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The Effectiveness of Targeted Education on Improving Nurses’ Self-Efficacy in Caring for Psychiatric Patients on Medical Surgical Units
Get PDFIndividuals with mental illness are occasionally hospitalized on medical units, specifically medical-surgical units. Nurses working on medical-surgical units may find patients with mental illness more challenging due to the complexity of care they sometimes require. Nurses’ perceived ability to provide quality care for these patients is reduced in comparison to their perceived ability to care for patients without mental illness. Consequently, low self-efficacy can result in the provision of a lower quality of care for this population. The purpose of this quality improvement project was to improve the care that patients with mental illness receive while hospitalized on medical-surgical units. This study utilized a quasi-experimental single-group, pre-test-post-test design to examine the impact of a targeted educational presentation and simulation on nurses’ knowledge and self-efficacy in caring for psychiatric patients on medical-surgical units. Each participant completed a pre-intervention self-assessment using the Nursing Care Self-Efficacy Scale (NCSES) and a quiz to test knowledge. Each participant also attended one of two educational sessions that included a presentation and a simulation. Six weeks following the educational session, the participants completed a post-intervention quiz to test knowledge and a self-assessment using the NCSES. The scores of the pre-intervention assessment and quiz were compared to those of the post-intervention assessment and quiz. The mean score of the posttests were 4% higher than the pre-tests, and the self-assessment scores were inconclusive due to an instructional misinterpretation. In conclusion, the intervention was successful at improving knowledge while the effect on perceived self-efficacy is unknown. Recommendations include ways to promote greater participation and provide more clear instructions
2023 Integrative Studies Lecture: Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer
Get PDFPublic Talk: The Grammar of Animacy. Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2022 In addition to Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, which has earned her wide acclaim, her first book, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing, and her other work has appeared in Orion, Whole Terrain, and numerous scientific journals. She tours widely and has been featured on NPR’s On Being with Krista Tippett and in 2015 addressed the general assembly of the United Nations on the topic of “Healing Our Relationship with Nature.” Kimmerer lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, whose mission is to create programs which draw on the wisdom of both indigenous and scientific knowledge for our shared goals of sustainability.https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/inst_lectures/1000/thumbnail.jp
Lucinda L. Merriss Cornell
No full textDaguerreotype of Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornellhttps://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/cornell_images/1014/thumbnail.jp
Unidentified Trio
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Unknown Male
No full textDaguerreotype of an unknown male.https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/cornell_images/1010/thumbnail.jp
Herbert, Cornell, and Jon Bradrick (Side One)
No full textImage of brother Herbert, Cornell, and Jon Bradrick.https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/cornell_images/1033/thumbnail.jp
Abbie Geneva Cornell
No full textPhotograph of an older Abbie Geneva Cornell standing in front of a bush in black and white. The back is labeled Aunt Geneva .https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/cornell_images/1088/thumbnail.jp
Paris Royal Cornell, Child
No full textPhotograph in black and white of Paris Royal Cornell as a child. The photo is labeled Paris Royal Cornell and was taken by Wilson Studio in Chicago.https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/cornell_images/1095/thumbnail.jp
Otto B. Cornell
No full textBlack and white photograph of Otto B. Cornell in uniform standing slightly to the side of a tree.https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/cornell_images/1107/thumbnail.jp