Nurse, Provider, and Emergency Department Technician: Perceptions and Experiences of Violence and Aggression in the Emergency Department.

Introduction: Patient/visitor violence and aggression (V&A) in the emergency department occurs daily. Few interventions exist to decrease V&A. Research describing prevalence, severity, and perceived safety among ED clinicians is limited.

Systematic Debriefing for Critical Events Facilitates Team Dynamics, Education, and Process Improvement.

Background: Debriefing is used in clinical settings to support interprofessional staff, improve processes, and identify educational needs. Nurses who lead debriefing sessions are empowered to improve processes.

Problem: Nurse leaders identified the need for debriefing outside the critical care areas due to the rising acuity levels.

Teaching Evidence-Based Sepsis Care: A Sepsis Escape Room.

Background: Using evidence-based sepsis guidelines, nurse educators identified the nursing skills required to recognize and treat sepsis.

Method: Nurse educators created an innovative, interactive sepsis escape room to provide sepsis education. The escape room included a manikin, puzzles, distractors, riddles, and props.

Utility of the neurologic intensive care evaluation (NICE) in detecting neurologic deficit after cardiac operations--a pilot study.

Background: Neurocognitive changes are common after cardiac operations. The acute post-operative period is a critical time when significant neurologic changes may be detected and appropriate therapy initiated promptly. Formal neuropsychologic testing in this situation however is impractical so other means of early detection are required.