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Effective Communication And Teamwork Improve Patient Safety, Helene M. Anderson
Effective Communication And Teamwork Improve Patient Safety, Helene M. Anderson
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Work environment influences the effectiveness of care for patients in any healthcare setting. It is even more important in settings such as the neonatal ICU (NICU) where this project took place. When the environment is not healthy, communication may suffer and result in poor patient outcomes and, family, patient, and staff dissatisfaction. The purpose of this quality improvement project was to understand how the implementation of the TeamSTEPPS program, for nurses in the NICU, could impact the safety culture as measured by the AACN Healthy Work Environment (HWE) tool. Lewin's professional practice change theory and the AHRQ change model were …
Hospital Administrators' Strategies For Reducing Delayed Hospital Discharges And Improving Profitability, Sheree Boyd
Hospital Administrators' Strategies For Reducing Delayed Hospital Discharges And Improving Profitability, Sheree Boyd
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Inefficiencies in leadership and limited leadership strategies in hospitals contribute to delayed hospital discharges and an increased financial burden on a hospital. Three administrators from 2 hospitals who are part of a hospital conglomerate in Chicago, Illinois were selected for interview in this qualitative multiple case study to explore how hospital discharge strategies reduce delayed hospital discharges and improve profitability. Contingency was the primary theoretical theory for this study. The purposive sampling consisted of the selections of individual who were knowledgeable and had experience to organize, manage, and implement processes in an organization. Data collection occurred using face-to-face semistructured interviews, …
A Toolkit To Support Nurse-Patient Communication Through Nurse-Expressed Empathy, Jessica Delano Holden
A Toolkit To Support Nurse-Patient Communication Through Nurse-Expressed Empathy, Jessica Delano Holden
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Empathy is the ability of a person to understand what another is experiencing from the receiver's perspective and the ability to communicate that understanding to the receiver. In nursing, empathy is believed to be a necessary component to the nurse-patient relationship. Evidence shows a decline in empathy specifically noted over time in nursing students who are preparing to graduate and enter the workforce. The practice focused question for this project asked whether an experiential learning toolkit for development of nursing empathy can improve sophomore nursing student empathy as measured via the Jefferson Scale of Empathy. This project was guided by …
Performance Outcomes Of Nurses Based Upon Nursing Students'classroom Expereinces, Beatrice Obiageli Eweni
Performance Outcomes Of Nurses Based Upon Nursing Students'classroom Expereinces, Beatrice Obiageli Eweni
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Schools of nursing educators are faced with redesigning nursing education to meet the complexity of implementing communication and patient- centered care to improve patient safety. This qualitative case study addressed the problem that teaching communication and patient- centered care were not threaded throughout curriculum, which left many new graduates nurses unprepared. The purpose of this study was to understand classroom experiences of new graduate nurses to meet performance outcomes. The research questions focused on understanding the classroom experiences of new graduates' of a nursing program by assessing the two concepts and how to address preparatory practices. The target populations were …
Consensus In Anesthesia Handoff Reporting, Robin Lee Anselm
Consensus In Anesthesia Handoff Reporting, Robin Lee Anselm
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Despite some improvement, no consensus exists to perfect quality in anesthesia handoff practice and policy. This quality improvement project was designed to assist a local anesthesia and perioperative workforce questioning the quality of its current handoff. Theories and models used to inform the project included the Inter-Professional Team Collaborative, Lewin's change theory, the continuous quality improvement theory, and the knowledge to action model. The communication assessment tool (CAT) functioned as a needs assessment yielding a gap in handoff practice of 25 participants. The CAT also served as the post project evaluation survey. The situation, background, assessment, and recommendation (SBAR) tool …