Date of Conferral

2022

Degree

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)

School

Nursing

Advisor

Bridgette Malchow

Abstract

Bipolar disorder is a chronic mental disorder that can negatively affect an individual’sreadmission to bipolar patients. The purpose of the doctor of nursing practice project was to develop a staff education program to empower the staff to educate the patients by increasing the staff’s knowledge about evidence-based, self-care management strategies. The focus of the educational content was on the approaches to improving patients’ adherence to their medications, promote follow-up care and prevent suicide. The theory that informed this project was Knowles’s theory of adult learning. One source of evidence generated during the project was the evaluation conducted by four content experts (i.e., two physicians, one nurse practitioner, and one nurse manager) to determine the relevance of the training content, which resulted in a 100% of the experts rating the content as highly relevant on a Likert scale from 1 = not relevant to 4 = highly relevant. Another source of evidence was the findings of the pre-and post-tests completed by the participants of the training to determine if learning occurred and if knowledge was gained. Five staff (i.e., one nurse, one nurse practitioner, two psychiatric technicians, and one social worker) participated in the educational program and completed the pretest, and three completed the posttest. The results show a great difference between percent total score on the pretest (M = 60%; range = 33.3% to 83.3%) and posttest (M = 94.4%; range = 83.3% to 100%). This project offers the training needed for staff to prepare patients with bipolar disorder to manage their condition after discharge and has the potential to prevent patient readmission and improve their quality of life, thus, effecting a positive social change.

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