Association of Burnout and Other Factors Within Physicians and Advanced Practice Providers in an Academic Surgery Department.

Background: Provider burnout is a work-related syndrome that is under-recognized, under-reported, and has negative repercussions on the individual, system, and patients. This study investigated burnout incidence and its association with wellness characteristics such as resilience, psychological safety, and perceptions of the workplace to inform future work in improving well-being.

Methods: Electronic surveys were sent to 153 physicians and advanced practice providers (APPs) in the department of surgery at a single institution.

Defining Types of Leadership Within an Academic Surgery Department to Promote Change for Decreasing Rates of Burnout.

Objectives: Successful leaders influence the group they represent. Effective surgical care is tied to its leadership climate. However, most surgical providers are not attuned to their individual strengths which if known they could leverage them within their teams.

Redesigning nurse practitioner clinical education with a Dyad/POD model: A feasibility study.

Clinical education for nurse practitioner (NP) students is increasingly challenging. With fewer preceptors, lack of resources and time burden, finding clinical placements is a burdensome responsibility. Also, when students have multiple preceptors, there may be inconsistencies when evaluating students.

The use of motivational interviewing to overcome COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in primary care settings.

Vaccine hesitancy is not a new phenomenon. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the impact of political, racial, and health disparities on vaccine hesitancy at a global level. With the creation of the COVID-19 vaccine, a resurgence of vaccine hesitancy has emerged and many are reluctant to receive the vaccination.

State of Simulation Research in Advanced Practice Nursing Education.

Simulation is used in advanced practice nursing education for both formative learning experiences and summative competency testing. However, there has been a lack of cohesive data to support the use of simulation as a replacement for direct patient care hours. This chapter presents an overview of research designs and the leveled Kirkpatrick framework used in simulation research.

Care of the Older Adult With Postoperative Delirium: An Interprofessional Simulation for Undergraduate Nursing Students.

Because of the expanding older adult population, undergraduate nursing students need to be introduced to the unique challenges of taking care of older adults. Using simulation to demonstrate some of these challenges allows these entry-level students to learn in a nonthreatening environment. By focusing on an older adult patient who is experiencing postoperative delirium in a simulation, students can practice not only how to complete a safety assessment but also effective communication skills with the patient, family, and members of the interprofessional health care team.

Progressive Assessment and Competency Evaluation Framework for Integrating Simulation in Nurse Practitioner Education.

Competencies for nurse practitioner students have been published with the goal of preparing graduates who are ready to meet the challenges of an increasingly complex health care system. Standardized preclinical assessment of graduate-level competencies have been suggested as a means to optimize the student experience in clinical rotations and maximize the preceptor's time toward preparing students for the transition to independent practice. The main objectives of this study are to describe progressive assessment and competency evaluation as an integral framework for integration of simulation in graduate-level curriculum and present the feasibility and challenges to consider during implementation of Progressive Assessment and Competency Evaluation-directed simulations.

Using Simulation for Clinical Practice Hours in Nurse Practitioner Education in The United States: A Systematic Review.

Objectives: The National Organization for Nurse Practitioner Faculty (NONPF) does not allow simulation to be used in lieu of traditional clinical hours. The NONPF cites a lack of empirical evidence related to learning outcomes with simulation as rationale for its stance. The purpose of this systematic review was to search, extract, appraise, and synthesize research related to the use of simulation in Nurse Practitioner (NP) education in order to answer the two following questions: 1) What research related to simulation in NP education has emerged in the literature between 2010 and April 2015?, and 2) Of the research studies that have emerged, what level of Kirkpatrick's Training Evaluation Model (1994) is evaluated?

Design: This review was reported in line with Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA).

Transitioning premature infants from gavage to breast.

Breast milk provides physiologic and neurodevelopmental protection for premature infants. Most hospitals are breast-milk friendly, but the number of premature infants breastfeeding successfully at discharge is relatively small. There are evidence-based techniques to improve the odds of premature infants breastfeeding at discharge and into the first year of life.