The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Practice Transition Accreditation Program (PTAP) annually awards the Program Director of the Year at the ANCC Transition to Practice (TPP) Symposium. This year the Commission on Accreditation in Practice Transition Programs (COA-PTP) and ANCC PTAP/APPFA team is ecstatic to announce Dr. Simmy King, from Children's National Hospital, as the awardee. Dr. King's dedication to nurses in transition and quality improvement is impressive. Learn about the Children's National Hospital's ANCC PTAP journey and how they integrated interprofessional learning into their nurse residency. .
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S D Med
December 2024
College of Nursing, South Dakota State University.
The population is aging, especially in rural areas where people experience higher rates of mortality and chronic illness as well as greater distances to care, including specialty care. Since there is a lack of access to specialty palliative care, all clinicians must be trained to provide the fundamentals of palliative care to improve quality of life and limit suffering. Numerous options are available for clinicians to be trained in palliative care.
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January 2025
Innovation, Implementation and Clinical Translation (IIMPACT) in Health, University of South Australia Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Guideline-based care for chronic pain is challenging to deliver in rural settings. Evaluations of programs that increase access to pain care services in rural areas report variable outcomes. We conducted a realist review to gain a deep understanding of how and why such programs may, or may not, work.
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January 2025
Department of General Internal Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Background: Fall-prevention interventions are efficient but resource-requiring and should target persons at higher risk of falls. We need to ensure that fall risk is systematically assessed in everyday practice. We conducted a quality improvement (QI) intervention to systematize fall risk assessment and prevention in older adults hospitalized on general internal medicine wards.
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January 2025
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.
This study employs a clustering approach to assess the readiness for interprofessional education (IPE) among students enrolled in health-related study programs in Albania. Among a sample of 1470 students, complete data were available for 1383 participants, while 87 cases had missing data. Three distinct clusters were identified using hierarchical clustering analysis based on age and readiness domains: Teamwork (TW) and Professional Practice Identity (PPI).
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January 2025
Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Electronic address:
Study Objective: Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (eCPR) is a rescue therapy for selected patients when conventional cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) fails. Current evidence suggests that the success of eCPR depends on well-structured in- and out-of-hospital protocols. This article describes the Vienna eCPR program, and the interventions implemented to improve clinical processes and patient outcomes.
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