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Exploring Moral Permissibility Of Nurse Participation In Limited Resuscitation, Felicia Stokes

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation offers a novel approach to support nurses when they face conflict between clinicians and families or alternate decision-makers over potentially inappropriate end-of-life goals of care. This dissertation will provide a normative analysis of the moral permissibility of limited resuscitation, with arguments supported by analyses of families’ and nurses’ perspectives and actions in the EoL decision-making process. Limited resuscitation is a cardiopulmonary resuscitation effort where full pharmacologic and mechanical intervention is not used, or the length of the resuscitative effort is shortened. It is typically associated with deception because it is performed without the knowledge of patients and families. …

The Impact Of A Structured Civility Educational Module And Cognitive Rehearsal Training (Crt) On Job Satisfaction And Turnover In Rural Healthcare Employees: A Quality Improvement Pilot Project, Laurel Matthews

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Manuscripts

Incivility is a top-cited stressor resulting in decreased job satisfaction and turnover. Uncivil behaviors jeopardize patient safety through poor communication and team ineffectiveness. This project aimed to determine if a structured civility educational module with CRT positively impacted job satisfaction and turnover of healthcare employees.

A pretest using the Workplace Civility Index (WCI) and investigator generated questions determined current civility behaviors, notable civility issues, and attitudes surrounding job satisfaction and turnover. The interactive, virtual modules highlighted dilemmas regarding incivility and their consequences to patient care. During CRT, the participants responded to filmed, uncivil conflicts using provided frameworks to curate civil …