Identifying opportunities for educators to pursue collaboration at the interface of nursing and engineering – and a word of caution

Oerther, Daniel B.; Yoder-Wise, Patricia S; Malone, Beverly

doi:10.1111/jan.14291

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“…37 A possible first step, having identified this problem, is for nurses and other health care staff to reach out to engineers as valuable partners to support ED design research for the future. 61 This review is limited by a focus on papers published in English and thus reflects the discourse of ED violence as experienced in the English-speaking world. However, as the language of science, English is a frequently medium of scientific expression in health care and the large range of papers within this review from areas where English is not the first language is reassuring.…”

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“…A special effort is required in implementing workplace design effective in minimizing stressful conditions in waiting rooms 37 . A possible first step, having identified this problem, is for nurses and other health care staff to reach out to engineers as valuable partners to support ED design research for the future 61 …”

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“…It combined a computerized triage algorithm linked to a waiting room patient call system, signage to assist patients to navigate in the ED, educational messages broadcast in the waiting room, presence of a mediator, and video surveillance and was successful in reducing ED violence significantly. MohammadiGorji et al's61 recent review found that improving health care design in mental health care facilities has a positive effect on the reduction of violence.…”

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An integrative review of waiting time, queuing, and design as contributory factors to emergency department violence

Timmins

2021

J Evidence Based Medicine

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Objective: Reports of violence in health care are continuously increasing. Globally there are attempts to manage this phenomenon. However, while risk factors have been identified, there is a tendency to over accentuate the extent of their contribution. Alcohol and drug misuse, for example, are frequently reported, with limited consideration of the ED environment. By far the biggest cause of violence appears to be the presentation of conditions related to or accompanied by mental illness and the impact of queuing and crowded departments on patients and their families. This study aims to examine the extent to which ED waiting times, design and queuing are linked to ED violence.Methods: An integrative literature review was performed using CINAHL Complete and MEDLINE databases. 110 papers were initially selected, and the final analysis included 25 papers. Results:The literature revealed three emerging themes: the nature of emergency department violence, environmental contributory factors and its management and control. Conclusion:The findings of this review reveal several causes of violence. Surprisingly most approaches take a victim blaming approach aimed at identifying potential perpetrators rather than taking a holistic approach to prevention that would also address environmental and societal issues. More is needed in terms of implementation of more far-reaching, practical, and effective management solutions to promote health care workers' safety and adequately support vulnerable patients.

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An integrative review of waiting time, queuing, and design as contributory factors to emergency department violence

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2021

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“…Finally, the caring nature of environmental engineering also has been described previously through a comparison of the sub-discipline of environmental engineering to the profession of nursing; in particular a growing body of evidence supports the view that the practice of environmental engineering benefits from a grounding in the theory of care developed by the profession of nursing (Oerther, 2017;Oerther et al, 2020;Oerther and Glasgow, 2021;Oerther and Oerther, 2022).…”

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Environmental Engineering as Care for Human Welfare and Planetary Health

2022

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Among the sub-disciplines of engineering, environmental engineering is distinctive in three aspects. First, descriptions of the profession of environmental engineering emphasize that environmental engineers solve problems to prevent harm, which typically is an important motivation for taking a job in care work. Second, the percentage of degrees awarded to women is highest for environmental among all sub-disciplines of engineering (i.e., 53.3% of bachelor's degrees, 46.3% of master's degrees, and 43.6% of doctoral degrees in environmental engineering conferred in 2020 were awarded to women). Third, median salaries for environmental engineerscontrolling for other variablesare lowest among engineering subdisciplines (i.e., $82,036 per year in 2019), despite high levels of educational attainment and training. Our analysis of environmental engineers working in the United States strongly suggests that the profession of environmental engineering is highly susceptible to what is known as the care penalty. The care penalty is a function of market dynamics, which tend to undervalue work that generates substantial unpriced benefits for others. The care penalty often is observed in jobs characterized by high levels of intrinsic motivation, such as concern for human welfare.Additional data would be useful to further evaluate the care penalty in environmental engineering in other countries. To address the care penalty, we do not suggest that environmental engineers should become less caring. Rather environmental engineers should be aware of this potential economic risk and seek to mitigate the care penalty in two specific ways.First environmental engineers should encourage life-cycle principles and environmental fullcost accounting in order to increase fungibility among different measures of the components of the triple bottom line of people (i.e., human welfare), planet (i.e., planetary health), and prosperity (i.e., financial gain). Second, environmental engineers should clearly demonstrate the unique contributions that technically skilled commitments to human welfare can generate.We suggest that a greater awareness of these issues could build on and strengthen growing public concerns regarding environmental sustainability. Finally, we suggest that distinctive attributes of environmental engineering may prove critical to unlocking growth in the engineering workforce as care for human welfare and planetary health.

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“…Education introduces students to a blending of the distinctive components of multiple disciplines through a single program of instruction (Oerther et al, 2020). Interdisciplinary education may include pre‐service students of two disciplines enrolling in and simultaneously attending the same lecture‐discussion course, or it may include continuing education of licensed professionals attending the same presentation at a research symposium.…”

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