Development and Acceptability of Provider Training to Increase Treatment Engagement of Parents in Their Children's Behavioral Health Care Need.

Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct disorders (DIC) affect 5 million children in the United States and often require comprehensive and long-term behavioral health care for which sustained parental involvement is essential. Our research team is developing an intervention to improve parental engagement in the behavioral health care of their children with DIC. The intervention, which will be a modification of an evidence-based shared decision-making intervention called DECIDE, will include a parent component and a provider component.

Institutional factors that affect faculty mentoring in academic nursing programs.

Background: Mentoring in academic nursing facilitates the acclimation of nurse faculty into academia, supports career development, and improves faculty satisfaction and retention. While studies have examined the characteristics of effective mentors, few have examined institutional influences on academic mentoring for faculty.

Purpose: To identify institutional factors that support or hinder faculty-to-faculty academic mentoring from the perspectives of experienced nurse faculty mentors.

Development of a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) Activity.

Global mobility has made global health a priority within nursing curricula and health care organizations. A collaborative online learning activity could promote international perspectives of health care delivery. Including a collaborative online international learning activity in continuing education for practicing nurses is a viable strategy that is consistent with the internationalization at home movement.

Implementation of Research in Community Mental Health Centers: The Challenge of Provider Engagement.

Conducting clinical research in public sector community mental health centers (CMHCs) can be challenging. The purpose of this report is to describe the challenges our research team encountered in engaging CMHC providers in a clinical trial aimed at testing an intervention to improve parent activation and engagement in their child's behavioral healthcare. We discuss the intervention we aimed to test, the challenges we encountered engaging providers, and the barriers to engagement that we identified.

Perspectives of emergency department physicians and nurses on reasons for preventable emergency department visits by patients with cancer.

Background: Patients with cancer frequently visit the emergency department (ED) for medical care, yet approximately half of ED visits for patients with cancer are thought to be preventable. Preventable ED visits are associated with increased healthcare costs and poor patient experiences and outcomes. The voices of ED providers who work with patients with cancer in their everyday practices have not been solicited as it pertains to preventable visits.

Mentoring in Academic Nursing From the Perspectives of Faculty Mentors.

Aim: The aim of this study was to create a theoretical framework that describes how mentoring relationships in academic nursing unfold from the perspectives of nurse faculty mentors.

Background: Mentoring is a strategy that can promote the satisfaction and retention of nurse faculty. Although research has focused on the experiences of protégés in mentoring relationships, little is known about mentoring from the perspectives of nurse faculty mentors.

"Quick flutter skip": midlife women's descriptions of palpitations.

Objective: The objective of this study is to describe peri- and postmenopausal women's experiences of palpitations (quality, frequency, severity, distress, duration and temporal pattern, aura, associated symptoms, and aggravating/alleviating factors) and related healthcare experiences.

Methods: Qualitative descriptive methods were used. Semistructured interviews were conducted with women who reported palpitations and were enrolled in a larger case-control pilot study comparing electrocardiographic results between women with and without palpitations.

Psychosocial Experiences, Challenges, and Recommendations for Care Delivery among Partners of Breast Cancer Survivors: A Qualitative Study.

For women diagnosed with breast cancer, partners are consistently identified as the primary support person. Despite growing consensus about the psychosocial experience and unmet needs of cancer caregivers, limited evidence exists about strategies to offer partner-centered care across the cancer continuum. This study describes challenges endured by partners of breast cancer survivors (BCS), strategies implemented to manage these experiences, and recommendations for healthcare providers to inform targeted psychosocial care.

App Design Features Important for Diabetes Self-management as Determined by the Self-Determination Theory on Motivation: Content Analysis of Survey Responses From Adults Requiring Insulin Therapy.

Background: Using a diabetes app can improve glycemic control; however, the use of diabetes apps is low, possibly due to design issues that affect patient motivation.

Objective: This study aimed to describes how adults with diabetes requiring insulin perceive diabetes apps based on 3 key psychological needs (competence, autonomy, and connectivity) described by the Self-Determination Theory (SDT) on motivation.

Methods: This was a qualitative analysis of data collected during a crossover randomized laboratory trial (N=92) testing 2 diabetes apps.

A qualitative analysis of cancer-related patient care in the emergency department.

Objectives: Due to an increasing incidence of new cancer diagnoses in the United States and longer survivorship, a growing number of patients with cancer receive care in emergency departments (EDs). This trend places an increasing burden on already crowded EDs, and experts are concerned these patients do not receive optimal care. The purpose of this study was to describe the experiences of ED physicians and nurses who care for patients with cancer.

Mentoring-as-Partnership: The Meaning of Mentoring Among Novice Nurse Faculty.

Background: Mentoring is recommended as a strategy to improve satisfaction and retention of novice nurse faculty to help address the current faculty shortage. However, the meaning of academic mentoring varies among faculty, which can detract from the development of effective mentoring relationships in academia. This article details the meaning of mentoring as characterized by novice nurse faculty.

