The think, pair, share learning activity allows students to identify appropriate vaccinations by utilizing high-quality sources of information, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website. FourContinue reading
Tag: Clinical Practice
IV Push Evidence-Based Practice Checklist
There is a lack of standardized IV Push medication preparation and administration teaching strategies in nursing programs throughout the United States. This lack of standardization creates an alarming variation inContinue reading
Simulating an Evidence-based Practice Committee to Teach Pre-licensure Students the Evidence-based Practice Process
Purpose The purpose of this group activity is to build on previous learning related to evidence-based practice that occurred during the term. Learners function as members of an Evidence-based PracticeContinue reading
Case Study: Focus on Teamwork/Collaboration, Quality Improvement, and Safety in Caring for a Newly-Diagnosed Schizophrenic Patient
The QSEN competencies provide an ideal framework to promote opportunities for analysis, reflective thought, and discussion. In the case of this scenario, the lead characters in a primary are settingContinue reading
Building Student Confidence in Clinical Communication with SBAR and Conversation Scripts
During clinical rotations, nursing students communicate with patients, visitors, faculty, and members of the interdisciplinary health care team. While effective communication leads to better outcomes and quality of care, ineffectiveContinue reading
Utilizing the QSEN Framework to Redesign Nursing Orientation Competencies
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
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