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The Dedicated Education Unit: A Model For Fostering Healthy Work Environments, Laura Ann Iacono, Launette Woolforde, Deborah Murphy, Patrick Coonan, Celia Marie Wells

Creating Healthy Work Environments (CHWE)

Session presented on Saturday, April 13, 2013:

Background: Healthy work environments are essential to optimize quality patient and family centered care. The American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN) has identified the irrefutable link between healthy work environments and patient safety, nurse retention, and recruitment.

Method: The Dedicated Education Unit (DEU) model fosters the student nurse (SN) to professional nurse transition by immersing the SN in the clinical environment under the supervision of a consistent staff RN who serves as the Clinical Instructor (CI). North Shore University Hospital and Adelphi University School of Nursing partnered to launch the DEU in …

Medical School Watercooler Newsletter - February 3, 2013, Lindsey Lyle

Watercooler Newsletter

This is the February 3, 2013 edition of the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine's newsletter - Watercooler

Contents Include

• USA Chapter of Gold Humanism Honor Society to Focus on Compassion

• USA Cardiologist Honored at 2013 Go Red for Women Symposium

• Next Week's DSS - Dr. Ann Bonham

• USA Medical Center, Community Volunteers Help with Mobile Street Beautifcation Effort

• High School Students Explore Health Care Careers Through USA’s S.T.A.R.S. and S.T.R.I.P.E.S. Programs

Teams Of Community Health Workers And Nursing Students Effect Health Promotion Of Underserved Urban Neighborhoods, Gail Landheer Zandee, Debra Bossenbroek, Dianne Slager, Beth Gordon

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

Objective(s): The purpose of this study was to explore the effectiveness of CHW/ nursing student teams in promoting secondary protection and improving access to care for residents of three urban underserved neighborhoods. The study also sought to measure CHW and resident satisfaction of such a program. Design and Sample: Quasi-experimental and nonexperimental designs were used for the study. Convenience samples consisted of residents who participated in the CHW program during 2005–2006, CHWs and residents who participated in the CHW program during 2005–2007 and a systematic random sample of residents across the three neighborhoods. Measures: Three quantitative measures …