...EBT1 Task 1 Critique of a Nursing Research Article A1. Article Ford, Y. , Heyman, A., Chapman, Y. (2014). Patients’ perceptions of bedside handoff; the need for a culture of always. Journal of Nursing Care Quality, 29(4), 371-378. A2. Graphic Background Information | The purpose of this article was to identify patient perceptions of bedside handover through directly asking patients about their care. The study was done on a two in-patient medical-surgical departments at Borgess Medical Center in Michigan. They had implemented bedside handoff at shift change 18 months prior to this study. Then a sample of patient participants was chosen from the two nursing departments for the study. They had to meet certain criteria to be a participant and they had to experience three handoffs. Then they were given a survey to fill out after the beside handovers. Participants were positive about the RN bedside handoff process. The overall mean from the survey was 3.32 on a scale of 1 (strongly disagree) to a 4 (highly agree). | Review of Literature | There were multiple references that provided statistics and facts during this study. Most of these studies have focused on implementing bedside handoffs and nurse perceptions of the handoff. Published studies that focused on patients’ perceptions of beside handoff have been mainly qualitative. Recently, researchers have published...
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...Effects of Nursing Rounds on Patients’ Call light Use, Satisfaction, and Safety Introduction to Nursing Research Effects of Nursing Rounds This is a critique study on “effects of nursing rounds on patients’ call light use, satisfaction, and safety by Christine Meade, PHD, Amy Bursell, PHD and Lyn Ketelsen MBA,RN(2006)”outline as quasi-experimental research design. The author states in this article about patient’s frequent usage of call light in the hospital. Frequent call light usage seems to be an ongoing problem in the hospital setting. This study was to determine how to reduce the call light use and burn out staff, also increase patient satisfaction and safety. Protection of Human Participants. The Benefits of the study was to increase patient’s level of satisfaction in nursing care, improve patient safety, and reduce fall rate and reducing call light. Researcher assessed “humanistic” and “concrete” behaviors. Author found every one or two hour nursing rounds can reduce call light usage, reduce fall rate and improve patient satisfaction and safety. There wasn’t any informed consent used in this study. This was a nonrandom assignment of the hospital units. One and two hour rounding was approved by chief nursing officer and nurse manager. Researcher used a quasi-experimental nonequivalent group’s design study. Because of this design researchers need help from the nursing officers. Nursing units were asked several times to change the rounding...
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...Do Doctors’ Communication Skills Affect Patient Health? Margarita Michalsky Montana State University Exploring Communications Studies 200 [ April 19, 2014 ] Dr. Daniel D. Gross Abstract One of the biggest complaints that a patient has is their inability to effectively communicate with their physician. A patients’ fear and intimidation of their physician can prevent them from being forthcoming about their symptoms and lifestyle behaviors. In addition, the lack of effective listening that the physician possesses can also limit the patients’ ability to express their needs. Effective communication is imperative to the health outcomes of the patient and this paper will look at how the communication style of the patient’s physician can affect those outcomes. Do Doctors’ Communication Skills Affect Patient Health? Healthcare is always in the news. You cannot turn on your television or pick up a newspaper without seeing something about healthcare. One of the main topics of discussion is the quality of healthcare that patients are receiving from their physicians. However, quality is not solely based on the knowledge of the patient’s physician; it can be also based on the ability of the patient to effectively communicate with their physician. Patients complain that they cannot effectively talk with their physicians because they are either intimidated or they do not feel their physician actually listens to what they say. Thus, do doctors’ communication skills...
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...This article was downloaded by: [Washington University in St Louis] On: 27 October 2013, At: 12:41 Publisher: Routledge Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK Aging & Mental Health Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/camh20 Life-review therapy with computer supplements for depression in the elderly: A randomized controlled trial Barbara Preschl , Andreas Maercker , Birgit Wagner , Simon Forstmeier , Rosa M. Baños a c d a a b a , Mariano Alcañiz , Diana Castilla & Cristina Botella e f d f Department of Psychopathology and Clinical Intervention , University of Zurich , Zurich , Switzerland b Clinic for Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, University Hospital Leipzig, Leipzig , Germany c Departamento Personalidad, Evaluación y Tratamientos Psicológicos , Universidad de Valencia , Valencia , Spain d e f CIBER Fisiopatología Obesidad y Nutrición (CB06/03), Instituto Carlos III , Spain LabHuman , Universidad Politécnica de Valencia , Valencia , Spain Departamento de Psicología Básica , Clinica y Psicobiología, Universitat Jaume I , Castellón , Spain Published online: 13 Jul 2012. To cite this article: Barbara Preschl , Andreas Maercker , Birgit Wagner , Simon Forstmeier , Rosa M. Baños , Mariano Alcañiz , Diana Castilla & Cristina Botella (2012) Life-review...
