Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.6224/JN.202206_69(3).02
Chi‐Chen Chiang, H. Hung
The need for health literacy in the context of older adult healthcare has increased significantly with population aging. Employing innovative models of social service delivery will be necessary to effectively integrate academic, medical, and community resources to address diverse healthcare needs. The project of university social responsibility supported by Fooyin University is a comprehensive program that employs a time bank model and cultivates community. The Fooyin Time Bank leverages reciprocity to cultivate sustainable manpower to satisfy community needs. The five strategies of the Fooyin Time Bank include: 1) strengthen the awareness of the time bank in community volunteers, 2) cultivate seed members to initiate the time bank, 3) adapt the mutual help model to meet local individual needs, 4) promote the online platform system of the time banking infrastructure and diversities of resource exchange, and 5) emphasize the key role of community and supplementary role of university to enhance sustainability. The Fooyin Time Bank coordinates with government agencies, private companies, and academic institutions to bolster the sustainability of its networks. In addition, faculties and students participate in the community to create a social climate of mutual help, inter-generational aged care, and social welfare.
{"title":"[Community Innovation and Regional Sustainability: The Practice of Time Banking at Fooyin University].","authors":"Chi‐Chen Chiang, H. Hung","doi":"10.6224/JN.202206_69(3).02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6224/JN.202206_69(3).02","url":null,"abstract":"The need for health literacy in the context of older adult healthcare has increased significantly with population aging. Employing innovative models of social service delivery will be necessary to effectively integrate academic, medical, and community resources to address diverse healthcare needs. The project of university social responsibility supported by Fooyin University is a comprehensive program that employs a time bank model and cultivates community. The Fooyin Time Bank leverages reciprocity to cultivate sustainable manpower to satisfy community needs. The five strategies of the Fooyin Time Bank include: 1) strengthen the awareness of the time bank in community volunteers, 2) cultivate seed members to initiate the time bank, 3) adapt the mutual help model to meet local individual needs, 4) promote the online platform system of the time banking infrastructure and diversities of resource exchange, and 5) emphasize the key role of community and supplementary role of university to enhance sustainability. The Fooyin Time Bank coordinates with government agencies, private companies, and academic institutions to bolster the sustainability of its networks. In addition, faculties and students participate in the community to create a social climate of mutual help, inter-generational aged care, and social welfare.","PeriodicalId":35672,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nursing","volume":"69 3 1","pages":"7-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45536937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.6224/JN.202206_69(3).09
Li-Hua Tang, Yih-Hwen Huang, Chien-Jung Chen, R. Yen, Min-Hsuan Tsai, C. Chen
BACKGROUND Myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) is the method most commonly used to assess patients with suspected coronary artery disease for the presence of myocardial ischemia and risk of subsequent adverse cardiac events. Studies are limited on the incidence of major adverse cardiac event (MACE) in patients with normal MPI results. PURPOSE The aim of this study was to investigate the incidence and risk factors of MACE in patients with normal or near-normal MPI results. METHODS In this single-center retrospective chart review study, patients who had received MPI tests at a nuclear medicine department of a medical center in 2017 were consecutively enrolled. All of the participants in this study were patients with normal or near-normal MPI results, and were followed for two years to assess the incidence of MACE (death, hospitalized for percutaneous coronary intervention; CABG, heart failure and stroke). Participants with or without MACE were compared to determine whether demographic, comorbidity, and MPI data were significant risk factors. RESULTS Of the 1,629 participants (age = 70.4 ± 11.3 years, 49.4% male) enrolled, 387 (23.8%) were classified into the normal MPI group and 1,242 (76.2%) were classified into the near-normal MPI group. Notably, 61 participants (15.8%) in the normal MPI group and 206 (16.6%) in the near-normal MPI group experienced MACE events during the two-year follow-up. The risk factors of MACE identified in this study included being older in age, being male, and having poor myocardial perfusion parameters (i.e., ejection fraction) during MPI. CONCLUSIONS / IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE Over the two-year study period, 15.8% of the participants with normal MPI results and 16.6% of those with near-normal MPI results experienced major adverse cardiac events. Thus, it is critical to inform patients regarding the potential risk of MACE risk and to educate them on how to mitigate this risk by actively managing their hyperlipidemia level and left ventricular ejection fraction.
