Strategy Overview Whether in the educational (i.e. classroom or clinical pre-/post-conference discussion), or work-place (i.e. staff development exercise) settings, the QSEN competencies provide an ideal framework to promote opportunities forContinue reading
Tag: Evidence-Based 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
Personality Disorders in the Media
This project encourages students to apply psychiatric concepts to a fictional character from a media source. The student selects any fictional character (could be from a TV show, movie, book,Continue 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
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
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