A Case for Open Pedagogy in Nursing Education.

Background: Open pedagogy increases access to equitable nursing education with its commitment to the scholarship of "teaching and learning" and critically framed, student-centered, relational, and open knowledge principles.

Purpose: This study examined the operation of and factors that nurture and challenge the practice of open pedagogy in an undergraduate digital distance nursing education program.

Methods: An exploratory qualitative methodology was used to examine linkages between open pedagogy and a nursing education program in an open digital distance Canadian university.

Using Open Educational Practices: Implications for Nursing Education.

Background: This paper reports on our use of open educational practices (OEPs) with online students in nursing.

Purpose: Our aim was to provide nurse educators with knowledge about (and examples of) OEPs they could use to enhance student learning and their career satisfaction.

Method: Using collaborative autoethnography, we probed our open teaching strategies.

Health-care providers' experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons for leaders.

Purpose: The purpose of this qualitative research study is to explore health-care providers' perspectives and experiences with a specific focus on supports reported to be effective during the COVID-19 pandemic. The overarching goal of this study is to inform leaders and leadership regarding provision of supports that could be implemented during times of crisis and in the future beyond the pandemic.

Design/methodology/approach: Data were collected by semi-structured, conversational interviews with a sample of 33 health-care professionals, including Registered Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Registered Psychologists, Registered Dieticians and an Occupational Therapist.

Facilitating family-focused Care of Older adults living in Long-Term Care in Canada during Restricted Visiting due to COVID-19.

Background: The focus of this paper is exemplary gerontological nursing interventions that effectively supported families and long-term care residents in Canada during visiting restrictions resulting from COVID-19.

Objective: The aim was to describe exemplary gerontological nursing interventions that families and long-term care residents in Canada found supportive during visiting restrictions resulting from COVID-19.

Methods: An analysis of data artefacts including news reports, blogs and social media postings was completed.

#Morethanavisitor: Experiences of COVID-19 visitor restrictions in Canadian long-term care facilities.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to understand the experiences of families, residents, and staff around visitor restriction policies in long-term care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.

Background: Beginning in March 2020, public health orders across Canada restricted visitors to long-term care facilities to curb the spread of the infection. This included family caregivers who provide significant support to residents to meet their physical, psychological, social, and safety needs.

Aligning Nursing Ethics With Critical and Open Pedagogy in Nursing Education: A Literature Review.

Background: There is a need to increase access to nursing education that is meaningful and socially just.

Purpose: To investigate the alignment of critical and open pedagogy in nursing education with nursing principles of ethics.

Method: Narrative thematic synthesis literature review of Canadian and American sources related to nursing education.

Establishing Meaningful Learning in Online Nursing Postconferences: A Literature Review.

Background: Effective teaching and learning strategies in online postconference can assist students to find meaning within clinical experiences.

Purpose: To explore this, we completed a literature review about meaningful learning in online clinical postconferencing in prelicensure nursing education.

Methods: Articles that were peer-reviewed, published within the last 10 years, written in English, and addressed online learning in clinical postconferences in prelicensure nursing programs were included.

Evaluation of Online Learning Modules for Improving Physical Activity Counseling Skills, Practices, and Knowledge of Oncology Nurses.

Purpose/objectives: To examine the effectiveness of online learning modules for improving physical activity counseling practices among oncology nurses. 
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Design: Randomized, controlled trial.

Deficient Adipogenesis of Scleroderma Patient and Healthy African American Monocytes.

Monocytes from systemic sclerosis (SSc, scleroderma) patients and healthy African Americans (AA) are deficient in the regulatory protein caveolin-1 leading to enhanced migration toward chemokines and fibrogenic differentiation. While dermal fibrosis is the hallmark of SSc, loss of subcutaneous adipose tissue is a lesser-known feature. To better understand the etiology of SSc and the predisposition of AA to SSc, we studied the adipogenic potential of SSc and healthy AA monocytes.

Taking action: An exploration of the actions of exemplary oncology nurses when there is a sense of hopelessness and futility perceived by registered nurses at diagnosis, during treatment, and in palliative situations.

"There is nothing more that can be done" is a phrase that may occasionally cross the minds of oncology nurses. This paper reports on the actions of exemplary oncology nurses who were faced with such situations where their colleagues gave up or turned away. The research question, "What actions do exemplary clinical oncology nurses (RNs) undertake in patient-care situations where further nursing interventions seem futile?" prefaced data collection via a secure website where 14 Canadian clinical oncology registered nurses (RNs) provided narratives documenting their actions.

Enhanced chemokine-receptor expression, function, and signaling in healthy African American and scleroderma-patient monocytes are regulated by caveolin-1.

