Month: April 2018

Associations between nurse education and experience and the risk of mortality and adverse events in acute care hospitals: A systematic review of observational studies. (International Journal of Nursing Studies, 2018, Vol. 80, p. 128-146)

A summarization of the evidence on the associations between nurse education and experience and the occurrence of mortality and adverse events in acute care hospitals, and benefits to patients and organizations of the recent Institute of Medicine’s recommendation that 80% of registered nurses should be educated at the baccalaureate degree by 2020. Overall, higher levels of education were associated with lower risks of failure to rescue and mortality in 75% and 61.1% of the reviewed studies pertaining to these adverse events, respectively.

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Safe and Collaborative Communication Skills: A Step towards Mental Health Nurses Implementing Trauma Informed Care. (Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 2018, 32(2) p. 291-296)

Trauma Informed Care (TIC) acknowledges the presence and effects of trauma in the lives of many mental health service users and the responsibility of services to provide physical and emotional safety. One challenge of TIC is a lack of clarity about translating the philosophy into practice. This paper describes the delivery and evaluation of a trauma informed communication workshop for mental health nurses that aimed to increase their knowledge of the potential impacts of trauma on consumers, and translate TIC concepts into their communication approaches within the therapeutic relationship.

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Evaluation of Employee Turnover Rates and Nurses’ turnover intention: the impact of leader‐member exchange, organizational identification, and job embeddedness (Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2018, Feb. Epub)

This article examines the influence of three factors on turnover intention: leader‐member exchange quality, organizational identification and job embeddedness. This area of inquiry has not been fully investigated in the literature before.

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Impact of resilience and job involvement on turnover intention of new graduate nurses using structural equation modeling. (Jpn J Nurs Sci, 2018, Mar. Epub)

Nurses’ turnover intention is not just a result of their maladjustment to the field; it is an organizational issue. This study aimed to construct a structural model to verify the effects of new graduate nurses’ work environment satisfaction, emotional labor, and burnout on their turnover intention, with consideration of resilience and job involvement, and to test the adequacy of the developed model.
The study concludes that it is important to strengthen new graduate nurses’ resilience in order to increase their job involvement and to reduce their turnover intention.

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Empowering Nurses To Innovate At The Bedside, Then Spread Their Innovations. (Health Affairs, 2018, 37(1), p. 5)

The article discusses the benefits for health care organizations in partnering with professional associations, wherein they can gain an ally in leveraging the power of the staff nurse.

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Adding a Burn Care Nurse Increases Efficiency of a Burn Intensive Care Unit during Wound Care (Journal of Burn Care & Research, 2018, Vol. 39, 2018)

Little research exist related to a designated Registered Nurse (RN) for wound care in a burn unit; yet research shows that team nursing (i.e. IV teams) improves efficiency and patient satisfaction. Adding an RN to the wound care process improves: BICU efficiency, patient and staff satisfaction, and other patients’ safety, by increasing nurse:patient ratios.

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The effectiveness of outcome based education on the competencies of nursing students: A systematic review. (Nurse Education Today, 2018, Vol. 64, p. 180-189)

Background Outcome Based Education (OBE) is a student-centered approach of curriculum design and teaching that emphasize on what learners should know, understand, demonstrate and how to adapt to life beyond formal education.

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The impact of group activities and their content on persons with dementia attending them (Alzheimer’s Research and Therapy, 2018, 10(1) p. 37)

Individuals suffering from dementia and residing in nursing homes often feel lonely and bored. This study examined the engagement and mood of people with dementia in group activities, and how personal characteristics, such as cognitive function, may impact on an individual’s responses to group activities.

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Design Recommendations for Recreational Systems Involving Older Adults Living With Dementia. (Journal of Applied Gerontology, 2018, 37(5) p. 595-619)

As the population ages, an increasing number of people will be diagnosed with dementia. Studies have found that insufficient activities are offered in memory care units to people with dementia, even though people benefit tremendously from participating in recreational activities.

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Exploring the relationship between community-based physical activity and wellbeing in people with dementia: a qualitative study. (Ageing & Society 2018, 38(3) p. 522-542)

This study sought to identify factors which influenced how a group of people with dementia living in their own homes participated in community-based physical activity and explored the effect that exercise groups, dance and walking had on their wellbeing.

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