Publications by authors named "Kelly Wolgast"

As novice nurses enter the workforce, they are supported by their organizations in multiple ways. During the transition period, they are developing efficiencies that are important as they become advanced beginner nurses and then competent nurses. It is important for nurses to receive support in their journey to competency to gain efficiency while providing quality patient outcomes.

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Nurse bedside shift report (NBSR) focuses on patient-centered care, and implementing the change starts with buy-in from management and a strong educational platform. Based on that platform, nurse champions grow to help foster education to their peers. Education and tools were provided to Registered Nurses and Certified Nursing Assistants.

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The United States needs a national health care and public health workforce with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to respond to any disaster or public health emergency in a timely and appropriate manner. This requires that all of our nation's nurses and health care providers have unrestrained access to high-quality, evidence-based, competency-driven education and training programs. Programs of study for disaster readiness in both the academic and service sectors are limited in number.

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This article provides an update on the progress of the "Call to Action: Nurses as Leaders in Disaster Preparedness and Response." A steering committee, initiated, directed, and supported by the Veterans Emergency Management Evaluation Center of the US Department of Veterans Affairs, has undertaken the work of bringing together subject matter experts to develop a vision for the future of disaster nursing. The ultimate goal is to ensure that every nurse is a prepared nurse.

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Objective: The goal of this investigation was to determine whether automated approaches can learn patient-oriented care teams via utilization of an electronic medical record (EMR) system.

Materials And Methods: To perform this investigation, we designed a data-mining framework that relies on a combination of latent topic modeling and network analysis to infer patterns of collaborative teams. We applied the framework to the EMR utilization records of over 10 000 employees and 17 000 inpatients at a large academic medical center during a 4-month window in 2010.

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Workload Management System for Nursing (WMSN) is a core Army Medical Department business system that has provided near real-time, comprehensive nursing workload and manpower data for decision making at all levels for over 25 years. The Army Manpower Requirements and Documentation Agency populates data from WMSN into the Manpower Staffing Standards System (Inpatient module within Automated Staffing Assessment Model). The current system, Workload Management System for Nursing Internet (WMSNi), is an interim solution that requires additional functionalities for modernization and integration at the enterprise level.

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The Patient CaringTouch System emerged from a comprehensive assessment and gap analysis of clinical nursing capabilities in the Army. The Patient CaringTouch System now provides the framework and set of standards by which we drive excellence in quality nursing care for our patients and excellence in quality of life for our nurses in Army Medicine. As part of this enterprise transformation, we placed particular emphasis on the delivery of nursing care at the bedside as well as the integration of a formal professional peer feedback process in support of individual nurse practice enhancement.

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Purpose: We compared the outcomes of anterior urethroplasty for stricture disease performed on an outpatient and an inpatient basis.

Materials And Methods: We reviewed the records of 78, 1-stage anterior urethroplasties performed via excision with primary anastomosis, buccal mucosal graft or penile fasciocutaneous skin flap techniques from September 1997 to December 2000 by a single surgeon (A. F.

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