Role of Stigma for Health Care Professionals With Nonmedical Substance Use.

Background: Stigma toward those with non-medical substance use may present as anticipated, perceived, enacted, or internalized stigma.

Objective: The purpose of the study was to describe the role of stigma on health care professionals with non-medical substance use, from the perspective of treatment providers. Soliciting information about stigma from treatment providers is a unique perspective lacking in current literature.

Reflections from the frontline of nursing on acute patient deterioration.

Aims: To describe medical-surgical nurses' reflections on their experiences with patient deterioration.

Background: An extensive body of knowledge exists regarding optimal responses to acute patient deterioration within a hospital environment. Much less attention has focused on the profound psychological and emotional impact these experiences of unexpected deterioration can have on nurses who provided the supportive or rescue care.

Frontline Nurses' clinical judgment in recognizing, understanding, and responding to patient deterioration: A qualitative study.

Background: Early warning systems and rapid response teams have been widely implemented in hospitals worldwide to facilitate early recognition and response to patient deterioration. Unfortunately, evidence suggests that these interventions have made little impact on unexpected cardiac or respiratory arrest, hospital mortality, unplanned admission to intensive care units, or hospital length of stay. These programs depend on nurses recognizing at risk patients and initiating a timely response.

A Creative Action Plan for Mental Wellness: Tools for Primary Care in Rural and Underserved Settings.

Primary care settings have many opportunities to support patients who have anxiety and/or depression, but resources are often scarce. Our faculty team developed an education tool to support mental health awareness and provide suggested wellness activities. Health-care professionals from various disciplines and settings have demonstrated eagerness to use this tool with patients and with health-care students to improve resilience and mental wellness.

African American and Latinx Adolescents' Perspectives of Nursing as a Career Choice.

Background: Ensuring a diverse nursing workforce that closely represents the diversity of the population is imperative for culturally competent and equitable care. To accomplish this, purposeful and strategic programs need to be integrated into secondary education. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore the perceptions and attitudes about the nursing profession among African American and Latinx adolescents.

The Kansas Nurse Leader Residency Program: Building Nurses' Capacity to Lead Change.

As nurses engage as partners in addressing complex healthcare issues, it is increasingly important to develop nurse leaders. Many nurses need expanded knowledge and training to lead change. The purpose of this article is to describe an innovative statewide nurse leadership residency program to prepare new nurse leaders in four specialty areas.

Advancing Nursing Education: BSN Completion Messaging Materials for Associate Degree Program Nursing Faculty.

Aim: This project developed a comprehensive set of bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) completion messaging materials that associate degree in nursing (ADN) faculty can use to advise and encourage students to complete the BSN.

Background: The Future of Nursing report calls for increasing the proportion of baccalaureate-prepared nurses to 80 percent by 2020. Faculty who teach in ADN programs have opportunities to advise students in advancing their nursing education yet often lack information to guide these conversations.

Patient perspectives about bariatric surgery unveil experiences, education, satisfaction, and recommendations for improvement.

Background: Following bariatric surgery, up to 35% of patients struggle with strict regimens and experience weight recidivism within 2 years [1-5]. Accredited weight management centers (WMC) must provide educational programs and support patients in lifestyle changes before and after surgery. Educational programs, however, may not be evidence-based or patient-centered and may vary in curriculum, approach, and educator type [6].

Kansas nurse leader residency programme: advancing leader knowledge and skills.

Aims: To evaluate the effectiveness of the Kansas Nurse Leader Residency (KNLR) programme in improving nurses' leadership knowledge and skills and its acceptability, feasibility and fidelity.

Background: The Future of Nursing Report (Institute of Medicine, 2011) calls for nurses to lead change and advance health. The 6-month KNLR programme was developed by the Kansas Action Coalition to support nurses' leadership development.

Fatigue in Type 2 Diabetes: Impact on Quality of Life and Predictors.

Fatigue is a persistent symptom, impacting quality of life (QoL) and functional status in people with type 2 diabetes, yet the symptom of fatigue has not been fully explored. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between fatigue, QoL functional status and to investigate the predictors of fatigue. These possible predictors included body mass index (BMI), Hemoglobin A1C (HbA1C), sleep quality, pain, number of complications from diabetes, years since diagnosis and depression.

Strategies for Building Advocacy Skills Among Undergraduate and Graduate Nursing Students.

Background: Nursing faculty are challenged to create learning experiences that both reflect the complexities of the current health care system and are relevant. Experiential learning opportunities should promote engagement in health care that extends beyond direct patient care to advocacy in larger systems.

Method: To meet this challenge, faculty developed course assignments for students at baccalaureate, master's, and doctoral levels in which students worked with state Action Coalitions to implement the Institute of Medicine Future of Nursing report's eight recommendations.

The Initiative to Move Toward a More Highly Educated Nursing Workforce: Findings from the Kansas Registered Nurse Workforce Survey.

