The Disruption of Patient Ambulation Care Processes by COVID-19: Revealing the Value of Visitor Assistance.

Objective: To explore the impact of COVID-19 on care processes and ambulation outcomes.

Background: COVID-19 forced hospital leaders to make systems-level changes that disrupted patient ambulation. The impact of these changes on the ambulation of hospitalized patients was unknown.

Application of case study research and ethnography methods: Lessons learned.

While case studies can offer an in-depth investigation of a particular issue in healthcare, cultural context may be overlooked. Researchers may want to consider adding a cultural component to the design aimed at identifying and/or explaining values, beliefs, or traditions influencing the case. The addition of focused ethnography as a supplemental component to the research design is one strategy to examine cultural content.

Strategies for progression in a PhD nursing program within a transition model.

Background: There is a need for interventions to improve the PhD pipeline for nursing program enrollment. PhD nursing students who have navigated the program successfully are in a strategic position to help by sharing their stories. Several strategies for successful completion of a PhD program and some common expected barriers have been documented in the literature.