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Perioperative Healthy Work Environment Journey: Innovative Approaches To Implement Healthy Work Standards While Encouraging Teambuilding, Dawn Marie Brundage, Mary Katie Tattan, Erin King, Michelle Conquest, Debra Lajoie Mar 2021

Perioperative Healthy Work Environment Journey: Innovative Approaches To Implement Healthy Work Standards While Encouraging Teambuilding, Dawn Marie Brundage, Mary Katie Tattan, Erin King, Michelle Conquest, Debra Lajoie

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Come learn about our unit's HWE journey, as we shared concepts of mindfulness, self awareness and introduced Abby Wombach's Wolfpack book. These topics generated positivity and enthusiasm as we paralleled them to HWE standards. Team building and promoting resiliency are our ongoing goals.


Improving Self-Confidence Of Nursing Students Through Implementation Of A Workplace Violence Virtual Simulation, Tara B. Mosher Mar 2021

Improving Self-Confidence Of Nursing Students Through Implementation Of A Workplace Violence Virtual Simulation, Tara B. Mosher

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

The activity is an educational intervention aimed to enhance students’ knowledge about WPV, increase their confidence and ability to recognize signs of aggression, and practice evidence-based interventions to deescalate violence in the workplace ultimately protecting themselves and their patients.


The Social Identity, Burnout, And Subjective Well-Being Of Nurses In Life Transition Period, Gaeyoung Kim, Eunjung Ryu Mar 2021

The Social Identity, Burnout, And Subjective Well-Being Of Nurses In Life Transition Period, Gaeyoung Kim, Eunjung Ryu

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

The hierarchical regression analysis of the relationship between social identity, burnout and subject well-being of novice nurses in Korea showed that the higher the multiple identity and the lower burnout, the less the secondary hospital workers were, the higher Satisfaction with life scale.


Current Trends In Anesthesia Airway Management During Covid-19 Pandemic: Keeping Caregivers Safe, Nina E. Mclain, Mary Jane Collins Mar 2021

Current Trends In Anesthesia Airway Management During Covid-19 Pandemic: Keeping Caregivers Safe, Nina E. Mclain, Mary Jane Collins

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

This interactive lecture will present current trends in airway management to protect the caregiver from airborne viruses and contamination. A blend of audience polling, short videos, and interactive lecture will be used to guide the participant toward understanding trends and innovative solutions when personal protective equipment is limited or unavailable. Late Breaking Reason: Often without traditional personal protective equipment, anesthesia providers were particularly at risk for infection from their COVID-19 positive patients. This study investigated trends around the state of Mississippi to protect anesthesia providers during intubation and airway management. Lacking previous research, these actions may be utilized as future …


Pain Management Bias In African Americans With Sickle Cell Disease, Shermel Edwards-Maddox Mar 2021

Pain Management Bias In African Americans With Sickle Cell Disease, Shermel Edwards-Maddox

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Racial bias in pain management of African Americans (AA) contributes to the health disparities related to race and socioeconomics. Patients affected by sickle cell disease (SCD) frequently do not receive adequate pain management. Clinicians should consider if implicit/direct bias negatively impacts treatment plans while increasing their understanding of SCD. Late Breaking Reason: Due to the recent events surrounding the death of George Floyd, evidence of systemic racism has become a matter of national attention. Racial inequities are prevalent in healthcare and have profound effects on minority patient outcomes and may lead to moral distress among minority nurses caring for patients …


Identification Of Post-Abortion Syndrome Through Implementation Of A Screening Protocol In A Pregnancy Resource Center, Rachel Epperson Mar 2021

Identification Of Post-Abortion Syndrome Through Implementation Of A Screening Protocol In A Pregnancy Resource Center, Rachel Epperson

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

The DNP Scholarly Project will be conducted as a Quality Improvement intervention to determine if implementation of a screening tool for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can identify women at high-risk for Post-Abortion Syndrome (PAS), a type of PTSD caused by abortions.


