scholarly journals Academic-Service Partnerships in Nursing: An Integrative Review

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judy A. Beal
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Patient Outcomes ◽  
Workforce Development ◽  
Integrative Review ◽  
Building Capacity ◽  
Academic Practice ◽  
Nursing Leaders ◽  
Formal Evaluation ◽  
Academic Service Partnerships

This integrative review summarizes currently available evidence on academic-service partnerships in the profession of nursing. More than 300 articles, published primarily in refereed journals, were accessed. Articles (110) were included in this review as they presented detailed and substantive information about any aspect of a nursing academic-service partnership. The majority were anecdotal in nature. Topics clustered around the following categories:pre-requisites for successful partnerships, benefits of partnerships, types of partnerships, andworkforce developmentwith its themes ofacademic-practice progressionandeducational re-design.Many examples of partnerships between academic and service settings were thoroughly described and best practices suggested, most often, however, without formal evaluation of outcomes. Nursing leaders in both settings have a long tradition of partnering with very little replicable evidence to support their efforts. It is critical that future initiatives evaluate the effectiveness of these partnerships, not only to ensure quality of patient outcomes but also to maximize efforts at building capacity for tomorrow's workforce.

Effective Pain Management and Improvements in Patients’ Outcomes and Satisfaction

2015 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 33-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Glowacki
Keyword(s):  
Pain Management ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Patient Outcomes ◽  
Pain Therapy ◽  
Marked Decrease ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
Pain Education ◽  
Education Outcomes ◽  
Adequate Pain Management

Adequate pain management is a compelling and universal requirement in health care. Despite considerable advancements, the adverse physiological and psychological implications of unmanaged pain remain substantially unresolved. Ineffective pain management can lead to a marked decrease in desirable clinical and psychological outcomes and patients’ overall quality of life. Effective management of acute pain results in improved patient outcomes and increased patient satisfaction. Although research and advanced treatments in improved practice protocols have documented progressive improvements in management of acute and postoperative pain, little awareness of the effectiveness of best practices persists. Improved interventions can enhance patients’ attitudes to and perceptions of pain. What a patient believes and understands about pain is critical in influencing the patient’s reaction to the pain therapy provided. Use of interdisciplinary pain teams can lead to improvements in patients’ pain management, pain education, outcomes, and satisfaction.

scholarly journals A schematic sampling protocol for contaminant monitoring in raptors

AMBIO ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Espín ◽  
Jovan Andevski ◽  
Guy Duke ◽  
Igor Eulaers ◽  
Pilar Gómez-Ramírez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Sampling Methods ◽  
Sentinel Species ◽  
Birds Of Prey ◽  
Sample Collection ◽  
Sampling Protocol ◽  
Building Capacity ◽  
Contaminant Monitoring

AbstractBirds of prey, owls and falcons are widely used as sentinel species in raptor biomonitoring programmes. A major current challenge is to facilitate large-scale biomonitoring by coordinating contaminant monitoring activities and by building capacity across countries. This requires sharing, dissemination and adoption of best practices addressed by the Networking Programme Research and Monitoring for and with Raptors in Europe (EURAPMON) and now being advanced by the ongoing international COST Action European Raptor Biomonitoring Facility. The present perspective introduces a schematic sampling protocol for contaminant monitoring in raptors. We provide guidance on sample collection with a view to increasing sampling capacity across countries, ensuring appropriate quality of samples and facilitating harmonization of procedures to maximize the reliability, comparability and interoperability of data. The here presented protocol can be used by professionals and volunteers as a standard guide to ensure harmonised sampling methods for contaminant monitoring in raptors.

The Effect of Nurses' Leadership Behavior on the Quality of Nursing Care and Patient Outcomes

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. e8-e18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayse Akbiyik ◽  
Esra Akin Korhan ◽  
Servet Kiray ◽  
Merve Kirsan
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Styles ◽  
Patient Outcomes ◽  
Nursing Care ◽  
Leadership Behaviors ◽  
Leadership Behavior ◽  
Hospital Readmissions ◽  
Nursing Management ◽  
Nursing Leaders ◽  
Quality Of Nursing

ObjectiveThe effect of nursing management styles on patient outcomes and the quality of nursing care (QNC) has recently become a topic of discussion. This review was conducted to examine the effects of leadership styles or behaviors on QNC and on patient outcomes.Methods13 research studies published between 1 January 2010 and 31 May 2016 which conformed to the inclusion criteria were reviewed.ResultsThe effects of nursing leaders' leadership styles or behaviors were examined in studies on patient mortality, QNC from the perspective of nurses, patient satisfaction, unwanted/adverse events, health-care-associated infections, pressure ulcers, falls, unwanted weight loss, hospital readmissions, mismanagement of feeding tubes, and inadequacies in daily nursing care.ConclusionsRelationship-focused leadership behaviors directly or indirectly improved patient outcomes and raised the QNC compared with task-focused leadership behaviors.

