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A Review Of Instrumentation In Nursing Student Clinical Evaluation, Elizabeth R. Van Horn, Lynne Porter Lewallen

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

Session presented on Saturday, April 9, 2016 and Friday, April 8, 2016: Clinical evaluation is key to ensuring nursing students' clinical competence, application of knowledge, and critical thinking, all of which are important to patient safety and the provision of quality nursing care. Methods used by faculty to perform clinical evaluation vary widely from subjective opinion to use of evaluation tools or instruments with established reliability and validity. To date there have been no comprehensive reviews of clinical evaluation instruments, including their reliability, validity, and other psychometric characteristics. Such a review would prove an invaluable resource for nursing faculty to …

Cultural Humility In Simulation Education: A State Of The Science, Cynthia L. Foronda, Diana Lyn Baptiste

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

Session presented on Saturday, April 9, 2016 and Friday, April 8, 2016:

The National League for Nursing, a voice for nursing education, has identified diversity as a core value. Leading organizations including the Institute of Medicine and American Association of Colleges of Nursing have indicated a need for cultural competency education. To prepare nursing students to aptly care for a multicultural population, education regarding cultural humility is necessary. Studies have indicated that students of minority backgrounds appreciate integration of race and culture in simulation. However, current international simulation standards lack an emphasis on diversity and cultural humility; thus, simulation curricula …

Improving Baccalaureate Nursing Students' Critical Thinking Ability Through The Initiation Of Patient Safety Simulations, Deborah R. Chilcote

DNP and Student Works

Patient safety is the priority objective within the healthcare system (Harjai & Tiwari, 2009; Robert & Petersen, 2013; Robson, Clark, Pinnock, White, & Baxendale, 2013; Vaismoradi, Salsali, & Marck, 2011). The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has estimated that more than 98,000 people die from medical mistakes every year, with an additional one million patients suffering injures (Fero, Witsberger, Wesmiller, Zullo, & Hoffman, 2008, p. 140). In the hospital setting, registered nurses (RNs) are in close daily contact with patients at the bedside, playing a crucial role in identifying deteriorating patients or non-safe patient situations (Henneman et al., 2010; Vaismoradi et …

Integrating Virtual Patient Simulations Into The Classroom: The Srm Model, A. J. Kleinheksel

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

The Strategy-Relationship-Management (SRM) conceptual framework provides a new, targeted, and specific model through which to understand and implement the successful integration of virtual patient simulations in nursing education. This workshop will introduce the SRM model, discuss its application, and allow participants to work within groups to apply the SRM model to different course delivery methods. Workshop Content During the coding of data for the design of the Virtual Patient Adoption and Integration in Nursing (VPAIN) survey instrument, which was developed as part of the presenter's doctoral dissertation research, a clear conceptual framework for the integration of virtual patient simulations emerged. …

Transforming The Nurse Educator: A Journey Into Storytelling And Transformative Reflection, Laura Fillmore, Candice Phillips, Kandyce Richards

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

Participants venture into a research-based transformative learning experience using storytelling and critical reflection to challenge assumptions, gather insights, and raise questions about teaching. New revelations embolden participants to bring insight to individual and collective processes of reflection, generate shared meanings, and advance teaching excellence. An immersive workshop encourages the participant to explore, examine, and consider assumptions around teaching and learning. Participants will engage through story telling and reflective pedagogy with other faculty to examine and evaluate teaching and learning assumptions. Ensuring success and satisfaction in the academic role is essential to prepare future educators and assist them in their professional …

Implementing Team Huddles On An Acute Psychiatric Unit: Evidence-Based Practice Project, Kathleen Nguyen, Kelly Coughlan

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

Session presented on Friday, April 8, 2016:

Barriers to implementing Evidence Based practice have been reported extensively include: lack of time, lack of resources and lack of knowledge. Nurses are aware of the value of research and evidence based practice, nurse often want others to collect and synthesize the evidence and convince them of its benefits before they adopt to new practices. Changing culture is difficult. Evidence based practice requires team work and persistence. One of the goals of current undergraduate Baccalaureate Nurse education programs is to provide knowledge of the importance of evidence based practice. One of the primary …

Technology Innovations In Nursing Education, Melissa A. Stec

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

Session presented on Thursday, April 7, 2016: The application of knowledge, rather than straight didactic content, is a hallmark of nursing education programs and necessitates the use of technologies that allow students to think outside of traditional educational models. The use of technology in educational programs allow the faculty to engage students in application level activities in and out of the classroom. Faculty and practitioners who are able to engage students with the use of technology provide them a tool for exploration and problem solving in their work and clinical environments. Teaching students to use technology effectively, then translates into …

