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• Virtual reality simulation's influence on nursing students' anxiety and communication skills with anxious patients
  The incidence of medical-surgical patients with a secondary anxiety diagnosis is increasing, and nurses’ feelings of inadequacy in communicating with anxious patients have hindered the therapeutic nurse-patient relationship, negatively impacting patient outcomes. Simulation methods such as high fidelity simulation and standardized patients have decreased nursing students’ anxiety levels in caring for anxious patients. However, they […]
  Traister, Tanae A.
• Development of a medication reconciliation policy in outpatient mental health facility
  Introduction/Background: Adverse drug events and medication discrepancies are patient safety challenges for patients and healthcare professionals. Medication errors result in approximately 7000 deaths annually, and adverse drug events harm 1.5 billion people and cost $3.5 billion annually (Dunham & Makoul, 2008). Medication reconciliation can significantly decrease medication errors. "It involves obtaining, verifying and documenting the […]
  Webster, Karen E.
• Mending minds: Recognizing, responding, and resourcing through the implementation of a novel leadership toolkit during the coronavirus pandemic
  Introduction: Nursing burnout and resiliency issues, post-traumatic stress and subsequent turnover associated with the impacts of the novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) threaten to unravel direct patient care as we know it.  Utilizing evidence-based literature and developing strategies and tools for direct care leaders to mitigate risks to care delivery and staff turnover and documenting these […]
  Morton, Richard T. Jr
• Student nurses' senior practicum experience and its role in transition to practice
  Newly graduated nurses (NGNs) are not prepared to transition to practice, often leaving practice within the first year. The purpose of this descriptive qualitative study, guided by Meleis’ transition theory, was to explore the NGN’s perceptions of their senior practicum experience and how the experience prepared them for transition to practice. The Covid-19 pandemic limited […]
  Mays, Trilla A.
• Measuring psychological safety, high-reliability (HRO) perception and safety reporting intentions among pediatric nurses
  Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between psychological safety, perception of working in a high reliability organization (HRO) and safety event reporting intentions among pediatric nurses working in acute care. Background: The quality and safety of patient care is dependent upon nurses to report safety events and near-misses in order […]
  Pfeifer, Lauren