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: Staff Development
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
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
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
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
Teaching SBAR using Story: Online and in Clinical Learning
Purpose: In this assignment, learners complete an online asynchronous SBAR reporting practice session using pre-recorded clinical stories followed by application to situations encountered in clinical practice. This strategy can beContinue 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