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The Impact Of Perinatal Palliative Care Simulation On Undergraduate Nursing Students, Erin Anderson May 2020

The Impact Of Perinatal Palliative Care Simulation On Undergraduate Nursing Students, Erin Anderson

Nursing (graduate) Student Scholarship

Background: Nurses who have limited exposure to perinatal palliative care often avoid interactions with patients, limiting the quality of care provided. Undergraduate nursing students are often not afforded opportunities for experiencing perinatal palliative care during direct patient care clinicals. Simulation may provide an opportunity for students to have these experiences.

Methods: A review of the literature was conducted resulting in six articles addressing the evidence-based education question, do undergraduate nursing students report feeling more prepared to provided perinatal palliative care to patient and families after receiving didactic instruction along with simulation-based learning experiences, compared with nursing students who receive …


The Effect Of Perioperative Education In Undergraduate Nursing, Elizabeth Biddle-Zabawa May 2020

The Effect Of Perioperative Education In Undergraduate Nursing, Elizabeth Biddle-Zabawa

Nursing (graduate) Student Scholarship

Educational institutions have modified their curriculum and as a result perioperative education in undergraduate nursing programs has decreased to where it is nonexistent in some institutions (Byrne, Root, & Culbertson, 2016). The decrease of perioperative education in nursing programs has led to a lack of new graduate nurses choosing to work in the perioperative setting and creating a nursing shortage (Castelluccio, 2011). The purpose of this evidence-synthesizing capstone project was to explore and determine how best practices to incorporate perioperative concepts into undergraduate nursing education curricula influence new graduate employment in perioperative nursing.

Methods: A total of 12 articles fit …