Use of an Electronic Referral Application to Address Post-Injury Needs of Victims of Firearm Injury in a Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program.

Background: Wraparound referrals are a cornerstone of hospital-based violence intervention programs, which have proven to be an effective public health approach for mitigating violence and recidivism. We hypothesized that replacing a manual referral process with an electronic referral application would increase the number of generated referrals and improve compliance with follow-up visits.

Study Design: The population for this single center quantitative study was a convenience sample of firearm-injured patients.

Autopsy Observation as Experiential Learning for Nurse Practitioner Students in an Online Advanced Pathophysiology Course.

Background: Many instructional classrooms now exist in the online environment, where it is difficult to integrate experiential teaching strategies. Autopsy-based education has been shown to be a valuable teaching tool for pathophysiology in a medical school curriculum.

Problem: There is a gap in the literature about the use of an autopsy observation in nurse practitioner (NP) education.

Using Transcultural Nursing Education to Increase Cultural Sensitivity and Cultural Assessment Documentation by Staff in an In-Home Chronic Disease Self-Management Program.

Background: Despite literature indicating that culturally sensitive care promotes a positive patient environment and may help improve outcomes, limited data exist on the documentation of patients' cultural concerns in electronic medical records (EMR).

Objective: The project's objective was to use an educational intervention to increase clinic staff's cultural sensitivity and cultural assessment documentation.

Methods: Researchers conducted this 3-month project at a Midwestern clinic's in-home, self-care chronic disease management program.