovative virtual lab sessions designed and implemented for Foundations and Pediatrics courses in an Accele ... Full text Cite

Patient-Centered Care

Chapter · March 29, 2021 This valuable new edition: Includes new and up-to-date information from national and state health care and nursing organizations, as well as new chapters on the historical context of nursing leadership and management and the organization of ... ... Link to item Cite

Simulation in Undergraduate Education.

Journal Article Annual review of nursing research · December 2020 Simulation is an integral component of undergraduate nursing education because it allows for a safe, timely, and prescriptive approach to meet learning objectives at the levels of individual simulations, courses, and academic programs. This review of the l ... Full text Cite

A Proposed Model for Simulation Faculty Workload Determination

Journal Article Clinical Simulation in Nursing · May 1, 2018 Featured Publication Background: Faculty workload calculations are not designed to capture nursing simulation faculty workload. The purposes of this literature review were to gather available determinants of simulation faculty workload in the existing literature and to propose ... Full text Cite

Simultaneous Multiple Patient Simulation in Undergraduate Nursing Education: A Focused Literature Review

Journal Article Clinical Simulation in Nursing · August 1, 2016 Newly graduated registered nurses are entering nursing practice with few, if any, undergraduate experiences caring for more than one patient at a time. Employers have identified this as a significant concern related to patient safety and staff morale. A po ... Full text Cite

A Tool to Assess the Signs and Symptoms of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection: Development and Reliability.

Journal Article Clinical nursing research · August 2015 The purpose of this pilot study was to determine the inter-rater reliability of four clinical manifestations of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) among hospitalized adults with short-term indwelling urinary catheters using a tool develop ... Full text Cite

HI-TENS reduces moderate-to-severe pain associated with most wound care procedures: a pilot study.

Journal Article Biological research for nursing · July 2014 This study systematically examined pain associated with wound care procedures (WCPs) and evaluated the effectiveness of high-intensity transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (HI-TENS) for reducing this pain in a two-phase design. Phase 1 (N = 57) exam ... Full text Cite

Predictors of postoperative movement and resting pain following total knee replacement.

Journal Article Pain · November 2012 This study determined preoperative predictors of movement and resting pain following total knee replacement (TKR). We hypothesized that younger patients with higher preoperative pain intensity, pain sensitivity, trait anxiety, pain catastrophizing, and dep ... Full text Cite

Effects of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation on pain, pain sensitivity, and function in people with knee osteoarthritis: a randomized controlled trial.

Journal Article Phys Ther · July 2012 BACKGROUND: Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) is commonly used for the management of pain; however, its effects on several pain and function measures are unclear. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of high-fr ... Full text Link to item Cite