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Acute Stress Disorder And Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Screening In Pediatric Trauma Patients, Samantha Irizarry, Marian Malone, Megan Waddell
Acute Stress Disorder And Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Screening In Pediatric Trauma Patients, Samantha Irizarry, Marian Malone, Megan Waddell
Graduate Publications and Other Selected Works - Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)
BACKGROUND: Two-thirds of U.S. children and adolescents report experiencing one or more potentially traumatic events by age seventeen. 13.4% of the North Carolina pediatric population ages 0-17 have undergone two or more traumatic adverse childhood experiences, compared to 14% of the U.S. population. Early identification reduces the by-products of underdiagnosis of ASD and PTSD, such as mental illness, developmental delays, poor academic performance, and challenges with social interactions.
LOCAL PROBLEM: The project site is a level-one pediatric trauma hospital in Charlotte, North Carolina, seeing more than 130,000 patients annually. Before project implementation, there was an absence of ASD …
How Nurses Perceive Their Task Load When Caring For Behavioral Mental Health Patients In The Pediatric Emergency Department, Emily Cameron, Robert Cornette
How Nurses Perceive Their Task Load When Caring For Behavioral Mental Health Patients In The Pediatric Emergency Department, Emily Cameron, Robert Cornette
Graduate Publications and Other Selected Works - Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)
Abstract
Introduction: Pediatric behavioral mental health patients are being seen more frequently in the emergency department setting. With this ever-growing number of cases comes the need for trained staff, including registered nurses, to care for these children during a mental health crisis. With this increase comes increased stress of nurses’ workload. The purpose of this project was to identify nurses’ perceptions of their workload when completing three identified tasks: communication, procedures, and initial intakes. Methods: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Task Load Index tool was used to measure nurses’ perceptions of how difficult each task was to complete. …