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Standardized Perioperative Handoff, Colleen Chiodo, Karen A. Mansfield, Michelle Weston Aug 2023

Standardized Perioperative Handoff, Colleen Chiodo, Karen A. Mansfield, Michelle Weston

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

The Joint Commission launched a goal for improving handoffs and decreasing communication errors through standardization. Virtua Health began standardizing handoff communication throughout the system; however, the surgical services areas were slow to adopt this practice. Perioperative educators worked with staff to improve communication throughout these areas.


Engaging Interprofessional Collaboration In The Implementation Of Breastfeeding Patient Education In The Prenatal Setting, Lisa Cerqua, Dawn Davison, Caitlin Dwyer, Janice E. Hobba-Glose Aug 2023

Engaging Interprofessional Collaboration In The Implementation Of Breastfeeding Patient Education In The Prenatal Setting, Lisa Cerqua, Dawn Davison, Caitlin Dwyer, Janice E. Hobba-Glose

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True collaboration is a crucial component of implementing change and promoting a healthy work environment in the healthcare setting. This project highlights the significance of collaboration in implementing a standardized prenatal breastfeeding education curriculum. The outcome demonstrated successful improvement in breastfeeding initiation rates and achievement of Baby Friendly Hospital Designation.


Teamwork Perceptions Of Nurses And Nursing Assistants: What Does That Say About A Healthy Work Environment?, Iwona Enzinger Aug 2023

Teamwork Perceptions Of Nurses And Nursing Assistants: What Does That Say About A Healthy Work Environment?, Iwona Enzinger

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Teamwork and collaboration in healthcare are essential in achieving patient safety, impacting patient outcomes, and creating a healthy work environment. Understanding nurses' and nursing assistants' perception of teamwork is crucial. This research study addresses what nurses and nursing assistants notice regarding teamwork and its relationship to a healthy work environment.


Implementing And Sustaining Joy In Work, Jill Kargo, Suzanne Kuhn, Sharon Lacue, Danielle Peterman Aug 2023

Implementing And Sustaining Joy In Work, Jill Kargo, Suzanne Kuhn, Sharon Lacue, Danielle Peterman

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Using the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Joy in Work model, faculty and staff at one campus of a large university improved efforts to focus on and implement strategies to remove the 'pebbles in our shoes' and improve faculty and staff satisfaction at work.


Journaling And Enhanced Mindfulness For Post-Traumatic Growth: Early Findings From Workplace Bullying Intervention Analysis, Laura Cox Dzurec, Jennifer L. Embree, Matthew S. Howard, Monica Kennison Aug 2023

Journaling And Enhanced Mindfulness For Post-Traumatic Growth: Early Findings From Workplace Bullying Intervention Analysis, Laura Cox Dzurec, Jennifer L. Embree, Matthew S. Howard, Monica Kennison

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In this presentation, the investigators describe early findings of an online intervention study designed to facilitate change in participants’ emotional responses to bullying victimization. The intervention involved a 15-minute video presentation followed by seven consecutive days of journaling and structured mindfulness about current or past workplace bullying experiences.


Let's Get Engaged! Creating A Culture Of Safety, Marlene Porter, Kate J. Williams Aug 2023

Let's Get Engaged! Creating A Culture Of Safety, Marlene Porter, Kate J. Williams

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Work engagement impacts retention, burnout, job satisfaction, patient satisfaction, and improved patient outcomes. Research has yet to illuminate the importance of work engagement in nursing professional development (NPD) practitioners. The purpose of this project was to evaluate interventions on team engagement and culture of safety of participating NPD practitioners.


Nurses' Experiences Of Resilience In The Workplace: A Scoping Review Of The Literature, Rachel G. Baskin, Heather Brom Aug 2023

Nurses' Experiences Of Resilience In The Workplace: A Scoping Review Of The Literature, Rachel G. Baskin, Heather Brom

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Resilience has been identified as a mediating factor in the development of nursing burnout. Healthcare organizations and leaders should consider implementing workplace programs that will foster resilience to mitigate burnout. This presentation reviews current literature on nurses' experiences with resilience in the workplace.


Creating Healthier Workplaces After The Pandemic: Recommendations From A Nurses' Photovoice Study, Agnes T. Black, Nicole Kozak, Ruhina Rana Aug 2023

Creating Healthier Workplaces After The Pandemic: Recommendations From A Nurses' Photovoice Study, Agnes T. Black, Nicole Kozak, Ruhina Rana

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This study used photovoice to ask: What is the lived experience of front-line nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic? The voices of nurse participants will be used to advocate for system and policy changes to improve patient care, the work environment, and the healthcare system.


