Document Type

Course Project

Publication Date

8-6-2024

Abstract

Trauma carries multiple implications that adversely impact individuals' mental and physical health throughout their lifespan. Trauma-informed care (TIC) has been currently utilized in fields such as addiction and mental health, child protection, and the penal system. The current evidence of TIC points to opportunities and gaps for the TIC approach in general acute care settings. This quality improvement initiative is a mixed method and pretest and posttest design, which aims to create and deliver an evidence-based and theory-guided teaching plan for newly employed nursing staff to promote the nurses' knowledge, attitudes, and practice of providing TIC to acutely ill patients admitted to a tertiary-care teaching hospital located in Pennsylvania. Directed content analysis identified key themes from relevant literature. Expert Content Validity Forms for the draft teaching plan revealed that experts accepted the draft content areas and teaching plan. The teaching plan was provided during three biweekly RN orientations. The overall mean increased from 4.49 to 4.57 after two weeks of teaching sessions. The difference between the means of the two groups is not significant, with a p-value of 0.204. However, the comments reflected that the TIC teaching plan positively affected participants' knowledge, attitudes, and practice toward TIC. Cronbach's alpha values indicated excellent reliability. This initiative needs to be more specific to the content in the teaching to promote effectiveness.

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English

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