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: Quality Improvement
Quality Improvement
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
Simulating a Quality Improvement Project Design
This strategy is used as four separate assignments that build upon each other over the course of several weeks and can span the length of a semester. This is anContinue 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
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
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
Integration of QSEN Competencies and TTP Program Leadership into a System’s Shared Governance Structure
The practice strategy shared is the integration of our Transition to Practice (TTP) Programs Leadership/Oversight into our existing Shared Governance Structure including the use of QSEN competencies as its structuralContinue reading
Nursing Students Using Interpreter Tools to Foster Therapeutic Communication with NON-English Speaking Patients in Varied Care Settings
The nursing student’s understanding of language diversity in our patient care settings and being able to effectively communicate with the diverse patient populations we care for. Effective communication between theContinue reading