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: Evidence-Based Practice
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
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
Patient Teaching Related to the Quality and Safety of COVID-19 Vaccines
As pre-licensure students begin to develop in their role as a trusted professional, they will encounter questions from patients that they cannot answer using their textbooks. When they encounter newContinue 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
Introducing Evidence-Based Practice Using a Common Referent: Internet Shopping
This teaching strategy uses simple language and a common referent to convey complex concepts practically to facilitate students’ application. Following Knowles Adult Learning Theory, the course faculty developed this teachingContinue 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
Cory Doolittle: Impaired Nurse Simulation
The Cory Doolittle: Impaired Nurse Simulation, provides nursing faculty and students the opportunity to participate in a clinical judgment activity in order to provide the appropriate care for an impairedContinue reading
Observing the 4Ms in Nursing Care of Older Adults
The purpose of this teaching strategy is to introduce undergraduate nursing students to the John A. Hartford Foundations (JAHF), Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), American Hospital Association (AHA) and theContinue reading