Journal articleAANA J · April 1, 2026
This project aimed to reintroduce and evaluate a pediatric ketamine sedation protocol at a Zonal Referral Center in Mwanza, Tanzania, where nonanesthesia clinicians provide sedation when trained anesthesia personnel are unavailable. The objectives were to ...
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Journal articleThe Journal of nursing education · November 2024
BackgroundCognitive bias negatively affects patient outcomes, resulting in medical errors, sentinel events, and legal claims. The brunt of bias-induced inequities and disparities has fallen on Black and Brown people, women, and the LGBTQ+ communit ...
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Journal articleJournal for Nurse Practitioners · June 1, 2024
Central lines placed in the internal jugular or subclavian vein are common among critically ill patients. A chest x-ray serves as the confirmation method in many institutions. However, ultrasound with agitated saline has been proven an effective, faster, a ...
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Journal articleCritical care nursing quarterly · July 2023
This article reports results of a nurse-driven fluid management protocol in a medical-surgical intensive care unit (ICU). Use of static measures such as central venous pressure monitoring, heart rate, blood pressure, and urine output is poor predictors of ...
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Journal articleClinical Simulation in Nursing · October 1, 2022
Background: Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in health care are recognized as valuable factors affecting health outcomes for historically underrepresented populations such as racial, ethnic, cultural, and gender minorities. Approaching diverse minori ...
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Journal articleJournal for Nurse Practitioners · April 1, 2022
The nurse practitioner's scope of practice is defined by their educational preparation and board certification. Therefore, nurse practitioner clinical practice must align with the population foci of their certification. As more nurse practitioners are seek ...
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Journal articleCritical care nursing quarterly · January 2022
Sepsis affects 1.7 million Americans annually and often requires an intensive care unit (ICU) stay. Survivors of ICU can experience long-term negative effects. This quality improvement initiative was designed to increase compliance with ABCDEF bundle eleme ...
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Journal articleIntensive & critical care nursing · December 2021
ObjectiveTo determine if the implementation of an evidence-based bundle designed to reduce the number of physiologic monitor alarms reduces alarm fatigue in intensive care nurses.DesignThis quality improvement project retrospectively revi ...
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Journal articleNursing forum · October 2021
BackgroundMen comprise the minority of entry-level baccalaureate nursing students and are at increased risk of experiencing gender-associated incivility.ProblemUncivil peer-to-peer behavior can negatively affect students' mental and physi ...
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Journal articleThe Nursing clinics of North America · September 2021
Delirium is a complex diagnosis characterized by inattention accompanied by either disorganized thinking or an altered level of consciousness. Delirium affects approximately 15% of older adults in the hospital. Delirium is associated with a 62% greater ris ...
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Journal articleClinical simulation in nursing · August 2021
Changes in academia have occurred quickly in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In-person simulation-based education has been adapted into a virtual format to meet course learning objectives. The methods and procedures leveraged to onboard faculty, staff, ...
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Journal articleProfessional case management · November 2020
BackgroundApproximately 5.7 million people in the United States are diagnosed and living with heart failure (HF), with projected prevalence rates to increase 46% by 2030. Heart failure leads hospital admissions in the United States for individuals ...
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Journal articleJournal of emergency nursing · January 2020
ProblemSuper-utilizers comprise 4.5% to 8% of all ED patients, but account for 21% to 28% of all ED visits. Excessive use of the emergency department contributes to increased health care costs, recurrent and unnecessary ED workup, decreased emerge ...
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Journal articleGeriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.) · January 2020
The role of men in nursing is not always evident. Men have been care takers in early societies, military health care, and the religious sector. The perception of men in nursing, however, took a shift from one of honor to one of deviance and failure from me ...
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Journal articleCritical care nursing quarterly · July 2019
Pulmonary artery catheters (PACs) are invasive devices placed in critically ill patients to monitor hemodynamic data. They are a high-risk, and in some settings a low-volume, medical device due to the complex insertion procedure and potentially lethal comp ...
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Journal articleCritical care nursing quarterly · July 2019
Numerous factors impact patient recovery following an acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Negative emotional outcomes, such as learned helplessness, are predictors of mortality following AMI, though little is known about these relationships. The purpose of ...
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Journal articleCrit Pathw Cardiol · June 2019
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of a rapid admission protocol for chest pain patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) on ED length-of-stay (LOS). In this study, ED LOS was defined as the time from triage check- ...
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Journal articleDimensions of critical care nursing : DCCN · May 2019
BackgroundIn recent years, the incidence of delirium has grown to epidemic proportions in the intensive care setting with up to 80% of mechanically ventilated patients being affected. This can lead to adverse patient outcomes such as increased len ...
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Journal articleThe Nursing clinics of North America · September 2018
Autoimmune disorders are a category of diseases in which the immune system attacks healthy cells as a result of a dysfunction of the acquired immune system. Clinical presentation and diagnosis are disease specific and often correspond with the degree of in ...
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Journal articleThe Nursing clinics of North America · September 2018
Restless legs syndrome/Willis-Ekbon disease (RLS/WED) is a common sensorimotor disorder characterized by an irresistible urge to move and is associated with an uncomfortable sensation typically in the lower extremities. Dopaminergic neurotransmission abnor ...
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Journal articleClinical nursing research · June 2018
Psychosocial factors are known to impact depressive symptoms across clinical populations. Learned helplessness has the potential of affecting depressive symptoms following acute myocardial infarction (AMI), though little is known about this relationship. T ...
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Journal articleDimensions of critical care nursing : DCCN · March 2018
The purpose of this innovative learning strategy was to decrease students' fear and anxiety within the critical care environment before the initiation of a critical care capstone clinical experience by enhancing their familiarity of the critical care envir ...
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Journal articleDimensions of critical care nursing : DCCN · September 2017
BackgroundAcute care nurse practitioner (ACNP) programs that use high-fidelity simulation as a teaching tool need to consider innovative strategies to provide distance-based students with learning experiences that are comparable to those in a simu ...
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Journal articleTeaching and Learning in Nursing · April 1, 2017
Peer-to-peer learning in a prelicensure nursing program allows students to critique one another with decreased stress and anxiety. The use of video recording technology affords students the opportunity to engage in reflective practices of physical assessme ...
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Journal articleJournal of professional nursing : official journal of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing · November 2015
Most schools of nursing are engaged in some form of program evaluation and recognize the potential benefits in using program evaluation outcomes to influence continuous improvement in program quality. A number of factors exist that may negatively influence ...
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Journal articleThe Nursing clinics of North America · June 2015
Hospital technology has aggressively improved over the past 50 years. With the primary intent of making health care more efficient and safer, the bedside nurse has been impacted by all of these changes. The growth and utilization of point-of-care testing, ...
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Journal articleCritical care nursing clinics of North America · June 2013
This article provides a brief introduction to the history of anaphylaxis and the order Hymenoptera, which is responsible for most reported sting-induced allergic reactions. The anatomic similarities and differences as well as inhabited similarities and dif ...
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