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Title: Lived experiences of nurses on a burn unit related to secondary traumatic stress.
Author: Shearer, Lindsay
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Psychology
Description: Nursing is a large and growing profession. Nurses provide a critical service to patients and families, often in highly stressful work environments (McGibbon, Peter, & Gallop, 2010; Theme Filha, Costa, & Guilam, 2013). The stressful nature of nursi...

Title: Preoperative Education and The Reduction of Parental Anxiety
Author: Bernardo, Sherry
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Medicine, Health services administration
Description: Background: One of the most frequently reported emotions in children in the setting of surgery or a medical procedure is anxiety. Currently, many interventions are used to assist with the perioperative reduction in anxiety for both parent and chil...

Title: The Association of Structural and Process Factors with Medication Errors for Residents Entering a Nursing Home
Author: Lane, Sandi
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Public health, Health services administration
Description: Objective: The purpose of the study is to elucidate the relationships and inter-relatedness of specific structure, process, and outcome elements contributing to harmful medication errors for the vulnerable people who reside in nursing homes by exp...

Title: The Impact of Prewarming on the Prevention of Inadvertent Perioperative Hypothermia
Author: Earnhardt, Exie
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: This DNP scholarly project was implemented to evaluate the impact of prewarming on the incidence of inadvertent perioperative hypothermia (IPH) in adult patients undergoing surgical hip procedures (SHP) with combined sedation and neuraxial anesthe...

Title: The Influence of Leadership Practices on Faculty Job Satisfaction in Baccalaureate Degree Nursing Program
Author: Afam, Clifford
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Education, Nursing
Description: Using a correlational, cross-sectional study design with self-administered questionnaires, this study explored the extent to which leadership practices of deans and department heads influence faculty job satisfaction in baccalaureate degree nursin...

Title: Utilizing a multi-faceted approach to improve 6-hour bundle compliance of patients with severe sepsis and septic shock
Author: Gabbard, Erika
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Medicine
Description: Purpose: The purpose of this DNP Scholarly Project was to evaluate the impact of Virtual Critical Care (VCC) and Sepsis Program Coordinators on 6 hour bundle compliance (divided into 3 time frames: first 3 hour, second 3 hour, and total 6 hour) fo...