Using Teaching Videos to Improve Nursing Students' Self-Efficacy in Managing Patient Aggression.

Background: Nursing students experience patient aggression due to their age and lack of experience. Academic institutions can implement strategies to prepare students to manage aggression.

Method: One-hundred forty-eight undergraduate nursing students in a baccalaureate nursing program participated in this quality improvement initiative.

A Clinical Nurse Specialist-Led Initiative to Reduce Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection Rates Using a Best Practice Guideline.

Purpose: The purpose of this clinical nurse specialist-led initiative was to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infection rates to less than 1 infection per 1000 catheter days, to reduce catheter device utilization, and to improve staff adherence to documentation requirements on a traumatic brain injury rehabilitation unit.

Description Of The Project: Catheter-associated urinary tract infections are costly hospital-acquired infections increasing length of stay and morbidity for patients. Following an education intervention, a best practice initiative was implemented.

A Comfort Measures Only Checklist for Critical Care Providers: Impact on Satisfaction and Symptom Management.

Purpose: This quality improvement project created a guide for critical care providers transitioning patients to comfort measures only encouraging communication, collaboration, and shared decision making; ensuring management of patients' end-of-life symptoms and needs; and enhancing provider satisfaction by improving structure and consistency when transitioning patients.

Description Of The Project: Interviews conducted with staff in intensive care units revealed opportunities to improve structure and processes of transitioning patients at the end of life. A subcommittee of experts designed a checklist to facilitate interdisciplinary conversations.

Preparing ABSN students for early entry and success in the clinical setting: flipping both class and skills lab with the Socratic Method.

Objectives: Accelerated Second Degree BSN (ABSN) students have limited time to gain expertise. Reaching competency in skills takes weeks, delaying the application and mastery of skills in clinical practice. Our objective is to describe how our ABSN program fundamentals of nursing course enhances learning effectiveness and prepares students for successful entry into nursing.

Preferred Teaching/Learning Strategies for Graduate Nursing Students in Web-Enhanced Courses.

Background: Advanced and continuing education is essential for maintaining competence. Graduate students have shown an increase in online course enrollment, and similar trends are anticipated among nurses with limited access to on-site education due to the current COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic. Faculty must utilize preferred teaching/learning strategies to provide high-quality online education courses that engage learners and improve outcomes.