The Institute of Medicine report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, recommends increasing the proportion of registered nurses (RNs) with a baccalaureate in nursing (BSN) to 80% by 2020. Kansas lacks a central mechanism to collect current data on the RN workforce; therefore, detailed information about the RN workforce, including current educational level, is unknown. The purposes of the survey were to (a) describe the Kansas RN workforce, (b) examine the relationship between nursing education and employment, (c) compare and contrast the workforce to other states and national data and (d) discuss implications of strategic planning and policy making for nursing education.

Living in the Everydayness of HIV Infection: Experiences of Young African-American Women.

The purpose of this Heideggerian phenomenological study was to explore the lived experiences, including spiritual and self-care practices, of young African-American women infected with the human immunodeficiency virus. One theme, "Living in the Everydayness of HIV" and implications for nurses will be discussed.

Exploring leadership roles, goals, and barriers among Kansas registered nurses: a descriptive cross-sectional study.

Objectives: The Institute of Medicine's Future of Nursing report advocates for full nurse leader representation across multiple settings to address current challenges in our health care system. The purpose of this study was to examine nursing leadership development needs among Kansas registered nurses (RNs).

Methods: Data were collected through an online survey and analyzed using quantitative and qualitative methods.

Infected Lives: Lived Experiences of Young African American HIV-Positive Women.

This hermeneutic phenomenological study explored the lived experiences of young African American HIV-infected women. Eleven women between the ages of 21 and 35 participated. One pattern, Infected Lives, and three themes--Living Alone With HIV, Living With Unresolved Conflicts, and Living With Multiple Layers of Betrayal--emerged.

Teaching Confirmatory Factor Analysis to Non-Statisticians: A Case Study for Estimating Composite Reliability of Psychometric Instruments.

Texts and software that we are currently using for teaching multivariate analysis to non-statisticians lack in the delivery of factor analysis (CFA). The purpose of this paper is to provide educators with a complement to these resources that includes CFA its computation. We focus on how to use CFA to estimate a "composite reliability" of a psychometric instrument.

An analysis of partnership performance: the St. Johns Mercy Medical Center-Saint Louis University School of Nursing dedicated education unit project.

The purpose of this article is to analyze the St. Johns Mercy Medical Center (SJMMC)-Saint Louis University School of Nursing (SLUSON) dedicated education unit (DEU) project for partnership effectiveness. The DEU, an innovative and collaborative academic-service partnership, reconceptualizes the role of the faculty and staff nurse in the clinical educational process.

Common themes in clinical education partnerships.

The concurrent nursing and faculty shortages continue to be critical issues for the nation's health care system. As academic nursing programs struggle with maintaining and increasing enrollment in the midst of a faculty shortage, one solution is to expand the faculty's capacity through innovative academic-service partnerships. Schools and clinical partners identified as having implemented innovative partnerships were invited to participate in this descriptive study.

Transformational partnerships in nursing education.

Although the nursing care environment has changed significantly over the past 30 years, little has changed in the educational methods used to prepare new nurses. Since the 1930s, most clinical education in nursing has been structured with a faculty member supervising a small group of students on one or more inpatient units. Students usually move to new settings for each clinical rotation.

A theory-based Self-Care Talk intervention for family caregiver-nurse partnerships.

Family caregivers need assistance with information, support, and advice from nurses and other health care professionals to successfully meet the demands of caregiving. Self-Care TALK (SCT) is a theory-based nursing intervention designed to improve the health and well-being of older adult spouse caregivers. The Self-Care for Health Promotion in Aging Model (S-CHPA) provides a framework for development of SCT.

Five recommendations for prelicensure clinical nursing education.

The acute shortage of RNs is both well established and projected to continue. Two primary factors contributing to the nursing shortage are insufficient numbers of faculty and insufficient clinical sites for students. Innovative academic-service partnerships are realigning these scarce resources to improve the quality of clinical education and build cultures of safety.

Nurses' assessment of rehabilitation potential and prediction of functional status at discharge from inpatient rehabilitation.

The goals of this study were to evaluate the accuracy of nurses' predictions of rehabilitation potential in older adults admitted to inpatient rehabilitation facilities and to ascertain whether the addition of a measure of executive cognitive function would enhance predictive accuracy. Secondary analysis was performed on prospective data collected for 362 Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in a national, multicenter study of rehabilitation outcomes. Ordinary least squares regression analysis was performed.

Oncology nurses' awareness of cognitive impairment secondary to chemotherapy.

The purpose of this cross-sectional, descriptive pilot study was to collect frequency data for oncology nurses' awareness of cognitive impairment (CI) secondary to chemotherapy, practice patterns related to assessment and education of patients and families about CI, and access to related educational materials. A convenience sample of 34 RNs was used in conjunction with a local Oncology Nursing Society chapter meeting. An 18-item survey was developed and piloted to collect data and demographic information from participants.