Publications by authors named "Joanne Agnant"
Article Synopsis
- - Family presence during pediatric resuscitations is beneficial, but there's variation in how healthcare providers support it; a new curriculum was developed to standardize this training for all healthcare team members as Family Presence Facilitators (FPFs).
- - The curriculum was created using a structured six-step approach, featuring live sessions, asynchronous learning, and real-life simulations to enhance understanding and skills related to family support in medical emergencies.
- - Feedback from 153 participants indicated that the majority found the training enjoyable and felt it significantly improved their abilities to communicate empathetically and supportively with families, highlighting its potential to enhance patient care experiences.
Simulation-based health professions educators can advance diversity, equity, and inclusion by cultivating structural competency, which is the trained ability to discern inequity not only at an individual level, but also at organizational, community, and societal levels. This commentary introduces Metzl and Hansen's Five-Step Model for structural competency and discusses its unique applicability to the metacognitive underpinnings of simulation-based health professions education. We offer a pragmatic guide for simulation-based health professions educators to collaboratively design learning objectives, simulation cases, character sketches, and debriefs in which structural competency is a simulation performance domain, alongside patient management, resource usage, leadership, situational awareness, teamwork, and/or communication.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: This study aimed to identify the beliefs and attitudes of primary care providers (PCPs) regarding emergency department (ED) physicians' initiation of controller medications for children with persistent asthma symptoms during an immediate ED visit.
Methods: We performed semistructured interviews and a focus group with a purposive sample of PCPs of asthmatic patients to assess attitudes toward the National Asthma and Education Prevention Program recommendations regarding ED-based initiation of controller medications. Interviews and a focus group were digitally recorded, transcribed, and entered into qualitative software for coding and analysis.