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Margory Molloy

Associate Clinical Professor Emerita in the School of Nursing
School of Nursing
DUMC 3322, Durham, NC 27710
307 Trent Drive, DUMC 3322, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Publications


An interprofessional initiative to improve the “drop to shock” interval on a college campus

Journal Article Teaching and Learning in Nursing · October 1, 2023 This project engaged healthcare students in an interprofessional (IP) activity to design a program to increase awareness of automated external defibrillators device locations on campus. A Plan-Do-Study-Act approach was used. We highlight how an IP activity ... 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

Development of Trigger Films to Explore Nursing Students' Attitudes Toward Patients with Obesity.

Journal Article SAGE open nursing · January 2023 IntroductionGiven the increased prevalence of obesity and the existence of negative attitudes among health care providers toward patients with obesity (PWO), strategies are needed to assist nursing students in identifying and examining attitudes a ... 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 Students From China and the United States: Learning Together Through Virtual Simulation.

Journal Article Nursing education perspectives · May 2022 AimThe purpose of this project was to connect nursing students from schools of nursing in China and the United States for colearning using virtual simulations.BackgroundWith technology and international partnerships, nursing programs can ... Full text Cite

Adaptation of the TEAM Mental Healthcare Delivery Model: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation.

Journal Article Issues Ment Health Nurs · March 2022 We report on the adaptation and evaluation of an existing approach to multicultural education into an eight-session online, modular curriculum for psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner students (n = 6) and psychology interns (n = 10). Training parti ... Full text Link to item Cite

Why an IPE Team Matters… Improvement in Identification of Hospital Hazards: A Room of Horrors Pilot Study.

Journal Article Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · January 2022 PurposeTo evaluate student performance in a simulation-based interprofessional learning activity that focused on identifying patient safety hazards in a simulated patient's hospital room.Participants and methodsStudents from nursing, occu ... Full text Cite

Faculty development workshop on gender-associated incivility in nursing education.

Journal Article Nursing 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 ... Full text Cite

Onward and Upward: Introducing the Healthcare Simulation Standards of Best PracticeTM

Journal Article Clinical Simulation in Nursing · September 1, 2021 Full text Cite

Healthcare Simulation Standards of Best PracticeTM Simulation Glossary

Journal Article Clinical Simulation in Nursing · September 1, 2021 Full text Cite

Embracing Disruption: Measuring Effectiveness of Virtual Simulations in Advanced Practice Nurse Curriculum.

Journal Article Clinical 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, ... 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

Implementing a Goal-Directed Therapy Protocol for Fluid Resuscitation in the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit.

Journal Article AACN advanced critical care · December 2020 BackgroundBalancing fluid administration and titration of vasoactive medications is critical to preventing postoperative complications in cardiac surgical patients.ObjectiveTo evaluate the impact of implementing a goal-directed therapy pr ... Full text Cite

Implementing Cardiac Surgical Unit-Advanced Life Support Through Simulation-Based Learning: A Quality Improvement Project.

Journal Article Dimensions of critical care nursing : DCCN · July 2020 BackgroundThe European Association for Cardio Thoracic Surgery and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons endorse Cardiac Surgical Unit-Advanced Life Support, a protocol designed specifically for cardiothoracic surgical patients who suffer postoperative ... Full text Cite

Baseline Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Skill Performance of Nursing Students Is Improved After One Resuscitation Quality Improvement Skill Refresher.

Journal Article Journal for nurses in professional development · March 2020 This article reports the results of baseline cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) skills performance measurements from 467 nursing students. All participants had completed a CPR course. Baseline measurements were compared to performance after one 10-minute ... Full text Cite

Planning and managing a complex multisite study in the age of technology.

Journal Article Nursing forum · October 2019 A 2-year long, multisite research study that evaluated cardiopulmonary resuscitation skill decay among nursing students was conducted at 10 schools of nursing across the United States. The study was conducted in two phases and required carefully timed sess ... Full text Cite

Implementing a Weaning Protocol for Cardiac Surgery Patients Using Simulation: A Quality Improvement Project.

Journal Article Dimensions of critical care nursing : DCCN · September 2019 BackgroundMechanical ventilation is the standard of care after cardiac surgery, but it imposes physiologic and psychological stress on patients. The Society of Thoracic Surgery recommends 6 hours as the goal for extubation, but 60% of our patients ... Full text Cite

Perinatal IPE simulation can improve collaborative competencies

Journal Article Journal of Interprofessional Education and Practice · June 1, 2019 Full text Cite

Preparing Clinicians for Transitioning Patients Across Care Settings and Into the Home Through Simulation.

