Publications by authors named "Rebecca Hummel"
Article Synopsis
- - America is experiencing a shortage of primary care providers, and Enhanced Primary Care RNs (EPC-RNs) can play a vital role in filling this gap by utilizing their full nursing skills in community health settings.
- - There is a lack of primary care clinical experiences in nursing education due to limited clinical sites, making it essential to teach students about the EPC-RN roles through innovative methods like simulation.
- - The development of EPC-RN Telehealth Simulations, based on expert recommendations, received positive feedback from 519 nursing students and successfully prepared them for practice in community-based primary care environments.
Background: Clinical pathways aim to standardize perioperative and postoperative care of surgical procedures and are shown to result in a significant optimization associated with cost reduction. The aim of this study was to establish the impact of two different implementations forms of clinical pathways on the pathway compliance and resulting costs.
Methods: Data of patients undergoing elective cholecystectomy for symptomatic cholecystolithiasis were collected over two different periods: using a clinical pathway in the form of a paper-based checklist, or a clinical pathway integrated into the paper-based medical treatment and nursing documentation.