{"title":"[Normal and Near Normal Myocardial Perfusion Imaging Data Analysis: Two-Year Major Adverse Cardiac Event].","authors":"Li-Hua Tang, Yih-Hwen Huang, Chien-Jung Chen, R. Yen, Min-Hsuan Tsai, C. Chen","doi":"10.6224/JN.202206_69(3).09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6224/JN.202206_69(3).09","url":null,"abstract":"BACKGROUND\u0000Myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) is the method most commonly used to assess patients with suspected coronary artery disease for the presence of myocardial ischemia and risk of subsequent adverse cardiac events. Studies are limited on the incidence of major adverse cardiac event (MACE) in patients with normal MPI results.\u0000\u0000\u0000PURPOSE\u0000The aim of this study was to investigate the incidence and risk factors of MACE in patients with normal or near-normal MPI results.\u0000\u0000\u0000METHODS\u0000In this single-center retrospective chart review study, patients who had received MPI tests at a nuclear medicine department of a medical center in 2017 were consecutively enrolled. All of the participants in this study were patients with normal or near-normal MPI results, and were followed for two years to assess the incidence of MACE (death, hospitalized for percutaneous coronary intervention; CABG, heart failure and stroke). Participants with or without MACE were compared to determine whether demographic, comorbidity, and MPI data were significant risk factors.\u0000\u0000\u0000RESULTS\u0000Of the 1,629 participants (age = 70.4 ± 11.3 years, 49.4% male) enrolled, 387 (23.8%) were classified into the normal MPI group and 1,242 (76.2%) were classified into the near-normal MPI group. Notably, 61 participants (15.8%) in the normal MPI group and 206 (16.6%) in the near-normal MPI group experienced MACE events during the two-year follow-up. The risk factors of MACE identified in this study included being older in age, being male, and having poor myocardial perfusion parameters (i.e., ejection fraction) during MPI.\u0000\u0000\u0000CONCLUSIONS / IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE\u0000Over the two-year study period, 15.8% of the participants with normal MPI results and 16.6% of those with near-normal MPI results experienced major adverse cardiac events. Thus, it is critical to inform patients regarding the potential risk of MACE risk and to educate them on how to mitigate this risk by actively managing their hyperlipidemia level and left ventricular ejection fraction.","PeriodicalId":35672,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nursing","volume":"69 3 1","pages":"58-67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48721833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.6224/JN.202206_69(3).05
Yudan Chen
The Ministry of Education launched the University Social Responsibility (USR) Program in 2018. Since then, universities have actively promoted inter-disciplinary cooperation and implemented high-end knowledge to meet community needs. Universities are using social responsibility to enhance the level of social participation engaged in by their students to achieve the sustainable development goals set by the United Nations. The aim of this paper was to share the experience of the Taipei Medical University (TMU) system in practicing social responsibility by integrating TMU resources with those of TMU-affiliated hospitals. The USR program at Taipei Medical University promotes the reform of school governance through encouraging university faculties to collaborate with hospital physicians to develop a specific curriculum that implements an innovative social-prescribing model. This curriculum is designed to provide opportunities for students to step out the classroom and into the community. Through clinical observations, home visits, and community service, students gain a deep understanding of community health issues from residents in the surrounding neighborhoods. Medical humanities education is achieved through students' involvement in both patient individual care and community health issues. In addition, faculties guide students in reflective learning from holistic healthcare perspectives. Students are encouraged to use evidence-based methods to develop innovative models of care in the community. Medical staff participation in this program helps ensure that social prescribing to community residents accurately reflects professional assessments. These prescriptions refer patients to local health promotion units involved in community collaboration. The medical university students build a bridge between the medical system and the community to implement the goals of health education. The impact of social prescribing on the social determinants of health is known to be significantly greater than that of medicine prescriptions. The expected outcomes of this project are to reduce the health inequalities experienced by vulnerable groups in the community and to share Taiwan's experiences with the academic community worldwide.