Evaluating The Impact Of A Mindfulness Intervention On Resilience To Stress In Newly Licensed Nurses, Vicki Lynn Washington Aug 2023

Evaluating The Impact Of A Mindfulness Intervention On Resilience To Stress In Newly Licensed Nurses, Vicki Lynn Washington

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New nurses are under significant stress and have higher levels of psychological distress related to their work environment. Unmanaged stress contributes to psychological distress, diminished feelings of well-being, eventually burnout, and results in high nurse turnover rates. Mindfulness interventions have proved successful in mitigating stress and promoting resilience in nurses.


Factors Contributing To Turnover Among Critical Care Nurses During The Transition To Practice Period, Justin Dilibero, Paula Gellner, Joan Walsh Aug 2023

Factors Contributing To Turnover Among Critical Care Nurses During The Transition To Practice Period, Justin Dilibero, Paula Gellner, Joan Walsh

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This study uses results from the Healthy Work Environment Assessment Tool and the Casey Fink New Graduate Nurse Survey to better understand the nursing environment and reasons for nursing turnover on four cardiac critical care units.


Tuning Into A Health Work Force With Intentionality, Karen Hoyt, Mandy Reichert, Mary Lou Wilson Aug 2023

Tuning Into A Health Work Force With Intentionality, Karen Hoyt, Mandy Reichert, Mary Lou Wilson

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This presentation will provide an overview of the creation of a Bereavement and Family Support Team that has become an integral component of fostering true collaboration among nurses, staff, and providers. Roles, intentional strategies, benefits of the team will be discussed.


New Graduate Nurses' Experiences With Stress, Anxiety, Depression, And Resilience, Patricia Allard, Daisha J. Cipher, Tamara L. Eades, Marlene T. Porter, Meagan R. Rogers, Regina Wilder Urban Aug 2023

New Graduate Nurses' Experiences With Stress, Anxiety, Depression, And Resilience, Patricia Allard, Daisha J. Cipher, Tamara L. Eades, Marlene T. Porter, Meagan R. Rogers, Regina Wilder Urban

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Navigating the year-long transition to competent professional practice as a new graduate nurse (NGN) is cognitively, emotionally, and physically demanding. This session addresses the NGN experience with stress, anxiety, depression, and resilience during their first year of nursing practice during COVID-19 using a novel mixed methods approach.


Caring For Veterans In Rural Communities: Personal And Patient Safety Considerations, Katie A. Chargualaf, Brenda Elliott, Libba Mcmillan Aug 2023

Caring For Veterans In Rural Communities: Personal And Patient Safety Considerations, Katie A. Chargualaf, Brenda Elliott, Libba Mcmillan

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This presentation discusses qualitative research study results of rural home care and hospice nurses. Nurses shared numerous experiences describing elevated personal safety concerns, as well as patient firearm safety while delivering care in rural settings. Addressing prominence of loaded firearms in the home ensures healthy and safe work environments.


Using Meaningful Recognition And Appreciation To Foster A Healthy Work Environment, Djimmitry Jeanlouis, Jessica Scheingold Aug 2023

Using Meaningful Recognition And Appreciation To Foster A Healthy Work Environment, Djimmitry Jeanlouis, Jessica Scheingold

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The telemetry Leaders and the Collaborative Care Council implemented the use of meaningful recognition and appreciation to foster a healthy work environment. The team morale on the unit improved tremendously, certification rates went from 21% to 90%; likelihood to recommend went from 64.9% to 75.2%.


Self-Care: A Vital Practice To Improve Health Promoting Lifestyles Of A Novice Nurse Practitioner, Dawn M. Aycock, Susan E. Breslin, Debbie B. Noble Lanham, Traci Sims Aug 2023

Self-Care: A Vital Practice To Improve Health Promoting Lifestyles Of A Novice Nurse Practitioner, Dawn M. Aycock, Susan E. Breslin, Debbie B. Noble Lanham, Traci Sims

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As novice nurse practitioners (NPs) care for their patients, caring for themselves should be a priority. NP students should be equipped with self-care practices to develop health-promoting lifestyles, enhance personal and professional well-being, and endorse healthy lifestyles for their patients.


