| Friday, July 15, 2005: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM | |||
| Nursing Scholarship at the Bedside: Focus on Patient Education as a Path to Renewal | |||
| Learning Objective #1: Discuss research findings that identify primary issues to be addressed in educating patients for self-care and discharge from the acute care setting | |||
| Learning Objective #2: Discuss challenges, benefits, and strategies for building a research program among direct care nurses in today's acute care setting | |||
| High patient acuity, shorter lengths of stay, shortage of staff, inexperience of nurses, and shrinking resources combine to create an environment in which today's bedside nurses often find themselves functioning in "survival mode". Any notion of "nursing scholarship" seems far removed from a reality in which bedside nurses struggle to meet the demands of patient care. This symposium will describe the ongoing journey from 'surviving this shift' toward scholarly practice undertaken by nursing staff in one teaching medical center. Session 1 will describe the setting within which nurses identified the need to better prepare patients for discharge and will present the study conducted to address that need. Session 2 will provide an overview of current literature on health literacy and the process undertaken by staff nurses to generate evidence to better inform their practice. The final 3 sessions will describe three health literacy studies completed and underway, each building upon the other either by replication or expansion. Taken together these sessions present what is arguably a program of research, but at the level of an expanding group of nurses across the hospital rather than at the level of an individual nurse researcher. The symposium will conclude with discussion among participants and speakers regarding how strategies used in one institution might be refined for use in others. | |||
| Organizer: | Priscilla Sandford Worral, PhD, RN | ||
| Patients' Perceptions About Discharge Medication Education: When is the "Best Time"? Priscilla Sandford Worral, PhD, RN | |||
| Patient Health Literacy: Program of Research at the Staff Nurse Level Sharon Kitchie, PhD, APRN, BC | |||
| Establishing a Baseline Literacy Level in Adult Psychiatric Patients Karen S. Hirschman, BS, RNC | |||
| Estimate of the Literacy Level in Oncology Patients During Acute Hospitalization Kristin Schuster, BS, RN, OCN | |||
| Expansion of Study Focus to Include Comprehension of Parents of Hospitalized Children Sharon Kitchie, PhD, APRN, BC | |||