New Nurses' Positive Evaluation of Transition-to-Practice Programs.

abstract：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 wa...

journal_title：Journal of continuing education in nursing

authors： Berishaj K,Buch C,Glembocki MM

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because the enrollment in nursing programs dropped in the late 1990s and healthcare agencies and education programs were seeking ways to increase the numbers of nurses, Bethel College in Mishawaka, Indiana, and Memorial Hospital in South Bend, Indiana, designed a plan to encourage nurses who had been out of nursing to...

journal_title：Journal of continuing education in nursing

authors： Davidhizar RE,Bartlett D

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the wake of health care reform, a large health system developed a new model of medical-surgical nursing care delivery. To facilitate the subsequent culture change, a non-traditional educational approach was used to provide a dynamic experiential venue that included real-time feedback to facilitate nurses' behaviora...

journal_title：Journal of continuing education in nursing

authors： Cusanza S

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Graduate students in eight diverse health care professional programs participated together in a pilot course entitled, "An Interprofessional Approach to Patient Care." Through postcourse discussions with the clinical nurse leader students, faculty discovered that beyond meeting program objectives, the nursing learners...

journal_title：Journal of continuing education in nursing

authors： Baessler M,Best W,Sexton M

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New nurses continue to face challenging work environments and high expectations for professional competence as they enter practice. Nurse residency programs are gaining prominence as a mechanism to ease new graduates' transition to practice. This study examined new graduates' perceptions of their professional practice...

journal_title：Journal of continuing education in nursing

authors： Bratt MM,Felzer HM

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A leader's toolbox of competencies comprises knowledge, skills, and abilities in clinical care, finance, human resource management, and more. As essential as these are, a strong command of quality and safety competencies is sovereign in leading and managing, ensuring an optimal patient experience. Four core areas of q...

journal_title：Journal of continuing education in nursing

authors： Bleich MR

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article, the sixth part of the educational design series, addresses how nursing professional development practitioners can meet the American Nurses Credentialing Center accreditation educational design criteria. Educational design process criterion 6 addresses the evaluation process and corresponds with The Assoc...

journal_title：Journal of continuing education in nursing

authors： Schumacher C,Shinners J,Graebe J

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Political savvy is not something with which one is born; instead it is a process that is learned, sometimes painfully, always demandingly. The purpose of this article is to identify strategies that will make a staff development department essential to organizational functioning and that will enhance both productivity ...

journal_title：Journal of continuing education in nursing

authors： Avillion AE

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol is the third leading cause of death and a preventable risk factor contributing to more than 200 diseases and conditions. Unquestionably, health care practitioners should routinely screen and give patients brief feedback on alcohol consumption related to health outcomes; however, they rarely ask patients about ...

journal_title：Journal of continuing education in nursing

authors： Mitchell AM,Finnell DS,Kane I,Halge H,Puskar K,Savage CL

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes a formal nurse educator train-the-trainer program initiated to educate qualified health professionals to teach contemporary nursing continuing education in the country of Georgia, formerly part of the Soviet Union. A 3-month intensive train-the-trainer program model was used to educate potential...

journal_title：Journal of continuing education in nursing

authors： Wold JL,Crawford K,Jashi M

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The University of New Mexico Hospitals (UNMH) nurse residency and UNM College of Nursing nurse internship programs began in 2003 and 2004, respectively. This study evaluated the effectiveness of these programs in increasing RN hiring and retention. METHOD:Existing data from academic and human resources reco...

journal_title：Journal of continuing education in nursing

authors： Hernandez SHA,Francis MA,Winn D

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staff development professionals increasingly use clinical simulation, case studies, and nonsimulated, real-time clinical performance for strengthening clinical judgment and corresponding action when training clinicians. Leadership competencies can also be strengthened and reinforced during these educational opportunit...

journal_title：Journal of continuing education in nursing

authors： Bleich MR

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The need for evidence-based practice (EBP) has been supported by many professional groups. However, nurses face many barriers to involvement in the EBP process. Continuing nursing education program planners can play a key role in helping to overcome these barriers by working with presenters and content developers to e...

journal_title：Journal of continuing education in nursing

authors： Lubejko BG

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A consortium of three educational institutions was developed to respond to a possible need for educational programs in the workplace through teleconferencing technology. Based on survey findings, a pilot project of three educational programs was presented. Evaluation of the adequacy of such programming indicated its s...

journal_title：Journal of continuing education in nursing

authors： Phillips CY,Hagenbuch EG,Baldwin PJ

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nurse educators regularly develop clinical learning experiences for undergraduate students using the expertise of experienced RNs as preceptors. Preceptors help students develop a knowledge base and clinical skills. This article reports a literature review and summarizes the benefits of preceptorship, outlines precept...

