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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Medical-surgical nursing"”.
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An examination of the impact of medical-surgical nursing unit configuration on nurses’ communication using space syntax theory.
… exploratory study focuses on the influence of medical-surgical nursing unit design on nurses’ communication. Space syntax theory was used as this study’s theoretical framework and explored for its applicability to the study of medicalsurgical nursing unit design. This study was conducted in …
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Variables Predicting Success in an Advanced Medical-Surgical Nursing Course and the NCLEX-RN for Pre-Licensure Baccalaureate Nursing Students
… factors with success in a final Advanced Medical-Surgical nursing course and the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses, as well as their predictive abilities. Data were obtained from the academic records of 209 full-time and part-time nursing program graduates who …
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Evaluation of Reported Level of Clinical Confidence in Student Nurses Using Deliberate Practice
… being developed during pre-licensure education. Nursing faculty in higher education are tasked with the challenge to increase the level of practice undergraduate nursing students experience during their program. The question guiding this project was what effect does the use of deliberate practice …
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Active learning strategies in classroom teaching: practices of associate degree nurse educators in a southern state
… is recognized as an essential component of nursing practice by the National League for Nursing (NLN). Nursing graduates must be prepared to practice as competent healthcare professionals in a highly complex, diverse, and ever-changing environment. Critical thinking is crucial to providing …
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The Perceived Gameful Experience of Undergraduate Nursing Students Engaged in a Virtual Interactive Puzzle Escape Room Focusing on a Complex Clinical Intervention
… The purpose of this study is to investigate nursing students’ experience using gamification Virtual Interactive Puzzle Escape Room (VIPER), which incorporates tasks of medication calculations and safe blood transfusion procedures. Using a quasi-experimental explanatory post-test design, the …
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Improving Staff Responsiveness to Patient-Initiated Call Lights
… Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) project involves the nursing staff and patients of a 23-bed post-surgical medical-surgical nursing unit at a Bay Area community hospital. The goal of this project was to improve patient care, patient satisfaction and staff workflow. Assessment of the microsytem revealed …
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Association Between Nurse Staffing Indicators, Patient Falls, and Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers in the Acute Care Setting
… southeast United States. Unit level data for 11 medical-surgical nursing units from the hospital's National Database for Nursing Quality Indicators survey conducted in October 2011 were obtained.</p> <p><strong>Results:</strong> A statistically significant relationship was found between TNHPPD …
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Impacting Patient Care Experiences: Hourly Rounding
… and staff responsiveness within a busy, nursing unit in an urban setting within a San Francisco hospital; thereby improving the patient’s perception of staff responsiveness by reducing call lights and patient falls by 25% within three months. The patient population consists of …
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A Study of a Selected Patient with Myocardial Infarction to Find Out Whether a Given List of Basic Concepts of Physiology Could be Demonstrated in the Aspects of Nursing Care Administered
… in a given list could be demonstrated in the nursing care of a selected patient with a diagnosis of myocardial infarction.</p> <p>The review of literature aided in the following: choice of a given list of basic concepts of physiology important in the care of the patient with an uncomplicated …
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Differences of weekend versus weekdays, nurse-to-patient staffing ratios, patient diagnoses, and direct nursing care time
… differences in time spent providing direct nursing care time on weekends versus weekdays, nurse-to-patient ratios, medical-surgical nursing units, and weekend versus weekday patient diagnoses. Specific aims were (a) determine differences in nurse-to-patient staffing ratios and direct care …
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The Impact of Structured Debriefing, Following Simulation, on BSN Student Development of Clinical Reasoning and Clinical Judgment Skills
… processes used to prepare practitioners, nursing educators have embraced the use of simulation technology as an innovative approach to enhance student learning. Simulation has been recognized as a vehicle to support student development of knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to …
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Clinical decision making by beginning nurses: a naturalistic study
… clinical decisions and implement appropriate nursing interventions is an essential component of nursing practice. Clinical decision making is the process nurses use to gather information about patients, evaluate it and make judgments that result in the provision of nursing care. However, …
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Navy Nurses' Experiences during Operation Unified Assistance Aboard the USNS MERCY: A Grounded Theory Study
… IRB approval was granted by the Naval Medical Center San Diego and the University of San Diego. A purposive convenience sample of Navy nurses was recruited through advertisements and word of mouth. Participants were Navy nurses who took part in OUA on the USNS MERCY. Sample size …
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The Effect Of Job Strain In The Hospital Environment: Applying Orem's Theory Of Self Care
… on the intensive, progressive and general medical-surgical nursing units of seven hospitals associated with a major Central Florida healthcare network tested a client-centered model in an effort to identify nurses vulnerable to the health consequences of job strain using structural equation …
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Self-Assessment of Medical-Surgical Nurses’ Behavioral Healthcare Competency
… These individuals suffer from a high rate of medical co-morbidities. Because of this, patients hospitalized on medical-surgical units for medical reasons often are living with psychiatric/substance abuse co-morbidities, which are not addressed during their medical hospital admission. These …
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Empirical Data Mining: Conservation of Nursing Energy and Care Capacity in Medical-Surgical Hospital Work Environments
… <p>EMPIRICAL DATA MINING: CONSERVATION OF NURSING ENERGY AND CARE CAPACITY IN MEDICAL-SURGICAL HOSPITAL WORK ENVIRONMENTS</p> <p>Nurses are a critical component of the hospital care delivery system and provide essential observation and surveillance of inpatients. Mounting evidence describes …
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Impact of Interruption Frequency on Nurses' Performance, Satisfaction, and Cognition During Patient-Controlled Analgesia Use in the Simulated Setting
… the administration of high risk medications in nursing. Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) devices are frequently associated with adverse events and have a four-fold increased risk of patient injury compared to non-PCA related adverse events. While the nature and frequency of interruptions have …
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Determinants of Nursing-Sensitive Patient Safety Outcomes Among Patients Admitted to Medical and Surgical Acute Care Settings in Ethiopia: A Mixed-Methods Study
… of qualified professionals, and constraints in medical supplies and resources make the provision of quality health care challenging. There is a shortage of empirical evidence on nurses’ contribution to the quality of care generally, and patient safety outcomes particularly, in Ethiopia: a …