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Deborah P. Schoenfelder

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Caregiving: Concept Analysis And Outcomes, Elizabeth Swanson, Deborah Schoenfelder, Janet Specht, M. Johnson, Meridean Maas, D. Saylor Oct 2012

Caregiving: Concept Analysis And Outcomes, Elizabeth Swanson, Deborah Schoenfelder, Janet Specht, M. Johnson, Meridean Maas, D. Saylor

Deborah P. Schoenfelder

More than ever before, caregiving has become a salient public policy issue. A number of recent and anticipated demographic, economic and social changes have occurred that make it imperative for researchers to critically examine the impact of caregiving on family caregivers' health, behavior, emotions, and social status. Researchers at the University of Iowa College of Nursing are working to classify standardized nursing-sensitive patient outcomes for use in language development, practice, research, and education to evaluate the effectiveness of nursing interventions and clinical nursing services. This article focuses on family caregiving and the analysis of caregiver role performance in both direct …


Simply The Best: Teaching Gerontological Nursing Students To Teach Evidence-Based Practice. Creating Tip Sheets Can Help Achieve The Goal Of Implementing Ebp In Clinical Facilities, Deborah Schoenfelder Oct 2012

Simply The Best: Teaching Gerontological Nursing Students To Teach Evidence-Based Practice. Creating Tip Sheets Can Help Achieve The Goal Of Implementing Ebp In Clinical Facilities, Deborah Schoenfelder

Deborah P. Schoenfelder

This article describes a teaching strategy used in an undergraduate gerontological nursing clinical course to familiarize students with evidence-based practice. Students are required to read and summarize an assigned evidence-based practice guideline published by The University of Iowa Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Center. They then develop a "tip sheet," based on the assigned guideline, to disseminate to health care staff at their practicum sites, which is either a long-term care facility or a hospital-based skilled nursing facility. Nursing students' reactions to the assignment and nursing staff's responses to the tip sheets are discussed.


Creative Practicum Leadership Experiences In Rural Settings, Deborah Schoenfelder, J. Valde Oct 2012

Creative Practicum Leadership Experiences In Rural Settings, Deborah Schoenfelder, J. Valde

Deborah P. Schoenfelder

Rural healthcare systems provide rich learning environments for nursing students, where strong nursing leaders manage care for people with diverse health problems across the lifespan. The authors describe the development, implementation, and evaluation of rural clinical leadership practicum, a prelicensure course that specifically focuses on the application of leadership concepts in small rural healthcare systems.