Addressing Workplace Violence With Evidence.

Aim: The purpose of this article is to describe how regional community assessment survey data specific to healthcare workers' (HCWs') attitudes and actions related to workplace violence (WPV) from 1 participating urban tertiary hospital was compared with current evidence to identify evidence-based interventions to promote a safer work environment. The regional survey assessed real-time data regarding the state of WPV and its impact on HCWs, and to drive proposed interventions to prevent and reduce WPV in the healthcare community.

Background: Incidents of WPV in healthcare continue to increase, resulting in calls for action from staff, leadership, and regulatory organizations.

Disaster preparedness for charge nurses: A program evaluation.

Over the last 3 years at a large, -midwestern, pediatric hospital, there have been near -disaster events, a few of which required transfer or evacuation of patients. The responses from the inpatient units to these events have varied greatly and can be traced back to communication, knowledge, comfort level, and effectiveness of the charge nurses on the nursing units. A task force was formed to understand the variation in their disaster response procedures and to standardize disaster response procedures.

Using Evidence: A Nursing Assessment Protocol for Acute Geropsychiatric Patients.

Introduction: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that approximately 20% of the United States population lives with at least one mental health issue. The most common mental illnesses affecting older Americans include anxiety, cognitive, and mood disorders. These patients may exhibit behaviors indicating agitation or anxiety during necessary hospital stays that warrant de-escalation techniques and appropriate medications to help manage emergent symptoms.

Evidence-Based Decision-Making for Nurse Leaders.

Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) is challenging nurse leaders to adopt new decision-making practices. Nurse leaders who support evidence-based nursing practice create a culture of inquiry and lay the foundation for the use of evidence to inform management decisions. This article uses a case study to describe the evidence-based management process.

When I compliacted understood loss and grief.

What Is Known About The Subject: A parent's mental illness was viewed as a loss, like a death, causing profound grief. I learned how important parent-child communication is as an important factor in managing my own grief.

What The Paper Adds To Existing Knowledge: A child's grief, in this case, from loss of a parent due to mental illness, as in death, was profound at the time and did affect many aspects of my life.

Does Participation in a Disease Self-Management Program by Veterans Affect Their Subsequent Utilization of Acute Care Services and Costs of Care?

Background: The prevalence and costs of chronic disease continue to escalate with aging of the population and continued advancements in medical care. Studies have been published about programs for the self-management of chronic disease among a variety of populations. Among the outcomes measured were reduction of acute care resource utilization and cost.