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...Literature Effects of Nursing Rounds: on patients’ Call Light Use, Satisfaction and Safety. Introduction: The findings of this article will critically review the methods of research, population, systems and data used to obtain results regarding this study. This evaluation of the outcome would determine whether or not there was a need to change the nursing management of patient care. The study would determine if patients were happy with their care and if the rate of falls were minimised. In the health care setting, the call light is an important communication tool for the nursing staff and patients especially in an emergency situation. Title: The title clearly summarises the content of this Journal article which suggests there was either a qualitative or quantitative designed research data used to conclude the findings. There was limited context which was not clearly defined (Meade et al.2006, p 58). Abstract: This is succinct, meaning the writer has been brief and precise with the back ground information about the research article. This covered the objectives, methods...
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...University of Phoenix Material Data Collection and Analysis Grid Use the two articles assigned by your facilitator to identify the following data collection, analysis, and measurement elements for the studies. Limit each box to no more than three sentences. | |Qualitative |Quantitative | | |Dance of the Call Bells |Effects of Nursing Rounds | |Data collection methods |The study used Ethnographic Methods to |The Quasi-Experimental Design was used over| | |examine problems related to answering |a 6-week period. A baseline data was taken | | |patients call lights on an inpatients unit.|during the first two weeks. An analysis was| | |The ethnographic methods of data collection|performed on data from 27 nursing units in | | |consist of five steps: mapping, |14 hospitals in which members of the | | |photography, observation, interviews, and |nursing staff performed rounds either at | | |analysis strategy phase. |one-hour or two-hour intervals. | |Data collection instruments...
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...Quantitative Research Article Critique Frances Vitek Winston-Salem State University NUR 3303 Nursing Research Introduction Nurse residency programs are important in the desire for nursing recruitment and retention. New graduate hires face many stressful challenges transitioning from student to professional RN in the workforce. Loss of a new graduate nurse leads to a great financial loss and ultimately increase in the shortage that in turn can lead to patient safety issues. The leaders of the nurse residency programs need to be vested and continue to follow and mentor these new professionals well into their second or third year of hire. The purpose if this paper is to critique the research article “Are rural and urban newly licensed nurses different? A longitudinal study of a nurse residency programme” by Marilyn Meyer Bratt, Marianne Baernholdt, and Jessica Pruszynski. My examination focuses on specific aspects of the article in terms of process and validity of research methods and results. According to Burns and Grove (2012) the purpose of reviewing literature provides us with evidence in theory and science about a specific problem, alloying is to decipher information about what is known to us and not. The key concept covered in Bratt, Baernholdt and Pruszynski’s article is to determine if there is a difference among rural and urban nurse residency programs that lead to a higher retention rate? The key points of this review is to assess the two different...
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...Article #2 Enhancing Nurse and Physician Collaboration in Clinical Decision Making Through High-fidelity Interdisciplinary Simulation Training By: Pamela M. Maxson, PhD, RN; Eric J. Dozois, MD; Stefan D. Holubar, MD; Diane M. Wrobleski, PhD, RN, and etc. According to McConaughey and Marshall and Manus, the Joint Commission identified communication problems as the root cause of 65% of sentinel events with 74% resulting in deaths. The communication between nurses and physicians is a very vital thing to make sure things run smoothly in a hospital. Effective collaboration between nurses and physicians has been shown to reduce morbidity and mortality rates, cost of care, and medical errors and to improve job satisfaction and retention of nursing staff (Mayo Clinic, 2011). Collaboration between nurses and physicians is a big deal for retention purposes. Patients are at risk of serious effects when exchanged information is misunderstood or misinterpreted. The need for improvement in the ability of nurses and physicians to exchange information is well known. Team-training exercises for health care professionals are considered to be highly effective tool to improve communication and team performance, especially in crisis situations (Mayo Clinic, 2011). One way to do this is high fidelity simulation training which offers a realistic and experiential environment in which learners practice response to clinical scenarios, debrief, and evaluate team performance in the absence of patient...
