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Innovation And Accreditation: A Quality Improvement Process, Kara Koschmann

Nursing Faculty Scholarship

Nursing program accreditation often has limited faculty engagement. This quality improvement project, implemented at a private university in the Midwestern United States, utilized innovative solutions including accreditation program champions and a learning management system to enhance faculty engagement in the accreditation process. Accreditation encompassed seven programs at three program degree levels: undergraduate, masters and doctorate. A survey measured overall engagement as well as the usefulness of accreditation program champions and the learning management system to improve engagement. Results showed increased faculty knowledge, professional development, and motivation in the accreditation process. Increased engagement not only accomplishes the work more efficiently, but …

Implementing An Escape Room - A Puzzling Process, Beth Cunniff

Nursing Faculty Scholarship

Implementing an escape room: A puzzling process Educators are continually challenged to engage students in the learning process and implement active learning strategies. One method is to utilize a game-based activity. Game-based learning strategies are an active learning method which motivates students, promotes collaboration, and provides immediate feedback. Objectives from various cognitive domain levels are met through games. One game-based strategy that promotes the application of learner knowledge is an escape room. Escape room participants solve sets of challenges as a team to complete an over-all goal. Teamwork and communication are needed, in addition to critical thinking skills. The purpose …

Urban, Low-Income, African American Parents' Experiences And Expectations Of Well-Child Care, Kara Koschmann

Nursing Faculty Scholarship

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The Kenton Hardin County Family Bike Program., Jamie Hunsicker

Nursing Faculty Scholarship

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2021 Midwest Nursing Research Society Award-Winning Abstracts., Jamie Hunsicker

Nursing Faculty Scholarship

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Across The Curriculum And The Community: Building Bridges To Improve Care Of Overdose Patients., Megan Lieb, Christina Liebrecht, Jamie Hunsicker

Nursing Faculty Scholarship

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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

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

Nursing Faculty Scholarship

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Ask Me Anything: Covid Questions., Jamie Hunsicker

Nursing Faculty Scholarship

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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

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

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 …

Evaluation Of The Kenton Hardin County Family Bike Program, Jamie Hunsicker

Nursing Faculty Scholarship

Problem: With growing evidence of the benefits of physical activity and risks associated with physical inactivity, there has been increased focus on implementation of policy, standards, and evidence-based interventions to promote physical activity of Americans. In response to Hardin County physical activity statistics, national health goals, and as part of the Ohio Maternal Child Health (MCH) activity/nutrition grant, an innovative family bike program was developed and implemented in Summer 2018. Providing education and practice on safe biking, bike maintenance, and nutrition as well as providing safe bike equipment may decrease barriers to biking and increase rates of bicycling and, subsequently, …

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.

How Asd Influences The Extended Family And Society., Jocelyn Gorlin

Nursing Faculty Scholarship

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Pediatric Primary Care Relationships With African American Families: A Critical Review, Kara Koschmann, Mary Hooke

Nursing Faculty Scholarship

Introduction: High-quality primary care is critical to help African American families mitigate the effects of social determinants of health that negatively affect child health and well-being. At the core of primary care is a healthy relationship between the parent and provider. This critical review of the literature evaluates what is known about the parent–provider relationship for African Americans.Methods: We identified 277 studies in Ovid MEDLINE and screened them for inclusion. Data extraction and qualitative synthesis were used to describe what is known and identify themes.Results:Twelve cross-sectional analyses and one mixed cross-sectional and longitudinal design research studies were identified. Studies identified …

Collaborating To Develop And Implement A Family Bike Program., Jamie Hunsicker

Nursing Faculty Scholarship

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Student Nurse Perception Of Their Ability To Attain Core Mental Health Nursing Care Competencies In Different Clinical Learning Environments And Models, Maria Tice

Nursing Faculty Scholarship

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Student Experience In Setting Intention In Community And Mental Health Nursing Clinical., Maria Tice

Nursing Faculty Scholarship

Background and Issues: Forming nurses who are resilient, holistic healers can be a challenge for nurse educators in content-laden curriculum and stressful learning environments. Purpose: To explore and describe the experiences of student nurses with “setting an intention” in skills lab, classroom, and clinical learning environments.Methods: Student surveys, and qualitative, collective case study approaches.Results: Students report mutual benefits for themselves, their learning, and their patients when they practice setting an intention. Conclusions: Setting an intention is an individualized process that cannot be directly taught, but students report positive benefits from learning about the concept early in their education. Nurse educators …

Nursing Education Meets Transcendental Meditation ® (Tm®) For Shining Light On Virtues, Catherine Aquino-Russell, Joyce Perkins

Nursing Faculty Scholarship

Aquino-Russell, C. & Perkins, J., (2018). Transforming Presence: Transcendental Meditation® Reveals the Spirit of Nurses. Research Findings Seen Through the Lens of Nursing Theory. Nursing Research Day, University of New Brunswick, Moncton campus, Nova Scotia, Canada. (May)Background: This qualitative research explicates Caritas-Veritas-Consciousness (Watson 2018) within the lived experience of doctoral nursing students practicing TM in deep relationship with Spirit/Soul/Source. TM is a simple, natural technique facilitating health and healing, grounded in Vedic traditional ways of being.Purpose: Spirit and science converge, enhancing understanding of expert nurses’ descriptions of lived experiences when practicing TM as viewed through the lens of Unitary Human …

Teaching Life Lessons: When Millennials Fail, Jeffrey Ramirez, Janalee Isaacson, Deborah Smith, Brenda Senger

Nursing Faculty Scholarship

Background: Students who fail may face feelings of diminished self-perception, decreased sense of achievement, and experience negative emotions or moods such as: guilt, embarrassment, thoughts of reoccurring failure, feeling of letting others down or disappointing teachers and parents.

