Peer-Mentoring: A Call to Create Inclusive Programs to Support All Students' Ability to Be Successful.

Background: Support for diverse nursing students needs to be built into existing peer-mentoring programs to foster success for all students.

Method: Students were intentionally matched in a peer-mentoring program, BUDDY-UP, on several factors, which included students' race and ethnicity (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color [BIPOC]) and gender, and whether they were first-generation.

Results: Mentors and mentees expressed satisfaction and derived benefits from the intentionally matched mentoring program.

Authentic Literature: Literary Fiction as a Textbook to Engage in Nursing Professional Practice Content.

This innovative teaching strategy sought to evaluate authentic literature as the primary textbook in a nursing theory course. Arts-based pedagogy can potentiate students' development of critical thinking skills, which are necessary for sound clinical judgment. At the end of the course, students responded to an online survey to better understand their experience of using authentic literature in nursing.

Does the age of packed red blood cells, donor sex or sex mismatch affect the sublingual microcirculation in critically ill intensive care unit patients? A secondary interpretation of a retrospective analysis.

In vitro studies have thoroughly documented age-dependent impact of storage lesions in packed red blood cells (pRBC) on erythrocyte oxygen carrying capacity. While studies have examined the effect of pRBC age on patient outcome only few data exist on the microcirculation as their primary site of action. In this secondary analysis we examined the relationship between age of pRBC and changes of microcirculatory flow (MCF) in 54 patients based on data from the Basel Bedside assessment Microcirculation Transfusion Limit study (BaMiTraL) on effects of pRBC on sublingual MCF.

Participatory Arts-Based Pedagogy in Baccalaureate Nursing Education.

Arts-based pedagogy (ABP) is an innovative teaching method combining art and learning in an existing curriculum. To understand the impact of students' perceptions of the effects of ABP on critical thinking, communication, and observational skills, 89 students completed an online survey. The results indicate that students enjoyed ABP and that it positively affected critical thinking, enhancing their future clinical practice and preparing them for increasingly complex health care environments.

Examining potential predictors of attention training outcomes in children with intellectual and developmental disorders.

Responses to digital cognitive training interventions vary greatly among children with intellectual and developmental disorders (IDD). Investigating possible predictors of improvements following training is vital in ascertaining which individuals benefit from these interventions. Seventy-three children (4-11 years) with IDD completed attention training or a placebo program for 5 weeks.