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...monitor the improvement of performance, three areas of improvement of the organization will be discussed. Furthermore, tools that measure and display the QI data will be selected and compared. Quality data focuses on four areas of improvement: clinical quality, financial performance, functional statues and patient satisfaction. Atlanta medical center (our chosen organization) had a good quality score of 99.3% in the CMS (center of Medicaid and Medicare service) core measures declared Bill Moore (2011). Nevertheless, three areas of improvement will be examined. The first area is patient safety. Kohn Corrigan (2000) states “Many as 98,000 people die every year in hospitals as results of injuries from their care”. For that reason, organization should comply with CMS core measures, the national patient safety goals initiative of the joint commission on accreditation of health care organization (JCANO). The patient safety goals are processes such as monitoring, preventing skin injuries, hand hygiene, medication safety, preventing patient fall, reducing length of stay. Berwick (2005) says authority structure should focus on better care and patient safety. The second area of improvement should be clinical quality. Although Atlanta Medical Center is a...
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...Article Analysis * Article Details Title: Management practices in the NHS Author: Nick Bloom and John Van Reenen Publisher: Centre Piece Winter 2009/10 * Article Summary about 200 words: This article is showing the management practices in the NHS and how we can improve the performance of the hospital within National Health Service. So that, the CEP researchers do a survey of clinicians and hospital managers that show, how well are NHS hospitals managed - and what could be done to improve this? Also the author mentioned that there is a significant different in the performance of hospitals within NHS, also the measure used and the all indicators show a wide spread of performance between hospitals. Moreover, as the author mentioned that the variation in performance parallels other parts of economy. In addition, they do a new study and they apply to hospitals a modified version of the methodology for measuring management practices that we have used successfully in the manufacturing and retail sectors. Also they do another study and they interviewed doctors and managers in orthopedics and cardiology in acute hospitals in England, using an evaluation tool that defines and scores 18 different management practices from one to five. And the author mention that they score management practices within three broadly defined areas which is Monitoring, People and Target setting. The author shows that they did an interview for 161 clinicians and managers and they got a high response...
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...Life of Female Partners: Assessment with the Index of Sexual Life (ISL) Questionnaire, is a research article done by (*WHO? LIST THE RESEARCHERS) researchers at Lyon (*LYON WHAT? Lyon University? Lyon Research Center?) in France who set out to measure the impact erectile dysfunction has on women’s sexual satisfaction. According to Chevret et al. (2004), “It has been estimated that 1 in 10 men worldwide have ED and that it is the most common chronic medical disorder in men older than 40 years. ED has been shown to negatively impact self-esteem, quality of life, and satisfaction, and to increase depression and mental disease” (p. 157). Not only does this ailment affect men, but it also plays a beneficial role in how their sexual partners feel. Chevret et al. hypothesizes that erectile dysfunction has a negative impact on female sexual satisfaction and feminine sexual drives. The hypothesis was created because men who cannot get an erection will not be able to participate in sexual intercourse; therefore, also unable be satisfy their woman. This study is important because only a very small amount of research has been done that focuses on the affects erectile dysfunction has on women. Other research relating to the topic of ER directly focuses on the male’s perspective since this disorder is targeted to the interest and inquiries of men. Found within the results of the article lies a conducted questionnaire through the Index of...
