Date of Conferral
8-23-2024
Date of Award
August 2024
Degree
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)
School
Nursing
Advisor
Edna Hull
Abstract
The medical departments of many correctional facilities were unprepared to manage the COVID-19 pandemic. The practice problem identified for this doctorate of nursing practice (DNP) project was the lack of knowledge of health staff on managing incarcerated individuals' care during a pandemic. The primary purpose of the project was to develop, implement, and evaluate a staff education program on evidence-based interventions for preventing and managing a pandemic in a correctional facility. This project was guided by David Kolb's experiential learning theory and the analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation (ADDIE) model. The practice setting was a local detention center in the southern portion of a Mid-Atlantic state. The educational program’s participation rate was 75.76%, with 25 out of 33 invited staff participating. Pretest, posttest, and summative evaluation were used to analyze and synthesize findings generated from the staff education program. With a mean pretest score of 70.4 (SD 12.74) to a post-test score of 91.2 (SD 10.13), the one-sample t test revealed sufficient evidence indicating that the educational intervention improved the knowledge of participants on measures for preventing and managing a pandemic in a correctional facility. Potential implications for positive social change include raising awareness among correctional administrators and staff on how evidence-based practice measures can impact staff competence, leading to effective patient care outcomes.
Recommended Citation
Knight, Mary Catherine, "A Staff Education Program on Managing COVID-19 in a Correctional Setting" (2024). Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies. 16162.
https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/16162