{"title":"[Using Social Prescribing to Practice Social Responsibility: A Case Study in the Taipei Medical University System].","authors":"Yudan Chen","doi":"10.6224/JN.202206_69(3).05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6224/JN.202206_69(3).05","url":null,"abstract":"The Ministry of Education launched the University Social Responsibility (USR) Program in 2018. Since then, universities have actively promoted inter-disciplinary cooperation and implemented high-end knowledge to meet community needs. Universities are using social responsibility to enhance the level of social participation engaged in by their students to achieve the sustainable development goals set by the United Nations. The aim of this paper was to share the experience of the Taipei Medical University (TMU) system in practicing social responsibility by integrating TMU resources with those of TMU-affiliated hospitals. The USR program at Taipei Medical University promotes the reform of school governance through encouraging university faculties to collaborate with hospital physicians to develop a specific curriculum that implements an innovative social-prescribing model. This curriculum is designed to provide opportunities for students to step out the classroom and into the community. Through clinical observations, home visits, and community service, students gain a deep understanding of community health issues from residents in the surrounding neighborhoods. Medical humanities education is achieved through students' involvement in both patient individual care and community health issues. In addition, faculties guide students in reflective learning from holistic healthcare perspectives. Students are encouraged to use evidence-based methods to develop innovative models of care in the community. Medical staff participation in this program helps ensure that social prescribing to community residents accurately reflects professional assessments. These prescriptions refer patients to local health promotion units involved in community collaboration. The medical university students build a bridge between the medical system and the community to implement the goals of health education. The impact of social prescribing on the social determinants of health is known to be significantly greater than that of medicine prescriptions. The expected outcomes of this project are to reduce the health inequalities experienced by vulnerable groups in the community and to share Taiwan's experiences with the academic community worldwide.","PeriodicalId":35672,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nursing","volume":"69 3 1","pages":"25-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42425688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.6224/JN.202206_69(3).06
Jui-Fen Tai, Chi Wang, Li-Ying Lin, P. Tang
BACKGROUND A valid and reliable nursing record audit tool can simplify nursing records and provide a basis for quality auditing. PURPOSE To ensure the validity and reliability of the Nursing Process Scale to promote accurate monitoring of nursing record quality. METHODS This study employed structural equation modeling to examine the content validity and reliability of the current Nursing Process Scale. A total of 660 results from a medical center were used to revise the content and then the validity and reliability of the revised scale were analyzed. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were used in three stages, namely item generation and content validity testing, item analysis and validity testing, and reliability testing. RESULTS Validity, reliability, and organization based on clinical practice were used to identify and remove scale items with low factor loadings. The remaining items were organized under several factors in the revised Nursing Process Scale, which had good internal consistency with a Cronbach's α of .653 in the EFA, a Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin value of .614, and a significant Bartlett's test of sphericity value. Five factors and 22 questions were extracted from the original 32 questions. The CFA conducted after the model correction reduced the number of questions to 10 and the number of factors to 3, with each index reaching the ideal level. To improve ease-of-use in clinical settings, the important items were reduced from 32 to 22 questions, including the 10 questions suggested by the CFA. CONCLUSIONS The validity, reliability, and organization based on clinical practice were considered in the removal of items with low factor loadings. Axial conversion was used to generate a component matrix, which allowed item rearrangement across factors and the revision of the Nursing Process Scale. The development of simple valid and reliable audit tools will save auditor time and allow the effective evaluation of nursing record quality and improvement in record integrity. This revised scale was reviewed and approved for implementation in 42 clinical wards.
