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Sharron Rushton

Sharron Rushton

Associate Clinical Professor in the School of Nursing
School of Nursing
sharron.rushton@duke.edu
Box 3322 Med Ctr, Durham, NC 27710
307 Trent Drive, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Publications

Experiences Receiving and Delivering Virtual Health Care For Women: Qualitative Evidence Synthesis.

Journal Article J Med Internet Res · May 15, 2025 BACKGROUND: Persisting sex- and gender-based disparities in access to high-quality, personalized health care in the United States can lead to devastating outcomes with long-lasting consequences. Strategic use of virtual resources could expand equitable hea ... Full text Link to item Cite

An Evidence Map of the Women Veterans' Health Literature, 2016 to 2023: A Systematic Review.

Journal Article JAMA Netw Open · April 1, 2025 IMPORTANCE: Women veterans are the fastest-growing veteran subpopulation in the US. Women veterans often experience military service-related health issues in addition to conditions common to all women. Because women veterans are more likely to receive care ... Full text Link to item Cite

Effectiveness of Synchronous Postdischarge Contacts on Health Care Use and Patient Satisfaction : A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Journal Article Ann Intern Med · February 2025 BACKGROUND: Postdischarge contacts (PDCs) after hospitalization are common practice, but their effectiveness in reducing use of acute care after discharge remains unclear. PURPOSE: To assess the effects of PDC on 30-day emergency department (ED) visits, 30 ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Understanding the Multidimensionality of Caregiving Appraisal: A Concept Analysis

Journal Article Nursing Forum · January 1, 2025 Caregiving appraisal refers to how caregivers evaluate their caregiving situation. However, this concept, first introduced by Lawton et al. in 1989, has been inconsistently defined (e.g., often inaccurately interchanged with caregiving burden) over the pas ... Full text Cite

Bolstering group cohesion & reducing stress through implementation of Stress First Aid.

Journal Article Archives of psychiatric nursing · December 2024 This quality improvement project sought to help health care workers (HCWs) identify and mitigate work-related stress using Stress First Aid. SFA training was offered to all psychiatric unit employees. Surveys assessing perceived stress, self-efficacy, and ... Full text Cite

Design and Evaluation of an Interprofessional Preceptor Development Mini-Fellowship Program.

Journal Article J Contin Educ Health Prof · October 1, 2024 INTRODUCTION: Health professions preceptors require skills and knowledge to effectively meet the educational needs of interprofessional students in clinical environments. We implemented a mini-fellowship program to enhance the knowledge, skills, and self-e ... Full text Link to item Cite

Factors associated with memory of informal caregivers: A scoping review protocol.

Journal Article PloS one · January 2024 The ability to retain and remember information (memory) is essential to caregiving tasks. There is evidence that caregivers are at greater risk for experiencing deteriorations in cognitive status than non-caregivers, especially memory; however, we have a l ... Full text Cite

The Use of Metaverse in Nursing Education: An Umbrella Review.

Journal Article Nurse educator · May 2023 BackgroundGiven the wide range of metaverse technologies, there is a need to synthesize evidence of metaverse pedagogy used effectively for nursing education.PurposeThis umbrella review synthesized systematic reviews on the use of metaver ... Full text Cite

Barriers and facilitators to the implementation and adoption of improvement coaching: A qualitative evidence synthesis.

Journal Article J Clin Nurs · January 2023 BACKGROUND: Healthcare organisations and teams perform improvement activities to facilitate high-quality healthcare. The use of an improvement coach who provides support and guidance to the healthcare team may facilitate improvement activities; however, no ... Full text Link to item Cite

A systematic review of videoconferencing in health professions education: the digital divide revisited in the COVID-19 era.

