Students' experiences of clinical immersion in operating room and emergency department.

Specialty areas, such as the operating room and emergency department, are being hit especially hard by the nursing shortage in the United States. Recruitment and retention is a challenge in these specialty units and may, in part, be due to limited or no exposure in nursing school. Kolb's theory of experiential learning was used to guide this project.

The Dedicated Education Unit Experience: What's in It for Professional Development Nurses?

Dedicated Education Units (DEU) may be one strategy for staff development educators to address new graduate nurse transition to practice and turnover within the first year of practice. This qualitative study explored the experiences of students and staff nurses from the inaugural DEU at Research College of Nursing and Research Medical Center. The themes identified suggest that students who were educated in the DEU model may be better prepared to practice in the "real world" of nursing than their peers who were not.

An Academic Practice Partnership: Helping New Registered Nurses to Advance Quality and Patient Safety.

Significant changes in the healthcare environment have occurred that offer challenges for quality improvement and nursing education programs, and thus impact both nursing practice and education. We formed an academic-practice partnership to actively engage students enrolled in an undergraduate nursing research course in quality processes with participation in a medical center's performance improvement program. This article describes the development of the partnership; and projects, results, and implications for practice.

Communication skills training to address disruptive physician behavior.

Disruptive behavior among health care providers has been linked to negative patient outcomes. High-stress areas, including the perioperative setting, are especially prone to this behavior. The purpose of this study was to develop, implement, and evaluate an educational communication skills intervention aimed at increasing the perceived self-efficacy of perioperative nurses to address disruptive physician behavior.

The negative impact of nurse-physician disruptive behavior on patient safety: a review of the literature.

Objective: To review what is known about the impact of nurse-physician disruptive behavior on patient safety to inform appropriate intervention programs to address this health care problem.

Methods: A systematic review of the literature using the key words "disruptive physician behavior" and "physician verbal abuse" was conducted.

Results: Ten articles were reviewed.