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Measuring Family Satisfaction With Care Delivered in the Intensive Care Unit.
Crit Care Nurse
December 2016
Kathleen Clark is an adjunct professor at Sacred Heart University College of Nursing, Fairfield, Connecticut, and a critical care nurse at Newton Wellesley Hospital, Newton, Massachusetts.
Background: In our competitive health care environment, measuring the experience of family members of patients in the intensive care unit to ensure that health care providers are meeting families' needs is critical. Surveys from Press Ganey and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are unable to capture families' satisfaction with care in this setting.
Objective: To implement a sustainable measure for family satisfaction in a 12-bed medical and surgical intensive care unit.
Compassion fatigue, moral distress, and work engagement in surgical intensive care unit trauma nurses: a pilot study.
Dimens Crit Care Nurs
June 2016
Virginia M. Mason, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, CCRN, is a nurse educator for critical care at Boston Medical Center. She has a BSN from Boston College, MSN from Yale University Graduate School of Nursing, and PhD from University of Mass Worcester-Amherst Collaborative Graduate School of Nursing and has completed postdoctoral studies at Yale University Graduate School of Nursing. She has 35 years of experience as a clinical nurse specialist/nurse educator. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Continuing Nursing Education Provider Unit, Boston University School of Medicine. Gail Leslie, MSN, RN, PMHCNS-BC, is an advanced practice nurse in urgent care psychiatry and a Connell Fellow in Ethics at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. She earned a BSN from Boston College School of Nursing and an MSN degree from Yale University School of Nursing. Her additional clinical experiences include 15 years of psychiatric nursing consultation in the surgical intensive care, burn, transplant and dialysis units and the emergency room Acute Psychiatry Service at Massachusetts General Hospital, and 5 years in outpatient psychiatry at the Boston VA Outpatient Clinic. Kathleen Clark, BSN, RN, MMHC, has been a practicing critical care nurse for 30 years. She has extensive experience in emergency and critical care as a staff nurse, educator, and manager. She is currently a doctoral candidate at Sacred Heart University whose research and pedagogical interests include lateral violence and undergraduate nursing students and critical care staff and patient satisfaction. Pat Lyons, MS, RN, CNS-BC, CCRN, CPAN, is a clinical educator for the surgical intensive care unit and postanesthesia care unit at Boston Medical Center. She has an ASN from Massasoit College, a BSN from University of Massachusetts Boston, and an MSN degree and a post-master's degree certificate in nursing education from Regis College. She has over 25 years of critical care nursing experience. Erica Walke, MSN, ACCNS-AG, RN, i
Preparation for replacing the large proportion of staff nurses reaching retirement age in the next few decades in the United States is essential to continue delivering high-quality nursing care and improving patient outcomes. Retaining experienced critical care nurses is imperative to successfully implementing the orientation of new inexperienced critical care nurses. It is important to understand factors that affect work engagement to develop strategies that enhance nurse retention and improve the quality of patient care.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUse of simulation to practice multidisciplinary anaphylaxis management.
Dimens Crit Care Nurs
July 2014
Virginia M. Mason, PhD, RN, CCRN, ACNS-BC, is a nurse educator for Critical Care and Perioperative Services at Boston Medical Center. She has a BSN from Boston College, MSN from Yale University Graduate School of Nursing, and PhD from University of Mass Worcester-Amherst Collaborative Graduate School of Nursing and has completed postdoctoral studies at Yale University Graduate School of Nursing. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Continuing Nursing Education Provider Unit at Boston University School of Medicine. Patricia Lyons, MSN, RN, CNS-BC, CCRN, CPAN, is a clinical educator for Critical Care and Perioperative Services at Boston Medical Center. She has a BSN from the University of Massachusetts at Boston and MSN and post master's certificate in education from Regis College. She is the 2012-2013 President of the Greater Boston Chapter of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.
Multidisciplinary clinical simulation can be an essential part of nursing education strategies to improve and enhance patient safety and experience. Clinical simulation can be utilized to change practice, reinforce practices, and direct patient and family education needs for a safe discharge. Anaphylaxis is potentially fatal and is increasing in occurrence.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLeft ventricular assist devices as destination therapy.
AACN Clin Issues
November 2003
Critical Care Nursing Educator, Caritas Saint Elizabeth's Medical Center, 736 Cambridge St, Our Lady Hall Room 515, Brighton, MA 02135, USA.
Although an estimated 16,500 Americans annually could benefit from a heart transplant, in 1999 only 2184 heart transplants were performed in the United States. These statistics emphasize the severity of the shortage of available hearts for transplantation. Circulatory support provided by an implantable Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) that meets Food and Drug Administration approval as destination therapy is a promising alternative that impacts patient survival.
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