Journal for nurses in staff development : JNSD : official journal of the National Nursing Staff Development Organization
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Accessible patient-friendly materials are a useful and cost-effective way of increasing patients' knowledge and allaying their fears. This article describes how nursing leadership at a hospital in Connecticut created a patient education committee to review and help draft materials and developed a Web site to centralize these materials for staff and patients. A patient panel was implemented to test materials; results highlighted the need for planning and testing of materials on target audiences.
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of Resuscitation Review Simulation Education (RRSE) on improving adherence to hospital protocols and American Heart Association (AHA) resuscitation standards. Prior to implementing the RRSE on two nursing units, performance was evaluated during a simulated cardiac arrest using a mannequin and comparing performance against AHA algorithms. Performance was measured at two separate periods: preintervention and 3 months after the intervention. Both units improved overall scores after the RRSE.
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Morbidity and mortality conferences have been used to educate healthcare providers, to critique staff performance, and to improve patient outcomes since the early 1900s. Historically well documented in physician-focused journals, the use of morbidity and mortality conferences is less predominant in the nursing literature. This article highlights one hospital's experience with planning, implementing, and evaluating a nursing morbidity and mortality conference and identifies implications for use in professional nursing development.
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Nurse educators assisted the director of professional nursing practice in a large healthcare system to implement a human caring program across 108 nursing units. These educators used transformational learning principles to reunite bedside nurses with the art of caring. ⋯ Affective growth occurred for both clinicians and educators. The authors provide practical ideas, content, and tools to teach human caring.