Creating a Nurse-Led Culture to Minimize Horizontal Violence in the Acute Care Setting: A Multi-Interventional Approach.

Horizontal violence (HV) is prevalent in nursing. However, few strategies are identified to address this phenomenon that undermines communication and patient safety. Nurses at an acute care hospital implemented multiple interventions to address HV resulting in increased knowledge of hospital policies regarding HV, and significantly (p < .

Comparison of Online and Traditional Basic Life Support Renewal Training Methods for Registered Professional Nurses.

Basic Life Support certification for nursing staff is achieved through various training methods. This study compared three American Heart Association training methods for nurses seeking Basic Life Support renewal: a traditional classroom approach and two online options. Findings indicate that online methods for Basic Life Support renewal deliver cost and time savings, while maintaining positive learning outcomes, satisfaction, and confidence level of participants.

Comparing professional values and authentic leadership dimensions in baccalaureate nursing students: a longitudinal study.

Background: A series of three baccalaureate Nursing Leadership and Patient-Centered Care (NLPCC) courses were developed to strengthen students' perceptions and preparation as leaders in the delivery of patient-centered care through more effective professional socialization.

Method: A mixed-methods design was used, administering two surveys to students at the start of the junior year and the end of their senior year, plus two qualitative questions were administered after the second-semester junior and senior years.

Results: Qualitative data reflected a growing awareness of the professional nurse's role and responsibilities beyond the bedside.

Creating a sustainable, interprofessional-team training program: initial results.

Purpose/objectives: The purpose of this program evaluation was to explore whether incorporating deliberate learning concepts, through the use of simulated patient scenarios to teach interprofessional collaboration skills to a healthcare team on one acute-care hospital unit, would improve the resuscitation response in the first 5 minutes on that unit.

Design/setting: This was a pilot program evaluation utilizing a unit-based, clinical nurse specialist in the deployment of an interprofessional educational program involving simulation on an acute medical floor in a large tertiary-care hospital.

Sample: Eighty-four staff members participated in 17 simulations.

The flipped classroom for professional development: part II. making podcasts and videos.

As described in Part I, podcasts and videos are educational technologies used to flip the classroom. This column describes the technology options for creating podcasts and videos and offers tips on developing podcasts and videos.

The flipped classroom for professional development: part I. Benefits and strategies.

Individualizing the educational encounter is supported by flipping the classroom experience. This column offers an overview and describes the benefits of flipping the classroom. Part II will explore the practicalities and pedagogy of lecture capture using podcasts and videos, a technology strategy used in flipping the classroom.

Transition to an electronic professional nurse portfolio: part II.

Part I, published last month, described the background and purpose for a professional portfolio that showcases accomplishments supporting professional goals, scholarship, service, and competency in one's professional nursing practice. This column reviews the benefits, options, and issues to consider when developing a professional portfolio online.

Transition to an electronic professional nurse portfolio: part I.

This column describes the background and purpose for a professional portfolio that showcases accomplishments supporting professional goals, scholarship, service, and competency in one's professional nursing practice. Part II will review the benefits, options, and issues to consider when developing a professional portfolio online.

Harnessing mobile devices in the classroom.

This column describes the use of mobile devices in the classroom to support nurses' competency in information literacy. Nurses, as knowledge workers, require competency in information literacy and mobile technology to access accurate and current information promptly in practice settings.

Assessment and planning for a dedicated education unit.

This pilot project describes the use of the Revised Professional Practice Environment scale to identify inpatient acute care units suitable for implementation of dedicated education units. Staff development professionals may use the suggested model to assess and plan phases of a dedicated education unit.

Scripts: a tool for cognitive rehearsal.

Scripts, as a tool for cognitive rehearsal, can prepare staff and students to improve communication in critical patient or family encounters, situations requiring standardized communication for patient safety, and circumstances where interpersonal conflict exists.