An Interruption Management Education Bundle: Feasibility Testing With Nursing Students.

Background: Interruptions and distractions are pervasive in health care settings, increase risks for errors, and decrease task efficiency. Researchers recommend the use of strategies to mitigate their negative effects.

Purpose: The purpose was to assess the feasibility and acceptability of (1) an education bundle that included an interruption management strategy and (2) simulated scenarios with embedded interruptions and distractions.

Nursing Students' Medication Administration: A Focus on Hand Hygiene and Patient Identification.

Background: Procedural failures during medication administration include a lack of appropriate hand hygiene and failure to verify patient identification prior to administration of medication. Procedural failures are common among nurses and nursing students and can lead to serious patient harm.

Method: A descriptive cross-sectional research design was used to collect observational data from a simulation-based experience of a medication administration scenario.

Innovative Projects: A Unique Approach to Telehealth Education.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, telehealth utilization grew astronomically, encouraging more institutions of higher education to become innovative and proactive in preparing health care providers to deliver high-quality telehealth care. Telehealth can be creatively implemented throughout health care curricula given the appropriate guidance and tools. This article speaks to the development of student telehealth projects as part of the work of a national taskforce funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration and charged with the development of a telehealth toolkit.

Association of external interruptions with increased medication administration duration and self-interruptions: A direct observational study: Empirical research quantitative.

Aims: To examine task duration and frequency of self-interruptions among study participants during externally interrupted compared with externally uninterrupted simulated medication administration.

Background: Interruptions are prevalent during nursing medication administration and can lead to inefficient, delayed, omitted and unsafe patient care. Interrupted nursing tasks are shown to take longer to complete compared to uninterrupted tasks; however, studies seldom indicate if the time spent in the interruption was included or excluded in the reported task duration.

Telehealth Competencies: Leveled for Continuous Advanced Practice Nurse Development.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic spurred a rapid uptake of telehealth utilization, with advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) at the forefront of telehealth care delivery. To advance training of nurse practitioners and support curricular development, essential APRN student competencies in telehealth were developed.

Problem: Although telehealth competencies have been developed, little is understood about their evaluation across the curricula.

A Scoping Literature Review of Simulation Training Program Curriculum Standards.

Simulation educator training is well supported in the literature and endorsed by the Society of Simulation in Healthcare as well as the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning. Despite growth of domestic and international training programs, there is a lack of consensus regarding curriculum standards. Our aim was to identify core curricular components of comprehensive simulation training programs.

Establishing psychological safety in simulation: Faculty perceptions.

Background: A psychologically safe learning environment is defined as one where individuals feel comfortable to take interpersonal risks without fear of negative consequences. Despite knowledge of best practice for simulation, there is a lack of knowledge regarding how nursing faculty perceive and establish psychological safety in a simulated learning environment.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to explore nursing faculty's perceptions of psychological safety as it exists within a simulation learning environment for pre-licensure nursing students.

Faculty Attitudes and Adoption of Simulation: Pilot Testing of a New Instrument.

Background: This study evaluated the reliability and validity of a new instrument, the Faculty Attitudes and Adoption of Simulation (FAAS). The FAAS was designed to identify faculty attitudes toward and levels of perceived knowledge and adoption of simulation. The instrument was developed based on a comprehensive literature review.