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Enhancing Interprofessional Education Using Simulation Videos: A Nursing Education Perspective, Dorie Fritz

Master of Arts/Science in Nursing Scholarly Projects

Interprofessional education simulations can help to clarify roles and responsibilities of team members, and increase student’s interprofessional communication skills. Teaching students to communicate and interact in interprofessional teams is supported by the World Health Organization, Institute of Medicine, American Nurses Association, and the accrediting bodies of medicine, nursing, pharmacy, respiratory care, and physical therapy. This paper outlines three applications in nursing education for using interprofessional education simulation videos. Each application addresses aspects of the Interprofessional Education Collaborative Core Competencies (Interprofessional Education Collaborative, 2016). These interprofessional education simulations provide students with opportunities to learn the roles and responsibilities of other healthcare …

Moral Distress And Resilience In Nursing: The Code Is The Cor, Jamie Ann Reuvers

Master of Arts/Science in Nursing Scholarly Projects

The profound impact of continued moral distress in nursing has led the profession and nurse educators to search for an effective means to alleviate the insidious plague of pain and anguish that nurses carry due to moral residue. The Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements proves to be the very heart of nursing and the foundation upon which the profession builds its moral resilience. Nurse educators must strive to incorporate ethics and the Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretative Statements throughout the nursing curriculum to further the full moral development and resilience of nursing students.

Strategies That Prepare Nurse Educators For Teaching Cultural Competence: A Review Of The Literature, Michelle Brunn

Master of Arts/Science in Nursing Scholarly Projects

Higher education has called for the transformation of how students are being educated across the board. Unique challenges exist for schools of nursing as they strive to fluidly meet the quickly changing landscape of healthcare and the standards that are required from accreditation standards for both the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) and their accrediting bodies. Not only do Nurse Educators (NE) face the task of educating the future workforce to be safe practitioners, they must do so through the creation of significant and rich learning experiences. An area of increasing importance in nursing education is the concept of cultural competence. …

Conducting A Shared Mental Model Of Student Evaluation: Implications For Nurse Educators, Dorie Fritz

Master of Arts/Science in Nursing Scholarly Projects

Subjective evaluation of student performance, by its definition, is open to bias, the possibility of being inequitable, and of being unfair. One faculty member may consider a student performance passing, while the next faculty member may not. Grading criteria may not have the same meaning to all evaluators, which compounds the issue. In search of narrowing the variables, faculty may develop a shared mental model, where faculty reach agreement on the terms and criteria used for subjective evaluation. The use of a shared mental model should decrease subjectivity, and result in student evaluations that are more fair and equitable. This …

Reflective Pedagogies In Integrative Nursing, Katie Pitzl

Master of Arts/Science in Nursing Scholarly Projects

Pedagogy that is reflective, intuitive and revolves around person-centered, relationship-based experiences with opportunities to debrief for growth were identified as key to embedding the practice of Integrative Nursing. Specific learning activities that incorporate reflection include personal knowing, peer sharing, mindfulness and creative works of art. In the following sections, each learning activity is reviewed to provide concrete ways in which educators can cultivate the desire for human connection in students, and promote what is defined as Integrative Nursing within nursing practice.

Nursing Clinical Instruction: What's Needed And How To Get There, Carey Borchardt

Master of Arts/Science in Nursing Scholarly Projects

The current shortage of nurse educator faculty is reaching a critical level. In an attempt to address this looming crisis colleges and universities often utilize adjunct faculty in the clinical instructor role. Many of these adjunct faculty have little to no experience in how to effectively facilitate student learning. This scholarly paper presents findings from the literature on the traits student nurses desire in faculty and how faculty are introduced or oriented to these roles and expectations. A discussion of how systems can better support adjunct faculty through the provision of appropriate resources, orientation to role, mentoring, and faculty academies …

