Military medicine
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Advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) such as clinical nurse specialists and nurse practitioners excel at chronic disease management. Development of an APRN-led heart failure (HF) clinic is an ideal way to manage complex HF patients. However, there are important factors to consider when implementing an APRN-led HF clinic. ⋯ The increasing need for primary care and internal medicine providers supports using APRNs to fill the gap and provide disease management for HF patients. Also, APRNs can impact the overall costs of HF treatment by optimizing postdischarge care and preventing hospitalizations and readmissions. Multiple studies supported implementation of APRN-led HF clinics for disease management to provide complex treatment strategies and comprehensive care to these patients.
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Addressing Burnout in the Primary Care Setting: The Impact of an Evidence-Based Mindfulness Toolkit.
Burnout is insidious and manifests over prolonged, repeated exposure to occupational stressors. There is a growing crisis among health care workers (HCWs) due to high levels of burnout and associated adverse outcomes. Identifying and addressing burnout can be problematic due to extensive variances of perceived occupational stressors across HCWs. ⋯ Multimodal mindfulness toolkits to address SRSL burnout are practical, accessible, easily implemented, adaptive to any environment, and can decrease burnout with participation with just one 15 minute session. This MBSR TK implementation effectively lowered self-reported stress in HCWs who are repeatedly challenged to adapt to various settings around the world during peacetime, wars, natural disasters, humanitarian crises, and now, pandemics.
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To reach the highest levels of health care quality, all nurses providing intraoperative care to surgical patients should have a firm grasp of the complex knowledge, skills, and guidelines undergirding the perioperative nursing profession. In military treatment facilities, either perioperative registered nurses or labor and delivery (L&D) nurses provide skilled intraoperative nursing care for cesarean deliveries. However, L&D and perioperative nurses occupy vastly different roles in the continuum of care and may possess widely differing levels of surgical training and experience. ⋯ We recommend that health care leaders develop policies to standardize perioperative education, training, and utilization for nurses providing intraoperative care to reduce clinician role ambiguity, decrease inefficiencies, and enhance care.
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Increasing demands to generate, translate, and implement evidence into practice in manpower and budget-constrained environments triggered innovative support for the nursing scientific community. The Clinical Inquiry in Nursing Readiness (CINR) fellowship is a solution to integrate readiness into clinical inquiry priorities and develop future experts in the field. ⋯ Establishing a fellowship program to develop a pipeline of readiness-focused nurse scientists and evidence-based practice experts builds future capacity for the enterprise while professionally developing individual nurses for advanced degrees and clinical inquiry leadership roles. Individuals and organizations aspiring to promote a culture of nursing inquiry may benefit from fellowships such as the CINR program.