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: Informatics
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
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
Connecting QSEN Competencies to Identify Barriers and Empower Active Participation of a Patient in Their Own Health Care
The QSEN written project provides an opportunity for nursing students to apply QSEN competencies in recognizing and addressing physiological, psychosocial, developmental, cultural, and socioeconomic barriers patients face with their healthContinue reading
Policy Review
This teaching strategy is designed to teach students how to verify if policies utilized in healthcare facilities are congruent with current evidence-based practice. The policy is selected from a clinicalContinue reading
Perioperative Unfolding Case Study
The Perioperative Unfolding Case Study can be used for classroom or lab experiences. It follows a patient through the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative setting, allowing learners to gather information andContinue reading
Literature Review
This teaching strategy is designed to teach students how to develop research skills through the development of a problem statement and formal review of literature related to the problem statement.Continue reading
Coding Practice Using ICD-10 for Nurse Practitioner Students
Family Nurse Practitioner students have little opportunity to work with ICD-10 coding prior to clinical experiences. Feedback from FNP students identified a need to incorporate more background information and introductionContinue reading
Appraising the Quality of Health Websites
The health information available on the Internet can vary in the quality of the content. It is important that nurses understand how to find high quality information and direct patientsContinue reading