The Department of Nursing Professional Development (NPD) embarked on the journey to revamp orientation competencies to ensure nurses are providing evidence-based care, rooted in promoting quality and safety. NPD neededContinue reading
Tag: Clinical Practice
Escape Game for Postpartum Hemorrhage for Nursing Education
As part of a national effort to improve early acknowledgment and intervention to postpartum hemorrhage (PPH), complicated by the fact that nursing students and graduate nurses are held accountable forContinue reading
A Criteria for Evaluating Patient Education in the Rural FQHC Setting
While providing care for patients at a rural federally qualified health center (FQHC) in the Southeast, a lack of available education meeting the specific needs of the facility’s patient populationContinue reading
Enhancing Goal-of-Care Conversations
This project was intended to rectify some of the confusion pertaining to topic of goals-of-care (GOC) conversations. It has been observed that many of these conversations take to long toContinue reading
Gertrude Smith: A Neuro Unfolding Role-Playing Case Study
Strategy Method: This specific unfolding role-playing case study allows ADN or BSN undergraduate nursing students and faculty the ability to focus on the QSEN competencies of patient-centered care, teamwork andContinue reading
Utilizing StoryCare: A Story Based Simulation Program to Improve Team Effectiveness and Patient Outcomes
Using storytelling to recreate an experience to teach, engage and develop others, complemented with reflected learning can result in behavioral changes which lead to improved outcomes. Utilizing storytelling as anContinue reading
Care for the COVID In-patient: Common Practices in End-of Life Care
Due to the COVID pandemic, staff of all disciplines was reassigned to the acute COVID units. Many staff had no prior exposure to potential traumatic incidences and end-of-life care. ThroughContinue reading
Healthcare Technology Innovation Paper Assignment: Using Informatics to Promote Quality and Safety
Healthcare informatics is an integral part of clinical nursing practice because it supports the delivery of evidence-based, quality, safe care (Forman et al., 2020). Current studies indicate that nurse educatorsContinue reading
Nurturing Affective Development and Reflective Thought: Two Immersive COVID-19 Themed, Instructor-led Scenarios
Pre-licensure education is a complex process that involves the acquisition of knowledge, psychomotor skill, and affective ability within the didactic classroom nursing skills lab, and clinical settings, respectively. Although studentsContinue reading
Triage Simulation to enhance communication and clinical reasoning skills
This simulation activity provides an opportunity for nursing students to apply QSEN competencies in recognizing and addressing physiological, psychosocial, developmental, cultural, and socioeconomic barriers this patient scenario includes. This simulationContinue reading