Aim: This paper is to discusses the topic of failure and providing thoughts and reflections on the topic. The authors believe that faculty can help students learn to fail and also maintain their self-worth and dignity. Helping students learn from these failures and promoting resilience and humility when faced with life adversities may be one of the best lifelong lessons faculty …

A Map For Successful Ccne Accreditation, Jacqueline Haverkamp, Alicia K. Ribar, Kay Ball, Susan Butz, John D. Chovan, Eva M. Fried, Brian Garrett, Karen R. Hughes Dr, Patricia Keane, Regina F. Prusinski, Joy R. Shoemaker

Nursing Faculty Scholarship

The purpose of this article is to provide nurse educators with recommendations on how to develop the needed structures and processes that lead to accreditation success. We provide a comprehensive list of 28 recommendations, a timeline for completion of tasks, and specific information on how to document the achievement of the four CCNE Standards. The first two recommendations deal with two vital structures that comprise a well-functioning program: an effective committee structure and a robust evaluation plan. Recommendations 3 to 12 concern the process steps for preparing for an accreditation visit and are aligned with a timeline for completion. The …

Intricate Conversations: Caring For Clients With Severe Mental Illness, John D. Chovan

Nursing Faculty Scholarship

This presentation describes the characteristics of persons living with severe mental illness who intersect with hospice, and palliative care, and their communication challenges.

Five Dimensions Of Wellness And Predictors Of Cognitive Health Protection In Community Dwelling Older Adults: A Historical Collage Cohort Study, Kelley A. Strout Dr

Nursing Faculty Scholarship

Wellness is associated with cognitive health protection; however, findings are limited because they only examine variable(s) within one dimension of wellness. This research examined the association between multiple dimensions of wellness and cognition among aging adults. The sample included 5,605 male and female community-dwelling adults 60 years and older. Four dimensions of wellness demonstrated a statistically significant higher mean difference in cognitively healthy older adults compared to cognitively impaired older adults, F(4, 5,595) = 47.57, p < .001. Emotional wellness demonstrated the strongest association with cognitive health, followed by physical and spiritual wellness, F(5, 5,372) = 50.35, p < .001. Future research is needed to examine the cognitive protective benefits of wellness using longitudinal, prospective designs that control for the potential temporal relationship between wellness and cognition.DOI: 10.1177/0898010114540322

Identifying Disease Characteristics, Parent Experience And Coping Strategies When Predicting Pediatric Illness-Related Stress In Parents Of Children With Mitochondrial Disease, Brenda Senger

Nursing Faculty Scholarship

Mitochondrial disease (mito) is a group of rare, inherited, chronic, life-limiting, incurable neurodegenerative disorders known to affect children early in life that result from failure of the mitochondria to turn food into energy. The diagnosis of mito is elusive and complex, with a variety of clinical manifestations, multisystem involvement and the lack of a reliable biological marker for screening and diagnosis. The unpredictable prognosis and erratic nature of this illness can be overwhelming to parents who bear the daily responsibilities of managing the child's care. Little is known about the experience of parents caring for a child with mito.

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Application Of The Rasch Model To Measure Five Dimensions Of Wellness In Community-Dwelling Older Adults, Kelley A. Strout Dr

Nursing Faculty Scholarship

Background and Purpose: Nurse researchers and practicing nurses need reliable and valid instruments to measure key clinical concepts. The purpose of this research was to develop an innovative method to measure dimensions of wellness among older adults. Method: A sample of 5,604 community-dwelling older adults was drawn from members of the COLLAGE consortium. The Wellness Assessment Tool (WEL) of the COLLAGE assessment system provided the data used to create the scores. Application of the Rasch analysis and Masters' partial credit method resulted in logit values for each item within the five dimensions of wellness as well as logit values for …

The Six Dimensions Of Wellness And Cognition In Aging Adults, Kelley A. Strout, Elizabeth P. Howard

Nursing Faculty Scholarship

Objective: Examine how wellness in six dimensions (occupational, social, intellectual, physical, emotional, and spiritual) protects cognition in aging adults. Background: cognitive impairment increases with age. Baby boomers represent a significant percent of the population at risk for cognitive impairment. Cognitive impairment has a negative impact on nursing resources, health care finances, patient mortality, and quality of life. Wellness and prevention is one focus of Institute of Medicine’s vision for the future of nursing. Method: Literature was retrieved from Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature and MEDLINE. Research that examined the affect of wellness in each of the six …

Wellness Promotion And The Institute Of Medicine's Future Of Nursing Report: Are Nurses Ready?, Kelley A. Strout Dr

Nursing Faculty Scholarship

This article highlights the gap between wellness in nursing practice and the mission statement of the Institute of Medicine's Future of Nursing Report. It explores wellness from 3 philosophical arguments, provides a historical evolution of wellness, and explores nurses' current understanding of wellness. Future directions for implementing wellness in nursing practice are provided for science, education, and leadership.

14 Irrefutable Reasons To Eliminate Surgical Smoke, Kay Ball

Nursing Faculty Scholarship

Next time a surgeon challenges your mandatory smoke evacuation policy, have these 14 fast facts at the ready. They’re a mix of evidence- based reasons as well as practical and financial incentives that make eliminating electrosurgery plume from your ORs tough to argue against.