Bringing Self-Care To The Frontlines: Engaging Nurses At The Bedside To Sustain Healthy Work Environment, Patricia Blaney, Heike Miriam Doody, Barbara A. Wadsworth Aug 2023

Bringing Self-Care To The Frontlines: Engaging Nurses At The Bedside To Sustain Healthy Work Environment, Patricia Blaney, Heike Miriam Doody, Barbara A. Wadsworth

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

The pandemic has compounded workplace stress and burnout for nurses leading to unprecedented challenges. Self-care opportunities were presented to nurses, but they found it difficult to engage in these opportunities mainly due to time constraints. To advocate for a healthy work environment, self-care practices were brought to the bedside.


Exploratory Factor Analysis: Moral Distress And Intent To Leave Employment, Carolyn Rutledge, Katherine Nicole Hill Sheppard, Catherine Smith, Kathie Zimbro Aug 2023

Exploratory Factor Analysis: Moral Distress And Intent To Leave Employment, Carolyn Rutledge, Katherine Nicole Hill Sheppard, Catherine Smith, Kathie Zimbro

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

The research project "Exploratory Factor Analysis: Moral Distress and Intent to Leave Employment" studies RNs across a healthcare organization in factors that pose moral distress and intent to leave employment. The results will help nursing leaders identify factors of moral distress to implement strategies to help reduce nursing turnover.


Utilizing The Aacn Healthy Work Environment Standards To Foster Collaboration And Resilience During Covid-19 Surge, Kiersten N. Henry Aug 2023

Utilizing The Aacn Healthy Work Environment Standards To Foster Collaboration And Resilience During Covid-19 Surge, Kiersten N. Henry

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This lecture will utilize the framework of the AACN Healthy Work Environment Standards to outline steps for building team resilience during times of pandemic surge. Strategies for optimizing the work environment and fostering team well-being will be discussed.


Nursing Students' Perceptions Of Caring For Patients With Substance Use Disorders, Nancy Susan Elkins, Bobbie Taylor Aug 2023

Nursing Students' Perceptions Of Caring For Patients With Substance Use Disorders, Nancy Susan Elkins, Bobbie Taylor

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

This mixed-method study is designed to assess nursing students' perceptions and knowledge of substance use disorders (SUD) in a BSN and graduate nursing program to determine how effective the newly developed SUD online course has increased knowledge and decreased stigma in caring for patients with substance use disorders.


Collective Wisdom From The Nurse Commander: Ten Themes For Nurse Leader Success, Bernadette M. Park, Nina Vaid Raoji Aug 2023

Collective Wisdom From The Nurse Commander: Ten Themes For Nurse Leader Success, Bernadette M. Park, Nina Vaid Raoji

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

It is time to reflect on lessons learned during the pandemic. Nurse Commander: 10 Themes for Nurse Leader Success delivers the foundational priorities for nurse leaders to elevate their practice, increase staff satisfaction and retention, and enhance leadership scope by scaling their impact beyond the four walls of their institution.


News (2) Bundle: Enhancing The Identification Of Patient Decline In Trauma Pcu, Grace Q. Nasi, Trisha Weers Aug 2023

News (2) Bundle: Enhancing The Identification Of Patient Decline In Trauma Pcu, Grace Q. Nasi, Trisha Weers

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Nurses play a crucial role in preventing "failure to rescue" critically ill patients through early recognition, escalation of care, and implementing early medical treatment. Strategies such as early warning scores, structured communication and teamwork deviate the discourse from failure to rescue to processes in nursing practice of good catch events.


Cliftonstrengths: A Tool For Healthy Career Preparedness In The Undergraduate Nursing Classroom, Ashly Huff, Briana Lynn Snyder Aug 2023

Cliftonstrengths: A Tool For Healthy Career Preparedness In The Undergraduate Nursing Classroom, Ashly Huff, Briana Lynn Snyder

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Using CliftonStrengths with nursing students can help them identify their natural talents and maximize their professional potential before they enter the workforce. Research has demonstrated that employees who know and use their strengths are 8 times more productive in their roles and less likely to leave their place of employment.


