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Kathleen Marie Turner

Kathleen Marie Turner

Associate Clinical Professor in the School of Nursing
School of Nursing
kathleen.turner@duke.edu
Box 3322 Med Ctr, Durham, NC 27710
2053 School of Nursing, DUMC 3322, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Publications

Improving Patient Bowel Preparation Quality and Colonoscopy Preparedness.

Journal Article Gastroenterology nursing : the official journal of the Society of Gastroenterology Nurses and Associates · November 2025 Proper colonoscopy bowel preparation is critical for effective screening and surveillance of colon cancer and adenomas. Adhering to written multi-step, order-dependent bowel preparation instructions can be complex for patients with low health literacy. Thi ... Full text Cite

Adherence to PRISMA 2020 reporting guidelines and scope of systematic reviews published in nursing: A cross-sectional analysis.

Journal Article Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing · July 2024 IntroductionSystematic reviews are considered the highest level of evidence that can help guide evidence-informed decisions in nursing practice, education, and even health policy. Systematic review publications have increased from a sporadic few i ... Full text Cite

Implementation of an Enculturation Toolkit for New Nurses During Unit Onboarding.

Journal Article The Journal of nursing administration · April 2024 ObjectiveThis quality improvement project targeted an enculturation gap among new nurses by assembling and piloting an Enculturation Toolkit.BackgroundEnculturation of new nurses contributes to engagement, performance, sense of belonging, ... Full text Cite

Impacts of Shared Governance on Ambulatory Nursing Engagement

Journal Article Nurse Leader · February 1, 2024 An ambulatory shared governance program was initiated in an outlying location of a large academic hospital to evaluate the impact on engagement, process improvement, and safety event reporting. Shared governance led to improvements in engagement, empowerme ... Full text Cite

Implementing IPASS Handoff to Improve Patient Safety in Pediatric Critical Care Transport.

Journal Article Air medical journal · March 2023 IntroductionThe aim of this study was to implement a standardized, hospital-based bedside handoff report (IPASS [Illness severity, Patient summary, Action items, Situational awareness, and Synthesis]) in prehospital pediatric critical care transpo ... Full text Cite

Implementing a Standardized Communication Tool in an Intensive Care Unit.

Journal Article Critical care nurse · June 2022 BackgroundEffective communication is essential in critical care settings. Use of the SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation) tool has been shown to standardize and improve communication among health care providers.Local proble ... Full text Cite

Enhancing Nurse Manager Resilience in a Pandemic.

Journal Article Nurse leader · December 2021 Nurse managers face many daily challenges that require strong resilience and skill. The COVID-19 pandemic placed nurse managers under exceptional pressure to deliver safe staffing resources, updated infection control practices, and communication with the m ... Full text Cite

Improving Care of Skilled Nursing Patients: Implementation of Early Sepsis Recognition.

Journal Article Journal of gerontological nursing · August 2021 An aging population with underlying health conditions, such as heart disease and diabetes, is at high risk for infections, including pneumonia, influenza, and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). In particular, the number of individuals in skilled nursing ... Full text Cite

Outcomes of a holistic admissions process in an Accelerated Baccalaureate Nursing Program.

Journal Article Journal of professional nursing : official journal of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing · July 2021 An accelerated bachelor of science in nursing program adopted holistic admissions practices to increase diversity in the student body. This quality improvement project aimed to compare three cohorts of students accepted before holistic admissions practices ... Full text Cite

Ethics and Interprofessional Education:An Exploration Across Health Professions Education Programs.

Journal Article J Interprof Care · 2020 Classroom-based ethics education, in health professions education programs at a university in the United States, was explored in a pilot study to determine a basis for creating an interprofessional experience for ethics education. Course faculty were inter ... Full text Link to item Cite

Palliative Care Nursing Communication: An Evaluation of the COMFORT Model.

Journal Article Journal of hospice and palliative nursing : JHPN : the official journal of the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association · April 2019 Despite the frequency, complexity, and intensity of communication that occurs between nurses, patients, and families, palliative care nurses often struggle with end-of-life communication. The primary goal of this quality improvement project was to increase ... Full text Cite

Using Good News to Engage Nursing Students.

