- Nursing education and management
- Ethics in medical practice
- Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
- Patient Safety and Medication Errors
- Simulation-Based Education in Healthcare
- Occupational Health and Safety Research
- Cultural Competency in Health Care
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Healthcare Education and Workforce Issues
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Nursing Education, Practice, and Leadership
- Workplace Health and Well-being
- Education and Critical Thinking Development
- Nursing Roles and Practices
- Innovations in Medical Education
- Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Innovative Teaching Methods
- Health and Well-being Studies
Texas Christian University
2015-2025
Walker (United States)
2019-2023
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
2019-2023
Access to Wholistic and Productive Living Institute
2023
Purdue University Northwest
2018-2023
Baker College
2023
Indiana State University
2023
Dartmouth College
2021
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
2021
College of New Jersey
2018-2021
The promotion of self-care and the prevention burnout among nurses is a public health priority. Evidence supports efficacy yoga to improve physical mental outcomes, but few studies have examined influence on nurse-specific outcomes. purpose this pilot-level randomized controlled trial was examine reduce nurses. Compared with controls ( n = 20), participants 20) reported significantly higher as well less emotional exhaustion depersonalization upon completion an 8-week intervention. Although...
Background: Transition to practice from a nursing student registered nurse comes with challenges. Just culture is taught in education, yet not easily translated into practice. Purpose: The purpose of this study was the understand NGN’s perception just transition Methods: A secondary data analysis conducted mixed-methods longitudinal study. perceptions were assessed at 2 time points, while school and 6 months after graduation. Results: Data converged around beliefs willingness report safety...
Background For more than 15 years, undergraduate prelicensure students have designed, implemented, and evaluated an annual mass immunization clinic for the campus community. This exercise provides with activities that promote public health leadership management skills. In fall of 2020 during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, community still anticipated to continue. Method The was modified meet all COVID-19 best practices recommendations. moved outdoors accommodate participants...
The clinical setting creates significant anxiety for students that can decrease their ability to learn.This quasi-experimental study examined whether nursing who participate in peer mentoring during first experience (n = 18) experienced less than those traditional experiences 19). Anxiety was measured using the standardized State Trait Index and Clinical Experiences Form (CEAF). Data were analyzed descriptive nonparametric statistics.A demonstrated situation-specific anxiety, as by CEAF,...
Patient safety efforts in practice have focused on creating a just culture where errors can be identified and reported, system remedies created to prevent reoccurrence. The same is not true of nursing education student experiences with error the sequelae that follow focus individual performance.The purpose this study was adapt Just Culture Assessment Tool (JCAT) used settings into valid reliable instrument evaluate academic settings.A 27-item adapted for academia. Content validity...
The study purpose was to describe students' perceptions of feedback after participating in a teaching strategy designed foster view as an opportunity for improvement.Although delivering and receiving constructive are essential the role professional nurse, has been identified trigger incivility academia practice.Twelve nurse educators from Quality Safety Education Nurses Academic Task Force, located at nine schools nursing across nation, implemented presentation about giving junior senior...
School leaders can ally with other educational stakeholders to encourage undocumented student persistence in Pk-12 schools. We explore (1) how school create systems of support for and newly arrived immigrant students, (2) interpret implement policies or structures that affect access. Border crossing theory guides our examination traverse transgress borders impede students' education. This embedded case study included interviews nine administrators working on the US-México border. The finds...
Background While just culture is embraced in the clinical setting, has not been systematically incorporated into nursing education. Purpose The purpose of this study was to assess prelicensure student perceptions academia. Methods Following a quantitative, descriptive design, Just Culture Assessment Tool for Nursing Education (JCAT-NE) used measure across multiple (N = 15) programs. Results majority JCAT-NE respondents (78%) reported their program safety reporting system, 15.4% had...
Background: Quality improvement (QI) is an essential part of nursing education. Although there are robust examples teaching strategies for QI, a distinct lack research on effective QI in Method: This multisite study included students from six programs. A treatment fidelity plan was developed and followed to ensure consistency implementation the data collection. quasiexperimental, nonpaired, pre- posttest design used examine changes student perspectives after participating strategy. Pre-...
The treatment of mental illness is often done on a trial-and-error basis and achieving therapeutic benefits from medication not always guaranteed. Pharmacogenomics explores the role gene-gene interactions interindividual responses to drug may be promising in guidance pharmacotherapeutic options. In present study, impact pharmacogenomic testing management health was investigated. Participants were identified at local outpatient facility through convenience sampling. Retrospective chart review...
Just culture has been identified as a vital component of safety by national and international organisations. In just culture, emphasis is not placed on blaming individuals for errors but rather examining personal system processes that can best support prevent reoccurrence. Although those in the practice arena have worked to implement concepts same true nursing education, leaving students lacking pre-requisite knowledge, skills attitudes graduation.Assessment this phenomena essential first...
Although just culture is reportedly integrated across education and practice, little known about how perceptions may change time as students transition from prelicensure to registered nurse in the practice setting.The purpose of this study was describe compare nurses at 2 points: (1) (2) new graduate with a minimum 6 months experience.Utilizing Just Culture Assessment Tool for Nursing Education (JCAT-NE) (JCAT), within-subject, longitudinal measured time.Although there no statistically...
Abstract Employer-based wellness interventions for health care providers are popular within acute settings. A new intervention is a resilience room or serenity room, specialized breakroom designed to promote relaxation. This article describes the implementation of in an undergraduate, prelicensure nursing program.
By Danielle Walker PhD, RN, CNE, Professor, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, [email protected].
The aim of this study was to explore facilitators and barriers conducting a multisite national in nursing academia unsupported by grant funding.Scholarship focused on the Quality Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) competencies stimulates opportunities research collaboration among nurse educators clinicians. Twelve members QSEN Academic Task Force collaborated effectiveness teaching strategy published findings.A descriptive phenomenological reflective approach using Kim's critical inquiry...
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement, leaders in field interprofessional (IP) education have encouraged faculty to explore online adaptations curriculum examine strategies that enhance students’ structural competence. Structural competence is broadly defined as ability understand how oppression, governmental policies, environmental inputs impact health well-being an individual. With these changes mind, team IP science developed two curricular activities guided...