In this episode of The AJN Podcast, Susan O’Hara, PhD, MPH, RN, BA, EDAC, FNIHD, discusses the role of nurses in design and the impact they make on patient care and nurse safety.

Resources for nurses interested in health care design:

HERD - Health Environments Research and Design Journal -https://journals.sagepub.com/home/HER

BHAC - Building Healthy Academic Communities Journal - https://ojs.library.osu.edu/index.php/BHAC

AJN - American Journal of Nursing - https://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/pages/default.aspx

HCD Healthcare Design - https://www.hcdexpo.com

Environments for Aging - https://environmentsforaging.com

PDC Planning, Design, and Construction - https://www.ashe.org/education/pdc-summit

CHD Center for Health Design - https://www.healthdesign.org  

EDAC Evidence-Based Design Accreditation and Certification (EDAC) - https://www.healthdesign.org/certification-outreach/edac

FGI  Facility Guideline Institute FGI Guidelines (Hospital, Outpatient, Residential) - https://fgiguidelines.org

NIHD Nursing Institute for Healthcare Design -  https://nursingihd.com 

Architecture Explained: The Phases of Designing and Building a Project - https://wc-studio.com/journal/2019/7/5/working-with-an-architect-understanding-phases-of-design-construction

Architectural Design Process: A Quick Guide https://www.projectmanager.com/blog/architectural-design-process

The Ohio State University College of Nursing, Center for Healthcare Innovation and Leadership, Master of Healthcare Innovation - https://nursing.osu.edu/academics/masters/master-healthcare-innovation

The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture - https://knowlton.osu.edu  

New York University, Rory Meyers College of Nursing. The Course: “The Environment and Health of Populations” - https://nursing.nyu.edu

Cordoza, M., Ulrich, R. S., Manulik, B. J., Gardiner, S. K., Fitzpatrick, P. S., Hazen, T. M., Mirka, A., & Perkins, R. S. (2018). Impact of Nurses Taking Daily Work Breaks in a Hospital Garden on Burnout. Am J Crit Care, 27(6), 508-512. https://doi.org/10.4037/ajcc2018131

Fawcett, J. (2023). Thoughts About the Metaparadigm of Nursing: Contemporary Status and Recommendations for Evolution. Nursing Science Quarterly, 36(3), 303-305. https://doi.org/10.1177/08943184231169770

Godin, M. R., & Nasr, A. S. (2023). Assessing the Impact of a New Pediatric Healthcare Facility on Medication Administration: A Human Factors Approach. Journal of Nursing Administration, 53(6), 331-336. https://doi.org/10.1097/NNA.0000000000001295  

McDonald, L. (2020). Florence Nightingale’s influence on hospital design, hospitalism, hospital diseases, and hospital architects. In (Vol. 13, pp. 30-35): SAGE Publications Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA.

Nightingale, F. (1863). Notes on hospitals (3d , enl. and for the most part rewritten ed.). Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green.

Nightingale, F. (2015). Notes on Hospitals. Dover Publications. http://www.myilibrary.com?id=729288

Nightingale, F., & Nursing, N. O. (1859). What it is and what it is not. Notes on nursing.

O'Hara, S. (2014). Planning intensive care unit design using computer simulation modeling: optimizing integration of clinical, operational, and architectural requirements. Critical Care Nursing Quarterly, 37(1), 67-82.

O'Hara, S., Klar, R. T., Patterson, E. S., Morris, N. S., Ascenzi, J., Fackler, J. C., & Perry, D. J. (2018). Macrocognition in the Healthcare Built Environment (mHCBE): A Focused Ethnographic Study of "Neighborhoods" in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. HERD, 11(2), 104-123. https://doi.org/10.1177/1937586717728484

Obeidat, B., Younis, M. B., Al-Shlool, E. a., & Alzouby, A. (2022). A study of workspace design characteristics exemplified by nurses’ satisfaction within three intensive care units in a university hospital. HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal, 15(2), 63-78. https://doi.org/10.1177/19375867211055731

Stichler, J. F. (2015). Using Magnet® as a Framework for Nurse Participation in Facility Design. JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration, 45(1), 11-13. https://doi.org/10.1097/NNA.0000000000000150

Ulrich, R. S. (1984). View through a window may influence recovery from surgery. Science, 224(4647), 420-421. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.6143402

Zamani, Z., Joy, T., & Gobel, D. (2024). “We Have Outgrown Our Space; Our Facility Is Old and Falling Apart”: Physical Design Implications to Address the Needs and Priorities of a Critical Access Hospital (CAH). HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal, 17(1), 306-325. https://doi.org/10.1177/19375867231188148

In this episode of The AJN Podcast, Kerry A. Milner, DNSc, APRN, FNP-BC, EBP-C, and Ellen Fineout-Overholt, PhD, RN, EBP-C, FNAP, FAAN discuss the role of evidence-based decision making in nursing education and patient care.