Let's Get Moving: Evidence-Based Practice Project, Domenique Ivone, Brisa Consoletti

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

Session presented on Friday, April 8, 2016:

Barriers to implementing Evidence Based practice have been reported extensively include: lack of time, lack of resources and lack of knowledge. Nurses are aware of the value of research and evidence based practice, nurse often want others to collect and synthesize the evidence and convince them of its benefits before they adopt to new practices. Changing culture is difficult. Evidence based practice requires team work and persistence. One of the goals of current undergraduate Baccalaureate Nurse education programs is to provide knowledge of the importance of evidence based practice. One of the primary …

Demystifying Instrument Development: A Practical Approach For Nursing Education Researchers, Darrell R. Jr. Spurlock, Amy Hagedorn Wonder

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

Session presented on Thursday, April 7, 2016:

The purpose of this educational pre-conference workshop is to demystify the process for developing and testing theoretically and psychometrically sounds instruments for use in nursing education and nursing education research. Attendees interested in developing and testing an instrument or scale will gain the confidence to carry out initial instrument development work by a) developing new skills and insights into the instrument development process and, b) identifying collaborators who can support instrument development. In a strong statement describing the foundational importance of measurement to the overall research process, DeVellis (2012) noted, "A researcher who …

Academic Practice Partnerships And Nurse Residency Programs, Donna M. Glynn

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

Session presented on Friday, April 8, 2016:

Academic practice partnerships have become more prevalent in nursing practice. Professional nursing has recognized a need to provide a seamless transition from the classroom to the clinical setting. A successful partnership shares the commitment to maximize the potential of RNs by creating a culture of trust and shared responsibility to prepare RNs to lead and advance healthcare. The academic practice partnership should contain joint mentoring programs and opportunities for leadership, research and professional growth. The Northeast Region VA Nursing Alliance (NERVANA) was developed in 2007. This is an academic practice partnership between the …

Standardizing Nurses' Bioethics Decisions With Innovative Interactive Technologies, David Perlman, Michele G. Nichols

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

The data on lack of nurses educational preparation in ethics is clear. Despite the knowledge that nurses are likely to encounter a host of ethical issues in their practice, recent research finds that nurses are not adequately prepared to handle ethical issues that arise in the current complex health care environment. Such unpreparedness can have a variety of adverse outcomes for nurses and their patients. In particular, nurses may feel significant moral distress, which is characterized by the feeling that one knows the proper and ethical course of action to take but is prevented from taking action due to a …

Evidence-Based Practice Curriculum For Residency Programs, Judith Wendt

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

Session presented on Friday, April 8, 2016: Staff nurses work on the front lines of healthcare and help to determine whether evidence based practice will improve patient and staff outcomes. Nurse leaders must provide the time and resources necessary to ensure that bedside nurses have the opportunity to research and implement this type of practice. The RN residency program empowers the novice nurse with the tools required to promote success and provides confirmation of the need for a change in culture. The RN residency program empowers the novice nurse the tools required to promote leadership at the beside and inspire …

Preparing Nurse Faculty Leaders Through A Mentored Leadership Experience, Karen L. Gorton, Kay Clevenger, Omar Ali

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

Session presented on Saturday, April 9, 2016:

The 2010 Institute of Medicine report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, calls for health organizations, including nursing organizations and nursing schools, to "provide nurses greater opportunities to gain leadership skills and put them into practice." In an effort to prepare the next generation of leaders in nursing education, the Sigma Theta Tau International/Chamberlain College of Nursing Center for Excellence in Nursing Education (CENE) offers leadership development programs for full-time nursing faculty who wish to increase their leadership acumen. Often times, faculty members are thrust into leadership positions without adequate preparation. …

Supporting Innovative Technology With Contemporary Pedagogy: A Layered Learning Approach, Kim Leighton, Eric B. Bauman, Angela B. Samosorn

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

Session presented on Friday, April 8, 2016:

Nursing educators, and others teaching in the clinical health sciences, are becoming increasingly interested in the use of educational games, particularly those leveraging multimedia technology such as mobile media platforms. Students enjoy games and often become the driving force for the inclusion of game-based learning within the curriculum (Snider, 2003; Thuma, 2012; Wecker, 2012). Games themselves, by their very nature, provide both an evaluative and summative experience for teachers and students. Games also provide immediate and just-in-time feedback through a series of rules and consequences (Bauman 2012). Games are used to evaluate the …

Nursing Faculty Preferences On Technology Use Based On Experience, Suhasini P. Kotcherlakota, Patrick Rejda, Kevin Kupzyk

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

Session presented on Saturday, April 9, 2016, and Friday, April 8, 2016:

The purpose of the study is to describe nurse faculty preferences regarding use of technologies and to examine relationships between their preferences and years of experience.

