Nursing Student Perceptions of Home Visit Simulation Scenarios.

Ensuring quality clinical placement in community health nursing courses is challenging as faculty cannot observe all nursing students and little consistency is found in student experiences. Simulation can supplement traditional clinical experiences. Two home visit scenarios with learning objectives were developed.

Tutoring for Success: Empowering Graduate Nurses After Failure on the NCLEX-RN.

Background: Failure on the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN) is a devastating experience. Most research related to NCLEX-RN is focused on predicting and preventing failure. Despite these efforts, more than 20,000 nursing school graduates experience failure on the NCLEX-RN each year, and there is a paucity of literature regarding remediation after failure.

Meeting baccalaureate public/community health nursing education competencies in nurse-managed wellness centers.

The purpose of this article is to describe how community health competencies for baccalaureate nursing education have been met by locating clinical experiences in nurse-managed wellness centers. Such centers are an ideal setting for students to integrate theoretical concepts into clinical practice while building on previous learning. Students are able to develop skills in community health nursing practice at individual, family, and population level.

Using the Omaha System as a framework to demonstrate the value of nurse managed wellness center services for vulnerable populations.

Nurse managed wellness centers (NMWCs) are academic service settings where baccalaureate nursing students gain rich community health clinical experience while providing valuable wellness services to a vulnerable population. The Omaha System provides a framework for generating meaningful data that is essential for describing the value of NMWCs. A retrospective study of Omaha System assessments from 9 NMWCs provides descriptive data about the characteristics of the patient population and patient outcomes in relationship to knowledge, behavior, and status.

Positive health practices and temporal perspective in low-income adults.

Aims: The purpose of this study was to describe health-promoting behaviours and temporal perspective in low-income adults.

Background: Positive health practices represent a broad range of health-promoting behaviours. The ability to adopt positive health practices may be influenced by many factors, one of which is temporal perspective, the perceived relationship between past, present and future times.

Fostering coping skills and resilience in Home Enteral Nutrition (HEN) consumers.

Background: Home enteral nutrition (HEN) is a lifesaving therapy that provides benefits along with countless challenges. This qualitative study examined how HEN consumers learned to cope successfully with HEN-related challenges and uncovered how healthcare providers could help foster the process of coping in other HEN consumers.

Methods: Twelve adult HEN consumers who perceived that they were coping successfully and overcoming the adversity associated with HEN, and met the criteria for resilience using the Resilience Scale, self-selected for the study.