Educating Nurses in Sleep Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral for Treatment.

Background: Poor sleep is an unrecognized problem among cancer survivors that affects quality of life. However, screening for sleep disorders is not routine in cancer care. To fill this gap, a self-paced online training program was designed for RNs to screen patients for sleep disturbance and provide brief intervention or referral for treatment (Sleep-SBIRT).

Nursing teams: behind the charts.

Aims: To examine the nature and characteristics of both received and provided mutual support in a social network within an acute care hospital unit.

Background: Current evidence regarding the social network in the health care workforce reveals the nature of social ties. Most studies of social network-related support that measured the characteristics of social support used self-reported perception from workers receiving support.

Evaluating Simulation Methodologies to Determine Best Strategies to Maximize Student Learning.

Limited evidence exists as to the most effective ways to provide simulation experiences to maximize student learning. This quasi-experimental study investigated 2 different strategies repeated versus 1 exposure and participation versus observation on student outcomes following exposure to a high-fidelity acute asthma exacerbation of asthma scenario. Immediate repeated exposure resulted in significantly higher scores on knowledge, student satisfaction and self-confidence, and clinical performance measures than a single exposure.

Hourly rounding: perspectives and perceptions of the frontline nursing staff.

Aims: To gain knowledge of a nursing staff's perspectives and perceptions of hourly rounding in an acute care hospital setting.

Background: Research has shown hospitals that have successfully implemented hourly rounding have significant decreases in adverse patient events with improvements in patient and staff satisfaction. More recent studies and clinical observations by the author are revealing barriers and difficulties in translating this evidence-based practice to the bedside.

Assessing the relationships between nurse work hours/overtime and nurse and patient outcomes: systematic literature review.

Background: The effects of work hours/overtime on nurse and patient outcomes and specific components of work hours (per shift and per week) and overtime on these effects have not been systematically examined.

Purpose: The purpose of this review was to systematically evaluate the effect of nurse overtime and long work hours on nurse and patient outcomes.

Methods: An online search of six electronic bibliographic databases was conducted for research published from 2000 to 2013.