Improving nursing students' perspective taking, perceptions of humanness, and attitudes toward older adults.

Whereas prior work has examined the role of nursing courses in improving empathic skills and reducing dehumanization of older adults, little research has explored how perspective taking and perceptions of humanness of older adults acquired through nursing curricula predict attitudes toward this age group. Nursing students ( = 43) completed surveys at the beginning (Time 1) and end of gerontological coursework (Time 2). Perspective taking and perceived human nature and human uniqueness of older adults increased from Time 1 to Time 2.

Professional Nursing Values in Men: An NPVS-R Instrument Validation Study.

Background And Purpose: Although the Nurses Professional Values Scale-Revised (NPVS-R) has been validated in predominantly female samples, this instrument has not been validated with adequate samples of men. The purpose of the study was to assess the reliability and validity of the NPVS-R in a sample of male nurses and nursing students.

Methods: Psychometric testing was performed, using principal component analysis (PCA), on a convenience sample of 329 men in nursing from the United States.

Male Caregivers: Shifting Roles Among Family Caregivers.

Background: More than 16 million men in the United States are acting in the role of family caregiver. Men are usually viewed as not being caring simply because they provide care differently than women. However, this is not the case.

Current Perceptions: The DNP-PhD Divide.

Background: Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) and PhD degrees are terminal degrees in nursing, yet they differ in preparation and intended purpose. Perceptions of DNP- and PhD-prepared faculty, staff, and administrators regarding DNP/PhD teaching roles, research expectations, and attitudes toward collaboration are poorly understood.

Objective: This mixed-method study sought to identify current perceptions related to collaboration and utilization of DNP- and PhD-prepared faculty, staff, and administrators.

Professional nursing values: A concept analysis.

Aim: The aim of this concept analysis is to clarify the meaning of professional nursing values.

Background: In a time of increasing ethical dilemmas, it is essential that nurses internalize professional values to develop and maintain a professional identity. However, nursing organizations and researchers provide different conceptions of professional nursing values, leading to a lack of clarity as to the meaning and attributes of this construct.

Becoming Inclusive: A Code of Conduct for Inclusion and Diversity.

There are increasing concerns about exclusionary behaviors and lack of diversity in the nursing profession. Exclusionary behaviors, which may include incivility, bullying, and workplace violence, discriminate and isolate individuals and groups who are different, whereas inclusive behaviors encourage diversity. To address inclusion and diversity in nursing, this article offers a code of conduct.

Core professional nursing values of baccalaureate nursing students who are men.

Background: The perceptions of core professional nursing values of men in baccalaureate nursing programs are poorly understood.

Objective: The study purpose was to understand and interpret the meaning of core professional nursing values to male baccalaureate nursing students.

Research Design And Context: One-to-one interviews were conducted with male nursing students from a public university in the Midwest, following interpretive phenomenology.

Advancing diversity through inclusive excellence in nursing education.

Nurse leaders call for a more diverse nursing workforce, but too few address the concept of inclusion as a recruitment and retention strategy or as part of improving the academic learning milieu. This article addresses organizational considerations of diversity and inclusion as part of the agenda established by the Association of American Colleges and Universities for inclusive excellence, building on the idea that academic environments only become excellent when an inclusive climate is reached. Six organizational strategies to inclusion are presented from the authors' experiences, some structural and others behavioral: admissions processes, invisibility, absence of community, promotion and tenure, exclusion, and tokenism.

Evaluating an accelerated nursing program: a dashboard for diversity.

Diversity is a topic of increasing attention in higher education and the nursing workforce. Experts have called for a nursing workforce that mirrors the population it serves. Students in nursing programs in the United States do not reflect our country's diverse population; therefore, much work is needed before that goal can be reached.

Men in nursing.

This literature review examines the ability of the nursing profession to recruit and retain men in nursing schools and in the nursing workforce. The authors consider such educational barriers as role stress, discrimination, and stereotyping, and explore questions of male touch and the capacity of men to care. In identifying challenges faced by men entering or working in a profession in which women predominate, the authors hope to promote actions on the part of nurse leaders, educators, and researchers that may address issues of sex bias and promote greater sexual diversity within nursing.

Admission criteria for undergraduate nursing programs: a systematic review.

A concise, systematic review of commonly used admission criteria for prelicensure nursing programs is presented in this article. Admission criteria include grades in prenursing college courses, standardized preadmission tests, essays, personal interviews, and volunteerism. Literature is reviewed regarding the relationships between admission criteria and success in undergraduate nursing programs.

Implementing the virtual world of Second Life into community nursing theory and clinical courses.

Nursing students frequently lack an understanding of public health services. Their clinical experiences may occur in home health agencies or community clinics, rather than public health departments. To address the recurring question of what public health nurses do, a Second Life public health office was implemented in the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh's online Accelerated Nursing Program.

Implementing the virtual reality learning environment: Second Life.

Today, faculty members are challenged to find meaningful learning activities that enhance online nursing education. Second Life is an innovative Internet-based strategy that may be used to engage students in active learning. The authors discuss how this technology was implemented into an accelerated online nursing program.

Application of rotated PCA models to facilitate interpretation of metabolite profiles: commercial preparations of St. John's Wort.

This paper describes the application of orthogonal rotation of models based on principal component analysis (PCA) of (1)H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra and high-performance liquid chromatography-photo diode array detection (HPLC-PDA) profiles of natural product mixtures using extracts of antidepressive pharmaceutical preparations of St. John's wort as an example. (1)H-NMR spectroscopy of complex mixtures is often used in metabolomic, metabonomic and metabolite profiling studies for assessment of sample composition.

Combining PARAFAC analysis of HPLC-PDA profiles and structural characterization using HPLC-PDA-SPE-NMR-MS experiments: commercial preparations of St. John's Wort.

Herbal preparations represent very complex mixtures, potentially containing multiple pharmacologically active entities. Methods for global characterization of the composition of such mixtures are therefore of pertinent interest. In this work, chemometric analysis of high-performance liquid chromatography with photodiode-array detection (HPLC-PDA) data from extracts of commercial preparations of Hypericum perforatum (St.