Development and Validation of an Instrument to Measure Nurses' Beliefs Toward Deaf and Hard of Hearing Interaction.

Background And Purpose: Nurse-patient communication has a significant effect on health outcomes and quality of care. The purpose of this research was to develop and validate an instrument to measure nurses' beliefs toward interacting with Deaf signers, non-signing deaf, and hard of hearing (DdHH) patients.

Methods: Initial pool items created based on literature review.

Associations among hearing loss, hospitalization, readmission and mortality in older adults: A systematic review.

Objective: Older adults with hearing loss face many challenges impacting health outcomes. The objective of this review was to evaluate current evidence for associations among hearing loss, hospitalizations, readmissions and mortality in older adults living with hearing loss.

Methods: A systematic search, of PubMed, CINAHL and Embase was performed in October 2018.

Fluency in Nursing Education and Simulation: A Concept Analysis.

Aim: The aim of the study was to realign how nurses view simulation in nursing education as a means of facilitating fluency in knowledge and action to promote expertise in practice.

Background: Nursing expertise is attained by translating complex phenomena across multiple representations and by constructing meaning through experience. Simulation provides learners the experiences necessary to develop fluency in thought and action.

Driven from distraction: how infants respond to parents' attempts to elicit and re-direct their attention.

This experiment examined how parents' verbal and non-verbal behavioral cues cause infants to shift and share attention within environments where many objects compete for infants' attention. Fifteen- and 21-month-old infants played with toys while their parent periodically shifted attention to a distal object within a larger array. Parents' attention-shifts were indicated by a change in direction of gaze, a pointing gesture, and/or verbalizations.