Author : Valerie Marie Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (964 download)
Book Synopsis Online End-of-life Care Education in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit by : Valerie Marie Wright
Download or read book Online End-of-life Care Education in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit written by Valerie Marie Wright and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research exists regarding the need for providing training related to end-of-life care as well as the need to evaluate this type of training in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. One potential format for this training is online in nature. The following problem statement was addressed within this direct practice improvement project: It was not known if an online end-of-life training session with NICU Nurses in the Midwestern Level III NICU would have an impact on their level of comfort with providing end-of-life care. The clinical question addressed was: In NICU nurses who attend a voluntary end-of-life online training session, does their level of comfort increase with providing end-of-life care compared to their level of comfort prior to the end-of-life online training? The level of comfort was analyzed by comparing the NICU nurses responses to the BEACONNS survey assessing their level of comfort with providing of end-of-life care before and after the online end-of-life training. Prior to the online end-of-life training session, the mean BEACONNS score was 3.58 (SD = .81) and after the training, the mean BEACONNS score was 4.07 (SD = .77). There was a statistically significant increase in the BEACONNS score after the online end-of-life training session t(13) = 5.732, p = .000 (one-tailed). The mean increase in BEACONNS score was .48 with a 95% confidence interval ranging from .30 to .67. These results provide the data necessary to not only implement the BEACONNS tool into clinical practice, but also the online training option.