Journal Article International journal of nursing education scholarship · January 2023 ObjectivesDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, educators shifted from traditional lectures to videoconferencing. This systematic review explored the use of videoconferencing as a teaching tool in response to the pandemic as well as issues related to digi ... Full text Cite

Optimizing the Equitable Deployment of Virtual Care for Women: Protocol for a Qualitative Evidence Synthesis Examining Patient and Provider Perspectives Supplemented with Primary Qualitative Data.

Journal Article Health Equity · 2023 INTRODUCTION: Women experience numerous barriers to patient-centered health care (e.g., lack of continuity). Such barriers are amplified for women from marginalized communities. Virtual care may improve equitable access. We are conducting a partner-engaged ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Quality improvement project to increase screening and referral for biologic therapy for patients with uncontrolled asthma.

Journal Article The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma · December 2022 BackgroundAsthma is a treatable chronic disease of airway inflammation with varying levels of control and severity. Biological therapy is an effective evidence-based treatment for patients with allergic and eosinophilic phenotypes of asthma who ar ... Full text Cite

Telehealth for the Longitudinal Management of Chronic Conditions: Systematic Review.

Journal Article J Med Internet Res · August 26, 2022 BACKGROUND: Extensive literature support telehealth as a supplement or adjunct to in-person care for the management of chronic conditions such as congestive heart failure (CHF) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Evidence is needed to support the use of t ... Full text Link to item Cite

Effectiveness of Quality Improvement Coaching on Process Outcomes in Health Care Settings: A Systematic Review.

Journal Article J Gen Intern Med · March 2022 BACKGROUND: A culture of improvement is an important feature of high-quality health care systems. However, health care teams often need support to translate quality improvement (QI) activities into practice. One method of support is consultation from a QI ... Full text Link to item Cite

Using Root Cause Analysis to Inform a Falls Practice Change in the Home Care Setting.

Journal Article Home healthcare now · January 2022 Falls are a significant health problem in community-dwelling older adults, resulting in injuries, deaths, and increased healthcare costs. Falls were a quality concern for a Northeastern home care agency and this project aimed to evaluate the falls preventi ... Full text Cite

Are there differences in symptoms experienced by midlife climacteric women with and without metabolic syndrome? A scoping review.

Journal Article Women's health (London, England) · January 2022 IntroductionMidlife climacteric women with metabolic syndrome are at high risk for experiencing a complex array of symptoms. The aim of this scoping review was to identify the prevalence, types, and clustering of symptoms in midlife climacteric wo ... Full text Cite

Nursing Students’ Perceptions about Effective Pedagogy: Netnographic Analysis

Journal Article JMIR Medical Education · June 22, 2021 Background: Effective pedagogy that encourages high standards of excellence and commitment to lifelong learning is essential in health professions education to prepare students for real-life challenges such as health disparities and global health issues. C ... Full text Cite

Nursing Students’ Perceptions about Effective Pedagogy: Netnographic Analysis (Preprint)

Journal Article · February 5, 2021 BACKGROUNDEffective pedagogy that encourages high standards of excellence and commitment to lifelong learning is essential in health professions education to prepare students for real-lif ... Full text Cite

Implementing remote triage in large health systems: A qualitative evidence synthesis.

Journal Article Res Nurs Health · February 2021 Remote triage (RT) allows interprofessional teams (e.g., nurses and physicians) to assess patients and make clinical decisions remotely. RT use has developed widespread interest due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and has future potential to address the needs of ... Full text Link to item Cite

Pedagogical foundations of cybercivility in health professions education: a scoping review.

Journal Article BMC medical education · January 2021 BackgroundTeaching cybercivility requires thoughtful attention to curriculum development and content delivery. Theories, models, and conceptual and theoretical frameworks (hereafter "tools") provide useful foundations for integrating new knowledge ... Full text Open Access Cite

Effectiveness of Acute Care Remote Triage Systems: a Systematic Review.

