Educational and professional experiences of men in nursing: An interpretive description study to guide change and foster inclusive environments for men in nursing.

Background: Nursing shortages are occurring due to decreased student enrollment, nurse burnout, staffing deficits, nurse retirements, and increasingly low numbers of nursing faculty. Men are an untapped resource that can offset these crises. However, men's presence in nursing remains underwhelming.

Beyond Men's Experiences: Scale Development and Psychometric Testing of the Fitness in Nursing Scale-Men (FiNS-M©).

Men believe they are perceived as unfit for nursing. No scales exist to measure perceptions of men's fitness for nursing. Additionally, women have been largely excluded from this area of inquiry.

Nursing practice in modern healthcare environments: A systematic review of attributes, characteristics, and demonstrations.

Aim: To identify Attributes, Characteristics and Demonstrations of nursing practice from both nurses' and people perspectives in today's healthcare environments. A secondary aim was to identify relevant differences between female and male nurses in the context of ACDs.

Design: This systematic review was informed by the Joanna Briggs Institute Convergent Integrated Approach to Mixed Study Systematic Reviews.

Fatigue, Stress, and Blood Pressure Medication Adherence by Race After Myocardial Infarction.

Fatigue and stress may affect medication adherence. This study explored fatigue, stress, and blood pressure (BP) medication adherence in Black and White adults (= 152) who had experienced a myocardial infarction. Over half of the sample (55%) reported fatigue as moderate to severe.

Symptom experiences in hypertension: a mixed methods systematic review.

Aim: Understanding patients' hypertension (HTN) symptoms can assist healthcare professionals' awareness of individual, cultural, and behavioral responses and improve diagnostic accuracy to optimize treatment. The purpose of this review was to evaluate and synthesize current literature exploring HTN symptoms.

Methods: Databases searched included MEDLINE (PubMed), CINAHL (EBSCO), Scopus, and Web of Science from January 2010 to January 2022.

Factors Associated With Myocardial Infarction Reoccurrence.

Background: As recurrent myocardial infarctions (MIRs) constitute almost a third of the annual incidence of myocardial infarction, identifying the traditional and novel variables related to MIR is important.

Objective: The aim of this study was to examine modifiable cardiac risks, adiposity, symptoms associated with inflammation (fatigue, depression, sleep) and inflammatory cytokines, and MIR by sex and race.

Methods: Using a cross-sectional descriptive design, we recruited a convenience sample of adults (N = 156) discharged with first myocardial infarction or had MIR in the last 3 to 7 years.

Perioperative Urinary TIMP-2*IGFBP7 and Acute Kidney Injury: A Systematic Review.

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common post-operative outcome after major surgery. Many studies strive to improve the timeliness of identifying a surgical-associated AKI using novel renal biomarkers. However, there are limited studies focusing on the intraoperative phase of adult patient populations.

A pilot study investigating the relationship between heart rate variability and blood pressure in young adults at risk for cardiovascular disease.

Background: Cardiovascular disease is one of the leading causes of death globally with hypertension being a primary cause of premature death from this disease process. Individuals with a family history of cardiovascular disease and hypertension are at a greater risk for developing the same sequela. Autonomic cardiac control is important in the level of cardiac function.

Life-space constriction in aging adults.

Background: Early indicators of declining function and frailty, such as life-space constriction (LSC), are important in identifying those at risk for frailty.

Purpose: Examine factors associated with LSC and the influence on function and frailty.

Methods: A cross-sectional, descriptive study was conducted using a convenience sample of community dwelling persons 55 and older living in the South.

A Qualitative Descriptive Study: Young Adults' Experiences With Biofeedback.

Purpose: This study explored the experiences of young adults who participated in biofeedback training and reported a family history of cardiovascular disease.

Design: A qualitative descriptive study design was used.

Method: Private semistructured interviews were conducted on a purposive sample.

Living with an Insertable Cardiac Monitor: Influences on Self-Care Management.

The insertable cardiac monitor (ICM) is technology for diagnosing cardiac arrhythmias. The perception of those living with the device and how this relates to self-care management is unknown. The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of those with undiagnosed cardiac symptoms living with an ICM.

Role expectations and workplace relations experienced by men in nursing: A qualitative study through an interpretive description lens.

Aims: The aim of this study was to investigate the lived experiences of male nurses in today's healthcare environment to understand the persistently low numbers of men in nursing.

Design: This study used interpretive description methodology, which aligns with nursing's approach to knowledge discovery by acknowledging the evolution and complexity of shared and individual experiences.

Methods: Participants, (N = 11), were recruited through the American Association for Men in Nursing using purposive sampling.

Exploring the experiences of individuals with an insertable cardiac monitor: Making the decision for device insertion.

Background: Little is known about the decision-making process for insertable cardiac monitors (ICM) in those with suspected arrhythmias.

Objective: The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe how individuals make a decision to insert an ICM.

Methods: A qualitative descriptive design was used.

Comparing comorbidity measures and fatigue post myocardial infarction.

Purpose/aims: The purpose of this study was to examine comorbidity measures that may relate to the symptom of fatigue post MI: self-reported comorbidities, medication-validated comorbidities, weighted comorbidities for fatigue, and number of comorbidities.

Design: Using a cross sectional design, we interviewed a convenience sample of 98 adults, 65 and older, who were 6 to 8 months post myocardial infarction.

Methods: Participants self-reported their comorbidities using a list of 23 comorbid conditions.

Factors Associated with Discharge to a Skilled Nursing Facility after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Surgery.

An assumption regarding transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), a minimally invasive procedure for treating aortic stenosis, is that patients remain at, or near baseline and soon return to their presurgical home to resume activities of daily living. However, this does not consistently occur. The purpose of this study was to identify preoperative factors that optimally predict discharge to a skilled nursing facility (SNF) after TAVR.

Pain Support for Adults with a Diabetes-Related Lower Limb Amputation: an Empirical Phenomenology Study.

Background: Chronic pain after lower extremity amputation surgery has been reported in up to 80% of patients. Amputations are among the most debilitating chronic complication of diabetes with a variety of consequences including depression, inability to perform daily activities, and change in quality of life.

Aims: This study sought to understand the lived experience of chronic pain support among those who have undergone a diabetes-related lower limb amputation.

Effects of Tactile Desensitization on Postoperative Pain After Amputation Surgery.

Purpose: Pain in the acute setting after amputation is complex with multiple types of pain experienced, including somatic and neuropathic. No studies have measured multiple pain control modalities while using self-management techniques for acute amputation pain. Desensitization could provide a means of pain control for somatic and neuropathic pain.

Low-salt diet adherence in African Americans with hypertension.

Aims And Objectives: To identify health and physiological measures, depressive symptoms and locus of control (LOC) in adherence to a low salt (1,500 mg sodium), diet in African American (AA) adults with hypertension (HTN).

Background: Adherence determinants to self-management behaviours among AA adults with HTN is essential in prevention of outcomes such as stroke. A low-salt diet is one key factor in the successful management of HTN.

Factors associated with physical activity in African Americans with hypertension.

Background: Pharmacological management only controls 58% of those with hypertension. Combining pharmacological therapy with physical activity is important in controlling hypertension.

Aim: To examine factors associated with physical activity (PA) adherence in African Americans (AAs) with hypertension and antihypertensive medication adherence.

Transparency: a concept analysis.

This column is a review of the use of the term transparency as it relates to healthcare with specific emphasis on nursing practice. Concept analysis is guided by Parse's concept inventing approach. The relevance of this concept to nursing has become increasing important in the language of healthcare.