Strategies for reducing interruptions and errors during medication administration

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Here’s how to access a collection of 19 articles on strategies for reducing interruptions and errors during medication administration that are dated within the last five years. Strategies include wearing vests/tabards with signage, educating nurses about safe medication administration and strategies for handling interruptions, creating a safe zone/no interruption zone, involving and educating patients, using signs, using safety pictograms, using a card instructing nurses how to respond to interruptions, integrating mindfulness exercises in medication administration, implementing and supporting nurses’ rights of medication administration, employing behavioral management strategies, and making sure all nurses on a unit do not administer meds at the same time.

a. Go to the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library homepage (http://health.library.emory.edu)
b. Click on PubMed.
c. Then paste the following links into your browser: https://tinyurl.com/y5dzngb3
d. The references will appear in PubMed. Click on a reference and you will see a Find it at Emory on the right side of the page which will provide links to full text within Emory University’s licensed resources. Emory Healthcare staff may send citations of needed articles they are unable to access to Ask a Librarian; a library staff person will request the article(s) from an outside library and email them to the EHC staff person upon arrival.

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Important message for Emory Decatur Nurses. The links will not work for you. To access these articles contact the Emory Decatur Library:

Emory Decatur Hospital
Jessica Callaway (Jessica.callaway@emoryhealthcare.org
404.501.1628

Reducing nursing turnover – systematic reviews & meta-analyses

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Here’s how to access a collection of 15 systematic reviews and meta-analyses on reducing nursing turnover and one systematic review on the anticipated turnover scale that can be used for planning purposes.

a. Go to the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library homepage (http://health.library.emory.edu)
b. Click on PubMed.
c. Then paste the following links into your browser: https://tinyurl.com/y38jyuza
d. The references will appear in PubMed. Click on a reference and you will see a Find it at Emory on the right side of the page which will provide links to full text within Emory University’s licensed resources. Emory Healthcare staff may send citations of needed articles they are unable to access to Ask a Librarian; a library staff person will request the article(s) from an outside library and email them to the EHC staff person upon arrival.

Important message for Emory Decatur Nurses. The links will not work for you. To access these articles contact the Emory Decatur Library:

Emory Decatur Hospital
Jessica Callaway (Jessica.callaway@emoryhealthcare.org
404.501.1628

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Bedside shift report and patient satisfaction

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Noteworthy articles:

Scheidenhelm S, Reitz OE. Hardwiring Bedside Shift Report. J Nurs Adm. 2017 Mar;47(3):147-153. doi: 10.1097/NNA.0000000000000457. PMID: 28157819

Ford Y, Heyman A. Patients’ Perceptions of Bedside Handoff: Further Evidence to Support a Culture of Always. J Nurs Care Qual. 2017 Jan/Mar;32(1):15-24. PMID: 27270846

Here’s how to view a collection of 23 articles that includes the aforementioned articles.
a. Go to the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library homepage (http://health.library.emory.edu)
b. Click on PubMed.
c. Then paste the following links into your browser:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/1HMKnKhQm_d5i/collections/58614678/public/
d. The references will appear in Pubmed. Click on a reference and you will see a Find it at Emory on the right side of the page which will tellavailability of full text within Emory University’s licensed resources. Emory Healthcare staff may send citations of needed articles they are unable to access to Ask a Librarian; a library staff person will request the article(s) from an outside library and email them to the EHC staff person upon arrival. 

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Mentoring the future generation of nurses

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Important message for Emory Decatur Nurses. The links will not work for you. To access these articles contact the Emory Decatur Library:

Emory Decatur Hospital
Jessica Callaway (Jessica.callaway@emoryhealthcare.org
404.501.1628

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Mentoring in Nursing: A Concept Analysis. (2019). International Journal of Caring Sciences., 12(1), 142.

The Nurse Leader’s Pivotal Role in Retaining Millennial Nurses. (2018). Journal of Nursing Administration., 48(12), 604.

Walking alongside: A qualitative study of the experiences and perceptions of academic nurse mentors supporting early career nurse academics. (2015). Contemporary Nurse : A Journal for the Australian Nursing Profession., 51(1), 69.

Hodges, A. (2018). Mentoring Novice Nursing Faculty; Sustaining the Next Generation. Tar Heel Nurse, 80(4), 12–17.

Non-adherence to immunosuppresant therapy in minority renal transplant patients.

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Ajay K. Israni, Francis L. Weng, Ye-Ying Cen, Marshall Joffe, Malek Kamoun, Harold I. Feldman Electronically-measured adherence to immunosuppressive medications and kidney function after deceased donor kidney transplantation Clin Transplant. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2013 Feb 7.