{"title":"[Validity and Reliability of a Nursing Process Scale].","authors":"Jui-Fen Tai, Chi Wang, Li-Ying Lin, P. Tang","doi":"10.6224/JN.202206_69(3).06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6224/JN.202206_69(3).06","url":null,"abstract":"BACKGROUND\u0000A valid and reliable nursing record audit tool can simplify nursing records and provide a basis for quality auditing.\u0000\u0000\u0000PURPOSE\u0000To ensure the validity and reliability of the Nursing Process Scale to promote accurate monitoring of nursing record quality.\u0000\u0000\u0000METHODS\u0000This study employed structural equation modeling to examine the content validity and reliability of the current Nursing Process Scale. A total of 660 results from a medical center were used to revise the content and then the validity and reliability of the revised scale were analyzed. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were used in three stages, namely item generation and content validity testing, item analysis and validity testing, and reliability testing.\u0000\u0000\u0000RESULTS\u0000Validity, reliability, and organization based on clinical practice were used to identify and remove scale items with low factor loadings. The remaining items were organized under several factors in the revised Nursing Process Scale, which had good internal consistency with a Cronbach's α of .653 in the EFA, a Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin value of .614, and a significant Bartlett's test of sphericity value. Five factors and 22 questions were extracted from the original 32 questions. The CFA conducted after the model correction reduced the number of questions to 10 and the number of factors to 3, with each index reaching the ideal level. To improve ease-of-use in clinical settings, the important items were reduced from 32 to 22 questions, including the 10 questions suggested by the CFA.\u0000\u0000\u0000CONCLUSIONS\u0000The validity, reliability, and organization based on clinical practice were considered in the removal of items with low factor loadings. Axial conversion was used to generate a component matrix, which allowed item rearrangement across factors and the revision of the Nursing Process Scale. The development of simple valid and reliable audit tools will save auditor time and allow the effective evaluation of nursing record quality and improvement in record integrity. This revised scale was reviewed and approved for implementation in 42 clinical wards.","PeriodicalId":35672,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nursing","volume":"69 3 1","pages":"31-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43374353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.6224/JN.202206_69(3).01
Chih-Ling Huang
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has received increasing attention in recent decades. The concept of social responsibility is being applied in universities. Because universities have goals that differ significantly from corporations, the notion of university social responsibility (USR) has emerged in the academic field. The Ministry of Education in Taiwan has regularly implemented USR practice plans since 2018 (Executive Yuan, Taiwan, ROC, 2019). The core values of these plans are "local coalition" and "talent cultivation". Moreover, these plans encourage universities to use the power of professional knowledge and creation to minimize the gap between learning and application for students and to integrate local resources and hands-on strategies to better collaborate with universities around the world and expand participation in international academic activities. Sustainable development (SD) is a core objective of both CSR and USR. The United Nations has advocated for sustainable development since 1987 and formalized the five-component paradigm (people, partnership, peace, planet, and prosperity, 5Ps) in 2015. UN Agenda 2030 addresses 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs), 169 targets, and 3,155 actions, encouraging all national governments to establish national SD action plans (United Nations, 2015). Based on the review of the literature and conceptual frameworks related to USR and SD (Bokhari, 2017), we integrate practice experiences and propose three suggestions for universities: 1) diversities universities could create a campus-wide climate of and comprehensive practice for social responsibility using their professional knowledge; 2) the social, economy, and environment are included in universities SD. The curriculum development of universities links to social practice activities to achieve the goals of talent cultivation to meet social needs; 3) The university projects include specific actions and timeline. The impacts and achievements of USR and SD may be appraised by internal and external experts. Fooyin University is a school of science and technology related to "Big Health". Based on the above theoretical frameworks, the outcome evaluation model of the Center for USR, the Ministry of Education, and the UN's SDGs, we implemented the "Time Wheel Sustainable Model of Social Responsibility at Fooyin University" (Figure 1) and began cooperating with private and government organizations. The model is an intervention and evaluation guideline for the time-dynamic wheel, with the target goal of cultivating health promotion and sustainable development talent. The outcomes and impacts of the model comprise four domains and sixteen indicators. Stakeholders of this model are students/alumni, teaching faculties and administration staff, communities, and the public. USR curriculum designs involve the School of Nursing, School of Medical and Health Sciences, School of Environment and Life Sciences, and College of Humanities and Management. In 2020,