Teaching Nurses Cognitive Rehearsal Training To Confront Bullying And Lateral Violence, Michelle Krakar Mar 2021

Teaching Nurses Cognitive Rehearsal Training To Confront Bullying And Lateral Violence, Michelle Krakar

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

In today's challenging healthcare environment, nurses need to be empowered, resilient, and confident to confront lateral violence they experience or witness. Cognitive rehearsal training is a tool that teach nurses responses to bullying behaviors that are pervasive throughout the profession. Late Breaking Reason: The United States faces unique practice challenges that were unimaginable in the recent past. Supporting each other, being empowered, and feeling valued should be central to training and education to maintain and improve a nurse's moral stability and feelings of empowerment.


Emotional Response Of Students To Social Isolation, Teresa Teasley, Michelle E. Dykes Mar 2021

Emotional Response Of Students To Social Isolation, Teresa Teasley, Michelle E. Dykes

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Classes are now virtual. Students have returned home, missing friends and finding studying difficult. Whether a graduate student or an undergrad, they are probably feeling anxious, sad and uncertain. This poster will identify student stresses related to social isolation and ways educators can be proactive in helping students cope. Due to Covid-19 rates, educators are acknowledging that a permanent return to campus is unlikely. Some campuses have chosen to return to on-campus courses, others have not. Campuses are going back online due to increasing Covid-19 numbers. Educators need to be aware of student stresses and be equipped to help.


Is Thermography An Accurate And Safer Alternative To Mammography For Early Detection Of Breast Cancer?, Mary R. Payne Mar 2021

Is Thermography An Accurate And Safer Alternative To Mammography For Early Detection Of Breast Cancer?, Mary R. Payne

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Although mammography has been the gold standard for breast cancer detection for many years, evidence shows this could be more harmful and less accurate than alternative screening.


Gimme A Break: An Innovative Intervention To Prevent Musculoskeletal Disorders Related To Sedentary Work, John M. Leger, Maureen Wilder Mar 2021

Gimme A Break: An Innovative Intervention To Prevent Musculoskeletal Disorders Related To Sedentary Work, John M. Leger, Maureen Wilder

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Work-from-home orders compounded the amount of sedentary work one SON’s faculty and staff faced as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of its wellness/resiliency strategy, SON leaders implemented the Gimme A Break virtual activity and exercise program to encourage participation in low-impact, low-intensity activities.


"Leadership On Steroids" Inpatient Nurse Managers' Experiences And Roles During Covid-19, Sue Bookey-Bassett, Nancy Purdy Mar 2021

"Leadership On Steroids" Inpatient Nurse Managers' Experiences And Roles During Covid-19, Sue Bookey-Bassett, Nancy Purdy

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

This paper describes leadership at one Canadian academic health sciences centre where we sought to understand how the pandemic impacted nurse managers' roles, strategies that were used to navigate organizational and patient care challenges, supports that were available and overall key learnings about these leadership roles during a pandemic. This paper presents novel findings regarding the leadership experiences and roles of inpatient nurse managers during the COVID-19 pandemic. To date most studies report how COVID-19 has impacted front-line staff. This work highlights the key roles that managers play in leading "behind the scenes" to support their staff and patients.


Organizational Readiness For Mentorship In Nurse Anesthesia Programs, Gloria Chan Mar 2021

Organizational Readiness For Mentorship In Nurse Anesthesia Programs, Gloria Chan

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Mentorship and its benefits has been studied in the literature, including the beneficial effects it has toward Resident Registered Nurse Anesthetists. This descriptive study assessed and analyzed the state of mentorship in nurse anesthesia programs, and the organizational readiness to implement mentorship from the perspective of nurse anesthesia program directors.