Background: A major health disparity suffered by African Americans (AA) is a predisposition toward fibrotic diseases of the skin, lung, and other organs. We previously showed that healthy AA and scleroderma (systemic sclerosis (SSc)) patient monocytes share biochemical and functional differences from control Caucasian (C) monocytes that may predispose AA to SSc. The central difference is a decrease in caveolin-1.

Fibrocytes in the fibrotic lung: altered phenotype detected by flow cytometry.

Fibrocytes are bone marrow hematopoietic-derived cells that also express a mesenchymal cell marker (commonly collagen I) and participate in fibrotic diseases of multiple organs. Given their origin, they or their precursors must be circulating cells before recruitment into target tissues. While most previous studies focused on circulating fibrocytes, here we focus on the fibrocyte phenotype in fibrotic tissue.

Caveolin-1 regulates chemokine receptor 5-mediated contribution of bone marrow-derived cells to dermal fibrosis.

In fibrotic diseases caveolin-1 underexpression in fibroblasts results in collagen overexpression and in monocytes leads to hypermigration. These profibrotic behaviors are blocked by the caveolin-1 scaffolding domain peptide (CSD) which compensates for caveolin-1 deficiency. Monocytes and fibroblasts are related in that monocytes are the progenitors of fibrocytes (CD45+/Collagen I+ cells) that, in turn, are the progenitors of many fibroblasts in fibrotic tissues.

Caveolin-1 deficiency may predispose African Americans to systemic sclerosis-related interstitial lung disease.

Objective: Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is the leading cause of death in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc; scleroderma). Although SSc-related ILD is more common and severe in African Americans than in Caucasians, little is known about factors underlying this significant health disparity. The aim of this study was to examine the role that low expression of caveolin-1 might play in susceptibility to ILD among African Americans.

Differential regulation of cell functions by CSD peptide subdomains.

Background: In fibrotic lung diseases, expression of caveolin-1 is decreased in fibroblasts and monocytes. The effects of this deficiency are reversed by treating cells or animals with the caveolin-1 scaffolding domain peptide (CSD, amino acids 82-101 of caveolin-1) which compensates for the lack of caveolin-1. Here we compare the function of CSD subdomains (Cav-A, Cav-B, Cav-C, Cav-AB, and Cav-BC) and mutated versions of CSD (F92A and T90A/T91A/F92A).

An exploration of the experience of compassion fatigue in clinical oncology nurses.

Compassion fatigue (CF) is "debilitating weariness brought about by repetitive, empathic responses to the pain and suffering of others" (LaRowe, 2005, p. 21). The work performed by oncology nurses, and the experiences of the people they care for, place oncology nurses at high risk for CF (Pierce et al.

Family caregivers' compassion fatigue in long-term facilities.

Aim: The aim of this study was to explore the presence of compassion fatigue in family carers who assist staff with care of older relatives in long-term settings.

Method: Narrative data were collected through observation and conversations with five purposively selected family carers.

Findings: Thematic and poetic analysis suggest that family carers exhibit symptoms associated in the literature with compassion fatigue in nurses and other healthcare professionals.

Being an exemplary role model: it begins with an optimistic attitude.

This phenomenological research study focused on a sample of eight registered nurses identified by their colleagues as outstanding. Data were collected by interviewing and observing the participant nurses. Narrative analysis and poetic interpretation were the two routes of data analysis.

Conveying compassion through attention to the essential ordinary.

Aim: To discover some of the means by which nurses let older people know that they sense their suffering and are willing to try to relieve or at least reduce it.

Method: A purposive sample of seven nurses employed in long-term care in Canada was recruited by network sampling. Data from unstructured interviews and participant observations were analysed and themes identified.

Why exemplary oncology nurses seem to avoid compassion fatigue.

The goal of this phenomenological study was to explore what within the lived experiences of exemplary oncology nurses facilitates the avoidance of compassion fatigue. A purposive sample of seven oncology nurses (RNs) who were identified by their colleagues as exemplary caregivers was recruited. Data were collected through semi-structured conversations that were subsequently transcribed.

Shine on: achieving career satisfaction as a registered nurse.

This phenomenological study focuses on the experience of career satisfaction among registered nurses. Potential participants were asked, "Do you love your work as a nurse?" A random sample of eight nurses who answered yes to this question was questioned further during semistructured conversations. Conversations were recorded and transcribed.

Exemplary care of the palliative patient: the journey shared.

Critical care involves caring for complex and acute needs of patients with life-threatening conditions. Despite skilful interventions, there are times when the care needed by patients and their families is primarily palliative. In this article, the author focuses on examples of ways nurses can make the palliative care they provide exemplary.

Finding professional fulfilment in caring for older people.

This paper describes the findings of a phenomenological study of professional fulfilment in nurses who care for older people. The author sought to uncover what brings career satisfaction to nurses who care for older people and subsequently what motivates these caregivers to continue to care. The findings have implications for clinical nurses who may see reflections of their own approaches to care in the narratives presented.