Joshua D Smith, Gina L Eberhardt, Bethany I Atwood, Kenneth J Romito, David F Bradley, Patricia M Schmidt
{"title":"Elements Supporting Translation of Evidence Into Practice: A Model for Clinical Nurse Specialist and Nurse Scientist Collaboration.","authors":"Joshua D Smith, Gina L Eberhardt, Bethany I Atwood, Kenneth J Romito, David F Bradley, Patricia M Schmidt","doi":"10.1097/NUR.0000000000000854","DOIUrl":"10.1097/NUR.0000000000000854","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose/objectives: </strong>To present evidence-based elements supporting the synergistic relationship between nurse scientists and clinical nurse specialists to improve the translation of evidence into practice.</p><p><strong>Description of the project/program: </strong>Using best-practice elements to support the improvement of evidence-based translation, we define the roles and synergies between nurse scientists and clinical nurse specialists within clinical environments.</p><p><strong>Outcome: </strong>Five themes were identified in the literature review:● Although clinical nurse specialists and nurse scientists differ in focus and competencies, they are in key positions to collaborate to meet healthcare demands.● Clinical nurse specialists are well-equipped to implement the science developed by nurse scientists.● To meet the increased demands and complexity of the healthcare system and patient needs, organizational leadership must lend support to clinical nurse specialists and nurse scientist collaboration.● Clinical nurse specialists are well-positioned to foster interprofessional partnerships and generate opportunities for evidence-based project initiatives across healthcare disciplines.● Clinical nurse specialists should utilize professional models to inform practice to improve the review, translation, and implementation of research into practice.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Projects conducted using a collaborative structure had a system-level impact and long-term sustainability capabilities. Additionally, projects were more likely to be disseminated by clinical nurse specialists within a formal structure.</p>","PeriodicalId":55249,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Nurse Specialist","volume":"38 6","pages":"263-270"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142513281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tiina Saarenpää, Miia Jansson, Heli Kerimaa, Riitta Alanko, Outi Peltoniemi, Miikka Tervonen, Tiina Lahtela, Tarja Pölkki
{"title":"Nurses' Experiences of the Prerequisites for Implementing Family-Centered Care to Prevent Pediatric Delirium.","authors":"Tiina Saarenpää, Miia Jansson, Heli Kerimaa, Riitta Alanko, Outi Peltoniemi, Miikka Tervonen, Tiina Lahtela, Tarja Pölkki","doi":"10.1097/NUR.0000000000000842","DOIUrl":"10.1097/NUR.0000000000000842","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>The aim of this study was to describe nurses' experiences of the prerequisites for implementing family-centered care to prevent pediatric delirium.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>The research employed a qualitative, descriptive study design.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A total of 10 nurses working in the pediatric intensive care unit at 1 university hospital participated in the study. The quality data were collected using individual semistructured interviews, and the data were then analyzed by inductive content analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The prerequisites for implementing family-centered care to prevent delirium among pediatric patients consisted of 30 subcategories that were grouped into 11 generic categories. The generic categories were further grouped into 5 main categories: (1) an environment that supports family presence, (2) psychosocial support for the family, (3) individual family involvement, (4) family participation in shared decision-making, and (5) nurses' professional competence.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>According to the nurses' experiences, the implementation of a family-centered approach to preventing delirium in pediatric patients requires creating a supportive environment for families, providing psychosocial support, encouraging family involvement in decision-making, and ensuring that all nurses have the necessary skills.</p>","PeriodicalId":55249,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Nurse Specialist","volume":"38 5","pages":"221-228"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11487995/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142005920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"To Bless the Space Between Us: Erratum.","authors":"","doi":"10.1097/NUR.0000000000000851","DOIUrl":"10.1097/NUR.0000000000000851","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55249,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Nurse Specialist","volume":"38 5","pages":"253"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142005924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lessons Learned From a Clinical Nurse Specialist \"Elder\".","authors":"Deborah A Boyle","doi":"10.1097/NUR.0000000000000835","DOIUrl":"10.1097/NUR.0000000000000835","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55249,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Nurse Specialist","volume":"38 5","pages":"199-201"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142005981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Drug Shortages After 10 Years-Sorry, Nothing Has Changed.","authors":"Patricia Anne O'Malley","doi":"10.1097/NUR.0000000000000836","DOIUrl":"10.1097/NUR.0000000000000836","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55249,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Nurse Specialist","volume":"38 5","pages":"208-209"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142005972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Embracing a New Evidence-Based Thought Paradigm of Sepsis.","authors":"Lindsay Richardson, Julie-Kathryn Graham","doi":"10.1097/NUR.0000000000000828","DOIUrl":"10.1097/NUR.0000000000000828","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Abstract: </strong>In 1991, sepsis was first defined by the Society of Critical Care Medicine as the systemic inflammatory response syndrome, in the presence of infection. Systemic inflammatory response syndrome is an adaptive host response to infection, as well as to other insults like trauma and stress. Research pertaining to sepsis was guided by this adaptive definition for 25 years. After established guidelines for sepsis management were challenged in 2014, sepsis was redefined in 2016 as a dysregulated host response to infection. However, there still remains no consensus on which immunologic or metabolic mechanisms have become dysregulated. We sought to examine sepsis literature published after the 2016 consensus definition and compare it to the original systemic inflammatory response syndrome paradigm proposed in 1991. The purpose of this intensive analysis was to recommend a new sepsis archetype, with consideration to dysregulated immunologic and metabolic mechanisms that have recently been identified in sepsis. Nurses and other clinicians must shift their thought paradigm toward an evidence-based dysregulated model, in order to improve on sepsis recognition and management.