Authentic And Collaborative Project-Based Learning: A Model For Teaching Evidence-Based Practice Focused Graduate Capstone Online, Carole D. Liske, Traci J. Starkey, M. Elizabeth Register

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

Session presented on Friday, April 8, 2016: Taking a radical departure from the traditional primary research focused Capstone and implementing an authentic and collaborative competency-based project-focused online nursing Capstone can result in a profound change in student attitudes towards course content, online technologies, teamwork, and nursing practice (Barkley, 2014; Parker, 2013). This presentation will examine an innovative, project-based online Capstone course designed for graduate nursing students in leadership and management and education specialties. The curricular design departed from the traditional, primary research focused Capstone to an EBP focused Capstone. This course is offered in a graduate program that serves a …

Emancipatory Nursing Praxis: A Theory Of Social Justice In Nursing, Robin R. Walter

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

Session presented on Friday, April 8, 2016:

The purpose of this international qualitative, constructivist grounded theory study was to generate a middle-range theory of social justice specific to the discipline of nursing. The primary research question was, "What are the critical factors shaping nurse professionals' perceptions and attitudes about their role in social justice?" Related questions included, "How do nurse professionals come to know and practice social justice?" and, "What processes do nurse professionals use to identify the contexts in which they will engage in social justice?"

Leaders Among Us: Leadership Appraisal Of Baccalaureate Nursing Students, Sara K. Kaylor

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

Session presented on Saturday, April 9, 2016, and Friday, April 8, 2016:

In today's fast-paced and technology-driven health care settings, the need for nurse leaders remains a critical demand. Stemming in part because of the Affordable Care Act, health care institutions now face multiple leadership challenges, such as reductions in full-time registered nursing positions, decreased job satisfaction among staff, increased turnover rates, fragmentation of health care team relationships, and negative effects on nurses' physical and psychological well-being (Miskelly & Duncan, 2014; Yost, 2014). In an effort to combat such challenges while also striving to provide the best quality care to …

Evaluation Of A Learning Module For Nurse Practitioner Students: Strategies To Address Patient Vaccine Hesitancy/Refusal, Margaret Hadro Venzke

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

Session presented on Saturday, April 9, 2016, and Friday, April 8, 2016:

Immunizations have been a major reason for the decrease in vaccine preventable diseases in the United States. Recently there has been an upsurge in vaccine hesitancy and refusal due to concerns about safety, efficacy and necessity of vaccines and vaccine misinformation reported in the media (Sadaf, Richards, Glanz, Salmon, Omer, 2013). Health care providers are encountering increasing rates of vaccine hesitancy and refusal in the primary care setting. Specific evidence based strategies are needed to assist providers when patients refuse recommended vaccinations (Leask, Kinnersley, Jackson, Cheaer, Bedford & …

Teaching Test Taking Strategies: An Option Or Ethical Requirement For Undergraduate Nursing Students?, Tamara Jessica Brown

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

Session presented on Saturday, April 9, 2016, and Friday, April 8, 2016:

In undergraduate nursing students, how does learning test-taking strategies affect the emotions and thoughts during the preparation and exams, and how they perceive tests? Design: The qualitative design implemented was an intrinsic exploratory multiple case study.

Implementation Of An Intervention To Increase Number Of Certified Nurses In An Emergency Medicine Department, Ranimaria Toledo, Paula M. Neira, Barbara Maliszewski, Diana Lyn Baptiste, Kimberly Borries

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

Session presented on Saturday, April 9, 2016, and Friday, April 8, 2016:

The purpose of this study was to describe the effect of an intervention to promote certification among nurses in the ED while reducing the cost of institutional support for the certification.

The Effect Of Simulated Tutorials On Clinical Competency For Nursing Students, Kendra Ericson

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

Session presented on Saturday, April 9, 2016, and Friday, April 8, 2016: Background and Significance: The impact of a new graduate nurse (NGRN) leaving employment within the first year costs a hospital system around $40,000 per year and contributes to a decrease in staffing and patient care outcomes (Fink, Krugman, Casey, & Goode, 2008). Job turnover rates of NGRNs are between 30-50% within their first year of employment due to work demands, workloads, incivility, lack of confidence in nursing skills, and inadequate knowledge of managing multiple patient conditions (Institute of Medicine, IOM, 2010). Regulatory administrators are pushing nursing educators to …

An Organic, Evidence-Based, Transformative Model Of Teaching/Learning Nursing, Shirley Countryman Gordon, Beth M. King, Charlotte D. Barry

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

Session presented on Saturday, April 9, 2016, and Friday, April 8, 2016:

