Health Care Worker Perceptions of Gaps and Opportunities to Improve Hospital-to-Hospice Transitions.

Care transitions from the hospital to hospice are a difficult time, and gaps during this transitions could cause poor care experiences and outcomes. However, little is known about what gaps exist in the hospital-to-hospice transition. To understand the process of hospital-to-hospice transition and identify common gaps in the transition that result in unsafe or poor patient and family caregiver experiences.

Survey Development: Caregivers Help Define a Tool to Measure Cultures of Care.

Objective: The aim of this study was to develop an instrument that measures all healthcare staff's perceptions of a culture of caring.

Background: Healthcare organizations have increased their focus on cultures of caring within their staff to improve staff satisfaction and patient satisfaction. Nurses and physicians traditionally have been the focus in understanding caring cultures excluding non-direct care staff who do impact organizational culture.

Improving End-of-Life Communications Using Technology-Assisted Continuing Education With Interprofessional Teams.

Registered nurses and social workers may have little experience engaging in end-of-life discussions. Technology-assisted continuing education (TACE) improves interprofessionals' capability and comfort with these difficult discussions. This study measured the impact of TACE on improving the capability and comfort of caregivers with end-of-life communication.

Pediatric Delirium: Early Identification of Barriers to Optimize Success of Screening and Prevention.

Introduction: Pediatric delirium has a 25% prevalence rate in the pediatric intensive care unit. The purpose of this project was to evaluate the impact/effect of implementing nonpharmacologic nursing bundles on the incidence of pediatric delirium. It is not yet known whether or not bundles consistently reduce the incidence of delirium.

Take charge and change our healthcare system.

It is often said that no two days in nursing are the same. This means staff nurses and nurse managers understand how to work with unknowns. Nurses often make the best of any situation, calmly delivering measured care while advocating for what they know to be the best for their patients and staff.