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Mary Magee Gullatte1, C Suzanne Allen, Elizabeth Botheroyd
1Mary Magee Gullatte, PhD, RN, ANP-BC, AOCN, FAAN, is Corporate Director for Nursing Innovation, EBP, and Research, Emory Healthcare, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia. C. Suzanne Allen MSN, APRN, AGCNS-BC, AOCNS, OCN, is Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. Elizabeth Botheroyd, BSN, MHA, RN-BC, is Manager, Nursing Education Department, Emory Healthcare, Atlanta, Georgia. Robert G. Hess Jr., PhD, RN, FAAN, is Executive Vice President, Chief Clinical Executive, OnCourse Learning, Healthcare, Brookfield, Wisconsin. Melinda Higgins, PhD, is Statistician, Emory Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. Julia Meneghetti BSN, RN, CCRN, is Nurse Clinician, Emory University Hospital Medical Intensive Care Unit, Atlanta, Georgia. Sandra Mullings, LCSW, ACM-SW, CPC, is Director, Care Coordination, Emory University Hospital Midtown, Atlanta, Georgia. Jennifer Mensik, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, is Division Director for Care Management, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland. Joy A. Okonye, BSN, RN, CCRN, is Critical Care Nurse, Emory University Hospital Midtown, Atlanta, Georgia. Nadine Salmon, MSN, BSN, RN-BC, IBCLC, is Clinical Director of CE Programs, Healthcare for OnCourse Learning, Savannah, Georgia.
Abstract:
Registered nurses and social workers may have little experience engaging in end-of-life discussions. Technology-assisted continuing education (TACE) improves interprofessionals' capability and comfort with these difficult discussions. This study measured the impact of TACE on improving the capability and comfort of caregivers with end-of-life communication. Comfort and capability scores increased postintervention. This was the first dual site two-discipline pilot study to explore this TACE methodology.
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