Employee Engagement: It's Everyone's Responsibility, Ebony Nicole Mitchell Mar 2021

Employee Engagement: It's Everyone's Responsibility, Ebony Nicole Mitchell

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Creation and cultivation of a sustained and nurturing, flourishing culture of retention, requires that management focus not only on ensuring staff are adequately trained, but that the environment they are trained in, is one that is illuminated with joy in the areas of people, workload, and achievement.


Identifying Factors Associated With Nursing Faculty Well-Being And Resilience During A Global Pandemic, Tina Antill Keener, Katherine Hall, Tara M. Hulsey, Kesheng Wang, Ubolrat Piamjariyakul Mar 2021

Identifying Factors Associated With Nursing Faculty Well-Being And Resilience During A Global Pandemic, Tina Antill Keener, Katherine Hall, Tara M. Hulsey, Kesheng Wang, Ubolrat Piamjariyakul

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

This session will detail a study that examined the relationship between quality of life, resilience, and work-related factors among nursing faculty during the COVID-19 pandemic.


Working With Refugee Populations In Greece As An Undergraduate Health Professions Student, Jessica Varghese, Mercy Joseph, Bushra Yasmin Mar 2021

Working With Refugee Populations In Greece As An Undergraduate Health Professions Student, Jessica Varghese, Mercy Joseph, Bushra Yasmin

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Developing cultural humility is an important skill for anyone working in the health professions. This trip working with refugee populations in Greece offered twelve students the opportunity to participate in a cross cultural experience that changed their perspectives and significantly impacted their view of global health and trauma informed care. Nurses need to be culturally aware, humble and willing to learn. This research offers insight to how a 10 day outreach trip impacted the students lives and ultimately their practices. In addition, understanding "trauma informed care" is timely for nurses to learn about and applicable to our cultural climate today.


Evaluation Of Compliance To The "5 Moments Of Hand Hygiene" Among Nurses In Pretoria Hospitals, Thabiso Bale, Tendani Sara Ramukumba Mar 2021

Evaluation Of Compliance To The "5 Moments Of Hand Hygiene" Among Nurses In Pretoria Hospitals, Thabiso Bale, Tendani Sara Ramukumba

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

The study was about establishing the baseline compliance on the 5 moments of hand hygiene. The results showed that nurses in the selected hospitals have inadequate compliance to this World Health Organization guideline.


Creation Of Guidelines To Reopen Atlanta Arts Companies Through Collaboration With Emory School Of Nursing, Emily Morgan Clark-Youngblood, Laura Wiese, Helen Frances Baker, Alexander Scollon, Quyen Phan, Lauren Zauche, Debbie Silverstein Mar 2021

Creation Of Guidelines To Reopen Atlanta Arts Companies Through Collaboration With Emory School Of Nursing, Emily Morgan Clark-Youngblood, Laura Wiese, Helen Frances Baker, Alexander Scollon, Quyen Phan, Lauren Zauche, Debbie Silverstein

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Performing arts organizations of Atlanta has been particularly challenged during COVID-19 and threatens the long-term sustainability of this community. A coalition of performing arts organizations partnered with the Emory University to evaluate performing arts operations and to mitigate risks associated with the pandemic.


Emergency Protection Plan For Health Care Workers, Tiffany L. Richardson Mar 2021

Emergency Protection Plan For Health Care Workers, Tiffany L. Richardson

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

As discovered during the world wide pandemic COVID-19 we need to ensure our health care workers are protected so that they can care for the sick and injured patients.


Optimizing Patient Outcomes: Assessing Skin Integrity Issues In Persons With Darker Skin Pigmentation, Gayle Mcglory, Kathryn Boschen, Barbara Manning, Dawn Purvis, Ani Reji, Kenn M. Kirksey Mar 2021

Optimizing Patient Outcomes: Assessing Skin Integrity Issues In Persons With Darker Skin Pigmentation, Gayle Mcglory, Kathryn Boschen, Barbara Manning, Dawn Purvis, Ani Reji, Kenn M. Kirksey

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

The aim of this research study was to integrate nurses’ experiential knowledge to guide the assessment of patients with darker skin pigmentation to facilitate early identification of precipitating factors for skin injury.


