A Focus Group Study of Retirement-Age Nurses: Balancing Tension and a Love of Nursing in a Changing Healthcare Environment.

Objective: The aims of this study were to explore the experience of retirement-age nurses and identify decision-making factors and innovations to enhance retention.

Background: A national shortage of nurses has created challenges to preserving quality patient care and level of nursing competency and managing turnover costs.

Methods: A qualitative study using focus groups was conducted of nurses 55 years or older who were working or recently retired.

"Finding the Balance": A Qualitative Study of the Experience of Nurses and Patients with Diabetes on an Insulin Pump in the Hospital.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore experiences of hospitalized patients as they transition insulin pump self-management from home to hospital and the experience of nurses caring for them. Patients are often more knowledgeable about the pump than their nurses, which could lead to undiscovered challenges. Little is known about the hospital experience related to insulin pump therapy from nurses' and patients' perspectives.

Factors Associated With Timely Blood Glucose Testing and Insulin Administration in Patients Receiving Mealtime Insulin Coverage in Medical Surgical Units.

Purpose The purpose of the study was to identify the rate and factors associated with timely mealtime capillary blood glucose (CBG) testing and insulin coverage in hospitalized patients with diabetes. Methods A descriptive-correlational design was used with a random sample of patients (n = 77) and nurses (n = 36) on a medicine and a neuroscience unit of a large Magnet hospital. After written consent was obtained, post-meal patient and nurse interviews were conducted to collect information about patient, nurse, and situational factors known to influence timely mealtime diabetes care.