Cultivating Self-Compassion to Protect Nurses From Burnout and Secondary Traumatic Stress.

Nursing burnout, a result of prolonged occupational stress, has always been a challenge in health care, but recently the COVID-19 pandemic made this issue into a national priority. In fact, burnout among health care workers is one of the four priorities of the U.S.

Resilience and Ethics in Nursing Education and Practice: Needs and Opportunities.

Background: Nursing faculty and clinicians are leaving the profession due to increased workload and burnout. Evidence-based interventions to build skills in resilience and well-being are encouraged; however, strategies to implement them in nursing curricula and nurse residency programs (NRPs) are not well known.

Purpose: To understand the current state of resilience, well-being, and ethics content in the curriculum in schools of nursing and NRPs in the state of Maryland as part of a statewide initiative for Renewal, Resilience and Retention of Maryland Nurses (R 3 ).

Student preferences and perceptions of learning from vSIM for Nursing™.

This study explored BSN students' perceptions of learning with vSim for Nursing™. Using a mixed methods design with 99 students, key points of learning were medication administration and respiratory interventions. Qualitative data demonstrated learning of assessment, prioritization, and emergency management.

Using Continuous Vital Sign Monitoring to Detect Early Deterioration in Adult Postoperative Inpatients.

Background: Episodic vital sign collection (eVSC), as single data points, gives an incomplete picture of adult patients' postoperative physiologic status.

Local Problem: Late detection of patient deterioration resulted in poor patient outcomes on a postsurgical unit.

Methods: Baseline demographic and outcome data were collected through retrospective chart review of all patients admitted to the surgical unit for 12 weeks prior to this quality improvement project.

Second Life simulation as a strategy to enhance decision-making in diabetes care: a case study.

Aims And Objectives: The case study evaluated the Second Life perceived usability and the decision-making of insulin administration via situational awareness at two different simulation freezes during Second Life simulation.

Background: Due to safety issues stemming from nursing knowledge deficits of insulin administration, the use of simulation via practice in a virtual immersive environment, Second Life was evaluated in a case study of practicing nurses.

Design: This case study used a single convenience group, post-test design.

On-line discussion boards: impact on caregiver reports of satisfaction, support and decision making in health care.

Informatics initiatives, including on-line discussion boards, increase the accessibility of health care information and may strengthen patient and caregiver levels of satisfaction with health care. In 2005, 95% of the living organ donors in the U.S.

HCA Inc.: standardization in action.

Ongoing government and healthcare industry initiatives clearly indicate that information technology will be the driver for change in healthcare. As systems proliferate, healthcare organizations grapple with issues of whether to choose best-of-breed systems or standardize around one vendor. For many years, HCA Inc.