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Perspectives From Home Care For Guiding Patients And Families To A Successful Transition Home After Same-Day Surgery, Jessica Lahr, Brenda Elliott

Nursing (Graduate) Educator Scholarship

MANY PATIENTS TODAY go through surgical procedures in a 1 day/same-day/ambulatory surgery setting. The shift from inpatient care to caring for patients in their own homes after discharge places countless demands on patients and their families during recovery. Patients and families often mistake same-day surgery for same-day recovery and underestimate needs they may have upon discharge. In a sample of patients undergoing joint procedures, approximately 38% were discharged directly to home care postprocedure and more than 50% went to some type of facility before being discharged to home care. With trends moving toward more outpatient surgical procedures, and with the …

Ppp: Preparing For The Publication Process, Beth M. Transue, Tara Jankouskas

Library Staff Presentations & Publications

Nurses want to publish, because it will:

• Disseminate new knowledge
• Add to the body of evidence
• Improve patient care beyond your practice

What should an author consider when wanting to publish a scholarly article?

• Writing a Journal Article
• Choose a Journal
• Avoid Predatory Publishers when researching or publishing
• Peer Review Process
• Choose Keywords
• Copyright considerations
• Open access
• Disseminating Results

Not Just Another Assignment: Partnering With Faculty To Assess Student Information Literacy Skills, Beth M. Transue

Library Staff Presentations & Publications

A teaching collaboration with an undergraduate nursing assignment. The librarian graded 114 assignments and then provided grades to classroom faculty.

57 nursing students,1 CINAHL Worksheet each,1 PubMed worksheet each

Perinatal Bereavement: A Principle-Based Concept Analysis, Kimberly Fenstermacher, Judith E. Hupcey

Nursing (Graduate) Educator Scholarship

Aim: To report an analysis of the concept of perinatal bereavement. Background: The concept of perinatal bereavement emerged in the scientific literature during the 1970s. Perinatal bereavement is a practice-based concept, although it is not well-defined in the scientific literature and is often intermingled with the concepts of mourning and grief.

Design: Concept Analysis.

Data sources: Using the term 'perinatal bereavement' and limits of only English and human, Pub Med and CINAHL were searched to yield 278 available references dating from 1974-2011. Articles specific to the experience of perinatal bereavement were reviewed. The final data set was 143 articles.

Review …