Assessment of Patient Safety and Cultural Competencies among Senior Baccalaureate Nursing Students.

This descriptive, correlational, cross-sectional study examined nursing students' educational experiences on self-reported perceptions of patient safety and cultural competence in terms of curriculum content and learning venues. We performed descriptive analyses and a one-way analysis of variance with a sample of senior-year nursing students (N = 249) attending three state universities in the United States. We used the Nurse of the Future Nursing Core Competency Model, the Patient Safety Competency Self-Evaluation Tool for Nursing Students, and The Cultural Competence Assessment Instrument.

Implementation of a Smartphone App to Measure and Manage Anxiety in Undergraduate Clinical Nursing Students.

Various causes exist for nursing student anxiety in the clinical setting. There is a need for further intervention research that may be effective to reduce student anxiety related to clinical. The purpose of this pilot research study was to measure and manage anxiety for nursing students in the clinical area with the assistance of a smartphone app.

Barriers to Civil Academic Work Environments: Experiences of Academic Faculty Leaders.

Faculty-to-faculty incivility negatively affects not only the victim of the uncivil behavior but also the nursing program as a whole. This phenomenological study explored the experiences of academic nurse administrators who have dealt with incivility among and between faculty members. An interpretative approach was used to uncover themes, and suggestions are made for managing faculty-to-faculty incivility.

Faculty to faculty incivility: experiences of novice nurse faculty in academia.

Academic incivility creates a challenging work environment for nursing faculty. Understanding the concept of faculty-to-faculty incivility may enlighten faculty regarding appropriate interpersonal relationships, assist in alleviating uncivil behavior, and improve the likelihood that faculty will remain in nursing education, potentially easing the current nursing faculty shortage. The primary purpose of this study was to describe novice nurse faculty members' lived experiences of faculty-to-faculty incivility.