Mentoring Urban Youth Toward A Nursing Career, Sarah Mcculloch

Master of Arts/Science in Nursing Scholarly Projects

The nursing profession is dedicated to the promotion of wellbeing for all; however, significant disparities exist in patient populations who are underrepresented in the nursing workforce. The literature reports that increasing diversity in the nursing workforce can lead to improved patient outcomes, increased range of services, a greater understanding of patients’ illness and a more holistic approach to wellbeing for all. Nurses who reflect the communities they serve, support patients to make better healthcare decisions based on a better understanding of their patients life experiences, family dynamics and perspectives of their patient/client population. These aforementioned qualities have the potential to …

Nursing Education: Unions And Their Place In The Curriculum, Christina Higgins

Master of Arts/Science in Nursing Scholarly Projects

Nursing unions are currently on the rise in the United States and therefore their implications to the Nursing profession are becoming more relevant. This paper will explore the history of unions in the profession of Nursing, the goals of nursing unions, and evidence regarding the impact nursing unions have on patient outcomes. This background will give Nurse Educators (NEs) the information needed when considering including the topic of nursing unions into nursing curricula. Finally, the implications for NE practice when adding nursing unions into curricula will be outlined.

Code Blue In Situ Simulation Program, Joann Tingum

Master of Arts/Science in Nursing Scholarly Projects

Nursing staff must always be prepared to care for a patient experiencing a cardiac arrest. Fast, high quality interventions are imperative in achieving optimal patient survival and outcomes. A code blue in situ simulation program was piloted at two hospitals in northern Minnesota with the purpose of providing opportunities for learning the knowledge and skills necessary for handling emergency situations, improving staff confidence and performance in caring for a patient experiencing a cardiac arrest, and ultimately, improving patient outcomes. The simulation program focused on the first five minutes of a code blue (cardiopulmonary arrest). During this pilot, 30 simulations were …

Considerations In The Implementation Of Diabetes Self-Management Education, Kathryn Hoepker

Master of Arts/Science in Nursing Scholarly Projects

Diabetes self-management education (DSME) is an essential component in the care of persons with diabetes. The practice of DSME is defined in national standards, delineated in competencies, and carried out by diverse healthcare professionals. Recognized certifications acknowledge the expertise of diabetes educators in DSME. Through key position statements and outcome measures, professional associations advance the health care of individuals with diabetes in individual, political, and global arenas. Effective implementation of DSME by diabetes educators enacts the guidance provided in these resources. Individualized DSME that addresses personal needs and/or barriers of patients is critical to the transfer of knowledge, skill, and …

Experiences Of Multicultural And Multilingual Baccalaureate Nursing Students: A Literature Review, Isabella Kangere

Master of Arts/Science in Nursing Scholarly Projects

Baccalaureate degree seeking nursing students have varied experiences while in the nursing programs. These experiences can be viewed as factors and forces (both negative and positive) that promote or hinder their success in nursing school. Some of these forces and factors have a greater impact, and others have a smaller impact on the students’ experiences and ultimately, their outcomes. This paper examines the influence of positive and negative factors and forces affecting multicultural and multilingual baccalaureate nursing students. Positive experiences explored in this paper include; multicultural nursing student associations, self-motivation, and resilience, and student colleague support. Negative experiences explored in …

Peer Mentoring Program For Baccalaureate Nursing Students, Kari Colucci

Master of Arts/Science in Nursing Scholarly Projects

To help students with course work, study tips, and study sessions, St. Catherine University currently has an Assistantship Mentoring Program (AMP). This program is described as, “a scholarly community in which students are paid to work one on one with a faculty or staff mentor as Teaching Assistants, Research Collaborators, and Program Collaborators. AMP assistants apply their education, work one to one with staff and faculty mentors, and lead and influence our campus today while building the skills necessary to guide our world tomorrow.” (Assistant Mentorship Program, 2016). For nursing students this program helps during their anatomy and physiology …