Coelho Gonçalves, P. R., Ferreira Reveles, A., Fernandes Martins, H. I., Rodrigues, I. L., & Miranda Rodrigues, S. M. (2016). Adherence to Immunosuppressive Therapy in Kidney Transplant Recipients: Integrative Literature Review. Revista de Enfermagem Referência, 4(8), 121–130

Francis L Weng, Sheenu Chandwani, Karen M Kurtyka, Christopher Zacker, Marie A Chisholm-Burns, Kitaw Demissie Prevalence and correlates of medication non-adherence among kidney transplant recipients more than 6 months post-transplant: a cross-sectional study BMC Nephrol. 2013; 14: 261.

Extending medicare immunosuppressive medication coverage. (2012). Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved., 23(1), 20.

Wilkins, L., Nyame, Y., Gan, V., Lin, S., Greene, D., Flechner, S., & Modlin, C. (2018). A Contemporary Analysis of Outcomes and Modifiable Risk Factors of Ethnic Disparities in Kidney Transplantation. Journal of the National Medical Association., Journal of the National Medical Association. , 2018.

Yadav, K., Vock, D., Matas, A., Robiner, W., & Nevins, T. (n.d.). Medication adherence is associated with an increased risk of cancer in kidney transplant recipients: A cohort study. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation., 34(2), 364-370.

De Castro Rodrigues Ferreira, F., Cristelli, M., Paula, M., Proença, H., Felipe, C., Tedesco-Silva, H., & Medina-Pestana, J. (n.d.). Infectious complications as the leading cause of death after kidney transplantation: Analysis of more than 10,000 transplants from a single center. J Nephrol, 30(4), 601-606.

Reese, P., Bloom, R., Trofe-Clark, J., Mussell, A., Leidy, D., Levsky, S., . . . Volpp, K. (n.d.). Automated Reminders and Physician Notification to Promote Immunosuppression Adherence Among Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Randomized Trial. American Journal of Kidney Diseases : AJKD : The Official Journal of the National Kidney Foundation., 69(3), 400-409.

Gaynor, J., Ciancio, G., Guerra, G., Sageshima, J., Hanson, L., Roth, D., . . . Burke, G. (n.d.). Graft failure due to noncompliance among 628 kidney transplant recipients with long-term follow-up: A single-center observational study. Transplantation., 97(9), 925-933.

Malat, G., Culkin, C., Palya, A., Ranganna, K., & Kumar, M. (2009). African American kidney transplantation survival: The ability of immunosuppression to balance the inherent pre- and post-transplant risk factors. Drugs., 69(15), 2045-2062.

Brown, K., El-Amm, J., Doshi, M., Singh, A., Cincotta, E., Morawski, K., . . . Gruber, S. (n.d.). Outcome predictors in African-American deceased-donor renal allograft recipients. Clinical Transplantation., 23(4), 454-461.

Continuous vs. intermittent tracheal suctioning

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Seguin, P., Perrichet, H., Pabic, E. L., Launey, Y., Tiercin, M., Corre, R., … Laviolle, B. (2018). Effect of Continuous versus Intermittent Subglottic Suctioning on Tracheal Mucosa by the Mallinckrodt TaperGuard Evac Oral Tracheal Tube in Intensive Care Unit Ventilated Patients: A Prospective Randomized Study. Indian journal of critical care medicine : peer-reviewed, official publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine, 22(1), 1–4.

Rouzé, A., Martin-Loeches, I., & Nseir, S. (2018). Airway Devices in Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Pathogenesis and Prevention. Clinics in Chest Medicine., 39(4), 775-783.

Chan, M., Chow, B. K., Lo, T., Ko, F. W., Ng, S. S., Gin, T., & Hui, D. S. (2018). Exhaled air dispersion during bag-mask ventilation and sputum suctioning – Implications for infection control. Scientific reports, 8(1), 198.

Rozycki, S., Dixon, F., Yopp, M., Maxvold, N., & Rubin, B. (n.d.). Endotracheal Tube Seal and Suction Performance in a Novel Biorealistic Tracheal Model. Respiratory Care : The Official Journal of the American Association for Respiratory Therapy., 60(8), 1113-1119.

Suys, E., Nieboer, K., Stiers, W., De Regt, J., Huyghens, L., & Spapen, H. (2013). Intermittent subglottic secretion drainage may cause tracheal damage in patients with few oropharyngeal secretions. Intensive and Critical Care Nursing., 29(6), 317-320.

Pressure changes during tracheal suctioning – a laboratory study. (2013). Anaesthesia., 68(6), 576.

AIDET: Acknowledge, Introduce, Describe, Explain, & Thank the patient.

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Using the Evidence-Based Practice Service Nursing Bundle to Increase Patient Satisfaction. (n.d.). Journal of Emergency Nursing : JEN., 44(1), 37.

Patient Care in Decline: AIDET As a Tool for Improvement. (n.d.). Radiologic Technology, 89(4), 419.

AIDET Keeps Patients Well-Informed in Registration. (n.d.). Hospital Access Management., 35(10), 112.

Utilizing AIDET and other tools to increase patient satisfaction scores. (n.d.). Radiology Management, 34(3), 29.
Patient access is first to implement AIDET. (n.d.). Hospital Access Management., 32(12), 141.