Journal Article Nurse educator · January 2019 Full text Cite

Student Evaluations of Teachers and Courses: Time to Wake Up and Shake Up.

Journal Article Nursing education perspectives · May 2018 Full text Cite

The evaluation of the implementation of the vascular preventative bundle and development of suggested interventions for improvement and sustainability.

Journal Article Journal of vascular nursing : official publication of the Society for Peripheral Vascular Nursing · March 2018 Postoperative infections can complicate patient care and increase health care costs. A vascular preventative bundle was implemented at a large teaching/research intensive hospital to decrease surgical site infections (SSIs) with vascular surgery patients. ... Full text Cite

How Prepared Are Medical and Nursing Students to Identify Common Hazards in the Intensive Care Unit?

Journal Article Ann Am Thorac Soc · April 2017 RATIONALE: Care in the hospital is hazardous. Harm in the hospital may prolong hospitalization, increase suffering, result in death, and increase costs of care. Although the interprofessional team is critical to eliminating hazards that may result in adver ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Critical Care Nursing

Book · January 31, 2017 "Textbook that provides students with theory and application knowledge needed for a full understanding of critical care nursing"-- ... Cite

How We Engage Graduating Professional Students in Interprofessional Patient Safety.

Journal Article Nurs Forum · October 2016 PROBLEM: Interprofessional curricula on patient safety do not acknowledge the culture and vulnerabilities of the student experience and often do not engage students. METHODS: We describe a patient safety collaboration between graduating nursing and medical ... Full text Link to item Cite

Writing Across the Curriculum: Strategies to Improve the Writing Skills of Nursing Students.

Journal Article Nursing forum · October 2016 BackgroundWriting across the curriculum (WAC) is a strategy in which writing instruction occurs in classes outside of composition, literature, and other English courses. This literature review was conducted to identify and synthesize the peer-revi ... Full text Cite

Use of Workshops to Develop Nurses' and Nursing Students' Writing Skills.

Journal Article Journal of continuing education in nursing · August 2015 Workshops have been described in the literature as a strategy for preparing nurses to publish their work and develop their writing skills. Articles about the use of workshops for these purposes have not been integrated systematically. Seventeen articles we ... Full text Cite

Systematic review of educational programs and strategies for developing students' and nurses' writing skills.

Journal Article The Journal of nursing education · January 2015 The purpose of this article is to describe the outcomes of a systematic review of educational programs and strategies for developing the writing skills of nursing students and nurses. Of 728 screened citations, 80 articles were included in the review. Writ ... Full text Cite

Teaching Delegation to RN Students

Journal Article Journal of Nursing Regulation · July 1, 2014 Registered nurse (RN) students have difficulty learning delegation and supervision, and new RNs lack confidence in executing these skills. To improve safety, therefore, RN educators require new teaching and learning strategies to help prelicensure students ... Full text Cite

Preparing quality improvement, research, and evidence-based practice manuscripts.

Journal Article Nursing economic$ · March 2014 Understanding how to organize a manuscript reporting quality improvement (QI), research, and evidence-based practice (EBP) initiatives is important to provide essential information for readers to evaluate the findings for possible use in their own settings ... Cite

It Takes a Village”: An Interprofessional Patient Safety Experience for Nursing and Medical Students

Journal Article Medical Science Educator · October 1, 2013 Background: Interprofessional education (IPE) is a “core” competency in professional school education. Challenges to successful collaboration include: aligning student abilities/experience, providing meaningful clinically-based interaction, and the need fo ... Full text Cite

Implementation of the Josie King Care Journal in a pediatric intensive care unit: a quality improvement project.

Journal Article J Nurs Care Qual · 2013 The Care Journal is a tool developed by the Josie King Foundation to promote interactive exchange among providers and patients/families. The Care Journal was implemented in a pediatric intensive care unit, and surveys were administered to assess perception ... Full text Link to item Cite

Avoiding socialization pitfalls in accelerated second-degree nursing education: the returning-to-school syndrome model.

Journal Article The Journal of nursing education · September 2007 Second-degree students are highly motivated and tend to excel academically. However, nurse educators in accelerated programs face challenges in socializing these students to the nursing role. One pitfall is the hostility that may develop if students percei ... Full text Cite