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Diabetes Mellitus/blood , Diabetes Mellitus/drug therapy , Glycated Hemoglobin/standards , Practice Guidelines as Topic , Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/blood , Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/drug therapy , Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/blood , Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/drug therapy , Drug Delivery Systems , Female , Glycemic Index/drug effects , Humans , Hypoglycemic Agents/therapeutic use , Male , Precision Medicine/standardsSubject(s)
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/diet therapy , Diet, Reducing , Self-Management , Weight Loss/physiology , Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/diagnosis , Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/nursing , Female , Home Care Services/organization & administration , Home Health Nursing/methods , Humans , Male , Patient Safety , Prognosis , Risk FactorsABSTRACT
BACKGROUND: A notable variation among patient satisfaction scores with nursing care was identified. Contributing factors were examined and revealed significant negative correlations between the unit death rate and surviving patients' satisfaction scores. Compassion fatigue (CF) was hypothesized to be a major contributing factor.â©. OBJECTIVES: The objective was to address CF in RNs and oncology care associates (assistive personnel) by developing an intervention to provide bereavement support to staff after patient deaths.â©. METHODS: A mixed-methods sequential design was used. Instruments included the Professional Quality of Life scale and Press Ganey survey results. Univariate descriptive statistics, frequencies, an independent t test, and an analysis of covariance were used for data analysis.â©. FINDINGS: The preintervention results revealed average compassion satisfaction and secondary traumatic stress scores and low burnout scores. No significant difference was noted between pre- and postintervention CF scores. Patients' perception of nurses' skills improved significantly in the second quarter of 2015.
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Compassion Fatigue , Neoplasms/nursing , Adult , Clinical Competence , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Nurse-Patient Relations , Oncology Nursing , Patient Satisfaction , Quality of Life , Workforce , Young AdultSubject(s)
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/nursing , Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/psychology , Nurse's Role , Nurse-Patient Relations , Stress, Psychological/nursing , Cost of Illness , Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/complications , Female , Humans , Male , Social Perception , Stress, Psychological/etiology , Stress, Psychological/prevention & controlABSTRACT
Nursing leaders are essential in promoting the doctor of nursing practice (DNP)-prepared nurse in various innovative roles (Nichols, O'Connor, & Dunn, 2014). However, according to the recently released RAND study, The DNP by 2015: A Study of the Institutional, Political, and Professional Issues That Facilitate or Impede Establishing a Post-Baccalaureate Doctor of Nursing Practice Program (Auerbach et al., 2014) employers and health care organizations need outreach and data to understand the added competencies and capabilities of DNP-educated nurses. Practicing DNPs are in an excellent position to demonstrate and educate our executive colleagues. The purpose of this article is (a) to foster nursing leadership's understanding of the uniquely prepared nursing practice doctorate, (b) to illustrate how the DNP-prepared nurse is being integrated/used to their potential within health care systems to maximize clinical and population health outcomes, and (c) to issue a call to action for nursing leadership to engage the DNP-prepared nurse to accomplish organizational goals.