Journal Article Home healthcare now · July 2018 Assuring home care staff competencies through simulation has the potential to improve care transitions and clinical outcomes. Recreating a home environment can be used for orientation of home care staff and to meet other learning needs. Lessons learned fro ... Full text Cite

Telehealth and telenursing using simulation for pre-licensure USA students.

Journal Article Nurse education in practice · March 2018 An innovative simulation was used to teach pre-licensure USA nursing students about telenursing for screening, assessment, and patient education during a home visit. The students used telepresence technology to deliver nursing care to a homebound geriatric ... 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

Student-Developed Simulations: Enhancing Cultural Awareness and Understanding Social Determinants of Health.

Journal Article The Journal of nursing education · April 2017 BackgroundNational and global initiatives to address the social determinants of health (SDH) are on the rise. On a parallel trajectory, increased cultural awareness is emerging as an integral strategy to improve the understanding of these social c ... Full text Cite

Integrating Telepresence Robots Into Nursing Simulation.

Journal Article Nurse educator · March 2017 This article provides an overview of the use of telepresence robots in clinical practice and describes an evaluation of an educational project in which distance-based nurse practitioner students used telepresence robots in clinical simulations with on-camp ... Full text 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

Implementation of a learning bundle to promote end-of-life education for prelicensure nursing students

Journal Article Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing · August 1, 2016 This educational study examined the effects of a multidimensional end-of-life (EOL) learning bundle on student attitudes toward care of the dying person as measured using the Frommelt Attitudes on Care of the Dying (FATCOD) scale. New nurses, including bot ... Full text Cite

Utilizing Trigger Films to Enhance Communication Skills of Home Care Clinicians.

Journal Article Home healthcare now · July 2016 The purpose of this article is to describe an innovative method to help home care clinicians better communicate with older adults experiencing normal physiologic changes that impact their ability to communicate effectively. Developmental changes such as he ... Full text Cite

Feasibility of Augmented Reality in Clinical Simulations: Using Google Glass With Manikins.

Journal Article JMIR medical education · March 2016 BackgroundStudies show that students who use fidelity-based simulation technology perform better and have higher retention rates than peers who learn in traditional paper-based training. Augmented reality is increasingly being used as a teaching a ... Full text Cite

Using Trigger Films as a Bariatric Sensitivity Intervention: Improving Nursing Students' Attitudes and Beliefs About Caring for Obese Patients.

Journal Article Nurse educator · January 2016 Nurse educators are uniquely positioned to improve obesity-related attitudes and beliefs among prelicensure nursing students. A bariatric sensitivity intervention using 6 trigger films with facilitated debriefing was designed and delivered to 70 first-seme ... Full text Cite

An Innovative Use of Telepresence Robots for Educating Healthcare Professional.

Journal Article Studies in health technology and informatics · January 2016 Telehealth enhances communication across distances, facilitates teamwork, and increases access to care, particularly in rural areas. As the use of telehealth technology assimilates into clinical practice, its integration is also needed in clinical curricul ... Cite

A Telehealth Case Study: The Use of Telepresence Robot for Delivering Integrated Clinical Care.

Journal Article Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association · November 2015 Full text Cite

Aging and obesity: general assessment and management considerations.

Journal Article Geriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.) · September 2015 Full text Cite

Cultivating a Culture of Medication Safety in Prelicensure Nursing Students.

Journal Article Nurse educator · July 2015 Safety education in nursing has traditionally focused at the level of individual nurse-patient interactions. Students and novice clinicians lack clinical experience to create context and understand the complexity of the health care system and safety scienc ... Full text Cite

Use of deliberate practice in teaching in nursing.

Journal Article Nurse education today · April 2015 Full text Cite

Adapters, strugglers, and case managers: a typology of spouse caregivers.

Journal Article Qualitative health research · November 2014 Although family home care problems are frequently described in the health care literature, the ways in which families and other informal caregivers manage those problems are not often addressed. We conducted a descriptive analysis of interviews in which sp ... Full text 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

Do nurse-led skill training interventions affect informal caregivers' out-of-pocket expenditures?

Journal Article Gerontologist · February 2013 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY: This paper is a report of a study of the Assistance, Support, and Self-health Initiated through Skill Training (ASSIST) randomized control trial. The aim of this paper is to understand whether participating in ASSIST significantly cha ... Full text Link to item Cite

The nature and scope of stressful spousal caregiving relationships.

Journal Article Journal of family nursing · May 2011 The caregiving literature provides compelling evidence that caregiving burden and depressive symptoms are linked with stressful care relationships, however, relational difficulties around caregiving are seldom described in the literature. This article pres ... Full text Cite

Improving Nurses' Application of CSU-ALS Simulation-Based Learning

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