JONA Highlights: Improving Patients’ Hospital Experience:

“The creation of the new supportive nonclinical role shows promise in improving patient experiences. The pandemic resulted in lower scores in patient experience across many care settings. This pilot study provides promising information that should be further explored regarding the impact of the Experience Coordinator and the benefit of this role from the
perspective of the nurse.”

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Hourly rounding/hourly physiologic monitoring by nurses

This collection contains 51 articles on hourly rounding/hourly physiologic monitoring of acute care patients by nurses. It does not include articles that were specific to inpatient rehab, inpatient psychiatric patients, and epilepsy monitoring units. Many of the articles are meta-analyses or systematic reviews.

Here is one search technique that was used to find articles in PubMed: (“rounds hourly” OR “round hourly” OR “rounded hourly” OR “rounding hourly” OR “hourly rounding” OR “hourly rounds” OR “hourly physiologic” OR “physiologic monitoring hourly” OR ((“monitor hourly” OR “monitors hourly”) AND (“vital signs” OR physiologic))) AND (nurse OR nurses OR nursing)

To access the collection and to read abstracts and access full text (where available) using the Find it @ Emory button, please first open Emory’s instance of PubMed. Once you have accessed PubMed, copy/paste the following url into the same browser window: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/1HMKnKhQm_d5i/collections/55355546/public/
If are an Emory Healthcare employee and do not have access to an article you need, send the citation(s) to Ask a Librarian.

Support groups for heart failure inpatients

Go to the HSCL webpage: http://health.library.emory.edu/
Click on PubMed.
Copy this link into your browser and hit enter to see a collection of 5 useful articles: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/1HMKnKhQm_d5i/collections/51442710/public
The list of references will appear in PubMed.
By using these instructions, you will be able to click on a reference and see the Find it at Emory button which will lead to full text if available; a login will be required. If online full text is not available and you are an Emory Healthcare employee, send citation(s) to Ask a Librarian for staff to get the article for you.

Here is the search technique: support groups AND heart failure. One citation was kept because the article cites a dissertation that may be useful.

Healthcare providers’ satisfaction with patient education

To view articles on reminder systems, go to the HSCL webpage: http://health.library.emory.edu
Click on PubMed.
Copy this link into your browser and hit enter:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/1HMKnKhQm_d5i/collections/50843675/public/
The list of references will appear in PubMed.
By using these instructions, you will be able to click on a reference and see the Find it at Emory button which will lead to full text if available.

Search technique
job satisfaction AND (patient education OR health literacy)

Fair and just culture in healthcare

Effect of orientation on job satisfaction in nurses

To open the collection of 6 articles, go to the HSCL webpage: http://health.library.emory.edu/
Click on PubMed.
Copy this link into your browser and hit enter: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/1HMKnKhQm_d5i/collections/50650916/public/
The list of references will appear in PubMed. By using these instructions, you will be able to click on a reference and see the Find it at Emory button which will lead to full text if available.

Search technique: (orientation OR orientations) AND “job satisfaction”[Mesh] AND (nurses OR nurse OR hospital nursing staff)

Admissions nurses

Here are articles on admissions nurses/admission, discharge, and transfer (ADT) nurses.
Here is the search technique that was used in PubMed to find articles ([tiab] finds search terms in the title or abstract and was needed in the search to significantly decrease the number of results; the same search without the [tiab] command in Scopus, Web of Science, Embase, and CINAHL):
“admission nurse”[tiab] OR “admissions nurse”[tiab] OR “admission nurses”[tiab] OR “admissions nurses”[tiab] OR “adt rn”[tiab] OR “adt nurse”[tiab] OR “adt nurses”[tiab] OR ((“admission discharge”[tiab] OR “admissions discharges”[tiab]) AND (nurse[tiab] OR nurses[tiab] OR nursing[tiab]))