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Workforce development and community education, continuing education January to June 2025
No full textThis course catalog lists continuing education classes and certificate programs available at Delaware Technical and Community College campuses from January to June 2025
Volume 24
No full textThe Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Delaware from 1864, pages 1 through 272
Development and Evaluation of a Nurse Leader Driven Interdisciplinary Safety Huddle Intervention on Perceptions of Psychological Safety and Teamwork Amongst Night-Shift Nurse Leaders in an Acute Care Hospital
No full textHealthcare errors have a profound negative impact on patients, families, healthcare providers, and organizations. Globally, preventable patient harm is the 14th leading cause of disease burden (Lee, Dahinten, Kim et al., 2023). The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare found that poor communication is a major contributor to 70% of medical errors, costing the United States about $2.2 million per year per healthcare system (Guttman et al., 2021; McCain et al., 2023). A synthesis of studies surrounding safety huddles, also referred to as safety briefings, found related improvements in identification of risk, mitigation of risk, information sharing, coordination of care, psychological safety with a flattened hierarchy, connectivity, and collaboration (Ryan et al., 2019). Published literature has pointed towards a culture of teamwork and psychological safety as ways to promote the crucial safety behavior of speaking up for safety without fear of punishment or humiliation. For this project, nursing leaders who work on the night shift were surveyed for baseline perceptions of psychology safety and teamwork, which were measured again six weeks after the introduction of a nightly interdisciplinary safety huddle intervention. Ten nurse leaders participated in the project, including five nursing supervisors and five non-supervisors (generalist educators and clinical support nurses). There was a slight increase in overall levels of psychological safety from 28.4 to 28.5 (within a possible range of 7-35) and in levels of teamwork perceptions from 27.6 to 28.0 (within a possible range of 7-35). Overall mean scores increased in both psychological safety (28.8 to 31) and teamwork perceptions (27.4 to 29) among non-supervisors but decreased in psychological safety (28 to 26) and teamwork perceptions (27.8 to 27) among nursing supervisors. Safety huddles have the potential to improve perceptions of psychological safety and teamwork while improving situational awareness and collaboration to improve patient safety, but it is important to consider how to best engage nurse leaders, such as the nursing supervisors, to maximize perceptions of value and effectiveness
Examining Onboarding for Educators: Developing Practices for Support, Assimilation, and Retention
No full textNew and continuing challenges face professionals in education such as fallout related to COVID, teacher retention issues, and declining teacher education program enrollment. Organizations are seeking ways to improve the retention of newly hired teachers, as well as decrease attrition rates. Along with a review of current solutions, this study investigated comprehensive onboarding as a strategy to solve teacher retention issues by surveying educators regarding the most effective practices to support teacher integration, improve new employee satisfaction, and increase retention. The research focused on the categories of pre-boarding, communication, orientation, mentorship, and leadership involvement, and also asked educators to prioritize these categories in terms of the most important to the onboarding process. By identifying best practices, the survey results informed the creation of an onboarding guide for educators that promotes a research-based framework for a successful onboarding structure
Behavioral Health Crisis Intervention Services Board 2024 expenditures update
No full textThis is a memorandum from the Department of Health and Social Services Secretary providing an update on fiscal year 2024 expenditures from the Behavioral Health Crisis Intervention Services Board. The memo was sent to Governor Matthew Meyer, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House
Community newsletter and Parks, Recreation and Library activity guide, Summer 2025
No full textThis pamphlet lists programs and activities available through Kent County Parks and Recreation and the Kent County Public Library in Summer 2025