Prelicensure Simulation Program Best Practice, Beth Cunniff

Master of Arts/Science in Nursing Scholarly Projects

The prevalence of simulation in prelicensure nursing programs has increased, with most programs having integrated simulation into their nursing curriculum. Standards, guidelines, and recommendations defining best practice in prelicensure nursing simulation have been published since the inception of the St. Catherine University (SCU) Associate Degree (AD) nursing simulation program. Therefore, it is prudent to assess the simulation program to determine needed revisions to assure best practices are being met. The SCU AD nursing simulation program was compared to published standards to identify areas of strength and weakness. The program was also compared to two similar nursing programs in the community. …

Family-Centered Care: A School Nursing Model To Support Children With Special Health Care Needs And Their Families, Teresa Eide

Master of Arts/Science in Nursing Scholarly Projects

Children and youth with special health care needs encompass a diverse group, yet many of their families face similar challenges in coordinating care and seeking support for their children. The licensed school nurse, having been trained as a public health nurse, is uniquely positioned to provide family-centered care that improves health outcomes, addresses health inequities, and empowers families to access resources. Intentional collaboration between the licensed school nurse and families will optimize children’s health and ability to fully participate in school. School nurses have as part of their scope of practice the role of health teacher and health promoter (National …

Baseball And Nursing: How The Game Coaches Us In Spirituality, Self-Care, And Resilience, Joe Klein

Master of Arts/Science in Nursing Scholarly Projects

This continuing education course is a four-part series designed for practicing nurses who work in areas that are considered high risk for compassion fatigue, burnout, and secondary stress syndrome. These areas include, but are not limited to, Emergency Departments, Intensive Care Units, Pediatric Emergency Departments and Intensive Care Units, Oncology, Hospice and Palliative Care. This course will examine how repeated exposure to traumatic events of patients and their families affects the nurses who care for them. The overall goal of this continuing education course is for learners to define their spirituality as the foundation for engaging in self-care strategies that …

Interprofessional Education In Nursing And Teacher Preparation: School Health 101, Maureen Wosepka

Master of Arts/Science in Nursing Scholarly Projects

In the United States, elementary school-aged children spend 943 hours each year within their school walls (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development [OECD], 2013). Schools are meant to be a holistic environment where all students can develop intellectually, physically and emotionally. Ripe with opportunities, changes in healthcare delivery have shifted the burden of care to the community setting (Shaw & McCabe, 2008), turning the school into a unique environment for population-based health care, and health promotion. Opportunities for collaboration have been enhanced with the implementation of the Affordable Care

Act (ACA) in 2014. The ACA calls for an increase in …

Creating A Graduate Level Interprofessional Ethics Course For Health Science Students: A Systematic Approach, Joshua Hardin

Master of Arts/Science in Nursing Scholarly Projects

Interprofessional collaboration in practice is an important skill, but creating interprofessional courses is challenging. Healthcare ethics is ideal for interprofessional education because no one discipline has authority over the subject. Most ethics courses for health science students, however, are based on the expertise of the instructor. In an interprofessional course, it is difficult for an instructor from one discipline to divine the needs of students from another field. The purpose of this paper is to methodically develop a graduate level ethics course for health science students based on a systematic review of the literature. The results are clear recommendations for …

Integrated Learning In Simulation: Theoretic Foundations Based On Carper’S Patterns Of Knowing, Shannon Villar

Master of Arts/Science in Nursing Scholarly Projects

Nursing education is a lifelong process. It is dynamic. Nurse educators strive to develop student-centered collaborative teaching strategies. Simulation serves as strategy to teach clinical reasoning skills and prepare students to provide safe, effective patient care. Increasing patient acuity and lack of clinical sites make simulation an essential and integral part of nursing education. This paper demonstrates the value of using Carper’s (1978) fundamental patterns of knowing in nursing as a theoretical foundation for the integration of simulation-based learning experiences in nursing education.

