Deepening Therapeutic Relationships: Nursing Students Practicing Attunement Throughout the Lifespan.

Education in the area of therapeutic relationships has enhanced the practice of nursing. In addition to improving patient safety, introducing these skills to undergraduate students has a positive impact on students' experiences. Patients' safety, both in what patients perceive and as demonstrated in outcomes, is strengthened when patients feel authentically seen and heard.

What's Love Got to Do With It: Teaching the Next Generation of Nurses.

Many professional medical and nursing organizations call for the reform and revision of formal nursing education. As nursing faculty work to prepare the next generations of nurses, the model of Relationship-Based Care is an ideal infrastructure for curriculum design. This paper responds to the call for transforming nursing education with a model that includes love, Relationship-Based Care, the I2E2 Model of Change, and an academic-practice partnership.

Increasing Nursing Knowledge of ST-Elevated Myocardial Infarction Recognition on 12-Lead Electrocardiograms to Improve Patient Outcomes.

BACKGROUND: Early identification of ST-elevated myocardial infarction (STEMI) on electrocardiograms (ECGs) is vital to patient outcomes. Therefore, nurses need to have the knowledge to quickly recognize this lethal dysrhythmia. METHOD: The purpose of this pretest-posttest study was to increase nursing's knowledge on accurate and timely identification of an STEMI using an online educational intervention delivered via social media. RESULTS: This study included a convenience sample of 31 RNs employed in an urban hospital in the Midwest. The mean score on the pretest was 7.53 of 10 (p = .028), which improved to 9.11 of 10 (t = 6.273; p = .000) on the posttest. CONCLUSION: The use of social media to reach adult learners may be an effective means of delivering continuing education. Additional work is needed to further explore the use of educating bedside nurses on the importance of using the 12-lead ECG as a screening tool. [J Contin Educ Nurs. 2019;50(10):475-480.].

The Impact of an Educational Intervention on the Knowledge and Beliefs of Registered Nurses Regarding Human Trafficking.

BACKGROUND: Human trafficking is a global, public health concern that can be addressed by nurses. The purpose of this pilot study was to determine the effect of an educational intervention on nurses' self-reported knowledge and beliefs regarding human trafficking. METHOD: A quasi-experimental, pretest-posttest design was used to determine whether the implementation of an educational intervention had a positive impact on nurses' self-reported knowledge and beliefs regarding human trafficking. Researchers developed a survey instrument to evaluate attainment of outcomes. RESULTS: The survey instrument was found to be highly reliable on both pretest (α = .90) and posttest (α = .81). The paired sample t-test results showed a significant change (p < .001) in nurses' perceived knowledge and beliefs from pretest to posttest for 17 of 19 survey items. CONCLUSION: An educational conference is an effective intervention that can positively affect nurses' perceptions of knowledge and beliefs regarding human trafficking. [J Contin Educ Nurs. 2019;50(6):269-274.].

Frequency of nurse-physician collaborative behaviors in an acute care hospital.

A new culture bolstering collaborative behavior among nurses and physicians is needed to merge the unique strengths of both professions into opportunities to improve patient outcomes. To meet this challenge it is fundamental to comprehend the current uses of collaborative behaviors among nurses and physicians. The purpose of this descriptive study was to delineate frequently used from infrequently used collaborative behaviors of nurses and physicians in order to generate data to support specific interventions for improving collaborative behavior. The setting was an acute care hospital, and participants included 114 registered nurses and 33 physicians with active privileges. The Nurse-Physician Collaboration Scale was used to measure the frequency of use of nurse-physician collaborative behaviors self-reported by nurses and physicians. The background variables of gender, age, education, ethnicity, years of experience, years practiced at the current acute care hospital, practice setting and professional certification were accessed. In addition to analyzing the frequency of collaborative behaviors, this study compares levels of collaborative behavior reported by nurses and physicians.

Building an organizational culture of caring: caring perceptions enhanced with education.

BACKGROUND: This pilot study was undertaken to determine whether an educational intervention called Reigniting the Spirit of Caring (RSC) from Creative Healthcare Management would enhance perceptions of caring behaviors among nurses. A pretest/posttest within-subjects research design was used to evaluate the educational intervention. METHODS: Investigators used the licensed RSC program as the educational intervention. This study included 36 registered nurses employed in one Midwestern hospital. RESULTS: Statistical differences were found in the pretest and posttest measurement of nurses' perceptions of caring behaviors. CONCLUSION: The RSC program can be used as an effective educational intervention to increase nurses' perceptions of caring, and the Caring Assessment for the Caregiver tool can be used as an effective tool to measure nurses' perceptions of caring behaviors.