Exploring Grief And Fostering Resilience For Educators And Students During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Megan E. Pfitzinger Lippe, Sara K. Kaylor Mar 2021

Exploring Grief And Fostering Resilience For Educators And Students During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Megan E. Pfitzinger Lippe, Sara K. Kaylor

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

The COVID-19 pandemic impacted academic institutions in unprecedented ways. A series of webinars regarding grief and loss was delivered by a team of researchers. This presentation will adapt the original webinar series to focus on grief in the ongoing pandemic and present strategies to foster resilience for educators and students.


Nurse Motivation, Engagement And Well-Being Before An Electronic Medical Record System Implementation: A Mixed Methods Study, Rebecca M. Jedwab, Alison M. Hutchinson, Elizabeth Manias, Rafael A. Calvo, Naomi Dobroff, Nicholas Glozier, Bernice Redley Mar 2021

Nurse Motivation, Engagement And Well-Being Before An Electronic Medical Record System Implementation: A Mixed Methods Study, Rebecca M. Jedwab, Alison M. Hutchinson, Elizabeth Manias, Rafael A. Calvo, Naomi Dobroff, Nicholas Glozier, Bernice Redley

Individual Open Access Articles

Implementation of an electronic medical record (EMR) is a significant workplace event for nurses in hospitals. Understanding nurses' key concerns can inform EMR implementation and ongoing optimization strategies to increase the likelihood of nurses remaining in the nursing workforce. This concurrent mixed-methods study included surveys from 540 nurses (response rate 15.5%), and interviews with 63 nurses to examine their perceptions of using a new EMR prior to implementation at a single healthcare organization. Survey findings revealed 32.2% (n = 174) of nurses reported low well-being scores and 28.7% (n = 155) were experiencing burnout symptoms. In contrast, 40.3% (n = …


A Surgical Ppe Task Force Can Improve Ppe Selection During A Covid-19 Pandemic, Rosemary Pine, Daphny Peneza, Mary Margaret Evans Mar 2021

A Surgical Ppe Task Force Can Improve Ppe Selection During A Covid-19 Pandemic, Rosemary Pine, Daphny Peneza, Mary Margaret Evans

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

The impact of the Surgical Services Task Force on the front line staff caring for patients with COVID-19 was studied. The purpose of this project was to ensure safety of front line staff and confirm the positive effect of having a trained observer who can assist with donning and doffing.


Evidence-Based Quality Improvement Strategies To Prevent Errors During The Night Shift, Rose C. Fialkowski, Cibele C. Webb, Blair Danahey, Kelly Golden, Emma Ibarra Mar 2021

Evidence-Based Quality Improvement Strategies To Prevent Errors During The Night Shift, Rose C. Fialkowski, Cibele C. Webb, Blair Danahey, Kelly Golden, Emma Ibarra

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

A direct correlation exists between nurse fatigue and an increased incidence of errors in the workplace (Zion & Shochat, 2019). This project identified evidence-based strategies aimed at reducing the amount of errors during the night shift to improve quality, safety, and to promote a healthier work environment.


Creatively Impacting Patient Hospital Experience Rounds: Nurses Leveraging Technology, Deirdre O'Flaherty, Ben Dela Cruz, Linda R. Dicarlo, Stephanie Ye, Shani Lopez Mar 2021

Creatively Impacting Patient Hospital Experience Rounds: Nurses Leveraging Technology, Deirdre O'Flaherty, Ben Dela Cruz, Linda R. Dicarlo, Stephanie Ye, Shani Lopez

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Humanizing technology to enhance rounding with purpose has been instrumental in: increased staff and patient satisfaction, improved outcomes, and reducing harm.Utilizing an integrated interdisciplinary rounding tool that pulls data from the (EMR) contributes to shared communication, leadership rounds utilizing the cipher rounds application has been instrumental in conveying issues for resolution.


