Browsing by Author "Young, Judith"

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    An educational strategy to inform legislators and nurses about the professional nursing role
    (2019) Young, Judith
    Nurses provide an informed perspective to influence decision making with health care-related legislation. This article describes a strategy that can inform legislators about the contemporary nursing role and its influence on patient safety, as well as raise nurse awareness of the professional responsibility for political advocacy and how to engage in this role.
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    An Educational Strategy to Inform Legislators and Nurses About the Professional Nursing Role
    (Healio, 2019) Young, Judith; School of Nursing
    Nurses provide an informed perspective to influence decision making with health care-related legislation. This article describes a strategy that can inform legislators about the contemporary nursing role and its influence on patient safety, as well as raise nurse awareness of the professional responsibility for political advocacy and how to engage in this role.
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    A Multisite Study Demonstrates Positive Impacts to Systems Thinking Using a Table-top Simulation Experience
    (Wolters Kluwer, 2021-01) Sanko, Jill S.; Gattamorta, Karina; Young, Judith; Durham, Carol F.; Sherwood, Gwen; Dolansky, Mary; School of Nursing
    Background Systems thinking (ST) is the ability to recognize, understand, and synthesize interactions and interdependencies in a set of components designed for a purpose. Systems thinking has been shown to improve systems and decrease error. Despite these benefits, ST has not yet been consistently integrated into all health care education programs. Purpose This study examined the impact of Friday Night at the ER (FNER), a table-top simulation designed to teach ST to a variety of prelicensure and postlicensure health care students. Methods A multisite study was conducted in 5 academic institutions targeting both graduate and prelicensure students enrolled in nursing, medicine, physical therapy, public health, psychology, and pharmacy programs. Results The FNER simulation was followed by statistically significant improvements in ST scores. Conclusions The FNER table-top simulation was found to improve ST in a wide variety of health-related majors.
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    Nursing activities and factors influential to nurse staffing decision-making
    (Sciedu, 2015) Young, Judith; Lee, Mikyoung; Sands, Laura Prouty; McComb, Sara; IU School of Nursing
    Objective: There is limited published research supporting the effectiveness of nursing workload measurement to comprehensively measure nursing workload and to formulate nurse resource need. Predictive accuracy is impaired due to variation in direct and indirect care-related activities across measurement instruments. This study aimed to (1) identify common nursing activities considered by nurse managers for staffing decision-making, (2) systematically review such nursing activities in relation to existing nursing workload instruments and Nursing Intervention Classification taxonomy, and (3) describe challenges perceived by managers in staffing decision-making. Methods: A survey was developed from an inclusive review of 20 nursing workload instruments collectively measuring 502 nursing activities. Nurse managers in 13 medical-surgical and two intensive care units at a Midwest healthcare organization identified nursing activities considered daily for staffing decision-making. Results: Twenty-one activities were commonly considered by at least 90 percent of managers (n = 13) for daily staffing decisionmaking, although none of the instruments reviewed included all 21 activities. Conclusions: Lack of a standardized framework for nursing workload measurement might have led to nurse managers’ different perceptions about appropriate determinants of these measurements. A standardized approach for measuring nursing workload would facilitate benchmarking for estimating nurse resource need. Further research is needed to design a systematic infrastructure that ensures staffing to meet patient care need. A process is also needed to alleviate the challenges in staffing decision-making that nurse managers face, such as fluctuations in census and patient acuity, nurse competency-based patient assignments, and limited information resources for staffing estimation.
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    The effectiveness of an educational intervention to enhance undergraduate nursing students' competence with interprofessional collaboration
    (Wiley, 2021-01) Young, Judith; Daulton, Brittany; Griffith, Cheryl; School of Nursing
    Background Interprofessional collaboration and teamwork have been identified as priorities for delivering quality client care. Improved teamwork, communication, and collaboration among healthcare professionals improve client outcomes. Nurse professionals are challenged to be equally engaged with other healthcare professionals to develop a culturally competent client-centered plan of care. Purpose The purpose of the current project was to examine the effectiveness of a multifaceted educational intervention on prelicensure nursing students' development of interprofessional competencies with teams and teamwork, communication, roles and responsibility, values, and ethics. Methods Metrics used included the Interprofessional Collaboration Competency Attainment (ICCAS) and the Assessment of Collaborative Environments (ACE-15) surveys. Results The results support practical and statistical significance in the students' self-reported collaborative competence across all items of the ICCAS at p < 0.000 level, and across each individual item. Conclusions The multifaceted educational strategy effectively engaged prelicensure nursing students with other healthcare disciplines to develop a client-centered plan of care and achieve interprofessional competencies.