Journal articleNurse Leader · August 1, 2026
Nurse managers (NM) are foundational to the delivery of high-quality patient care. Growing evidence demonstrates how higher NM workload and span of control (SOC) is related to less favorable organizational and clinical outcomes. Workload/SOC for 18 NMs at ...
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Journal articleGastroenterology 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 ...
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Journal articleJournal 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 ...
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Journal articleThe 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, ...
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Journal articleNurse 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 ...
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Journal articleAir 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 ...
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Journal articleCritical 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 ...
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Journal articleNurse 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 ...
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Journal articleJournal 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 ...
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Journal articleJournal 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 ...
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Journal articleJ 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 ...
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Journal articleJournal 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 ...
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Journal articleJournal 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. ...
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Journal articleAnn 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 ...
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Journal articleNurs 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 ...
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Journal articleNursing 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 ...
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Journal articleJournal 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 ...
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Journal articleThe 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 ...
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Journal articleJournal 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 ...
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Journal articleNursing 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 ...
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Journal articleMedical 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 ...
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Journal articleJ 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 ...
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Journal articleThe 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 ...
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