{"title":"[Innovative Community Care and the Sustainable Development of University Social Responsibility in the Post-Pandemic Era].","authors":"Chih-Ling Huang","doi":"10.6224/JN.202206_69(3).01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6224/JN.202206_69(3).01","url":null,"abstract":"Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has received increasing attention in recent decades. The concept of social responsibility is being applied in universities. Because universities have goals that differ significantly from corporations, the notion of university social responsibility (USR) has emerged in the academic field. The Ministry of Education in Taiwan has regularly implemented USR practice plans since 2018 (Executive Yuan, Taiwan, ROC, 2019). The core values of these plans are \"local coalition\" and \"talent cultivation\". Moreover, these plans encourage universities to use the power of professional knowledge and creation to minimize the gap between learning and application for students and to integrate local resources and hands-on strategies to better collaborate with universities around the world and expand participation in international academic activities. Sustainable development (SD) is a core objective of both CSR and USR. The United Nations has advocated for sustainable development since 1987 and formalized the five-component paradigm (people, partnership, peace, planet, and prosperity, 5Ps) in 2015. UN Agenda 2030 addresses 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs), 169 targets, and 3,155 actions, encouraging all national governments to establish national SD action plans (United Nations, 2015). Based on the review of the literature and conceptual frameworks related to USR and SD (Bokhari, 2017), we integrate practice experiences and propose three suggestions for universities: 1) diversities universities could create a campus-wide climate of and comprehensive practice for social responsibility using their professional knowledge; 2) the social, economy, and environment are included in universities SD. The curriculum development of universities links to social practice activities to achieve the goals of talent cultivation to meet social needs; 3) The university projects include specific actions and timeline. The impacts and achievements of USR and SD may be appraised by internal and external experts. Fooyin University is a school of science and technology related to \"Big Health\". Based on the above theoretical frameworks, the outcome evaluation model of the Center for USR, the Ministry of Education, and the UN's SDGs, we implemented the \"Time Wheel Sustainable Model of Social Responsibility at Fooyin University\" (Figure 1) and began cooperating with private and government organizations. The model is an intervention and evaluation guideline for the time-dynamic wheel, with the target goal of cultivating health promotion and sustainable development talent. The outcomes and impacts of the model comprise four domains and sixteen indicators. Stakeholders of this model are students/alumni, teaching faculties and administration staff, communities, and the public. USR curriculum designs involve the School of Nursing, School of Medical and Health Sciences, School of Environment and Life Sciences, and College of Humanities and Management. In 2020,","PeriodicalId":35672,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nursing","volume":"69 3 1","pages":"4-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43673509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.6224/JN.202206_69(3).13
Chang-Chiao Hung, Ching-Yu Cheng, T. Chu
The competency-based approach has been advocated in medical education in recent years to strengthen the professional competencies and skills of medical professionals entering their residency. Entrustable professional activity (EPA), which consists of clinical tasks, core competencies, and milestones, is a recommended competency-based training program focused on the learning process of trainees. EPA emphasizes that trainers evaluate their trainees' learning repeatedly and provide feedback so that these trainees have an opportunity to correct their behaviors. However, EPAs have not yet been widely implemented in school-based nursing education. The purpose of this essay was to introduce the concept, connotations, development stage, and application of EPAs. The dilemmas and recommendations of EPA development in Taiwan are also presented.