Milner and Fineout-Overholt share details on AJN’s new Evidence-Based Decision Making series, and the first article in the series, “Cultivating an Evidence-Based Decision-Making Mindset,” which can be found in the February issue and online at https://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/fulltext/2024/02000/cultivating_an_evidence_based_decision_making.20.aspx.

Below is the article’s full list of authors:

Kerry A. Milner is a professor in the Davis and Henley College of Nursing at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT. Deana Hays is an associate professor at Oakland University in Rochester, MI. Susan Farus-Brown is an associate professor at the Ohio University School of Nursing in Athens. Mary C. Zonsius is an associate professor at the Rush University College of Nursing in Chicago. Ellen Fineout-Overholt is national senior director, Evidence-Based Practice & Implementation Science, at Ascension in St. Louis. Contact author: Kerry A. Milner, [email protected].

NP, entrepreneur, and professor, Gabrielle Abelard, DNP, PMHNP, PMHCNS-BC, APRN, FNAP, FAAN, joins The AJN Podcast and shares her business experience, wisdom, and insight on what APRNs need to know and do before opening their own practice.

Some questions to think about:

1. What’s your “brand”?

And many more!

Recommended books:

Nurse Practitioner's Business Practice and Legal Guide by Carolyn Buppert, JD, MS

The Doctor of Nursing Practice: A Guidebook for Role Development and Professional Issues by Lisa Astalos Chism, DNP, APRN, NCMP, FAANP

In this episode of The AJN Podcast, Kathleen Russell-Babin, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, ACNS-BC, vice president of professional practice at Inova Health System in Falls Church, VA, discusses implementation science (IS). Russell-Babin is the lead author of the first article in a new series for AJN, Applying Implementation Science. The article describes how a multisite health care organization developed a systemwide nurse-led IS Specialist program within a shared governance model. Russell-Babin shared, “The series will take each of our first five projects across our health care system and show concretely how we used our 10-step process or toolkit. It will help readers to visualize the realities of the methods.”

In a discussion after the episode was recorded, she added, “This process is not a quick fix. It is systematic and takes time. Depending on the topic, sometimes the barriers are more than you expect. But as Weiner and colleagues wrote, partial implementation gets partial results and so staying with the process and using mapped strategies is worth the effort.”

The article is open access and can be found here: https://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/fulltext/2023/12000/a_nurse_led_implementation_science_specialist.22.aspx.

In this episode of The AJN Podcast, Elizabeth A. Ayello, PhD, MS, RN, CWON, FAAN, co-editor of Advances in Skin and Wound Care, discusses the role of the direct care nurse in wound and ostomy care. Listen as she shares valuable information and resources on the topic. Links to resources mentioned in the podcast are available below.

Nursing 2023 article: https://journals.lww.com/nursing/fulltext/2023/08000/skin_and_wound_care_survey__2019_results.8.aspx

Guidelines:

EPUAP: https://www.epuap.org   

NPIAP: https://npiap.com

PPIAP: https://pppia.org  

International Skin Tear Advisory Panel (ISTAP): https://www.skintears.org

AJN article: Skin Assessment in Patients with Dark Skin Tone: https://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/fulltext/2023/03000/skin_assessment_in_patients_with_dark_skin_tone.20.aspx

Wound care skin tone article: https://journals.lww.com/aswcjournal/fulltext/2023/10000/using_technology_to_detect_erythema_across_skin.4.aspx

A stakeholder is anyone who has interest in pressure ulcers/injuries who wishes to provide input into the International PI Guideline. Check out this link: https://internationalguideline.com/stakeholders

Brigitte Sager, MSN, ARNP, FNP-C joins AJN senior clinical editor Christine Moffa to discuss the nurse’s role in functional medicine.

AJN senior clinical editor, Christine Moffa, speaks with AACN president Amanda Bettencourt and AACN president -elect Terry Davis, about challenges in nursing and AACN’s efforts to address these issues.

AJN senior clinical editor Christine Moffa speaks with Bernadette ‘Candy’ Capili about her articles, “Improving the Validity of Causal Inferences in Observational Studies” and “Efficacy Randomized Controlled Trials”. These articles are the 13th and 14th installments in a series on clinical research by nurses, “Nursing Research, Step by Step.”

AJN senior clinical editor Christine Moffa speaks with Renee Thompson DNP, RN, FAAN, CSP about workplace bullying and incivility. Dr. Thompson shares practical advice on what to do when this happens to you.

Released on April 26, 2023

AJN senior clinical editor Christine Moffa speaks with ANA President Jennifer Mensik Kennedy about her journey to becoming president of the ANA, issues nurses are facing, and how the ANA plans to address these issues.

Released on April 5, 2023