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS: APPLYING US EXPERICENCE TO UKRAINAN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

2020 ◽  
pp. 80-85
Author(s):  
Olha Pavlenko
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Cost Reduction ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Current State

The article discusses the current state of professional training of engineers, in particular, electronics engineers in Ukrainian higher education institutions (HEIs) and explores best practices from US HEIs. The research outlines the features of professional training of electronics engineers and recent changes in Ukrainian HEIs. Such challenges for Ukrainian HEIs as lack of collaboration between higher education and science with industry, R&D cost reduction for HEIs, and downsizing the research and academic staff, the disparity between the available quality of human capital training and the demanded are addressed. The study attempts to identify successful practices of US HEIs professional training of engineers in order to suggest potential improvements in education, research, and innovation for training electronics engineers in Ukraine.

Community Colleges: The Next Frontier of Recovery Support at Institutions of Higher Education

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Erin K Jones
Keyword(s):  
Community Colleges ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
Support Programs ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Building Capacity ◽  
Grant Program ◽  
Pilot Programs ◽  
Recovery Support ◽  
Survey Responses

In 2016, TYR could identify only six community colleges offering recovery support programs and services. Based on this finding, TYR identified a need for pilot programs to better understand programmatic models that may be effective for supporting students in recovery at community colleges. TYR’s Bridging the Gap grant program supports these pilot programs and is intended to act as a catalyst for building capacity for recovery support on community college campuses across the U.S. The goal of the program is two-fold; first, to help more 2-year institutions initiate recovery support programs and services and second, to study what programs and services are viewed as helpful and useful to students in recovery so that best practices can be shared as the field develops. This session provided a recap of TYR’s 2016 research, observations from Year 1 of the grant program, and a discussion on survey responses on institutional attitudes and student engagement in recovery support on 2-year campuses.

LGBTQ Older Adults in Long-Term Care Settings: An Integrative Review to Inform Best Practices

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Katherine Fasullo ◽  
Erik McIntosh ◽  
Susan W. Buchholz ◽  
Todd Ruppar ◽  
Sarah Ailey
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Integrative Review ◽  
Term Care

scholarly journals Patient Experiences with the Transition to Telephone Counseling during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Healthcare ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 663
Author(s):  
Augustine W. Kang ◽  
Mary Walton ◽  
Ariel Hoadley ◽  
Courtney DelaCuesta ◽  
Linda Hurley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Patient Outcomes ◽  
Interrater Reliability ◽  
Telephone Counseling ◽  
Patient Experiences ◽  
Opioid Use Disorder ◽  
Opioid Use ◽  
Therapeutic Experience ◽  
Perceived Impact

Background: To identify and document the treatment experiences among patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) in the context of the rapid move from in-person to telephone counseling due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Participants (n = 237) completed a survey with open-ended questions that included the following domains: (1) satisfaction with telephone counseling, (2) perceived convenience, (3) changes to the therapeutic relationship, (4) perceived impact on substance use recovery, and (5) general feedback. Responses were coded using thematic analysis. Codes were subsequently organized into themes and subthemes (covering 98% of responses). Interrater reliability for coding of participants’ responses ranged from 0.89 to 0.95. Results: Overall, patients reported that telephone counseling improved the therapeutic experience. Specifically, 74% of respondents were coded as providing responses consistently indicating “positive valency”. “Positive valency” responses include: (1) feeling supported, (2) greater comfort and privacy, (3) increased access to counselors, and (4) resolved transportation barriers. Conversely, “negative valency” responses include: (1) impersonal experience and (2) reduced privacy. Conclusions: Telephone counseling presents its own set of challenges that should be investigated further to improve the quality of care and long-term patient outcomes.

Best Practices for Improving the Quality of Individual Case Safety Reports in Pharmacovigilance

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 464-471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rishi Kumar ◽  
Pranay Kumar ◽  
Vivekanandan Kalaiselvan ◽  
Ismeet Kaur ◽  
G. N. Singh
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Individual Case

Stressful Life Events as a Trigger for Autoimmune Disease? A Case Report on Mucous Membrane Pemphigoid

Dental Update ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 379-382
Author(s):  
Robert Devine ◽  
Melanie Simms
Keyword(s):  
Mucous Membrane ◽  
Patient Outcomes ◽  
Stressful Life Events ◽  
Treatment Options ◽  
Rare Condition ◽  
Corticosteroid Treatment ◽  
Diagnostic Tools ◽  
Mucous Membrane Pemphigoid ◽  
Acute Presentation

This case discusses the acute presentation of a patient with mucous membrane pemphigoid to an emergency dental department. Mucous membrane pemphigoid is a rare condition, but its presentation can be severe and concerning for both the patient and clinician. The case presents the manifestations of florid desquamative gingivitis and extensive mucosal erosions due to burst bullae. We discuss the possible causes of the condition in this patient, likely to be the stress of recent cardiac surgery, as well as exploring the efficacy of diagnostic tools, treatment options and adverse effects of corticosteroid treatment. CPD/Clinical Relevance: Correct and timely diagnosis of vesiculobullous disorders has notable impacts on patient outcomes and quality of life.

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