Disruptive Innovation: Impact For Practice, Policy, And Academia, 2020 University of Kansas
Disruptive Innovation: Impact For Practice, Policy, And Academia, Heather V. Nelson-Brantley, K. David Bailey, Joyce Batcheller, Laura Caramanica, Bret Lyman, Francine Snow
Faculty Publications
The 2019 Association for Leadership Science in Nursing International Conference, Disruptive Innovation, was held in Los Angeles, California, with attendees from 30 US States, Canada, Brazil, and China. Presenters discussed the need for nurse leaders to advocate for health equity, lead evidence-based innovation, how robots and other technology are generating disruptive innovations in healthcare, and building strong academic-practice partnerships to address nursing workforce challenges. This article will report on these important insights.
The Effect Of Care Coordination On Hemoglobin A1c For Type 2 Diabetes Patients, 2020 Abilene Christian University
The Effect Of Care Coordination On Hemoglobin A1c For Type 2 Diabetes Patients, Lee Ann Hinsky
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of the study was to test the impact of care coordinator visits by primary care registered nurses on serum hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) levels in patients with type 2 diabetes. In the study, the researcher compared 2 groups of type 2 diabetes patients—those who had care coordinator visits from registered nurses and those who did not—through retrospective data collection and analysis from the patients’ electronic medical record from July 2018 through December 2018. An independent samples t test was used to compare the means of the intervention and control groups’ change in HbA1c levels. The intervention and control groups …
Treatments For Cancer Given Orally: Patients' Perceptions Of Distress Due To Financial Toxicity, 2020 University of San Diego
Treatments For Cancer Given Orally: Patients' Perceptions Of Distress Due To Financial Toxicity, Ellen Carr
Dissertations
Purpose/Aims: For adult participants who have received or are receiving treatment for hematologic and solid tumor malignancies given orally, this study describes the relationship between participants’ experience of financial toxicity (FT), the participants’ perception of distress associated with FT, and participants’ self-identified adherence to prescribed treatments in the context of FT.
Background: FT has emerged as an additional source of distress for cancer patients. The costs of treatments given orally can be prohibitively expensive for patients. Therefore, these patients may experience considerable distress and may not adhere to treatments as prescribed.
Method: Descriptive cross-sectional correlational design study of a sample …
A Syllabus Revised For The Writing Assignment, 2020 California State University, San Bernardino
A Syllabus Revised For The Writing Assignment, Younglee Kim
Q2S Enhancing Pedagogy
The writing workshop led the faculty to learn how to prepare and teach writing courses. Through the reviewing and discussing the articles about college students' writing with other faculty members from different departments, more knowledge of significant problems among students' writing classes and successful strategies for teaching the writing were achieved. Furthermore the achieved knowledge was utilized into successfully developing and revising writing courses and writing assignments. One of the workshop activities was to revise a syllabus for writing courses and writing assignments. Population health assessment was revised by using the knowledge and the colleagues' comments. This course is to …
The Situational Context Of Safety Culture From The Perspective Of Medical-Surgical Staff Nurses And Nurse Leaders In A Hospital, 2020 Loyola University Chicago
The Situational Context Of Safety Culture From The Perspective Of Medical-Surgical Staff Nurses And Nurse Leaders In A Hospital, Lisa Harton
Dissertations
People enter into healthcare facilities to maintain or restore health; however, often times those seeking health are harmed during the process by avoidable medical errors. Since the Institute of Medicine report on patient harm, safety culture continues to be the largest barrier in realizing safer patient care. Staff nurses' comprise the largest component of the health care workforce in hospitals and consistently have the lowest perceptions of a safety culture. Leaders who play a key role in creating and sustaining a safety culture consistently have the most favorable perception of safety culture. The development of a safety culture and safer …
Is The Evidence Worth It?, 2020 Misericordia University
Is The Evidence Worth It?, Christian Contessa
Student Research Poster Presentations 2020
No abstract provided.
Nursing Annual Report: 2020, 2020 CentraCare Health
Nursing Annual Report: 2020, Centracare Health
Nursing Annual Report
Message from the CNO
St. Cloud Hospital Statistics
Message from Craig Broman, St. Cloud Hospital President/CEO
Nursing Strategic Plan FY 2020
Message from Tom Schrup, MD/CPO
Education & Certification
Patient Experience
Nursing Care Delivery
Exemplary Professional Practice
Shared Governance
Working Relationships
Professional Development
Nursing Makes a Difference
Implementation Of Proper Lead Selection Based On Ecg Practice Standards In Hospitalized Patients, 2020 CentraCare Health
Implementation Of Proper Lead Selection Based On Ecg Practice Standards In Hospitalized Patients, Teresa Jahn, Nicole Hubbard, Samantha Pohlmann, Lauren Hoeschen, Shayna Lahr
Nursing Posters
Ensure adult patients in a 36 bed Telemetry Unit and 14 bed Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) with the diagnosis of STEMI and NSTEMI are being monitored in the appropriate leads to detect acute or silent ischemia and arrhythmias.