{"title":"[Application and Recommendation of Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) in Nursing Education].","authors":"Chang-Chiao Hung, Ching-Yu Cheng, T. Chu","doi":"10.6224/JN.202206_69(3).13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6224/JN.202206_69(3).13","url":null,"abstract":"The competency-based approach has been advocated in medical education in recent years to strengthen the professional competencies and skills of medical professionals entering their residency. Entrustable professional activity (EPA), which consists of clinical tasks, core competencies, and milestones, is a recommended competency-based training program focused on the learning process of trainees. EPA emphasizes that trainers evaluate their trainees' learning repeatedly and provide feedback so that these trainees have an opportunity to correct their behaviors. However, EPAs have not yet been widely implemented in school-based nursing education. The purpose of this essay was to introduce the concept, connotations, development stage, and application of EPAs. The dilemmas and recommendations of EPA development in Taiwan are also presented.","PeriodicalId":35672,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nursing","volume":"69 3 1","pages":"95-101"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43604451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.6224/JN.202206_69(3).11
Yu-Ting Huang, Shi-Fang Tseng, Yu-Ting Chiu, M. Lee, Li-Chen Chen
BACKGROUND ≥ PROBLEMS Nutrition is very important for premature infants. Our recent research showed that the accuracy of recognition related to tube feeding was 74.8%, and the completeness of tube feeding was 74.3%. After analyzing this situation, the reasons found to be significantly associated with the low rates of tube-feeding recognition accuracy and completion included: inconsistent treatment of gastric residual by nurses in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), lack of sufficient assessment tools in the NICU, out-of-date specialist care guidelines, and lack of a regular inspection system. PURPOSE Our aim was to improve tube-feeding-related recognition accuracy and completion to reduce the incidence of feeding intolerance. RESOLUTIONS The intervention included developing a guideline manual for feeding procedures and making a gastric residual color card as a clinical-care reference. Holding on-the-job training and monitoring the quality of nursing care can reduce the incidence of feeding intolerance in preterm. RESULTS The accuracy of tube-feeding recognition increased from 74.8% to 93.7%. The completion of tube feeding increased from 74.3% to 95.5%. The incidence of feeding intolerance in premature infants decreased from 71.8% to 39.0%. CONCLUSIONS The results and process of this project provides a reference for improving the clinical care model for preterm infants in the NICU and for improving the enteral nutrition of preterm infants. The implementation of this project may improve the quality of nursing care and enable preterm infants to receive safer and more-complete care.
{"title":"[Reducing the Incidence of Feeding Intolerance in Premature Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit].","authors":"Yu-Ting Huang, Shi-Fang Tseng, Yu-Ting Chiu, M. Lee, Li-Chen Chen","doi":"10.6224/JN.202206_69(3).11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6224/JN.202206_69(3).11","url":null,"abstract":"BACKGROUND ≥ PROBLEMS\u0000Nutrition is very important for premature infants. Our recent research showed that the accuracy of recognition related to tube feeding was 74.8%, and the completeness of tube feeding was 74.3%. After analyzing this situation, the reasons found to be significantly associated with the low rates of tube-feeding recognition accuracy and completion included: inconsistent treatment of gastric residual by nurses in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), lack of sufficient assessment tools in the NICU, out-of-date specialist care guidelines, and lack of a regular inspection system.\u0000\u0000\u0000PURPOSE\u0000Our aim was to improve tube-feeding-related recognition accuracy and completion to reduce the incidence of feeding intolerance.\u0000\u0000\u0000RESOLUTIONS\u0000The intervention included developing a guideline manual for feeding procedures and making a gastric residual color card as a clinical-care reference. Holding on-the-job training and monitoring the quality of nursing care can reduce the incidence of feeding intolerance in preterm.\u0000\u0000\u0000RESULTS\u0000The accuracy of tube-feeding recognition increased from 74.8% to 93.7%. The completion of tube feeding increased from 74.3% to 95.5%. The incidence of feeding intolerance in premature infants decreased from 71.8% to 39.0%.\u0000\u0000\u0000CONCLUSIONS\u0000The results and process of this project provides a reference for improving the clinical care model for preterm infants in the NICU and for improving the enteral nutrition of preterm infants. The implementation of this project may improve the quality of nursing care and enable preterm infants to receive safer and more-complete care.","PeriodicalId":35672,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nursing","volume":"69 3 1","pages":"77-84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45135616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.6224/JN.202206_69(3).04
Li-Fan Liu, C. Lu
National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) promotes university social responsibility and strives to ensure that all of its teaching staff and students engage in academics in a manner that incorporates both social awareness and social practice. The NCKU team has launched a series of social practice and research projects focused on accompanying and caring for older adults who live in the community, looking to establish a social practice model that bridges university teaching and research to practical community needs. The objective of this initiative is to develop an innovative model of social support and a new model for younger generations to work with older adults living in the community. The results of this survey project show better well-being in older adults to be associated with the following sets of traits: exercising regularly and lacking dental problems; engaging in daily laughter and holding positive aging perceptions; and having a higher subjective social status, more family support, and a sense of community attachment. The study results imply that multiple factors affect well-being in the context of caring for community-dwelling older adults and social development, especially during the current COVID-19 pandemic.