Journal Article J Gen Intern Med · July 2020 BACKGROUND: Technology-based systems can facilitate remote decision-making to triage patients to the appropriate level of care. Despite technologic advances, the effects of implementation of these systems on patient and utilization outcomes are unclear. We ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Email Use Reconsidered in Health Professions Education: Viewpoint

Journal Article JMIR Medical Education · June 1, 2020 Full text Cite

Understanding the Associations between Caregiver Characteristics and Cognitive Function of Adults with Cancer: A Scoping Review.

Journal Article Asia-Pacific journal of oncology nursing · April 2020 Cognitive impairment (CI) is one of symptoms that adults with cancer frequently report. Although there are known factors that contribute to a patient's CI, these factors did not sufficiently explain its variability. Several studies conducted in patients wi ... Full text Cite

Transformational Coaching: Effect on Process of Care Outcomes and Determinants of Uptake

Report · 2020 High-quality health care is a priority for patients and clinicians alike. Quality improvement (QI) is a framework that guides health system actions to improve the delivery of high-quality health care. Quality improvement activities seek to promote high-qua ... Link to item Cite

Understanding on the association between informal caregiver characteristics and cognitive function of adults with cancer: a scoping review protocol.

Journal Article BMJ Open · September 18, 2019 INTRODUCTION: Adults with cancer frequently report symptoms such as decline in cognitive function throughout the trajectory of illness. Patients with cognitive deficits need support and assistance from their informal caregivers and often rely on them to ma ... Full text Link to item Cite

Implementation of an Emergency Department Screening and Care Management Referral Process for Patients With Sickle Cell Disease.

Journal Article Professional case management · September 2019 Purpose of studyThe purpose of the project was to describe the implementation and evaluation of a care management referral program from emergency departments (EDs) to care management services for patients with sickle cell disease (SCD).Primary ... Full text Cite

Effectiveness of Remote Triage: A Systematic Review

Report · 2019 The US health care system currently faces several challenges including caring for an increasing elderly population, a large numbers of patients with multiple chronic conditions, and an uneven distribution of primary care providers across the country. The f ... Link to item Cite

Chest Pain: If It Is Not the Heart, What Is It?

Journal Article The Nursing clinics of North America · September 2018 Noncardiac chest pain is an angina-type discomfort without indication of ischemia. Diagnosis can be difficult because of its heterogeneous nature. Classification varies by specialty; gastroenterology uses the terminology gastroesophageal reflux disease rel ... Full text Cite

Considerations for Developing a Student Evaluation of Teaching Form

Journal Article Teaching and Learning in Nursing · April 1, 2018 Student evaluations of teaching (SET) provide feedback to nursing faculty for improving courses and teaching and to administrators for making personnel decisions affecting faculty. We surveyed the literature to better understand the content of and types of ... Full text Cite

Student evaluations of teaching (SET): Guidelines for their use.

Journal Article Nurs Forum · January 18, 2018 Student evaluations of teaching (SET) provide a structured way of collecting feedback from students about the course and teacher's effectiveness. We reviewed literature describing use of SET across a broad range of disciplines in undergraduate and graduate ... Full text Link to item Cite

Use of a Virtual Learning Platform for Distance-Based Simulation in an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Curriculum.

Journal Article Dimensions 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 ... Full text Cite

The Population Care Coordination Process.

Journal Article Professional case management · September 2015 Purpose/objectivesThe purpose of the article was to outline a population-based approach to providing care coordination. The Population Care Coordination Process provides a framework for each provider and/or organization to provide multilevel care ... Full text Cite

Nurses for patient-centered medical homes

Journal Article Health Affairs · 2012 Full text Cite

Cardiovascular surgery

Chapter · 2004 Part of the Nursing Secrets Series, Cardiovascular Nursing Secrets is designed to be helpful for both new and experienced nurses in the cardiovascular field. ... Cite

Inhibition of p38 MAPK alpha/beta reduces ischemic injury and does not block protective effects of preconditioning

Journal Article AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY · February 1, 2001 Link to item Cite