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Evidence-Based Hiv Pilot Program For Chinese College Students: Differences By Gender, Wei-Chen Tung, Teresa Serratt, Minggen Lu

Teresa Serratt

This study explored gender differences in the effectiveness of the translated VOICES (Video Opportunities for Condom Education and Safer Sex) intervention on the condom use intention, perceived benefits and barriers to condom use, condom use self-efficacy, and HIV/ AIDS knowledge among Chinese students in a US university. We utilized a pretest/post-test quasi-experimental design and recruited 67 Chinese students at the local university. Participants viewed a 20-min video with Chinese subtitles, attended one 25-min small group discussion and condom interactive educational activity. Female participants showed significantly greater mean scores of perceived benefits and condom use self-efficacy, in comparison with male participants. …

Hiv Pilot Program For Chinese College Students: Differences By Gender, Teresa Serratt

Teresa Serratt

No abstract provided.

Decreasing Central Line–Associated Bloodstream Infections In The Non-Icu Population, Alma Medina, Teresa Serratt, Michele Pelter, Tami Brancamp

Teresa Serratt

Central line–associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) rates above the national average precipitated a quality improvement project aimed at reducing this trend. We implemented daily chlorhexidine bathing and used 4 strategies to promote a change in practice and culture in our medical/surgical units. These strategies include the following: (1) staff education, (2) leadership support, (3) resource availability, and (4) increased awareness and accountability. Since implementing these strategies, there has been a significant reduction in CLABSI rates in the medical/surgical units.

Enforcement Of Hospital Nurse Staffing Regulations Across The United States: Progress Or Stalemate?, Teresa Serratt, Suzanne Meyer, Susan Chapman

Teresa Serratt

Enactment of hospital nurse staffing regulations was brought about by changes in the U.S. health care system that resulted in large-scale reductions in nurse staffing. These reductions came at a time when studies were highlighting inadequacies in care that caused negative patient outcomes and raised questions about the safety of hospitalized patients. Nurse staffing regulations were enacted to ensure that adequate numbers of nurses were available to provide high-quality and safe care. Although these regulations represent progress toward addressing staffing inadequacies, enforcement language is absent or weak and compliance data are either not collected or difficult to access. Explicit and …

Academic California's Nurse-To-Patient Ratios: Eight Years Later, What Do We Know?, Teresa Serratt

Teresa Serratt

No abstract provided.

Understanding Healthcare Economics: Managing Your Career In An Evolving Healthcare System, Jeanne Wendel, William O'Donohue, Teresa Serratt

Teresa Serratt

Healthcare economics is a topic of increasing importance due to the substantial changes that are expected to radically alter the way Americans obtain and finance healthcare.

Understanding Healthcare Economics: Managing Your Career in an Evolving Healthcare system provides an evidence-based framework to help practitioners comprehend the changes already underway in our nation's healthcare system. It presents important economic facts and explains the economic concepts needed to understand the implications of these facts. It also summarizes the results of recent empirical studies on access, cost, and quality problems in today's healthcare system.

Explaining what the term healthcare crisis means, the book …

Changes In Staffing Patterns Before And After California's Nurse-To-Patient Ratios, Teresa Serratt

Teresa Serratt

Research Objective: This study identified and described changes in nurse and "non-nurse" staffing that may have occurred as a result of the enactment of nurse-to-patient ratios between Fiscal Year (FY) 2000 and FY 2006 in California's acute care hospitals. Population Studied: Inclusion into the study required that a California general medical/surgical acute care hospital (N=273) with (a) Hospital Annual Financial Disclosure Reports for FY 2000 and FY 2006, (b) complete reporting of mean productive hours (MPHs) for registered and registry nurses (also known as contract, agency and/or traveling nurses) for both time periods, and (c) thirty or more acute adult …