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J Dr Nurs Pract
January 2025
Department of Nursing, Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA
Over 30% of births in the United States occur via cesarean section despite increased risks to the birthing person and neonate. Evidence-based nursing practice related to fetal monitoring, patient positioning, and management of the second stage of labor can decrease the incidence of cesarean birth. The objective is to decrease the cesarean birth rate by 3% in a Midwestern suburban hospital.
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January 2025
Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Av. Dr. Arnaldo, 455 - Sala 4107, São Paulo, São Paulo 01246-903, Brazil.
Patients continue to suffer from preventable harm and uneven quality outcomes. Reliable clinical outcomes depend on the quality of robust administrative systems and reliable support processes. Critically ill patient handoffs from the operating room (OR) to the intensive care unit (ICU) are known to be high-risk events.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFQual Manag Health Care
January 2025
Author Affiliations: Department of Medical Staff Quality, Corporate Quality, Atrium Health Waxhaw, North Carolina (Dr Glass); School of Nursing, College of Health and Human Services, UNC Charlotte Charlotte, North Carolina (Dr Powers); School of Nursing, College of Health & Human Services, UNC Charlotte Charlotte, North Carolina (Dr Magennis), and Nursing Excellence, Enterprise Nursing, Atrium Health Nursing Administration (Dr Shaw).
Background And Objectives: Nurses' documentation of communication, including notification of critical laboratory results (CLR), is important to ensure safe, high-quality care. Evidence supports peer audit with feedback as a quality improvement (QI) intervention to improve documentation. Nursing compliance with CLR documentation requirements was below goal for several years in an intensive care unit.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNurs Educ Perspect
January 2025
About the Authors Elizabeth A. Gazza, PhD, RN, LCCE, FACCE, ANEF, is professor, School of Nursing, University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW), Wilmington, North Carolina. April D. Matthias, PhD, RN, CNE, is professor and MSN-Nurse Educator Programs coordinator, UNCW School of Nursing. Megan Atkins, is a BSN student, UNCW School of Nursing. The authors acknowledge the participants who volunteered to share their experience as peer reviewers for professional nursing journals with the researchers. Contact Dr. Gazza at for more information.
Aim: The aim of this study was to uncover what it is like to be a novice peer reviewer for journals that publish articles that can influence nursing education and/or practice.
Background: Comprehensive and effective approaches to reviewer development, based on reviewer experience, were not reported in the literature.
Method: The study followed a hermeneutic phenomenological approach.
West J Nurs Res
January 2025
College of Nursing, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA.
Background: Healthcare professionals' repeated exposure to critical incidents can cause various physical and psychological symptoms with potentially severe personal and professional consequences. Healthcare students' exposure to critical incidents begins during their clinical education. Despite known consequences, healthcare education has yet to implement a standardized approach for preparing students for critical incidents.
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