Meeting The Educational Needs Of The Busy Bedside Nurse: Curbside Education An Innovative Program, 2020 CentraCare Health
Meeting The Educational Needs Of The Busy Bedside Nurse: Curbside Education An Innovative Program, Ashley O'Connell, Kayla Waldoch, Amy Junes
Nursing Posters
- Seek out educational needs of staff based on current changes, trends and new hires
- Provide on the spot reinforcement of skills, policies, education and policy changes for all staff
- Implement skill stations, including "off shifts", to increase staff cohesiveness and preparedness in emergent and nonemergent scenarios
Huddle To Enhance Patient Progression Of Care, 2020 CentraCare Health
Huddle To Enhance Patient Progression Of Care, Melinda Jennings, Kristi Patterson, Jennifer Salzer
Nursing Posters
CentraCare (CC) is committed to improving patient flow and is now using the Geometric Mean Length of Stay (GMLOS) Index as our primary measure of success. This is a Key Performance Indicator that is monitored by the Patient Flow Steering Committee and Executive Leadership. In recent years, SCH GMLOS Index is higher than expected.
Providing Education Regarding Antimicrobial Stewardship For The Bedside Nurse, 2020 CentraCare Health
Providing Education Regarding Antimicrobial Stewardship For The Bedside Nurse, Anna Boeke
Nursing Posters
- Two million people acquire drug resistant bacteria and around 23,000 die from infection-related resistance each year (CDC, 2018a) and Up to 50% of antibiotics are incorrectly prescribed, including usage, dosage, and duration (CDC, 2017)
- Clostridium difficile (C.diff) is a common problem seen in the hospital
- Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) as a proven method of addressing the problem of antibiotic resistance by education, multidisciplinary efforts, and refined resource utilization
- The biggest problem is nursing staff are unsure how to participate in AMS!
Reduced Frequency Monitoring Post-Stoke Treatment, 2020 CentraCare Health
Reduced Frequency Monitoring Post-Stoke Treatment, Melissa Freese
Nursing Posters
In 2020, the nation was faced with a pandemic that quickly depleted health care resources. Standards of care were reviewed to identify opportunities to reduce the burden on healthcare resources. One of the standards of care that was reviewed nationally and locally at the St. Cloud Hospital (SCH), was the postalteplase/ thrombectomy patient placement and monitoring.
The standard of care for the placement and monitoring of post-alteplase patients was established during the 1996 NINDS trial and has not been studied since. Very minimal literature is available on the standard of care for patient placement and monitoring post-thrombectomy.
St. Cloud Hospital Hand Hygiene Achievers, 2020 CentraCare Health
St. Cloud Hospital Hand Hygiene Achievers, Patricia Dumonceaux, Sara Maciej, Jessica Reed, Tamara Welle
Nursing Posters
Develop and adopt a culture change to increase hand hygiene compliance across all St. Cloud Hospital (SCH) inpatient and outpatient departments
- Hand hygiene is the best method to prevent the spread of infection (CDC, 2017).
- Historical data for SCH indicated below desired goal of 95% compliance with hand hygiene practices and continued identification of hospital associated infections.
- Employee engagement best achieved through promoting culture of safety supporting hand hygiene best practices (Piras et al., 2018).
- Educating staff on the WHO 5 Moments of Hand Hygiene, developing monitoring process for assessing opportunities to complete moments of hand hygiene, and providing detailed …
Selecting A Journal For Your Manuscript: A 4-Step Process, 2020 University of San Francisco
Selecting A Journal For Your Manuscript: A 4-Step Process, Claire Olivia Sharifi, Robin Buccheri
Gleeson Library Faculty and Staff Research and Scholarship
Background Identifying the most appropriate journal for a manuscript can be challenging for both experienced and novice nurse authors. Several factors should be considered when selecting a journal (e.g., peer-reviewed, target audience, type of manuscripts accepted, type of copyright and publishing model used). Selecting the most appropriate journal can save time for both authors and publishers.
Purpose The purpose of this article is to provide nurses, particularly those new to scholarly publishing, with clear, plain language guidance on the processes and considerations involved in selecting a journal for publication.
