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Learning Concepts Of Quality And Safety Using A Personal Quality Improvement Project, Emily Nowak
Learning Concepts Of Quality And Safety Using A Personal Quality Improvement Project, Emily Nowak
Nursing Faculty Scholarship
Background/IntroductionNurse leaders must be prepared to lead processes to create meaningful change. AACN's attention to quality and safety as an individual essential/domain warrants focused attention within the curriculum. PurposeA review of a graduate level curriculum identified a notable gap in quality and safety. A quality and safety course with embedded personal quality improvement project was developed to teach these concepts. Processes/ProceduresThinking about how learning concepts of Q and S could be implemented in a shorter and more concentrated period of time without losing depth or meaningfulness led to the development of a project-based course. Content was front loaded in the …
Practicing Transcendence In Meditation Speeds Nurses’ Evolutionary Development: Shining The Light Of Consciousness Through The Lens Of Unitary Human Caring Science (Visions, Submitted), Joyce Perkins, Catherine Aquino-Russell
Practicing Transcendence In Meditation Speeds Nurses’ Evolutionary Development: Shining The Light Of Consciousness Through The Lens Of Unitary Human Caring Science (Visions, Submitted), Joyce Perkins, Catherine Aquino-Russell
Nursing Faculty Scholarship
Unitary Human Caring Science (UHCS) based on the Science of Unitary Human Beings and caritas-veritas consciousness provides a lens for viewing lived experiences of doctoral nursing students practicing Transcendental Meditation ®. Caritas-Veritas, through the light of UHCS articulates virtues/values explicating expanding consciousness in nursing praxis. Science and spirit converge, illuminating emerging consciousness of authentic presence found in Caritas-Veritas praxis. To embody and embrace veritas, nurses act with honor, and commitment, in service to humankind. The values of goodness, truth, and beauty are evident in the energetic human-universe, as the whole of unitary reality is expressed as the cosmic quantum field.
"I Can't Breathe": A Call For Antiracist Nursing Practice, Kara Koschmann, Noelene Jeffers, Omeid Heidari
"I Can't Breathe": A Call For Antiracist Nursing Practice, Kara Koschmann, Noelene Jeffers, Omeid Heidari
Nursing Faculty Scholarship
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Learning Concepts Of Quality Improvement And Safety In Nursing Using A Personal Quality Improvement Project, Emily Nowak
Learning Concepts Of Quality Improvement And Safety In Nursing Using A Personal Quality Improvement Project, Emily Nowak
Nursing Faculty Scholarship
Learning Concepts of Quality and Safety using a Personal Quality Improvement ProjectNurse educators need to be keenly aware of the ever-changing needs of the workforce, our communities and our accreditors. It is well known that nurses play a unique and critical role in improving healthcare quality and safety. The expectation for nursing leaders to have knowledge, skills and attributes associated with Quality and Safety in healthcare are clearly outlined in the American Academy of Colleges of Nurses (AACN) Masters Essentials (AACN, 2008) and in Progress to Date: Revision of The AACN Essentials (Case-Wirth, McCurren, McFadden and Higgins, February 1st 2020). …
Water Aerobics: Experiencing Flow In Sacred Space, Joyce Perkins
Water Aerobics: Experiencing Flow In Sacred Space, Joyce Perkins
Nursing Faculty Scholarship
The practice of water aerobics has consistently filled me with the direct experience of flow for the past 26 years. This state of “flow” is the sense of the sacred in dynamic action (Perkins, 2003), also called “the zone” (Csikszentmihalyi, 2020). For me, water aerobics creates a shift in consciousness and a gentle euphoria that timelessly flows and exponentially magnifies within my physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual body. I intentionally facilitate this same experience for participants of my water exercise class, which I created and teach for a local health club. This class meets all of my self-care needs in …
High-Fidelity Simulation And Clinical Judgment Of Nursing Students In A Maternal-Newborn Course, Carol Reid, Jody L. Ralph, Maher El-Masri, Katrice Ziefle
High-Fidelity Simulation And Clinical Judgment Of Nursing Students In A Maternal-Newborn Course, Carol Reid, Jody L. Ralph, Maher El-Masri, Katrice Ziefle
Nursing Faculty Scholarship
Clinical judgment, one’s ability to think like a nurse, is an essential skill for safe nursing practice. With the rise of simulation to replace clinical experiences, there is limited evidence regarding the effectiveness of simulation on the development of clinical judgment. This study explored differences in clinical judgment in maternal–newborn courses between undergraduate nursing students participating exclusively in simulation and those participating in hospital-based clinical experiences. Following completion of the clinical rotation, students participated in an evaluative maternal–newborn high-fidelity simulation experience that was recorded and evaluated using the Lasater’s Clinical Judgment Rubric (2007). Lasater’s Clinical Judgment Rubric scores between the …
Perkins, J. B. (In Press). Accessing The Sacred, The Essence Of Nursing: Watson’S Ten Caritas Processes™ Revisited Through The Lens Of Unitary Human Caring Science., Joyce Perkins
Nursing Faculty Scholarship
This paper articulates how Watson’s Caritas ProcessesTM evolved to Caritas-Veritas Light on Virtues, facilitating unitary transformative experience. This shift builds harmonic coherence between major streams of consciousness that focus on: 1. The physical and conceptually concrete (objective/quantitative/ particulate/determinate); 2. The mental, emotional, meaningful/belief systems, (subjective/qualitative/interactive/integrative); and 3. The gestalt of spirit and the natural environment (virtual/quantum/unitary/transformative). The lived experience of harmonically braided streams of consciousness, meld human-environment/universe, potentiating health, healing, love and compassion. Unitary/transformative pandimensional awareness unfolds in the consciousness and everyday life, of the practicing nurse, facilitating a direct experience of sacred praxis.