Virtual Group Appointments Improve Outcomes in Veterans with Heart Failure During a Global Pandemic: A Quality Improvement Project
This report on a quality improvement initiative describes a multi-professional approach to improving self-care behaviors and reducing hospitalizations in Veterans with heart failure (HF) by implementing virtual group appointments. Patients with HF are more susceptible to complications related to COVID-19 infection, creating the need for alternative communication methods for patient education during the social isolation and reduced health-care resources brought on by the global pandemic. From March 2020 to June 2021, 57 Veterans participated in 1 of 12 group appointments at the VA Portland Health Care System in Portland, Or...
Source: Creative Nursing - October 6, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Mary P Hansen Shannon L Stewart Christine Ensign Carrie M Puckett Sarah Caviness Source Type: research
How Wise is Conventional Wisdom?
Creat Nurs. 2023 May;29(2):167-171. doi: 10.1177/10784535231192190.ABSTRACTThis editorial connects each article in this issue to the theme, Challenging Long-Held Assumptions, by raising questions. How do we really determine value in health care? How do good, new ideas make it into practice? Why the untapped potential of Doctor of Nursing Practice preparation? Can we actually teach nursing students creativity? Do virtual group appointments actually work? How in the world do families care for loved ones at home on mechanical ventilation? Can nursing educators truly decolonize their own thinking? Is simulation a poor substitu...
Source: Creative Nursing - October 6, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Marty Lewis-Hunstiger Source Type: research
Effectiveness of a Supportive Program on Caregiver Burden of Families Caring for Patients on Invasive Mechanical Ventilation at Home: An Experimental Study
Creat Nurs. 2023 May;29(2):229-237. doi: 10.1177/10784535231195507.ABSTRACTThe prevalence of patients on mechanical ventilation who are being supported at home is increasing. Due to these patients' complex and chronic conditions, the subjective burden on their family caregivers increases after discharge. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a supportive home care program on the caregiver burden of families caring for patients on invasive mechanical ventilation at home. Sixty patients hospitalized in three university-affiliated hospitals in Tehran, Iran between 7/2020 and 8/2021 were randomly assigned ...
Source: Creative Nursing - October 6, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Maryam Esmaeili Nahid Dehghan Nayeri Fatemeh Bahramnezhad Samrand Fattah Ghazi Parvaneh Asgari Source Type: research
< em > On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World < /em > , by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
Creat Nurs. 2023 May;29(2):238-240. doi: 10.1177/10784535231195515.ABSTRACTRabbi Danya Ruttenberg's 2022 book, On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World, questions the conventional wisdom that being quick to forgive is a virtue. Unless the person who has caused harm has acknowledged the harm, started to change, made restitution, apologized, and is now making different choices, forgiveness is not just unwarranted, it is potentially harmful to individuals and societies.PMID:37800734 | DOI:10.1177/10784535231195515 (Source: Creative Nursing)
Source: Creative Nursing - October 6, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Rebecca Smith Source Type: research
Uptake of Innovations in Nursing: The Necessity for Implementation Science
Creat Nurs. 2023 May;29(2):177-181. doi: 10.1177/10784535231195426.ABSTRACTInnovations are critical for improving clinical practice and nursing education, and for enhancing learning and practice change for frontline nurses and nursing students. Continuous innovation for delivering safe care and improving patient outcomes is needed. Merely demonstrating the effectiveness of research innovations is not enough to promote their uptake and use in practice. A 2021 study in cancer research reported that moving research into practice takes about 15 years. Implementation science, a systemic process of identifying the most relevant ...
Source: Creative Nursing - October 6, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Ahtisham Younas Source Type: research