Parental Engagement in Consent Processes for Enrollment in Biomedical HIV Prevention Trials: Implications for Minor Adolescents' Willingness to Participate.

Purpose: Minor adolescents are often excluded from HIV prevention clinical trials due to unresolved ethical issues. Their under-representation in research leads to delayed access to new HIV prevention approaches. We examine the relationship between consent procedures, trial features, demographic and social characteristics, and minor adolescents' willingness to participate (WTP) in biomedical HIV prevention research.

Exploring Mentoring Relationships Among Novice Nurse Faculty: A Grounded Theory.

Aim: The aim of this study was to develop a theoretical framework that describes the mentoring process from the perspectives of novice nurse faculty.

Background: Additional nurse faculty are needed to help combat the nurse faculty shortage, but many who enter the faculty role come from professional and educational backgrounds that may not equate to success with the tripartite faculty role. Mentoring is promoted as an intervention for career development.

The Attributes and Influence of Individuals Associated With Newly Licensed Registered Nurses in Nurse Residency Programs: A Guide for Program Development.

Nurse residency programs address the preparation-practice gap by improving the confidence and skills of newly licensed registered nurses and increasing retention rates. Little is known about how persons involved in nurse residency programs influence new nurses' transition to practice. A qualitative descriptive study revealed five attributes of residency program directors, educators, preceptors, mentors, unit leaders, colleagues, and peers that either hindered or facilitated new nurses' transition to practice.

Reasons for and associated characteristics with early study termination: Analysis of ClinicalTrials.gov data on pregnancy topics.

Background: Prematurely terminated studies are unlikely to provide data for evidence-based practice. There has been no systematic review on premature study termination on pregnancy-related research.

Purpose: This study investigated the reasons why studies on pregnancy topics are terminated and the associated characteristics with early termination.

Exploring mentoring and nurse faculty: An integrative review.

Background: Mentoring is recommended as an intervention to assist nurses in adjusting to the faculty role. While research on academic mentoring for nurse faculty is growing, the findings of this body of research have not been summarized to inform the development of mentoring programs.

Purpose: The purpose of this integrative review is to summarize and synthesize the research regarding mentoring relationships and mentoring programs in academia for nurse faculty.

Connecting and disconnecting: Experiences of people with opioid use disorder in intensive outpatient treatment.

Introduction: Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a public health crisis affecting 2 million Americans. Approximately 80% of people with OUD do not receive treatment, and attrition rates in treatment programs are as high as 80%. Previous research has shown intensive outpatient treatment (IOT) has positive outcomes, but enrollment and retention in programs are problematic.

A study of Indiana University Health's spirit of inquiry and innovation during COVID.

Background: COVID-19 has required nursing innovations to meet patient care needs not previously encountered.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe nursing innovations conceived, implemented, and desired during the first COVID-19 surge.

Methods: The investigators invited registered nurses employed across 16 Midwest hospitals (6,207) to complete the survey.

Activation in persons with mental health disorders: An integrative review.

WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: Evidence indicates a strong relationship between patient activation (i.e. confidence, knowledge and skills to self-manage health) and positive health behaviours and outcomes in a variety of clinical populations.

A Review of Nursing Position Statements on Racism Following the Murder of George Floyd and Other Black Americans.

National outrage over the killings of George Floyd and other Black Americans in the United States prompted public outcry against police brutality and racism in law enforcement and drew national attention to systemic racism as a public health crisis. In response, during the summer of 2020 many health organizations issued position statements in response to the murders. This article examines such statements issued by 3 prominent nursing organizations and 18 schools of nursing.

Nurses' Approaches to Pain Management for Women With Opioid Use Disorder in the Perinatal Period.

Objective: To identify how nurses approach pain management for women with opioid use disorder (OUD) in the perinatal period from the perspectives of nurses and women.

Design: A secondary analysis of data from a qualitative descriptive study on the development of trust between nurses and women who use substances during the perinatal period.

Setting: We interviewed the woman participants in a private conference room at a residential treatment center, and we interviewed the nurse participants over the phone.

Pain Quality Among Hospitalized Postcraniotomy Brain Tumor Patients.

Purpose/aims: The aim of this study was to describe how persons given a diagnosis of a brain tumor who have had a craniotomy describe the quality of their pain after surgery.

Design: A qualitative descriptive design was used.

Methods: Qualitative descriptive methods as described by Sandelowski guided this study.

My Whole World Changed: A Qualitative Exploration of the Coping Experiences of Transgender Women After an HIV Diagnosis.

The aim of this study was to generate a theoretical stage model that describes transgender women's coping strategies and responses after a new HIV diagnosis. The sample included 18 transgender women living with HIV in a large metropolitan city in central Indiana. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, digitally recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analyzed using grounded theory methods.

Implementation of screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) by nurses on acute care units: A qualitative descriptive study.

Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) is an evidence-based intervention for patients with substance use disorders, but this intervention is under-utilized. Little is known about the implementation of SBIRT in acute care facilities. The purpose of this study is to describe implementation of SBIRT by nurses in acute care hospitals.