Pearls for surviving unprecedented healthcare challenges: Qualitative research responses from nurses.

Purpose: Before the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses had little experience providing care during a pandemic. This project aimed to identify Pearls (suggestions) to survive a pandemic as a nurse.

Methods: A phenomenologic design was implemented.

Relationship Between Spiritual Well-being and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms in United States Air Force Remotely Piloted Aircraft and Intelligence Personnel.

Background: Remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) are in frequent use by the U.S. Air Force to engage in combat operations from remote locations.

Anger, hostility, and hospitalizations in patients with heart failure.

Objective: Heart failure patients have a high hospitalization rate, and anger and hostility are associated with coronary heart disease morbidity and mortality. Using structural equation modeling, this prospective study assessed the predictive validity of anger and hostility traits for cardiovascular and all-cause rehospitalizations in patients with heart failure.

Method: 146 heart failure patients were administered the STAXI and Cook-Medley Hostility Inventory to measure anger, hostility, and their component traits.

Effect of Nurses Living Fit™ exercise and nutrition intervention on body mass index in nurses.

Objective: The hospital-based Nurses Living Fit (NLF) intervention was implemented by nurses to determine its effect on decreasing body mass index (BMI) in nurse participants.

Background: Although there are limited data on obesity rates of nurses working in the United States, more than half are estimated to be overweight or obese.

Methods: The NLF intervention included exercise (12 weekly sessions), yoga and nutrition (4 monthly sessions), and diary completion (exercise/yoga, food/water consumption, and sleep), addressing healthy lifestyle principles.

Get in the flow with catheter-directed thrombolysis.

When used in conjunction with standard therapies, catheter-directed thrombolysis reduces complications and yields improved patient outcomes.

Learning about catheter-directed thrombolysis: an aggressive treatment that can quickly resolve deep vein thrombosis.

Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) can lead to life altering changes or death. Aggressive thrombolytic therapy is available to treat selected patients quickly and effectively.