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...Colella & Gejerman’s Study “Survivorship Health Information Counseling for Patients with Prostate Cancer” Laura Laughbaum, SN Lake Superior State University Abstract This paper is an academic critique of an article written by Colella and Gejerman (2013) titled: “Survivorship Health Information Counseling for Patients with Prostate Cancer.” The authors undertook a research study to examine whether specialized discharge education counseling increased prostate cancer patients satisfaction with their care and education related to their chronic health problems after radiation therapy. My examination systematically focuses on specific aspects of the article in terms of process and validity of research methods and results. I have attempted to develop a cohesive and unified explanation which not only expounds the particulars of the research but which also formulates a clear interpretation of that research throughout. I suggest that the lack of communication of the researchers in this article about their methods of sample selecting and data analysis greatly reduces the validity and generalizability of their findings. Critique of Colella & Gejerman’s Study “Survivorship Health Information Counseling for Patients with Prostate Cancer” In their article, “Survivorship Health Information Counseling for Patients with Prostate Cancer,” (Colella & Gejerman, 2013) outline a quasi-experimental...
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...assessment, evaluation, and grading in nursing. This annotated bibliography of the literature is organized into four areas: assessment and evaluation in (a) the classroom, (b) the online environment, (c) clinical practice, and (d) learning and simulation laboratories. There is a fifth section that provides references on the assessment of psychomotor learning and performance; that section is not annotated. This work was completed by members of ELAC and its subcommittees as noted above. 1 CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT Ahmad, N. (2002). Evaluation of teaching: Through eyes of students. Plano: Institutional Research Office, Collin County Community College District. This article reviews the student evaluations instruments used to evaluate learning and faculty in the classroom. The purpose of this article was to search for come standardized instruments of student evaluations. Instruments used are: Individual Developmental and Educational Assessment (IDEA), Student Assessment of Learning Gains( SALG), Instructional Assessment System (IAS), Student Instructional Report II (SIR II), Course/Instructor Evaluations Questionnaire (CIEQ), Student Evaluation of Educational Quality (SEEQ), San Francisco State University Instrument, Indiana University at Bloomington’s Multi-Op (Multiple Option System of Course and Instructor Evaluation), Student Evaluation of Instruction...
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...General and Specialty Settings Research Article Nahid Hatam , Mozhgan Fardid , Zahra Kavosi 1,* 1,2 1 1Department of Health Management, School of Management and Medical Information Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, IR Iran 2Student Research Committee, School of Management and Medical Information Sciences, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, IR Iran *Corresponding author: Nahid Hatam, Department of Health Management, School of Management and Medical Information Sciences, Diamond Building, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, 9th alley of Ghasroddasht, Shiraz, IR Iran. Tel.: +98-7112340781, Fax: +98-7112340039, E-mail: hatamn@sums.ac.ir. Received: February 9, 2013; Revised: April 26, 2013; Accepted: July 26, 2013 Background: Justice has gained much attention in social and human studies and has many consequences on employees and the organizations, especially on health system workers such as nurses who are among the key factors in health care systems. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate perception of organizational justice among nurses in educational hospitals of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (SUMS), and to compare the results of general and specialty hospitals. Materials and Methods: In this research, 400 nurses at SUMS hospitals were selected by random sampling method. A 19-item questionnaire was applied to measure distributive, procedural and interactional justice. Data analysis was performed using descriptive statistics...
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...Hospitals are experiencing patient congested emergency departments. At Baptist Memorial Hospital, the increase in patient volume and limited capacity contributes to long length of stays and patients leaving without being seen. As a result of overcrowded emergency rooms, patient length of stay becomes more important. Throughput times in the emergency department (ED) play a substantial role in patient and staff satisfaction. Length of stay in the ED is directly related to patient volume, patient acuity, lab turnaround times, and time to treatment, which is all connected to patient satisfaction. Long wait time contributes to patients leaving prior to a medical screening examination. Patients who leave without been screened is dangerous and sometimes deadly, thereby creating a liability for the hospital. Baptist Memorial Hospital has outgrown its current capacity creating overcrowding and delays. Hospital capacity is an organizational barrier faced by Baptist Memorial Hospital. Patient presentations over the past several years have increased substantially as well as an increase in hospital diversion and a decrease in overall patient satisfaction. The current ED operates out of 11 beds with one around the clock physician and a mid-level provider during peak times. Nurse to patient ratios are 4:1 with a dedicated charge nurse. The department also has a dedicated triage nurse, and one secretary during peak hours. The ED does not have a patient care technician or a dedicated...
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