Implementing An Educational Intervention Aimed At Nursing Staff To Improve Patient Hand Hygiene, Bonita Moore

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Abstract

Background/Purpose: Healthcare organizations are responsible for ensuring that healthcare workers adhere to effective hand hygiene (HH) protocols, and ample research exists on the best methods for monitoring and encouraging compliance. Despite the importance of HH for infection prevention, there has been little focus on patient hand hygiene (PHH). The purpose of this pilot project was to focus on improving nursing staff’s knowledge and attitudes about PHH with the expectation of showing a correlation between these factors and an increase in the performance PHH.

Methods: The project used a quasi-experimental study that took place on one hospital unit at …

Countering Moral Distress In Ecmo Nurses With Case-Review Debriefings, Sherry D. Griggs

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Abstract

Background: Moral Distress occurs when nurses know the ethically correct action to take, but they are restrained from taking it. It is especially prevalent in nurses caring for critically ill patients, such as those on extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Effectively addressing moral distress is crucial to the growth and health of the nursing profession, which is the cornerstone of quality and safety in healthcare.

Purpose: The purpose of this project was to evaluate the effectiveness of case-review debriefings on moral distress of ECMO nurses.

Conceptual Framework: Analysis of Moral Distress Process was utilized. This framework addresses moral distress …

The Effect Of A Simulation-Based Education Program On Nihss Accuracy And Inter-Rater Reliability Among Nursing Staff In The Neurological/Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit, Amanda Novak

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PURPOSE: The purpose of this Quasi-experimental study was to examine the effect of a simulation-based educational NIHSS workshop on nursing accuracy and inter-rater reliability upon use of the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS).

METHODS: This study was conducted in the Neurological/Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Baptist Health, a comprehensive stroke center located in Lexington, KY. The sample included 26 eligible nurses employed in the aforesaid unit. Nurses completed the NIHSS on a patient actor in a simulated scenario (this session was videotaped), a one-on-one debriefing with review of the videotape was conducted afterward, and then the nurse …

Are Nurses High Risk For Experience With Behavioral Health Problems?, Farrah Alayne Thornsberry

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Abstract

Behavioral health problems impact approximately 19% of the United States population and nurses are not exempt from these experiences. In fact, nurses may be at higher risk for developing a behavioral health issue than the general public. The purpose of this study was to identify specific demographic, work-related, and behavioral variables associated with substance use and personal experience with any mental and or behavioral health problems among nurses in an academic healthcare system. Being female, younger in age, higher level of education and increased use of alcohol were risk factors associated with self-reported experience with behavioral health problems. Additionally, …

Assessing Pediatric Nurses' Knowledge And Comfort Level With Recognition And Reporting Of Child Abuse, Andrea Sebastian

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Child abuse is a serious, yet preventable problem in the United States. Child abuse is defined in The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act as “Any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker which results in death, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse or exploitation or an act or failure to act, which presents an imminent risk of serious harm” (United States Department of Health and Human Services [USDHHS], Children’s Bureau, Child Maltreatment 2009, 2010).

In 2010, there were an estimated 3.3 million referrals to Child Protective Services for the suspected abuse …