Among nursing staff ages 18-64 who care for dementia patients in a nursing home environment, does an education program on a new facility protocol offering twice-a-week nonpharmacological interventions, including art and music, improve nurses’ knowledge and skills related to nonpharmacological interventions and decrease their need to utilize pharmacologic interventions for agitation among patients receiving the interventions over a period of 6 weeks?

Aranda, M. P., Kremer, I. N., Hinton, L., Zissimopoulos, J., Whitmer, R. A., Hummel, C. H., Trejo, L., & Fabius, C. (2021) Phan, S. V., Osae, S., Morgan, J. C., Inyang, M., & Fagan, S. C. (2019) McCreedy, E. M., Gutman, R., Baier, R., Rudolph, J. L., Thomas, K. S., Dvorchak, F., Uth, R., Ogarek, J., & Mor, V. (2021) Shirsat, A., Jha, R. K., & Verma, P. (2023) Sikkes, S. A. M., Tang, Y., Jutten, R. J., Wesselman, L. M. P., Turkstra, L. S., Brodaty, H., … Bahar-Fuchs, A. (2021) Oh, W., Park, H., Hallett, M., & Joshua (Sung), H. Y. (2023) Emblad, S. Y. M., & Mukaetova-Ladinska, E. B. (2021) Moreno-Morales, C., Calero, R., Moreno-Morales, P., & Pintado, C. (2020) Cho, E., Shin, J., Seok, J. W., Lee, H., Lee, K. H., Jang, J., & Kang, B. (2023) Soufineyestani, M., Khan, A., & Sufineyestani, M. (2021). Do an introduction of the Literature Review, a comparison of research question, a comparison of sample population which is education of nurses, comparison of limitation of study, databases used, literature search parameters, overarching themes in literature, synthesis of literature, conclusion PICOT: Among nursing staff ages 18-64 who care for dementia patients in a nursing home environment, does an education program on a new facility protocol offering twice-a-week nonpharmacological interventions, including art and music, improve nurses’ knowledge and skills related to nonpharmacological interventions and decrease their need to utilize pharmacologic interventions for agitation among patients receiving the interventions over a period of 6 weeks? Purpose: This project aimed to determine if staff education on nonpharmacological interventions (art and music) would increase nurses’ knowledge through a temporary protocol and, in turn, decrease the use of pharmacological interventions.

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