Opportunities From The Pandemic: Transforming Maternity Clinical Education To Hybrid Hospital And Remote Education Model, Marianne Allen, Geraldine M. Maurer Aug 2023

Opportunities From The Pandemic: Transforming Maternity Clinical Education To Hybrid Hospital And Remote Education Model, Marianne Allen, Geraldine M. Maurer

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Impacts of COVID-19 on clinical sites provided opportunities to change undergraduate clinical course structure from direct hospital/community clinical to hybrid model including small-group hospital clinical and faculty-facilitated remote clinical and replacement clinical. This hybrid model of clinical instruction successfully met course objectives and was positively received by students and faculty.


Between Quality Of Care And Moral Distress: The Role Of Nurses' Personal Accountability, Mirit Cohen, Anat Drach-Zahavy, Einav Srulovici Aug 2023

Between Quality Of Care And Moral Distress: The Role Of Nurses' Personal Accountability, Mirit Cohen, Anat Drach-Zahavy, Einav Srulovici

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Missed nursing care (MNC), the necessary nursing care that is omitted or delayed, yields detrimental consequences for patients and nurses. I will discuss how accountability serves as a buffer for MNC and as a shield for moral distress, thus promoting concomitantly quality of care and nurses' well-being.


Building A Plane While Flying It: Responding To Rapidly Changing Needs In Healthcare, Charlotte E. Swint, Eileen Thrower Aug 2023

Building A Plane While Flying It: Responding To Rapidly Changing Needs In Healthcare, Charlotte E. Swint, Eileen Thrower

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

This presentation provides an overview of innovative responses to the healthcare challenges of the global pandemic. Lessons learned related to the care of patients, colleagues, and self-care will be highlighted as well as approaches for dealing with innovation fatigue, and patient safety.


Lessons Learned From A Brief Incivility Educational Intervention For Maternal Child Health Nurses, Gina M. Galosi Aug 2023

Lessons Learned From A Brief Incivility Educational Intervention For Maternal Child Health Nurses, Gina M. Galosi

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

An educational intervention was conducted as a DNP project for maternal child health nurses about incivility to raise awareness. After project completion, reports of incivility increased along with the use of the word incivility. Every report did not meet the definition of incivility, highlighting a need for further education.


Cultivating Your Most Precious Resource Through Professional Development, Lynn W. Newberry Aug 2023

Cultivating Your Most Precious Resource Through Professional Development, Lynn W. Newberry

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

A robust continuous professional development program (CPD) is critical to ensure excellent outcomes. It is essential for leaders to understand the factors that enhance the impact of CPD on its workforce. This presentation will provide three strategies for healthcare leaders to consider when cultivating their most precious resource.


How Do Work Interruptions Affect Quality Of Care? A Qualitative Study With Bedside Nurses, Nasra Ibraheem Abdelhadi Aug 2023

How Do Work Interruptions Affect Quality Of Care? A Qualitative Study With Bedside Nurses, Nasra Ibraheem Abdelhadi

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

The session will provide insight into nurses' experiences with work interruptions. Specifically, how nurses decide which tasks to complete next to the patient's bed and which to postpone. The effect of the nurse's perception of controllability in these situations will be discussed.


Analysis Of Presidential Executive Order On Requiring Covid-19 Vaccines From A Nursing Perspective, Katherine C. Brewer Aug 2023

Analysis Of Presidential Executive Order On Requiring Covid-19 Vaccines From A Nursing Perspective, Katherine C. Brewer

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

This presentation will analyze the antecedents, impacts, and outcomes of President Biden's executive order and the proposed OSHA regulations requiring COVID-19 vaccines using a policy analysis framework, compare the federal policies with nursing policy and ethics, and discuss implications of vaccine mandates for nursing practice and work environments.


Engaging, Sustaining, And Advocating For Nurses During An Unprecedented Pandemic, Elsie Cera, Kenn M. Kirksey, Latrice Lara, Beena Mathew, Dora Ramirez, Elaine Santos, Rosario Tarriman Suico, Pamela Windle Aug 2023

Engaging, Sustaining, And Advocating For Nurses During An Unprecedented Pandemic, Elsie Cera, Kenn M. Kirksey, Latrice Lara, Beena Mathew, Dora Ramirez, Elaine Santos, Rosario Tarriman Suico, Pamela Windle

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Nurses created an EBP project to retrieve best evidence regarding the effectiveness of appurtenant hazard remuneration or provision of nurse leader-initiated emotional support in building resiliency and mitigating moral distress, compassion fatigue, and higher propensity toward post-traumatic stress disorder among nurses working in acute care settings during the COVID-19 pandemic.