National Study Examining Excellence and Value in Physical Therapist Residency Education: Part 1-Design, Methods, and Results.

Objective: A challenge in health professions is training practitioners to navigate health care complexities, promote health, optimize outcomes, and advance their field. Physical therapist residency education offers a pathway to meet these needs in ways that "entry-level" (professional) education may not. Identifying key aspects of excellence in residency education and understanding its value in developing adaptive expertise will help devise strategies to enhance program, resident, and patient outcomes.

National Study Examining Excellence and Value in Physical Therapist Residency Education: Part 2-A Call to Action.

This Perspective provides a crucial set of actions with corresponding recommendations aimed at propelling the physical therapy profession toward excellence in residency education. The conceptual model includes elements of excellence in the delivery and outcomes of physical therapist residency education and the domain of value experienced by stakeholders impacted by physical therapist residency education. Linked to the conceptual model, the 15 actions, and 28 recommendations draw from (1) the Physical Therapist Residency Excellence and Value (PT-REV) study, (2) the Physical Therapist Education for the 21st Century (PTE-21) study, and (3) research in the learning sciences.

The influence of community health on hospitals attainment of Magnet designation: Implications for policy and practice.

Aims: To determine if there is an association between better County Health Rankings and the increased odds of a hospital gaining Magnet designation in subsequent years (2014-2019) compared with counties with lower rankings.

Background: The Magnet hospital model is recognized to have a great effect on nurses, patients and organizational outcomes. Although Magnet hospital designation is a well-established structural marker for nursing excellence, the effect of County Health Rankings and subsequent hospital achievement of Magnet status is unknown.

Grandparents' Mental Health and Lived Experiences while Raising Their Grandchildren at the Forefront of COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia.

Understanding grandparents' lived experiences and healthy aging is essential to designing efficient, effective, and safe services to support a family structure in which grandparents care for their grandchildren. However, no study to date has explored this concept in an Arab and Muslim country during a pandemic. The purpose of this study was to examine grandparents' experiences raising their grandchildren to provide recommendations for needed mental health interventions during and after COVID-19.

Older and Wiser? The Need to Reexamine the Impact of Health Professionals Age and Experience on Competency-Based Practices.

Introduction: Delivery of healthcare services makes up a complex system and it requires providers to be competent and to be able to integrate each of the institute of medicine's (IOM) 5 core competencies into practice. However, healthcare providers are challenged with the task to be able to understand and apply the IOM core competencies into practice.

Objective: The purpose of the study was to examine the factors that influence health professional's likelihood of accomplishing the IOM core competencies.

Covid-19 Impacts on Florida's Healthcare Professionals.

This study described how COVID-19 impacted employment, telehealth usage, and interprofessional collaboration. A cross-sectional survey was deployed in June 2020 to healthcare professionals in Florida. Job status was uniquely separated by profession, with more nurses and medical doctors reported having no effect, and more mental health counselors transitioned to telehealth.