Use of iPads to Decrease Faculty Workload.

Background: Multiple faculty were present during a simulation for competency assessments of students, thus creating an increased workload and fatigue. Faculty used technology to reduce the workload and maintain interrater reliability, at little to no cost.

Method: The use of high-fidelity simulators, tablet computers, and a university video platform were used to record student competency assessments.

Budgeting nursing workload for required minimum data set assessments.

Aim: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the reliability and validity of an instrument used to measure nursing workload of federally mandated assessments. Specifically, the instrument measures the nursing workload of the resident assessment instrument the mandated assessment tool used in nursing facilities.

Background: It is imperative that nursing managers and nurse executives in health care organizations have a process to budget Registered Nurse full-time equivalents required for federally mandated assessments.

Processing complaints and disciplining nurses. An overview of the investigative process by the Kansas State Board of Nursing.

This is a brief review of the process the Kansas State Board of Nursing would utilize when investigating a complaint and determining discipline against a licensee, and does not include all points of law that could apply. Although the Kansas Administrative Procedures Act was discussed, there are many sections of the statute that were not addressed. The Board of Nursing has published two pamphlets "Your Rights Before the Kansas State Board of Nursing" and "The Investigative Process" which are valuable to the nurse in understanding the process.

Achieving excellence in end-of-life care.

Nurses in practice have verified the need for nursing education curricula to include content related to care of the dying patient. Nurse educators are initiating curricular changes to assure students have the knowledge and attitudes needed to provide quality care at the end of life. The authors discuss one university undergraduate program's development of both a theory and practicum course.