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Bridging Communication In End-Of-Life Care At A Midwest Veterans Home, Taylor Karrow
Bridging Communication In End-Of-Life Care At A Midwest Veterans Home, Taylor Karrow
Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects
Palliative care is specialized care for those with serious disease and focuses on providing relief from symptoms (Radbruch et al., 2020). The goal of palliative care is to improve quality of life for both the patient and the family. As the COVID-19 pandemic continued to change healthcare delivery and visitor restrictions, alternative approaches to safely deliver care to both the patient and family have been uncovered. A Midwest veterans home was looking to bridge the gap in communication between staff, resident, and family during end-of-life care. Creation of an online accessible educational resource for nursing home staff is an alternative …
Implementation Of A Standardized Nurse To Nursing Assistant Hand-Off Process In The Inpatient Setting, Laura T. Goebel
Implementation Of A Standardized Nurse To Nursing Assistant Hand-Off Process In The Inpatient Setting, Laura T. Goebel
Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects
Communication is critical to nursing and considered to be the backbone of successful nursing collaboration (Kear, 2016). Effective communication during delegation from the registered nurse (RN) to the nursing assistant (NA) is important for optimal teamwork and work-flow in the fast-paced inpatient setting. Inconsistencies in the delegation process lead to frustration and disconnect among the nursing staff at a suburban inpatient hospital unit which was the site of this DNP project. The goal of the project was to improve communication, teamwork, and efficiency of work-flow through the use of a standardized RN to NA hand-off delegation tool. A pre-implementation survey …