Methods A librarian and a nurse educator collaborated to develop an …
Perkins, J. B. (In Press). Accessing The Sacred, The Essence Of Nursing: Watson’S Ten Caritas Processes™ Revisited Through The Lens Of Unitary Human Caring Science., 2020 St. Catherine University
Perkins, J. B. (In Press). Accessing The Sacred, The Essence Of Nursing: Watson’S Ten Caritas Processes™ Revisited Through The Lens Of Unitary Human Caring Science., Joyce Perkins
Nursing Faculty Scholarship
This paper articulates how Watson’s Caritas ProcessesTM evolved to Caritas-Veritas Light on Virtues, facilitating unitary transformative experience. This shift builds harmonic coherence between major streams of consciousness that focus on: 1. The physical and conceptually concrete (objective/quantitative/ particulate/determinate); 2. The mental, emotional, meaningful/belief systems, (subjective/qualitative/interactive/integrative); and 3. The gestalt of spirit and the natural environment (virtual/quantum/unitary/transformative). The lived experience of harmonically braided streams of consciousness, meld human-environment/universe, potentiating health, healing, love and compassion. Unitary/transformative pandimensional awareness unfolds in the consciousness and everyday life, of the practicing nurse, facilitating a direct experience of sacred praxis.
Gratitude Journaling As Intervention To Combat Nurse Burnout In Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care Nurses, 2020 Gardner-Webb University
Gratitude Journaling As Intervention To Combat Nurse Burnout In Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care Nurses, Melinda Simpson
Master of Science in Nursing Theses and Projects
As a practicing registered nurse in the intensive care setting, this researcher witnessed an episode of burnout characterized by a public meltdown, crying, and yelling. This sparked an interest in an intervention to combat nurse burnout. Literature was found on gratitude which has been found to increase resiliency. An increase in resiliency, in various populations, has been found to decrease perceived stress and feelings of burnout. This researcher investigated the use of gratitude journaling for 21 days as means to decrease perceived stress and feelings of burnout while increasing gratitude and resiliency. The PSS, GQ, BRS, & BBI tools were …
Implementing Feno Testing Protocol In A Pulmonary Clinic: A Dnp Project, 2020 Eastern Kentucky University
Implementing Feno Testing Protocol In A Pulmonary Clinic: A Dnp Project, Herbert "Allen" Nolan
Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects
Airway inflammation is a common condition seen in the pulmonary clinic and can be present in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, chronic cough and asthma chronic obstructive overlap syndrome. Utilization of fractional exhaled nitric oxide testing is a quick means of identifying airway inflammation in patients who visit the pulmonary clinic with the diagnoses listed above. Fractional Exhaled Nitric Oxide testing along with Asthma Control Testing were used in the pulmonary clinic to aid in the identification of airway inflammation along with traditional spirometry testing. The results reflected an increase in the identification of patients with airway inflammation …
The Role Of Patient Room-Type, Interruptions, And Intrapersonal Resources In Nurse Performance And Well-Being, 2020 Virginia Commonwealth University
The Role Of Patient Room-Type, Interruptions, And Intrapersonal Resources In Nurse Performance And Well-Being, Jennifer Early
Theses and Dissertations
Interruptions create a complex challenge in health care. Because some interruptions are necessary in health care, they cannot be completely eliminated. Thus, their effects must be appropriately mitigated. To better understand predictors and consequences of interruptions, as well as factors that may mitigate their negative effects, I employed Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) theory, supplemented by additional constructs from organizational behavior and psychology to develop a model of predictors and mitigators of interruptions. Twenty registered nurses providing care on a progressive acute care unit with single- and double-occupancy patient rooms volunteered to participate in this study. The study incorporated nurse-level questionnaires, event-level …
Increasing Health Literacy Through Noteaid Translational Tool In Nursing, 2020 University of Massachusetts Amherst
Increasing Health Literacy Through Noteaid Translational Tool In Nursing, Liz Catherine S. Cory
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Projects
Background: Many adults in the United States lack health literacy necessary to understand patient education materials given to them, such as discharge summary. Re-hospitalization rates are higher due to poor transition of care planning. Older adults may only be provided with written instruction for their complex chronic conditions with multiple changes in medical or treatment plan, or uncommon surgical procedures. Nurses are instrumental in bridging the gap, as they often educate, advocate, and use health technology.
Purpose: To educate nurses on the availability of NoteAid as a natural language translation system that can help increase their comprehension of electronic health …
Cultural Communication For New Nurse Residents: K.I.N.D Communication Toolkit, 2020 University of Massachusetts Amherst
Cultural Communication For New Nurse Residents: K.I.N.D Communication Toolkit, Jennifer Caraballo
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Projects
Background: Microaggressions can create a hostile work environment and decrease rapport and functioning in clinical and personal relationships. Exposure to micro aggression and implicit bias results in micro trauma and possible compassion fatigue by medical staff. Symptoms can include headaches, poor sleep, depressions, and anxiety, similar to compassion fatigue.
Purpose: To develop a toolkit for healthcare staff to use as educational material to facilitate for cultural communication and cultural humility.
Methods: Nurses that were enrolled in a nurse residency program at a level 1 trauma center participated in the education of a communication toolkit related to K.I.N.D …