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People Support What They Help To Create: Improving Clinical Outcomes With Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, Amy Chastain Oct 2019

People Support What They Help To Create: Improving Clinical Outcomes With Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, Amy Chastain

Biennial Convention (CONV)

Our NICU started a journey of interdisciplinary collaboration, employee education standardization, patient care standardization, and peer coaching for the patient families. Throughout our journey we have been able to decrease our length of stay from 37.6 days in 2014 to about 16 days in 2018.


Pathways To Healing: Perceived Changes In Quality-Of-Life Related To Participation In Complementary Services, Diana Odland Neal, Mary Buntrock Johnson Jul 2019

Pathways To Healing: Perceived Changes In Quality-Of-Life Related To Participation In Complementary Services, Diana Odland Neal, Mary Buntrock Johnson

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

This presentation will explore a model for creating a healing center within a community by describing the development, structure, and outcomes of a Healing Center called Pathways. An evaluative research project will be discussed providing evidence for the value of Pathways for participants and providers of complementary services globally.


Poetry, Paintings, And A Short Story: Humanities Foster Success In Developing Clinical Reasoning Skills, Josette Brodhead, Patricia M. Burke Jul 2017

Poetry, Paintings, And A Short Story: Humanities Foster Success In Developing Clinical Reasoning Skills, Josette Brodhead, Patricia M. Burke

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

This quasi-experimental, nonrandomized pre-/post-test study examined the impact of humanities-based teaching and learning strategies on the development of critical-thinking and clinical-reasoning skills among BSN students enrolled in a maternal/newborn nursing course. Results indicated that the humanities-based approaches significantly impact the development of clinical reasoning skills (p < .05).


Reflective Practice Journaling And Clinical Reasoning: A Qualitative Inquiry Study, Debra Scardaville, Joyce A. Wright Jun 2017

Reflective Practice Journaling And Clinical Reasoning: A Qualitative Inquiry Study, Debra Scardaville, Joyce A. Wright

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

The purpose of this presentation is to report the results of an IRB approved qualitative descriptive research study exploring the use of reflective journaling as a pedagogical strategy to evaluate the attainment of clinical reasoning among a targeted population of diverse RN-BSN students in a residency program at a public university in the United States. The following qualitative research question is answered in this presentation: What is the RN-BSN residency students’ experience and perception of evolvement of clinical reasoning and clinical judgment through the process of reflection and reflective journal writing? Purposive sampling of seven RN residency program students were …