Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy: A Nursing Perspective.

Purpose: Vaccination is one of the most successful and cost-effective health promotion interventions, preventing millions of deaths per year. Vaccine hesitancy (VH) received renewed attention in the United States when over 30 million Americans were undecided or had barriers to receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. The purpose is to examine the literature regarding vaccine hesitancy, its history and legal aspects.

Vaccine Hesitancy: Developing Competency in Nursing Students Through Simulation.

Background: Many Americans are undecided about or have barriers to receiving vaccines. Complacency, confidence, convenience, misinformation, and disinformation impact vaccine hesitancy (VH).

Problem: During the COVID-19 pandemic, rates for flu and routine childhood vaccinations declined globally.

Teaching Social Determinants of Health Through an Unfolding Case Study.

Background: The impact of social determinants of health (SDOH) was developed to educate nursing students through the use of an unfolding case study.

Problem: SDOH and population health are critical components of prelicensure nursing education. Unfolding case studies are a strategy to develop critical thinking and teach SDOH to nursing students.

Adapting a community health nursing course to an online format.

As COVID-19 spread through the United States in March 2020, universities were forced to move to online learning to minimize COVID-19 transmission. Students in nursing programs represent several generational cohorts with varying learning styles and comfort with technology. This move to an online format required faculty and students to use digital tools from video conferencing, remote testing, online classes, and an unfolding case study.

Essential content in RN-BSN programs.

Currently, there are more than 600 registered nurse to bachelor of science in nursing (RN-BSN) programs in the United States, and the number of students enrolled in them is growing quickly. This growth is at least partially in response to the Institute of Medicine's recent recommendation that 80% of RNs be BSN prepared by 2020. Proliferation of RN-BSN programs suggests a need to examine them more critically, as very little information is available in the nursing literature or through accrediting bodies regarding what courses and content they should include.

Eighty percent by 2020: the present and future of RN-to-BSN education.

More than 600 RN-to-BSN programs currently exist in the United States, and the numbers of programs and students are growing rapidly. This unprecedented growth is a result of several factors, including the Institute of Medicine's recommendation that 80% of RNs be BSN prepared by 2020. This survey was undertaken to explore key ideas and issues related to RN-to-BSN education to gather information on how RN-to-BSN programs are changing and to uncover concerns posited by program directors.

Integration of end-of-life education into a community health nursing course.

Student nurses and novice nurses report that they received little in their nursing education to adequately prepare them for the death of a patient. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing's (AACN) competencies for end-of-life care assert the need for competent nursing care at the time of death. To prepare students to care for dying patients and their families, a hospice clinical experience in a community health nursing course was designed to facilitate the development of competence in caring for adults and children at the end of life.

National survey of RN-to-BSN programs.

More than 600 RN-to-BSN programs exist in the United States. Little information is available describing many aspects of these programs (e.g.

A structured, interactive method for youth participation in a school district-university partnership to prevent obesity.

Background: The involvement of school-age children in participatory research is described in the context of a school district-university partnership to prevent obesity in children. The purpose of this study was to elicit, from children in kindergarten (K) through sixth grade, perceptions of foods and activities that would inform the design of developmentally appropriate interventions to prevent and reduce childhood obesity.

Methods: Children (N = 218) were selected through a random sample of K through sixth grade classrooms in 3 schools.

The relationship between body mass index (weight status) and hypertension in a cohort of elementary school students: a retrospective longitudinal study.

This study longitudinally investigated the relationship between childhood body mass index and hypertension in a cohort of 4th-grade students. Students who were overweight or at risk for overweight when in the 1st grade were over 4 times more likely to be overweight or at-risk-for overweight in the 4th grade than were students who were not overweight or not at risk for overweight when in the 1st grade. Students who were overweight or at risk for overweight when in the 1st grade were approximately 3 times more likely to be hypertensive or prehypertensive in the 4th grade than were students who were not overweight or not at risk for overweight when in the 1st grade.