Enhancing Experiential Learning At The Bedside: Proper Preceptor Preparation, Sara Rippie

Master of Arts/Science in Nursing Scholarly Projects

This Scholarly Project reflects an in depth exploration of the RN preceptor role in the clinical setting and how it can enhance experiential learning at the bedside. The results and recommendations from peer-reviewed literature, standards informing nursing practice, and expert opinion will guide the development of an educational program for preceptor preparation and will be reflected in a preceptor preparation handbook accompanied by a series of on-line learning modules for RN preceptors. The preceptor handbook will present the mission and vision of the academic institution and nursing program. It will also provide a description of student learning outcomes at each …

Teaching Strategies For Shaping The Conversation In Nursing Ethics Education, Elizabeth M. Aydt

Master of Arts/Science in Nursing Scholarly Projects

Nursing as a profession has had an enduring past that has responded to the changes and challenges within a complex healthcare system. In a 2014 Gallup survey, nurses were recognized as the top profession in the areas of honesty and ethical standards. For the last thirteen years nurses have earned this honor. According to the American Nurses Association’s (ANA) president Dr. Pamela Cipriano, “The public places its faith in nurses to practice ethically. A patient’s health, autonomy and even life or death, can be affected by a nurse’s decisions and actions” (P. Cipriano, personal communication, March 12, 2015). Nurses have …

St. Catherine University Nursing Student-To-Student Mentorship Program, Jillann Grooms

Master of Arts/Science in Nursing Scholarly Projects

At St. Catherine University (SCU), the setting of this project, the Department of Nursing (DoN) supports student diversity with a “Statement of Diversity” and inclusionary principles incorporated in the Department of Nursing Philosophy Statement. The “Statement of Diversity” speaks to the importance for SCU to prepare all students for equitable care in an inclusive environment and to systematically assess the curriculum for assurance of adherence of these principles (SCU, n.d.). The SCU DoN’s mission and philosophy calls for a fundamental commitment to diversity as expressed by the “D” for “diversity” in its L-E-A-D-E-R mnemonic (SCU, 2010). These statements guide and …

The Rationale And Design Of A Critical Care Course For Orientation Of Nursing Staff To The Pediatric Post Anesthesia Care Unit, Cassondra L. Winters

Master of Arts/Science in Nursing Scholarly Projects

Patient acuity in the acute care setting continues to increase in complexity necessitating competency in high-level skills for all new nursing employees. As the experienced workforce ages, nursing shortages are becoming more prevalent, and more new graduate nurses are being hired into the acute care setting than ever before (Chesnutt & Everhart, 2007). This includes specialty areas such as the post anesthesia care unit (PACU) (Clifford, 2010a; Elliotte, 2010). Historically significant clinical expertise was the expectation for practice in a critical care unit, however, current hiring practices are requiring little to no clinical experience. As nurse educators are being called …

Using Standardized Patients To Teach Mental Health In Baccalaureate Nursing Programs, Ann Dougherty

Master of Arts/Science in Nursing Scholarly Projects

Due to budget cuts to private and public mental health facilities, there have been limits to clinical placement sites in mental health for undergraduate baccalaureate nursing programs. This project explored whether simulation using standardized patients (SPs) could supplement some of the mental health clinical by reviewing the published literature about simulation using SPs as an adjunct to mental health clinical in undergraduate baccalaureate nursing programs. This literature review identified a dearth of studies about simulation using SPs in mental health undergraduate baccalaureate nursing programs (Brown, 2008). The outcome of this literature review discovered that simulation using SPs is a useful …

Enhancing Clinical Reasoning Through Debriefing: Student’S Perceptions, Melanie Smerillo

Master of Arts/Science in Nursing Scholarly Projects

As patients become more complex the role of a nurse requires a higher level of clinical reasoning (IOM, 2010). Simulation in nursing education provides opportunities for nursing students to practice clinical reasoning skills (Jeffries, 2007). Both Kolb’s theory of “Experiential Learning” and Benner’s “Novice to Expert” support the use of simulation in nursing curricula. Kolb’s experiential learning theory is “the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience and knowledge results from the combination of grasping and transforming experience” (Kolb, 1984, p.41). As novice nurses become experts, they learn better with experiences such as complex patient care scenarios, …

