Adapting Simulation Education During a Pandemic.

Nursing education faced unprecedented challenges in maintaining quality clinical and simulation instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic. Strategies to maintain clinical engagement and meet course objectives included using virtual simulation and safely reopening simulation laboratories as soon as it was possible. When using virtual experiences for replacement of clinical or simulation, it is critical that standards of best practice are implemented.

A Computer-Based Tutor to Teach Nursing Trauma Care That Works as an Adjunct to High-Fidelity Simulation.

Educators are challenged to prepare nurses to care for low-frequency, high-stakes problems such as trauma. Computer-based tutors provide a cost-effective teaching strategy without risking patient safety. Evidence for the efficacy of this type of instruction is limited; thus, we tested the learning outcomes of a tutor on trauma care knowledge with senior nursing students.

Enteral Feeding Tube Clogging: What Are the Causes and What Are the Answers? A Bench Top Analysis.

Background: Clogged enteral feeding tubes remain a significant barrier to the delivery of nutrition, hydration, and medications to patients who cannot tolerate oral intake. There is limited research that compares the relative efficacy of different methods used to clear a clogged feeding tube. The objectives of this study were to better understand the factors that contribute to enteral feeding tube clogging and to test the efficacy of 3 methods for clearing clogged feeding tubes.

Lessons from the field: challenges in accruing hospice heart failure patients to intervention research.

Recent clinical practice guidelines suggest that hospice can be a valuable alternative for patients with advanced heart failure (HF). Unfortunately, there are very few evidence-based nursing interventions to guide symptom management for HF patients in hospice and their caregivers. Nevertheless, conducting clinical research in hospice populations remains fraught with methodological and ethical challenges.

Predictors of Quality of Life in Elderly Hospice Patients with Cancer.

PURPOSE: While quality of life is the focus of care in hospices, limited research has been conducted on the quality of life of cancer patients in hospice home care. The purpose of this study was to explore the predictors of quality of life of older adults who are receiving hospice care in their homes. METHODS: A secondary analysis of data from a larger study was conducted using linear regression and including the following predictor variables: age, functional status, number of symptoms endorsed, overall symptom distress, pain intensity, and depressive symptoms.