journal_title：Journal of continuing education in nursing

authors： Letizia M,Jennrich J

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HOW TO OBTAIN CONTACT HOURS BY READING THIS ISSUE Instructions: 1.1 contact hours will be awarded by Villanova University College of Nursing upon successful completion of this activity. A contact hour is a unit of measurement that denotes 60 minutes of an organized learning activity. This is a learner-based activity. ...

journal_title：Journal of continuing education in nursing

authors： Koller LH

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Educating nursing faculty about the use of an evidence-based practice to screen and intervene earlier along the continuum of alcohol and other drug use, misuse, and dependence is essential in today's health care arena. Misuse of alcohol and other drugs is a significant problem for both individual health and societal e...

journal_title：Journal of continuing education in nursing

authors： Puskar K,Mitchell AM,Kane I,Hagle H,Talcott K

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The body of nursing knowledge continues to expand and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) mandates managers and educators to maintain competence in their nursing staff members. Stricter reimbursement criteria for hospital care, however, severely restrict education budgets. Educati...

journal_title：Journal of continuing education in nursing

authors： Bradbury-Golas K,Carson L

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Newly graduated nurses are entering the work force and finding that they have neither the practice expertise nor the confidence to navigate what has become a highly dynamic and intense clinical environment burdened by escalating levels of patient acuity and nursing workload. This research used qualitative methods to b...

journal_title：Journal of continuing education in nursing

authors： Duchscher JB

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study is to form a better understanding of job satisfaction and retention of clinical teachers in the dedicated education unit (DEU) and in non-DEU clinical education models. METHOD:This follow-up study uses the tested Nurse Faculty Query survey to investigate job satisfaction and retent...

journal_title：Journal of continuing education in nursing

authors： Auxier N,Woodruff LL

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Admiral Nurses undertake complex work with families living with dementia. Dementia UK commissioned The Association for Dementia Studies to refresh the Admiral Nurse Competency Framework and enable Admiral Nurses to articulate and critically reflect on their own practice progression. The Admiral Nurses were i...

journal_title：Journal of continuing education in nursing

authors： Carter C,Bray J,Read K

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This column discusses a multifaceted approach to improve the care of hospitalized older adults. ...

journal_title：Journal of continuing education in nursing

authors： Peyser DJ

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Effective training is needed for high-quality performance of staff nurses, who are often the first responders in initiating resuscitation. There is insufficient evidence to identify specific educational strategies that improve outcomes, including early recognition and rescue of the critical patient. This stu...

journal_title：Journal of continuing education in nursing

authors： Roh YS,Issenberg SB,Chung HS,Kim SS,Lim TH

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Critical thinking has been a crucial outcome of nursing educational programs. Effective nurses should be knowledgeable about complex patient situations and confident in their skills. One teaching strategy recently adopted by some educators to develop nurses' critical thinking, learning, and confidence is simulation. S...

journal_title：Journal of continuing education in nursing

authors： Kaddoura MA

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The need to recruit and retain health care providers remains a concern in rural communities. This project aimed to better understand what health care providers and senior leaders value in mentorship and determine the best way to implement a mentorship program in rural western Canada. METHOD:Health care prov...

journal_title：Journal of continuing education in nursing

authors： Rohatinsky N,Udod S,Anonson J,Rennie D,Jenkins M

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article highlights the innovative experiential learning used by an online RN-to-BSN program through the use of simulation that takes place in an online classroom. Three experiential learning activities using a virtual community are described. These learning activities engage the students in thinking about social ...

journal_title：Journal of continuing education in nursing

authors： Breen H,Jones M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A training program in breast cancer nursing was evaluated in terms of its effects on 55 nurse participants and 18 breast cancer patients who were assigned to a control or to a program group. The quasi-experimental evaluation design employed both standard and investigator-developed instruments. Pre- and posttests were ...

journal_title：Journal of continuing education in nursing

authors： Alexander MA

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes a new model and process to implement evidence-based practice. This model builds on concepts from the Iowa Model of Evidence-Based Practice, the Stetler model, and Rosswurm and Larrabee's model. The new model focuses on the centrality and involvement of staff nurses in making evidence-based pract...

journal_title：Journal of continuing education in nursing

authors： Reavy K,Tavernier S

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:This study describes registered nurses' (RNs') attitudes toward obese adult patients using the Attitudes Toward Obese Adult Patients Instrument. METHODS:Full-time RNs (N = 119) employed in a medical center, acute rehabilitation institution, and skilled nursing facility participated in the stud...

journal_title：Journal of continuing education in nursing

authors： Zuzelo PR,Seminara P

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New graduates, newly hired nurses, and nurses transitioning to new specialties need thoughtful and thorough oversight during this process both to ensure acquisition of the required skill set and to become an integral part of the new area. Well-prepared preceptors who facilitate this education can decrease turnover and...

journal_title：Journal of continuing education in nursing

authors： Kowalski K

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00