Teaching Strategies To Accommodate Culturally And Linguistically Diverse Students In Online Nursing Courses, Vera Stephenson

Master of Arts/Science in Nursing Scholarly Projects

The purpose of this paper is to explore ways of adapting teaching strategies to accommodate culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) nursing students in online nursing courses to make web based learning more experiential, engaging, and community oriented. With the need to recruit more CALD nursing students and with strong general interest in the nursing profession, it is increasingly difficult for nursing programs to accommodate, expand, and improve in traditional learning environments alone. For that reason, online learning has become not only a component of, but the entire way of teaching in many associate and baccalaureate nursing programs. With this increasing …

Building Collaboration And Competence: Peer Assisted Learning And The Interprofessional Education Of Allied Health Students, Maria Tice

Master of Arts/Science in Nursing Scholarly Projects

Clinical education of allied health students has changed dramatically, but has not kept pace with changes in health care practice and the needs of health care consumers in the United States (IOM, 2003). A summit report, “Health Professions Education: Bridging the Quality Chasm” (IOM, 2003) says education for health professions is in need of a major overhaul. A key concept developed during the summit and offered as an overarching vision for all programs and institutions engaged in the clinical education of health professionals is the following:

“All health professionals should be educated to deliver patient-centered care as members …

Homecare Nurse Online Education For Central Line Care, Cynthia Popp-Cronin

Master of Arts/Science in Nursing Scholarly Projects

Homecare is provided to an estimated 12 million patients annually (National Association for Home Care & Hospice, 2010). The homecare nurse provides continuity of care as the patient transitions from hospital to home. Providing safe, quality care in the home is a priority for the homecare nurse. The variety of nursing care provided in the home demands a variety of skills, and excellent critical thinking skills.

The types of care needed in the home include post-surgical care, wound care from simple to complex wound vac therapy, chronic disease management such as diabetes, post-transplant care, infusion therapy, and central line care. …

Interprofessional Pharmacology Based Simulation, Mary Rinella

Master of Arts/Science in Nursing Scholarly Projects

Literature indicates that when entering the workforce, the graduate nurse is underprepared to apply pharmacological theory to manage medications safely (Banning, 2003, Cordeau, 2010, Meechan, Jones, & Valler-Jones, 2011). The registered nurses’ (RN) knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA) of safe medication management, including the theoretical application of pharmacology and the ability to communicate with interprofessional team members is necessary to assure positive patient outcomes, particularly in an environment where complexity continues to increase (Garbee et al., 2013; Meechan et al., 2011). This project is an innovative approach to embed an applied learning activity addressing safe medication management and interprofessional communication …

Self-Care Practices Of Baccalaureate Nursing Students And Nursing Faculty, Katherine Elizabeth Hopkins

Master of Arts/Science in Nursing Scholarly Projects

Existing research describes that nursing students report having significant stress and feelings of burnout during their nursing education program related to the academic rigor of nursing education, classroom and clinical learning experiences, high expectations, fear of hurting patients, exhaustion, and being placed in the caregiver role. Research also indicates that nursing faculty report stress as being a primary concern and that it can be related to work, family, personal health, or financial concerns. Stress negatively impacts the ability of nursing students and faculty to engage in self-care practices.

This study was conducted to learn more about the self-care practices that …

Nclex-Rn Test Anxiety Among Hmong Nursing Students, Kay Lee

Master of Arts/Science in Nursing Scholarly Projects

TheUnited Statesis becoming increasingly ethnically diverse; however, minorities are underrepresented when it comes to health care professionals. In order to provide culturally congruent care to this varying population, nursing programs must attract, recruit, support, and retain ethnically diverse students. Most importantly nursing programs must provide as much support and assistance as necessary to ensure high pass rates for the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN) for all first time test takers among all nursing students, but especially for minority students (Sullivan, 2004). The scores student graduates obtain from the NCLEX-RN examination not only impacts the students’ profession, it …