Assessment of Nurse Educator Leadership: Instrument Development and Psychometric Analysis.

Aim: Study purposes were to 1) establish the relevance and clarity of a new instrument, the Leadership in Nursing Education (LNE©) for nurse educators, and 2) provide evidence to support the reliability and validity of the LNE.

Background: The future of nursing education is dependent upon the leadership of nurse faculty. Competency development requires self-assessment to engage in meaningful pathways for leadership development.

Nurse Faculty Administrators' Experiences of Communication, Cooperation, Coordination, and Collaboration During Educational Disruption.

Aim: The primary purposes of the study were to describe nurse faculty administrators' experiences of rapid transition and disruption in nursing education during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: The disruption and shift to remote learning for nursing education programs posed challenges for these administrators.

Method: A descriptive survey methodology with a convenience sample was used with the Four Cs of Disaster Partnering framework.

Undergraduate Student Stress, Classroom Engagement, and Self-Directed Learning Postcurricular Revision.

One way of promoting student success in a nursing program is through curricular revision. However, significant curricular revision coupled with a simultaneous move to active learning strategies can have an impact on the educational and emotional well-being of students. This descriptive correlational study examined student stress, engagement, and self-directed learning in a convenience sample of junior-level nursing students ( = 164) after a transition to a new curriculum and active learning methods.

Predictors of Emotional Engagement in Online Graduate Nursing Students.

Background: Student engagement, specifically emotional engagement, is a predictor to positive learning outcomes and academic success. Autonomy, competence, and relatedness have been associated with engagement; however, these studies have not been done in nursing.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine if autonomy, competence, and relatedness predicted emotional engagement among graduate nursing students in the online learning environment.

Nurses at the table: A naturalistic inquiry of nurses on governing boards.

In an environment in which there is little or no nursing presence on governing boards in healthcare organizations (HCOs), physicians, and nonclinicians take responsibility for keeping the other board members apprised of the quality of patient care, including nursing-generated, patient safety initiatives. Governing boards in HCOs are either not appointing nurses to governing boards or are not appointing nurses in numbers that are commensurate with the size and vital contributions of the profession. As a result, competent nursing professionals with an intimate understanding of quality care and patient safety are not in decision-making roles that may redesign health care and improve patient care.

Leading nurses: emotional intelligence and leadership development effectiveness.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of an emotional intelligence (EI) and leadership development education program involving 20 nurse leaders at nursing homes. Also, it investigates the relationship between EI and transformational leadership. Design/methodology/approach Three research questions are posed.

Curriculum Revision: Student Stress and Lessons Learned.

Background: Curricular revision and engaging students in learning are important aspects of preparing students for a complex health care environment. The purpose of this study was to identify student perceptions of active learning practices incorporated into the junior year of a new curriculum.

Method: A descriptive qualitative design using focus group interviews for data collection was used to explore student perceptions of stress, engagement, and self-directed learning in an active learning environment.

Predictors of transformational leadership of nurse managers.

Aim: The aim of this study was to examine the relationships among education, leadership experience, emotional intelligence and transformational leadership of nurse managers.

Background: Nursing leadership research provides limited evidence of predictors of transformational leadership style in nurse managers.

Methods: A predictive correlational design was used with a sample of nurse managers (n = 148) working in varied health care settings.

Competencies for Leaders in Nursing Education.

Aim: The study purpose was to identify and describe the competencies that educators need to be leaders in nursing education.

Background: Leadership is inherent within the role of the nurse educator; however, many lack formal education in leadership and are underprepared to fully embrace the faculty leadership role. there exists a dearth of research on the competencies necessary for leaders in nursing education.

Student outcomes of distance learning in nursing education: an integrative review.

Distance learning offers a distinctive environment to educate nursing students. While there is a significant body of evidence in the literature related to course, program, and faculty outcomes of distance education, little attention has been given by researchers to evaluate student outcomes, with the exception of student satisfaction. There is a need to evaluate and translate findings related to student outcomes in distance learning into educational practice.

Bed-sharing influences, attitudes, and practices: implications for promoting safe infant sleep.

The purpose of this study was to examine the infant bed-sharing practices of mothers from the birth of the infant to three months of age. The study was a longitudinal descriptive design using a self-report instrument immediately after delivery with follow-up phone interviews at one and three months after discharge. While no mothers intended to bed-share with their infants immediately after delivery, 60 percent reported bed-sharing at some time at one month after discharge and 9 percent at three months.

Giving and receiving: a case study in service learning.

Service learning is becoming a requirement for many universities wanting to connect with the communities surrounding them while also instilling civic responsibility in their students. The process should benefit all involved. In the following case study, the authors describe their experience of initiating a service learning component in an introductory nursing course, from the design to the implementation of the project.

The family management of breastfeeding low birth weight infants.

Human milk plays a vital role in the health and development of low birth weight (LBW) infants, yet the initiation and duration rates of breastfeeding in this population are far below those of term infants. Families play an important role in the breastfeeding experience and therefore may contribute to the overall success or lack thereof of the experience. This qualitative study used naturalistic inquiry to describe the family management styles of 13 breastfeeding families of LBW infants.