Journal articleJournal of perianesthesia nursing : official journal of the American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses · August 2026
PurposeOptimizing communication during patient handoff is essential to reduce errors and provide quality patient care. The purpose of this quality improvement project was to standardize handoffs between the operating room (OR) and the postanesthes ...
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Journal articleJournal of pediatric health care : official publication of National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & Practitioners · July 2026Full textCite
Journal articleThe Journal of continuing education in the health professions · June 2026
IntroductionPodcasts are a popular educational tool for health professions, known for their availability and flexibility. Skeptics criticize podcasts for often absent editorial oversight, which can threaten quality. The purpose of this pilot proje ...
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Journal articleJournal for Nurse Practitioners · May 1, 2026
Acute care pediatric nurse practitioner (PNP-AC) faculty face educator shortages and competing clinical and academic demands. The purpose of this project was to use podcasting as a collaborative solution to enhance education and professional development. T ...
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Journal articleJournal of perianesthesia nursing : official journal of the American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses · October 2025
PurposeThe purpose of this project was to assess the sustainability of a standardized nursing postoperative handoff based on the White's Fast-Track Score (WFTS) tool used between the operating room (OR) and the postanesthesia care unit (PACU). ...
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Journal articleAANA J · August 1, 2025
Williams syndrome is a rare congenital disorder affecting connective tissue and the cardiovascular and central nervous systems. Pediatric patients diagnosed with Williams syndrome face significant risk for cardiac collapse and death when undergoing anesthe ...
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Journal articleAdvances in neonatal care : official journal of the National Association of Neonatal Nurses · June 2025
BackgroundThere is sufficient evidence to support safe discharge from the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) with nasogastric tube (NGT) feedings when appropriate caregiver education, outpatient support, and feeding therapy are available.Purp ...
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Journal articleMedEdPORTAL · 2025
INTRODUCTION: Existing mass casualty incident (MCI) simulations rely on high-fidelity patient simulators, which are cost-prohibitive and often exclude pediatric patients. To address the need for deployable, low-fidelity pediatric MCI simulations, we develo ...
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Journal articleThe Nursing clinics of North America · September 2023
Many healthy children may be found to have a murmur on physical exam. Whether this murmur is discovered at a routine health maintenance visit or as a result of a focused exam on a child with illness, it is just one finding and must be considered in the con ...
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Journal articleJournal of Pediatric Health Care · May 1, 2023
The publisher regrets that an error was introduced in the Health Policy and Funding Considerations section. The sentence beginning “The GNE program has not been renewed…” should correctly read as “The GNE program has not been renewed since piloted, althoug ...
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Journal articleJournal for Nurse Practitioners · April 1, 2023
As the number of online acute care pediatric nurse practitioner programs increases, exploration of creative methods to enhance scholarly engagement and develop a professional network among students is imperative. This report describes the use of the Twitte ...
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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 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 articleJ Am Assoc Nurse Pract · May 18, 2021
BACKGROUND: The arrival of COVID-19 brought urgent limitation of visitation in hospitals across the country. Family-centered care and its delivery rapidly changed and left the family behind-unable to actively participate in their loved one's care. LOCAL PR ...
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Journal articleComputers, informatics, nursing : CIN · October 2020
The handoff or handover is the exchange of pertinent medical information from one provider to another. Inadequate handoff communication between healthcare providers can negatively impact patient outcomes. In an effort to improve handoff communication, many ...
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Journal articleJournal of pediatric nursing · September 2020
PurposeThe purpose of this quality improvement project was to implement an educational intervention involving High-Fidelity Simulation (HFS) with deliberate practice for low-frequency, high-impact events in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), ...
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Journal articleJ Palliat Med · September 2019
Over the past several years, pediatric critical care units increasingly count on the expert advisement of palliative care specialists. Given the limited availability of pediatric palliative care specialists, all palliative care clinicians may be required t ...
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Journal articleJournal for Nurse Practitioners · January 1, 2019
Congenital heart disease is a lifelong disease that results from a heart defect or structural anomaly. Signs and symptoms of heart disease vary by age and developmental stage of the pediatric patient. Thorough history and physical examination guide the nur ...
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Journal articleNurse 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 ...
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Journal articleJournal of pediatric health care : official publication of National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & Practitioners · January 2017
IntroductionIn children requiring long-term mechanical ventilation (LTMV), insufficient admission charting can lead to adverse events. Our purpose in this study was to create and evaluate a structured documentation tool of home LTMV settings to im ...
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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 articleStudies 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 ...
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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 articleNurse 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 ...
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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 articleJ Pediatr Oncol Nurs · 2014
INTRODUCTION: This quality improvement (QI) project addresses a method for experienced health care providers to maintain skill-based competence for intrathecal access procedures. METHODS: A prospective QI design using intrathecal access simulation to asses ...
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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 articleJournal of pediatric oncology nursing : official journal of the Association of Pediatric Oncology Nurses · September 2012
Transient myeloproliferative disorder (TMD) can be found in well or ill newborns with Down syndrome. Although it is a relatively harmless process for most, in some children, TMD can present as a life-threatening state requiring critical care. As the diseas ...
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Journal articleJ Nurs Care Qual · 2012
Partnering with families to deliver safe care includes teaching how to activate the rapid response team (RRT) if their hospitalized child's condition worsens. Condition Help (Condition H) is how families call the RRT. Pediatric nurses used scripted Conditi ...
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Journal articlePediatric pulmonology · August 2008
ObjectivesTo describe an educational program and timeline for the discharge of children with a new tracheostomy and identify common impediments to the education and discharge process.MethodsRetrospective pilot case series of 70 children a ...
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Journal articlePediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies · January 2008
ObjectivesTo describe the indications, surgical timing, length of stay, hospital charges, and discharge disposition of pediatric tracheostomy patients.DesignRetrospective case series.SettingLarge urban academic pediatric hospital ...
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Journal articleClinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine · January 1, 2006
With increased awareness of the prevalence of medical error, efforts to improve health care delivery have focused not only on the study of new therapies to combat disease, but also on the process of patient care. As a result, improved patient outcomes are ...
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