6 results match your criteria: "Dignity Health Northridge Hospital Medical Center[Affiliation]"
Equipping Nurses to Lead Evidence-Based Practice: An Opportunity for Professional Nursing Associations.
J Nurs Adm
October 2022
Author Affiliations : Executive Director (Dr Galuska), Nursing Practice, Education and Research, UCLA Health Center for Nursing Excellence, Los Angeles; Quality and Patient Safety Program Manager (Dr Loos), Dignity Health-Northridge Hospital Medical Center; and Nurse Scientist (Dr Kawar), Regional Nursing Research Program, Southern California Patient Care Services, Kaiser Permanente, Pasadena, California; and Clinical Program Manager (Ms Thomas) and Chief Operating Officer and Clinical Core Director (Dr Gallagher-Ford), Helene Fuld Health Trust National Institute for Evidence-based Practice in Nursing and Healthcare, Ohio State University College of Nursing, Columbus.
Objective: The aim of this study was to describe the evidence-based practice (EBP) attributes among California nurse leaders who are members of a professional nursing organization.
Background: Nurse leaders are pivotal for successful EBP implementation. The Association of California Nurse Leaders' (ACNL) mission to equip nurses to lead self, others, and systems propelled them to conduct a study of members' EBP beliefs, knowledge, competencies, and implementation.
Parental attitudes towards choosing between operative and nonoperative management of pediatric acute appendicitis.
J Pediatr Surg
August 2022
Division of Pediatric Surgery, Mattel Children's Hospital at UCLA, 10833 LeConte Ave, 757 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States. Electronic address:
Introduction: Making healthcare decisions for children can be challenging for parents or guardians. We aimed to characterize the decision-making preferences and stress of parents or guardians who were offered both appendectomy or nonoperative management (NOM) for children with acute appendicitis.
Methods: Criteria was developed for offering operative or NOM for patients.
Nurse Listening as Perceived by Patients: How to Improve the Patient Experience, Keep Patients Safe, and Raise HCAHPS Scores.
J Nurs Adm
June 2021
Author Affiliations : Quality and Patient Safety Program Manager, Quality and Risk Department, Dignity Health-Northridge Hospital Medical Center, California; and Lecturer, School of Nursing, California State University, Fullerton.
Objective: The purpose of this qualitative research study was to ascertain which nurse behaviors a subsection of adults 50 years and older who had had a recent inpatient admission believed conveyed nurse listening.
Background: Listening by nurses has been identified as one of the factors with the greatest impact on patients' overall rating of their hospital experience. The behaviors of nurses that lead to patients' perceptions that listening has occurred have been unexamined, thus hampering attempts at improvement.
Tools and tactics for postdischarge medication management interventions.
Am J Health Syst Pharm
March 2021
Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Purpose: To identify interventions for organizational pharmacist-leaders and frontline pharmacy staff to optimize peri- and postdischarge medication management.
Summary: An evidence-based toolkit was systematically constructed on the basis of findings of 3 systematic overviews of systematic reviews. The interventions were reviewed by a technical expert panel and categorized as either tools or tactics.
Do Errorless Methods Improve Discharge Medication Instruction and Adherence?
Rehabil Nurs
December 2020
California State University, Northridge, Northridge, CA, USA.
Purpose And Design: Postdischarge adverse drug events are a national issue, and effective inpatient instruction may help. Therefore, this intervention study examined whether using errorless teaching/learning methods including pictorial medication cards (ETL + card) improved RN teaching and patient medication adherence among persons with cognitive challenges (PWCCs).
Methods: Convenience samples of RNs and PWCCs from a 24-bed rehabilitation unit provided baseline data.
RN Evaluation of Errorless Methods in Teaching Discharge Medications to Cognitively Challenged Patients.
Rehabil Nurs
February 2018
1 Center for Rehabilitation Medicine, Dignity Health Northridge Hospital Medical Center, Northridge, CA, USA2 Department of Nursing, California State University, Northridge, CA, USA3 Nursing, Dignity Health Northridge Hospital Medical Center, Northridge, CA, USA.
Purpose: To identify (1) effectiveness of current registered nurse (RN) strategies in teaching discharge medications to cognitively challenged patients and (2) whether errorless teaching/learning (ETL) with pictorial medication cards improves such instruction.
Design: Cross-sectional, qualitative, pretest/posttest.
Methods: Open-ended interviews and a class on ETL were conducted with a purposive sample of 10 expert staff RNs from rehabilitation and neurological telemetry units in a 377-bed, not-for-profit hospital.