The purpose of this presentation is to describe a model teaching from nursing situations as an organic, pedagogical approach, disseminate findings from a Heideggerian Hermeneutic qualitative study exploring the lived experience of faculty teaching from the perspective of nursing situations and explicate strategies for analyzing nursing situations with students. Leading healthcare and nursing education experts have issued a call to transform the way nurses are educated. Innovative, evidence based, teaching approaches are needed to challenge and inspire nurse educators and researchers. (IOM, 2011; Benner, 2010). A model of …

Innovation In Public-Health Nursing Education: A Survey Of Student Acquisition Of Core Knowledge And Competencies, Agnes M. Burkhard, Eileen F. Sarsfield

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

Session presented on Saturday, April 9, 2016: Historically, baccalaureate nursing education programs have collaborated with public health departments in facilitating community/public health clinical learning opportunities for students (Broussard, 2011). Recent changes in funding for community and public health services (Broussard, 2011), along with increased competition for clinical placements (Van Doren & Vander Werf, 2012; Keller, Schaffer, Schoon, Brueshoff, & Jost, 2011) have resulted in fewer public health sector placements for students. Community/public health nursing faculty have subsequently been challenged to identify clinical education opportunities that allow students to participate in the delivery of essential public health functions (Institute of Medicine, …

National Survey Of Opinions And Preferences About The Required Culminating Project Of Dnp Programs, Ellen Beth Daroszewski

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

Session presented on Saturday, April 9, 2016: The growth and maturation of Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) programs has prompted continuing curricular discussion and debate, especially regarding the required culminating program scholarship which has taken on a variety of forms and designations. There has even been argument that any sort of final project should not be required in practice-focused education. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN, 2006) describes the final scholarship of DNP education as "...a practice application-oriented final DNP project, which is an integral part of the integrative practice experience" (p. 4), allowing individual programs to delineate …

The Impact Of Immersion Experience On Perceived Caring Factors In Undergraduate Nursing Students, Mary Kathryn Sanders

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

Session presented on Friday, April 8, 2016:

The purpose of this project is to examine the differences between didactic only versus didactic plus immersion experience on the self-reported caring perceptions of undergraduate nursing students pertaining to caring for members of vulnerable populations.

Integrating Teamstepps In Nursing Education Using Peer Teaching, Michael C. Thomas

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

Session presented on Saturday, April 9, 2016, and Friday, April 8, 2016: The Joint Commission identified ineffective communication as one of the top three causes of reported sentinel events from 2012-2014 (The Joint Commission, 2015). Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (TeamSTEPPS) is a teamwork system developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Department of Defense to improve communication and teamwork in healthcare. The overall goal of this system is to help healthcare professionals provide safer, higher quality care to patients (AHRQ, 2010a). The TeamSTEPPS system is organized in five different modules, …

Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (Pmhnp) Burnout: Differences Between Acute/Inpatient Pmhnps And Outpatient Pmhnps, Miriam Pourzand

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

Session presented on Saturday, April 9, 2016, and Friday, April 8, 2016: Problem: Burnout has been shown to be problematic for those who care for patients with mental illness. Studies have shown that between 21 to 67 % of mental health providers have indicated high levels of burnout. It is important for mental health professionals to understand the symptoms associated with burnout; however, few studies have addressed primary mental health provider burnout. Little is known with regard to factors that influence Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) burnout. This study utilizes a casual comparative design to examine group differences in …

Using Facebook As An Asynchronous Learning Environment, Jessica Belnap

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

Session presented on Saturday, April 9, 2016, and Friday, April 8, 2016:

Nursing is one of the fastest growing occupations in the United States, and is currently the largest health care profession (American Association of Colleges of Nursing [AACN], 2011). The practice of nursing, in collaboration with other fields, extends to a variety of settings, including schools, home health, military, education, and others. The demand for educated, skilled, competent nurses is continually rising as the socioeconomic and family structure adjusts to a large aging population. It is projected that over 1 million job openings for nurses will be available by …

Redesigning A Nursing Course To Increase Self-Directed Learning (Sdl): A Pilot Study, Belinda Deal, Zhaomin He

Nursing Education Research Conference (NERC)

Session presented on Saturday, April 9, 2016, and Friday, April 8, 2016:

The purpose of this pilot study was to determine if course redesign assists students to become self-directed learners over time. The Research question is: What is the effect of redesigning a health assessment course using Fink's Taxonomy of Significant Learning strategies in a student's ability to “Learn How to learn?” Faculty added formative assessments like weekly “muddy points,” reflections after viewing videos that demonstrated patient communication, and a comprehensive portfolio with an end of the semester reflection.