{"title":"[Community Innovation and Regional Sustainability: A Case Study on an Elder Social Survey Conducted by National Cheng Kung University].","authors":"Li-Fan Liu, C. Lu","doi":"10.6224/JN.202206_69(3).04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.6224/JN.202206_69(3).04","url":null,"abstract":"National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) promotes university social responsibility and strives to ensure that all of its teaching staff and students engage in academics in a manner that incorporates both social awareness and social practice. The NCKU team has launched a series of social practice and research projects focused on accompanying and caring for older adults who live in the community, looking to establish a social practice model that bridges university teaching and research to practical community needs. The objective of this initiative is to develop an innovative model of social support and a new model for younger generations to work with older adults living in the community. The results of this survey project show better well-being in older adults to be associated with the following sets of traits: exercising regularly and lacking dental problems; engaging in daily laughter and holding positive aging perceptions; and having a higher subjective social status, more family support, and a sense of community attachment. The study results imply that multiple factors affect well-being in the context of caring for community-dwelling older adults and social development, especially during the current COVID-19 pandemic.","PeriodicalId":35672,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Nursing","volume":"69 3 1","pages":"19-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42990384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.6224/JN.202206_69(3).12
Ching-Min Chen, Chiu-Yen Yu, Kuei‐Min Chen, Y. Kuo
Professional nursing organizations represent an important channel for the nursing profession to influence health policy, represent and protect the interests of nurses, and advocate for the further development of the profession. Facing the rapidly increasing aging population and emerging needs of long-term care in Taiwan, the Taiwan Nurses Association launched an integrated project to propose policy advice on the development of nursing in long-term care. In this paper, the relevant findings in the domestic and foreign literature are summarized to better define the role function and core competence of long-term care nurses. In addition, the current tasks, perceived competence, and training needs of nurses working in long term care settings are presented, and the consensus on various advocacy strategies are summarized. The findings presented in this study may be referenced when developing evidence-based policy recommendations related to education, practice, legal / regulatory amendments, and professional organizations.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.6224/JN.202206_69(3).08
Li-Chuan Kuo, Wan-Hsiang Wang, Yen-Chen Lee
BACKGROUND Pain relates to the highly personal and subjective experience of feelings and emotions. Patients are often misunderstood because of language-related limitations and the conditions of their disease. PURPOSE In this research, a professional study circle was held to help nurses reconstruct their understanding of patient pain to enhance their awareness / empathy for differences in pain perception between others and themselves and to improve their ability to provide professional, individualized care. METHODS Nine nurses were invited from the urology department to join the developed professional study circle. We spent one year and a half reading "Listening to Pain: Finding Words, Compassion, and Relief" and held a sharing and discussion roundtable meeting every month. The study circle included: (1) assigned reading and the appointment of a leader on rotation to direct the sharing and discussion, (2) presentation of clinical cases related to the reading, (3) discussions of how to apply what they had learned in clinical practice, and (4) an interview of study circle members and a full analysis of their reflections and changes of view regarding pain perceptions. RESULTS After a close reading and guided discussions, these nine nurses began to change their perceptions of pain and, in general, passed through three stages, including: (1) cast doubt on the authenticity of patient expressions of pain because of stereotyped biases; (2) develop a new empathy based on careful listening; (3) providing individualized care and experiencing professional growth. After successfully transiting through these stages, the nurses held a more profound understanding of their patients, practiced a more sensitive use of language, and reflected an enhanced professional ability to assess pain. CONCLUSIONS / IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE This professional study circle successfully helped the nurses internalize a more empathetic understanding of pain and exhibit greater skill in designing individualized care for their patients.
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