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Fighting Fatigue With Caffeine: Exploring Perceptions On Patient Safety, Camille Quitangon

Honors Theses

Objective: To examine the association between fatigue and caffeine consumption, and explore nurses’ perceptions of the impact of these factors on patient safety.

Background: Many people consume caffeine for its benefits, such as stimulating the central nervous system to feel more awake. Health professionals, such as nurses, commonly experience fatigue and often will drink coffee to get through their long shifts.

Methods: A comprehensive literature review was conducted. Studies were split into two categories – fatigue and patient safety or caffeine's effect on human performance.

Results: Fatigue causes nurses to be impaired; it affects their ability to be alert, vigilant, …

Examining The Relationships Among Authentic Leadership, Interprofessional Collaboration, And Nurse Assessed Adverse Events: A Mediation Model, Vanessa Safian

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Adverse events that occur in healthcare settings may have serious negative implications for patients, families, health care providers, and healthcare organizations. There is a need for strong leadership to prevent and mitigate the damaging effects of adverse events. Authentic leaders have been shown to enhance interprofessional collaboration among healthcare providers and reduce the frequency of adverse events. The purpose of this study was to test the relationships among authentic leadership, interprofessional collaboration, and nurse assessed adverse events in a mediation model. A secondary analysis of 269 experienced registered nurses randomly selected from three provinces (Alberta, Nova Scotia, and Ontario) were …

Exploring How Nurse Beliefs And Attitudes Influence End-Of-Life-Care Practice, Cara Chandler

Doctoral Dissertations

Nurses are the cornerstones to provide safe patient care. Studies about nurses experiencing challenges while providing end-of-life care (EOLC) are limited. It is imperative to understand how nurses’ beliefs and attitudes influence their actions while providing EOLC. The aims of this study were to (a) explore the relationship of personal factors and nurse beliefs and attitudes on providing EOLC and (b) examine the relationship of nurse beliefs and attitudes on intention and performance to provide EOLC. These aims were explored in a convenience sample of nurses working in multiple adult patient settings. The Theory of Planned Behavior guided a cross-sectional …