Journal for nurses in staff development : JNSD : official journal of the National Nursing Staff Development Organization
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While other industries have effectively used simulation as an educational strategy to improve safety and performance, nurse educators have not yet embraced this as an educational tool for safety initiatives. This article examines the benefit of using simulation exercises as an adjunct to didactic teaching and describes how one hospital's nurse educators adapted simulation methodology to educate the nurses on the complexity of safe medication administration and the importance of critical thinking in daily practice.
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The purpose of this study was to assess post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) nurses' knowledge of pulse oximetry. A convenience sample of 19 nurses completed a 32-item questionnaire that included a 20-item true-false test on pulse oximetry. ⋯ Nurse educators are responsible for identifying knowledge deficits among staff and implementing strategies to correct these deficits. It is incumbent on nurse educators to provide research-based education on pulse oximetry and opportunities to participate in continuing education.
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The End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) is a train-the-trainer educational program to help nursing faculty integrate care of dying patients and their families in the nursing curriculum. This article presents techniques derived from the ELNEC project regarding teaching the ethics module and the key content areas for developing ethical decision-making skills in end-of-life care. Competent end-of-life nursing care begins with an understanding of ethics and the potential affect on care of dying patients and their families.
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This qualitative, explorative study identified work-related stressors and coping mechanisms of registered nurses (RNs) within a hospital setting. A sample of 10 RNs was interviewed about work-related stressors and observed under normal working conditions. RNs identified stress related to failure to meet patients' needs, self-expectations, workload, and inexperienced colleagues. Staff development implications include education of clinical nurses and administrators in identifying systems barriers to providing patient care, interventional staffing, stress debriefing, patient assessment, and active coping.
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The cycles of registered nurse (RN) shortage and surplus continues into the new century, and nurse executives, managers, and staff development educators are under extreme pressure to respond to the staffing issues. Specialty areas in hospitals are typically the first to experience fewer than needed RNs. The purpose of this article is to describe how the managers, staff development educators, and staff of one large public hospital created a training program for new graduate RNs so they could function safely and efficiently in the adult intensive care environment.