Inpatient Observation Safety Assistant Practices

Abstract Introduction. Sitter usage is a patient safety practice used across healthcare organizations and the world. Sitters go by many other names, such as patient safety assistants, patient care assistants, care partners, and observation partners. There is literature that supports different variations of practices in healthcare facilities. A scoping review of the literature revealed multiple initiatives to reduce sitter cost and observation through nurse empowerment. Purpose of Root Cause Analysis. The purpose of this root cause analysis is to determine why personnel inconsistently use the sitter policy. The appraised data will be used to improve the sitter process at this agency. Conceptual Model or Theory. Joanne Duffy\u27s Quality Caring Model guides this root cause analysis and professional practices. This theory will simultaneously recommend nursing interventions and better understand the patient sitter process through collaboration and interactive relationships. Methods. Email sent to registered nurses with QR code link to participate in an online survey questionnaire with a maximum of 21 Likert-scale and open-ended questions related to the agency sitter policy/ algorithm process. Results. The analyzed results from Qualtrics showed 45.7% of the staff feel that the sitter policy is hard to locate. Also, 87% of the staff recommended it would be easier to find if built into Epic. Conclusion. The Sitter Policy/ algorithm is hard to locate. Future work will involve placing the sitter policy/ algorithm on all computer desktops and providing education related to more accessible access to the policy

The Persuasive Effects of Entertainment-Education Programming in Nonfictional Television and Its Impact on the Efficacy of Breast Cancer Screening Messages

This study has taken a preliminary step toward determining whether education-entertainment messages have the same persuasive effects in a nonfictional talk show format as they traditionally do in a fictional narrative format. To test the various hypotheses which propose that persuasive effects of entertainment-education can occur in a non-fictional format, data was collected from 82 female students across two large lecture classes. Results of two independent samples t-tests did not support hypothesis one and two, as participants\u27 self-efficacy and attitudes toward breast cancer screening were not significantly different as a result of which media clip was viewed. Hypothesis three and four however, were supported in that those who viewed the narrative news story did experience greater feelings of transportation and narrative engagement than those who viewed the PSA. Three post hoc analyses were conducted in order to see if participants behavior in seeking more information concerning getting a mammogram was related to which video they were exposed to, their level of engagement, or their level of transportation. Results of the first Chi-Square analysis failed to provide evidence of any association between the video a participant was exposed to and if they followed the hyperlink. The last two analyses did reveal that even though there was no difference in clicking the link based on which video was viewed, there was a difference in clicking the link based on participants\u27 levels of narrative engagement and transportation. This leads to the possibility that the relationship between the videos and clicking behavior could be mediated by engagement and/or transportation. Findings and implications are discussed

Coach Effectiveness and Personality Assessments: An Exploratory Analysis of Thin Slice Interpersonal Perceptions

This research examined accuracy, consensus, and self-other agreement of personality assessments and coaching effectiveness based on thin-slice judgments of 30-second video clips of 9 recreation level coaches. Two hundred and six naive raters viewed the clips and rated the targets on coaching effectiveness and personality attributes. Ratings of coaching effectiveness were correlated with expert ratings of effectiveness to measure accuracy. The ratings of attributes were correlated with expert ratings of the same attributes to measure consensus. Gender, race, and level of sport participation of naive raters was subjected to independent sample t-tests and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) to determine if they moderated thin-slice judgments. Results indicated that naive raters as a group were not accurate in assessment of coaching effectiveness, nor were there significant correlations on consensus or self-other agreement. There were significant differences between levels of sport participation groups on two of the fourteen attributes: competence and confidence

Instituting Universal Secondary Education: Caribbean Students' Perceptions of their Schooling Experiences

As Caribbean governments continue to invest heavily in education as a major strategy for national and economic development, the question of student achievement and the need for increasing the effectiveness of schools in producing maximum student learning remains a dominant feature on the regional educational agenda, especially given recent education reforms which have mandated secondary educational provisions for every student in most Caribbean territories. However, despite this no Caribbean study thus far has examined Universal Secondary Education (USE) from the perspective of the students in the Caribbean who have now been afforded access to secondary education. This study takes an in-depth look at students’ experiences at eight secondary classrooms in the tri-island state of Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique with the inception of Universal Secondary Education (USE). The study sought to examine the experiences of students in the lower performing secondary schools most affected by USE. Data were collected through a mixed method approach which included a survey of fifty (50) students and one (1) student focus group from each of the eight targeted schools. Student responses were grouped according to the following categories derived from data coding and analysis: classroom relationships, classroom teaching and learning, school curriculum, and school infrastructure. The findings present students’ explanations for the causes of poor student-teacher relationships, and inadequacies in teaching and learning, curriculum organization and physical infrastructure at the secondary level. This study therefore adds students’ voices to the persevering debate on educational improvement in the Caribbean in the 21st century of universal access to education. Keywords: universal secondary education, secondary schooling, caribbean education, access to education, student voice, schooling experience, student-teacher relationship, teaching and learnin