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Improving Suicide Risk Assessment Through Educational Program Implementation, Timothy Booth
Improving Suicide Risk Assessment Through Educational Program Implementation, Timothy Booth
Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects
Background: Unsustainable behavioral health education focused on comprehensive suicide risk assessment performance contributes to decreased registered nurses’ perceived self-efficacy in assessing and caring for suicidal patients.
Purpose: To educate medical-surgical and progressive care registered nurses in assessing patients for suicide risk factors and warning signs comprehensively.
Design Method: A quasi-experimental designed quality improvement project with evidence-based suicide educational program implementation. Project results yielded a 56.7% increase in registered nurses’ perceived self-efficacy in assessing and caring for suicidal patients. Future DNP work will focus on sampling a larger population (N) to decrease opportunities for the skewness of project results …
Differences In Student Perceptions With Virtual Clinical Simulation, Melissa Wheeles
Differences In Student Perceptions With Virtual Clinical Simulation, Melissa Wheeles
Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects
Background: Simulation has been a part of nursing education since its inception, with virtual clinical simulation gaining expanded use since the Coronavirus Pandemic. Once considered only a supplemental teaching method, this form of education has become an imperative means of program progression for nursing students when hospital clinical spaces are limited.
Purpose: The purpose of the study is to evaluate potential differences in nursing student perceptions of anxiety and self-confidence with clinical decision making in virtual clinical simulation compared to traditional face-to-face clinicals.
Design Methods: A descriptive, quantitative study using the NASC-CDM© tool completed by 5th (final) semester …