BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:EventsCalendar PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T053451Z TZURL:https://www.tzurl.org/zoneinfo-outlook/America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:College of Nursing and Health Sciences,Thesis/Dissertations DESCRIPTION:College of Nursing and Health Sciences DNP Defense - Jaime Ca thers Title: Improving Emergency Department Nursing Knowledge and Confide nce in the Care and Management of Patients with Mild Traumatic Brain Injur y in the Community Setting Friday April 17th 2pmZOOM: Please contact dhof fman@umassd.edu for link. Committee:Christine BellKristin GillBonanca Erin Rebelo Abstract:Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is diagnosed in over 1 million patients in the US annually, ranging from mild to severe classif ications. This places high burden on emergency departments (ED). Patients with mild TBI (mTBI) findings are being observed at community institutions under observation to avoid costly care that interfacility transfers creat e. Patients diagnosed with mTBI, who present within the Beth Israel Lahe y Health (BILH) system and who meet pre-established criteria for monitorin g, are placed on a mTBI pathway necessitating a six-hour observation perio d. Anecdotal conversations with nursing staff revealed ED nurses have no t been formally trained in a routine neurological assessment that is part of the requirement for this mTBI pathway observation timeline. This DNP pr oject focused assessing the knowledge and confidence of ED nurses at a com munity hospital within the BILH system. This project utilized a pre-test , post-test design with an educational intervention (interactive PowerPoin t presentation). Recruitment and participation began in February 2026 fo r a total of 4 weeks. Sample size (34 participants) was not met, therefo re a Wilcoxen signed rank test on the paired samples was performed. In a ddition, descriptive statistics of the pretest participants was analyzed. The results showed an increase in most knowledge categories. The confidenc e scale showed a Cronbach alpha score of 0.67. Although the Cronbach alp ha showed questionable reliability, when combined with the increase in kno wledge shown, the intervention seemed to show positive results. These re sults can help to document the need future education on the mTBI pathway i n the not only the BID Plymouth ED, but in all of the EDs participating in the program. Keywords: mild traumatic brain injury, mild traumatic brain injury pathway, emergency nurses, nursing education, neurological assessm ent\nEvent page: https://www.umassd.edu/events/cms/college-of-nursing-and- health-sciences-dnp--defense---jaime-cathers.php X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

College of Nursing and Health S ciences DNP Defense - Jaime Cathers

Title: Improving Emerge ncy Department Nursing Knowledge and Confidence in the Care and Management of Patients with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in the Community Setting

Friday April 17th 2pm
ZOOM: Please contact dhoffman@umassd. edu for link.

Committee:
Christine Bell
Kristin G illBonanca
Erin Rebelo

Abstract:
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is diagnosed in over 1 million patients in the US annually\, ranging from mild to severe classifications. This places high burden on e mergency departments (ED). Patients with mild TBI (mTBI) findings are bein g observed at community institutions under observation to avoid costly car e that interfacility transfers create. Patients diagnosed with mTBI\, wh o present within the Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH) system and who meet p re-established criteria for monitoring\, are placed on a mTBI pathway nece ssitating a six-hour observation period. Anecdotal conversations with nu rsing staff revealed ED nurses have not been formally trained in a routine neurological assessment that is part of the requirement for this mTBI pat hway observation timeline. This DNP project focused assessing the knowledg e and confidence of ED nurses at a community hospital within the BILH syst em. This project utilized a pre-test\, post-test design with an educatio nal intervention (interactive PowerPoint presentation). Recruitment and participation began in February 2026 for a total of 4 weeks. Sample size (34 participants) was not met\, therefore a Wilcoxen signed rank test on the paired samples was performed. In addition\, descriptive statistics o f the pretest participants was analyzed. The results showed an increase in most knowledge categories. The confidence scale showed a Cronbach alpha s core of 0.67. Although the Cronbach alpha showed questionable reliabilit y\, when combined with the increase in knowledge shown\, the intervention seemed to show positive results. These results can help to document the need future education on the mTBI pathway in the not only the BID Plymouth ED\, but in all of the EDs participating in the program.

Key words: mild traumatic brain injury\, mild traumatic brain injury pathway\, emergency nurses\, nursing education\, neurological assessment

Even t page: https://www.umassd.edu/e vents/cms/college-of-nursing-and-health-sciences-dnp--defense---jaime-cath ers.php

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