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
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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
Case Study: Focus on Teamwork/Collaboration, Quality Improvement, and Safety in Caring for a Newly-Diagnosed Schizophrenic Patient
The QSEN competencies provide an ideal framework to promote opportunities for analysis, reflective thought, and discussion. In the case of this scenario, the lead characters in a primary are settingContinue 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
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
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
Maintaining Quality and Safety During a Disaster
This strategy is based upon Sund’s (2013) “Start Triage Practice-Who Wants to be an EMT?” case study exercise. This can be implemented in a simulation lab in whatever method preferredContinue 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