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Thomas James Blodgett

Thomas James Blodgett

Assistant Clinical Professor in the School of Nursing
School of Nursing
thomas.blodgett@duke.edu
Box 3322 DUMC, Durham, NC 27710
307 Trent Drive, Duke School of Nursing, Durham, NC 27710
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Selected Publications

Advanced Clinical Activities in Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Majors

Journal Article Journal for Nurse Practitioners · May 1, 2025 The purpose of this project was to identify how frequently nurse practitioner (NP) students in primary care clinical experiences performed advanced clinical activities. We conducted a 5-year retrospective analysis of clinical logs from students in 4 popula ... Full text Cite

Targeted interventions to promote sleep for hospitalized older adults: a narrative review.

Journal Article Hospital practice (1995) · February 2025 ObjectivesNearly two-thirds of older adults experience sleeping difficulties in the hospital setting, which can lead to delirium, mood instability, and delayed healing. Many members of the interprofessional hospital team are positioned to promote ... 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

Delirium prevention and management in hospitalized older adults.

Journal Article The Nurse practitioner · May 2023 AbstractDelirium is a common neurocognitive disorder among hospitalized older adults, and it can have devastating effects. The purpose of this article is to inform NPs in the hospital setting to recognize, prevent, and manage delirium in older adu ... Full text 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

Melatonin and melatonin-receptor agonists to prevent delirium in hospitalized older adults: An umbrella review.

Journal Article Geriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.) · November 2021 BackgroundAlterations in circadian rhythm play an important role in the development of delirium. In this umbrella review, we examined the efficacy of melatonin and ramelteon for delirium prevention in hospitalized older adults.MethodsUmbr ... Full text Cite

Patient-Centered Care

Chapter · March 29, 2021 This valuable new edition: Includes new and up-to-date information from national and state health care and nursing organizations, as well as new chapters on the historical context of nursing leadership and management and the organization of ... ... Link to item Cite

Perceptions of a Nurse-Driven Urinary Catheter Removal Protocol in a Hospital Setting.

Journal Article Clinical nurse specialist CNS · March 2021 Purpose/aimsThe purpose of this study was to examine the feasibility and acceptability of a nurse-driven catheter removal protocol among nurses in a hospital setting.DesignA mixed-methods design was used. A modified version of the Abbrevi ... Full text Cite

A Proposed Model for Simulation Faculty Workload Determination

Journal Article Clinical Simulation in Nursing · May 1, 2018 Background: Faculty workload calculations are not designed to capture nursing simulation faculty workload. The purposes of this literature review were to gather available determinants of simulation faculty workload in the existing literature and to propose ... Full text Cite

Simultaneous Multiple Patient Simulation in Undergraduate Nursing Education: A Focused Literature Review

Journal Article Clinical Simulation in Nursing · August 1, 2016 Newly graduated registered nurses are entering nursing practice with few, if any, undergraduate experiences caring for more than one patient at a time. Employers have identified this as a significant concern related to patient safety and staff morale. A po ... Full text Cite

A Tool to Assess the Signs and Symptoms of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection: Development and Reliability.

Journal Article Clinical nursing research · August 2015 The purpose of this pilot study was to determine the inter-rater reliability of four clinical manifestations of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) among hospitalized adults with short-term indwelling urinary catheters using a tool develop ... Full text Cite