</p>","PeriodicalId":55249,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Nurse Specialist","volume":"38 4","pages":"171-174"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141421916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparison of the Predictive Validity of Norton and Braden Scales in Determining the Risk of Pressure Injury in Elderly Patients.","authors":"Ibrahim Kiyat, Ayfer Ozbas","doi":"10.1097/NUR.0000000000000815","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NUR.0000000000000815","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aim: </strong>To compare the reliability and predictive validity of Norton and Braden scales in determining the risk of pressure injury in elderly patients.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>This research used a comparative design. One hundred thirty elderly patients participated in the study.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The daily pressure injury risk of participants was evaluated by a researcher using both the Norton and Braden scales in a consecutive manner.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The mean age of patients was 75.1 ± 8.5 years, and that for those without and with pressure injury development was 75.0 ± 8.3 years and 76.1 ± 9.7 years (P < .001), respectively. The reliability coefficients of the Norton and Braden scales were .82 and .89, respectively. The sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values of the Norton Scale were 100%, 40.7%, 20.2%, and 100%, and those of the Braden Scale were 100%, 32.7%, 18.3%, and 100%, respectively.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The reliability of both scales for elderly patients was found to be high, and their ability to differentiate patients at risk was comparable. However, both scales had low specificity. Further research is needed to develop scales that have higher predictive validity for the elderly population, taking into account other risk factors that influence total scale scores.</p>","PeriodicalId":55249,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Nurse Specialist","volume":"38 3","pages":"141-146"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140872079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alignment of an Etracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Therapy Program across Two Facilities.","authors":"Rachael Alexis Jividen","doi":"10.1097/NUR.0000000000000824","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NUR.0000000000000824","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55249,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Nurse Specialist","volume":"38 3","pages":"150-152"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140861719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anestasia Wharton, Bonnie Jerome-D'Emilia, Margaret Avallone
{"title":"Improving Antibiotic Overuse in Primary Care: A Multimodal Quality Improvement Project.","authors":"Anestasia Wharton, Bonnie Jerome-D'Emilia, Margaret Avallone","doi":"10.1097/NUR.0000000000000817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NUR.0000000000000817","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Antibiotic overuse has increased over time related to provider knowledge gaps about best practices, provider perception of patient expectations on receiving an antibiotic, possible pressure to see patients in a timely fashion, and concerns about decreased patient satisfaction when an antibiotic is not prescribed. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that up to 30% of antibiotics are inappropriately prescribed in the outpatient setting.</p><p><strong>Approach: </strong>This quality improvement project consisted of a multimodal approach to decrease inappropriate antibiotic prescribing for viral upper respiratory infections (URIs) by using provider education, passive patient education, and clinical decision support tools based on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations and the Be Antibiotic Aware tool.</p><p><strong>Outcomes: </strong>Following implementation, there was an 11% decrease in viral URI antibiotic prescribing, from a rate of 29.33% to 18.33% following the multimodal implementation.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The use of evidence-based education and treatment guidelines was found to decrease inappropriate antibiotic prescribing for patients diagnosed with viral URIs.</p>","PeriodicalId":55249,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Nurse Specialist","volume":"38 3","pages":"136-140"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140873146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adult Cancer Patients' Perceptions of Factors That Influence Hospital Admissions.","authors":"Patricia I Geddie, Victoria W Loerzel","doi":"10.1097/NUR.0000000000000816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/NUR.0000000000000816","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose/aims: </strong>To explore cancer patients' perceptions of factors that influence hospital readmissions.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>A cross-sectional, prospective design was employed utilizing a 1-time survey and brief interviews to measure patients' perceptions and unplanned hospital admissions.</p><p><strong>Methods and variables: </strong>The principal investigator collected data from medical record review, the Hospital Admission Survey, and interviews to measure patient characteristics and perceptions of influencing factors that contributed to an unplanned hospital admission upon admission. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics to categorize patient perceptions of influencing factors of unplanned hospital admissions.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The top reasons for admission were symptoms of uncontrolled gastrointestinal, pain, fever, and respiratory problems. The majority perceived the admission was unavoidable and wanted to avoid an admission. Perceived influencing factors were related to survey categories of 1) communication (ie, cannot reach physician anytime, cannot get a next-day appointment, medical problems are out of control, advised to go to the emergency department) and 2) home environment (ie, unable to adequately manage symptoms at home and hospital admission is the best place for care). Other survey categories of patient education and palliative care were not perceived as influencing or contributing factors.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings highlight opportunities for clinical nurse specialists to target these vulnerable patients and provide expert consultation to address potential barriers and gaps in utilization of appropriate supportive services that may reduce unplanned hospital admissions.</p>","PeriodicalId":55249,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Nurse Specialist","volume":"38 3","pages":"122-130"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140853681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}