Each clinical semester, beginning in semester 2 of this concept-based curriculum, students learn skills that complement exemplars learned through didactic lecture and the clinical experience. The simulation of skills dayContinue reading
Tag: Patient-Centered Care
An Interprofessional Simulation of Opioid Overdose in the Community and Acute Care Setting
This simulation utilizes a standardized patient to promote interprofessional collaboration between nursing and forensic biology students, the county sheriff, and community emergency medical personnel including a sexual assault nurse examiner.Continue reading
Humanizing task trainers to inform patient-centered care
Low fidelity task trainers are a cost-effective tool to teach skills. However, practicing skills on task trainers focuses learner attention on the task to the exclusion of the other aspectsContinue reading
Just Call Me Amy: An Immersive Role Play to Discuss Appropriate Patient-Centered Care for Transgender Patients
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
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
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
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