Expectant Casualty Care Training Needs for Future Conflicts.

Introduct Ion: The demands of future large-scale combat operations may require medics and corpsmen to increasingly perform expectant casualty care (ECC). However, no detailed guidelines currently exist for providing ECC within military medicine. To guide the development of education and training guidelines and advance team training of both medics and non-medics, an in-depth understanding is first needed regarding caregivers' experiences providing ECC in recent conflicts as well as perceived training gaps.

Deployed at sea amidst the pandemic: Insights from 30 United States Navy nurses.

Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) presented unique challenges to the United States Navy given that the major components of controlling an infectious disease outbreak are not easily achieved on ships.

Purpose: To understand shipboard Navy nurses' activities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: Virtual semistructured interviews were conducted in 2021 with 30 Navy nurses who deployed to sea during the pandemic.

Patient Handoff Processes: Implementation and Effects of Bedside Handoffs, the Teach-Back Method, and Discharge Bundles on an Inpatient Oncology Unit.

Background: Bedside handoffs, the teach-back method, and discharge bundles have been shown to contribute to empowering patients to actively engage in their treatment.

Objectives: The objectives were to identify patient activation scores, patient readmission rates, and nursing staff satisfaction before and after implementing bedside handoffs, the teach-back method, and discharge bundles on an inpatient oncology unit at a large military treatment facility.

Methods: A series of three cycles using the Plan-Do-Study-Act framework guided implementation of the multifaceted approach.