Factors Influencing Customer Care Among Nursing And Midwifery Students In Selected Pnfp Schools In Uganda, Carmel Sr. Abwot, Thomas Odong Mar 2021

Factors Influencing Customer Care Among Nursing And Midwifery Students In Selected Pnfp Schools In Uganda, Carmel Sr. Abwot, Thomas Odong

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors that contribute to the observed quality of customer care by student nurses and midwives during their clinical practice. Are student nurses and midwives adequately trained in customer care? What factors enable student nurses and midwives to practice good customer care?


Integration Of Aacn's Healthy Work Environment Standards: Essential Principles Of Shared Governance, Tamula S. Bennett, Theone Fee, Jennifer Johnson, Angela Tyson Mar 2021

Integration Of Aacn's Healthy Work Environment Standards: Essential Principles Of Shared Governance, Tamula S. Bennett, Theone Fee, Jennifer Johnson, Angela Tyson

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

This presentation will assist in understanding the evidence available to support the use of the AACN's Healthy Work Environment standards to enhance high quality outcomes and the essentials of shared governance for establishing healthy and inclusive clinical environments for staff nurses.


Chemotherapy Exposure Risk In Nurses: Eliminating The Gap Between Evidence-Informed Health Policy And Clinical Practice, Shawnee Purdy Mar 2021

Chemotherapy Exposure Risk In Nurses: Eliminating The Gap Between Evidence-Informed Health Policy And Clinical Practice, Shawnee Purdy

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Each year, approximately 8 million healthcare workers are exposed to chemotherapy agents. Properly implemented health policy can create a safe work environment for nurses. Evidence-Informed Health Policy Model was used to develop a chemotherapy policy and the Hazardous Drug Handling Questionnaire examining nurses’ knowledge and self-perception regarding chemotherapy safety.


Evaluating Burnout In Nursing Faculty, Sally Stephanie Rothacker-Peyton, Kala Ann Mayer, Kaye Wilson-Anderson Mar 2021

Evaluating Burnout In Nursing Faculty, Sally Stephanie Rothacker-Peyton, Kala Ann Mayer, Kaye Wilson-Anderson

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Use of ProQOL to evaluate level of faculty burnout in the face of current demands in nursing academia with a discussion of literature supported interventions to prevent and address burnout.


Venous Thrombo Embolism Prevention Initiative An Interprofessional Collaborative, Deirdre O'Flaherty, Ben Dela Cruz, Hsiang-Chi Meng, Juan Rada, Stephanie Ye, Shani Lopez, Andrew Gampong Mar 2021

Venous Thrombo Embolism Prevention Initiative An Interprofessional Collaborative, Deirdre O'Flaherty, Ben Dela Cruz, Hsiang-Chi Meng, Juan Rada, Stephanie Ye, Shani Lopez, Andrew Gampong

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a preventable life-threatening hospital acquired complication. Peri-operative DVT or PE risk adjusted rate was 4.51 per 1000 discharges and higher than the national average of 3.8 per 1000 discharges. Our aim via inter-professional collaboration addressed root causes leading to high incident rate of DVT and PE.


Lowering Stress, Anxiety And Distress Levels In Medical Oncology Patients Actively Receiving Intravenous Treatment With Utilization Of Art Therapy, Katarina Devault, Mary Vanerhoef Feb 2021

Lowering Stress, Anxiety And Distress Levels In Medical Oncology Patients Actively Receiving Intravenous Treatment With Utilization Of Art Therapy, Katarina Devault, Mary Vanerhoef

Dissertations

The purpose of this DNP quality improvement (QI) project was to examine and evaluate the effects of the Self-Book (AT) intervention on stress, anxiety and distress levels of medical oncology patients who are actively receiving IV treatment at a University of Florida (UF) Health clinic.