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School Nursing Practice And Experiences During School Closures, Susie E. Birden Brown Dec 2021

School Nursing Practice And Experiences During School Closures, Susie E. Birden Brown

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This evidence-based quality improvement project was to evaluate public school nurses’ relationships and reaction to their new work environment during the closure of schools in Northern California resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. This project addressed the change in school nursing, especially the nurses’ working environment. A stress management program was offered to the school nurses as an intervention to give them information on perceived stress. The stress management program included mindfulness and stress-relieving techniques over a 1-month period. The research methodology used in the project was a pre- and postintervention using the Perceived Stress Scale-10 (PSS) to measure if the …


Faith Community Nurses: Caring For Individuals, Congregations, And Communities During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Mary Lynne Knighten Dnp, Rn, Nea-Bc, Lorie Hacker, Phyllis Ann Solari-Twadell, Lanet Owen Bsn, Rn-Bc, Bob Kentner Dnp, Rn, Chpq, Cen, Tcrn, Linda F. Garner Oct 2021

Faith Community Nurses: Caring For Individuals, Congregations, And Communities During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Mary Lynne Knighten Dnp, Rn, Nea-Bc, Lorie Hacker, Phyllis Ann Solari-Twadell, Lanet Owen Bsn, Rn-Bc, Bob Kentner Dnp, Rn, Chpq, Cen, Tcrn, Linda F. Garner

International Journal of Faith Community Nursing

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues for nearly two years, communities of faith are struggling to meet the spiritual needs of individuals, congregants, and communities during a particularly trying time in history. They have experienced closures, phased re-openings, and reinstated restrictions as the pandemic sees the fourth surge and a deadly more transmissible form of COVID in the Delta Variant. Faith Community Nurses, who are specially educated to provide intentional care of the spirit, play a pivotal role in providing care, support, and education to maintain and improve whole person health when people are isolated, physically distant, and at times critically …


The Challenges And Successes Of Teaching In A Pandemic - A Nursing Faculty Commentary, Katie Daigle Mar 2021

The Challenges And Successes Of Teaching In A Pandemic - A Nursing Faculty Commentary, Katie Daigle

Journal of Interprofessional Practice and Collaboration

The purpose of this paper is to discuss alternative teaching methods, specifically those used for nursing clinical instruction during the abrupt transition to the online environment during the COVID-19 pandemic.