Coping after the COVID-19 pandemic: nurses' learning intent and implications for the workforce and education.

Background/aim: Addressing the critical global shortage of nurses requires an understanding of how a global pandemic reshaped nurses' motivations and intentions toward education. This study aimed to describe COVID-19's impact on nurses' intent to pursue additional education.

Method: This descriptive study, based in North Carolina in the USA, used content analysis with an inductive approach to examine the responses of nurses to one open-ended question in a large quantitative workforce survey: how has COVID-19 influenced your plans for future education? Responses were coded with counts and organised into themes and subthemes.

Tool or Tyrant: Guiding and Guarding Generative Artificial Intelligence Use in Nursing Education.

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to evolve rapidly, its integration into nursing education is inevitable. This article presents a narrative exploring the implementation of generative AI in nursing education and offers a guide for its strategic use. The exploration begins with an examination of the broader societal impact and uses of artificial intelligence, recognizing its pervasive presence and the potential it holds.

Online Graduate Student Retention: Integrative Review With a Theoretically Framed Case Exemplar.

Background: Retention of online nursing students in graduate education is essential as the need for nurses exceeds the current supply.

Method: The factors contributing to student attrition are reviewed, and a real-world case exemplar is presented to demonstrate the theoretical design and implementation of an orientation to support retention.

Results: Knowles' theory of adult learning and Cooper's PECS (purpose, expectations, connections, and support) model for an evidence-based orientation framework guided the design of the orientation.

Conducting Nursing Research in the School Setting: Lessons Learned.

Conducting original research in the school setting advances our understanding of diverse, vulnerable youth with the objective of improving future outcomes through evidence-based health initiatives. School-based research may involve formal collaboration and partnership with school personnel or may be conducted through use of school facilities, site location, or access to participant recruitment. Despite the recognized benefits of school-based research, the school setting presents many unique challenges to the nurse researcher, including obtaining site access and facilitating the implementation of the research study.

Perinatal Nurses Respond to Shared Decision-Making Education: A Quasi-Experimental Study.

Women describe a loss of autonomy during childbirth as a contributing factor to labor dissatisfaction. Shared decision-making with choice, option, and decision talk may improve satisfaction. Nurses ( = 29) received education on supporting women's autonomy with a standardized communication tool (SUPPORT) to facilitate shared decision-making and create an evolving birth plan.

Student-Centered Reading Using PDF Software as an Innovative Teaching Strategy in Graduate Nursing Education.

Student engagement in scholarly reading and critical thinking contributes to nursing science. However, graduate students often lack the skills and experience needed to read and analyze scholarly writings in depth. This case example describes use of portable document format technology with reading prompts to improve student scholarship in a master of science in nursing program.

Understanding roles in health care through interprofessional educational experiences.

Background: Students can find interacting within a healthcare team challenging. It is important for students to understand their role and respect those of other healthcare team members. Interprofessional education (IPE) is a strategy for exploring the roles of self and others within the team.

Role expectations and workplace relations experienced by men in nursing: A qualitative study through an interpretive description lens.

Aims: The aim of this study was to investigate the lived experiences of male nurses in today's healthcare environment to understand the persistently low numbers of men in nursing.

Design: This study used interpretive description methodology, which aligns with nursing's approach to knowledge discovery by acknowledging the evolution and complexity of shared and individual experiences.

Methods: Participants, (N = 11), were recruited through the American Association for Men in Nursing using purposive sampling.

Enhanced self-monitoring blood glucose in non-insulin-requiring Type 2 diabetes: A qualitative study in primary care.

Aims And Objectives: To contribute to both theoretical and practical understanding of the role of self-monitoring blood glucose for self-management by describing the experience of people with non-insulin-requiring Type 2 diabetes in an enhanced structured self-monitoring blood glucose intervention.

Background: The complex context of self-monitoring blood glucose in Type 2 diabetes requires a deeper understanding of the clients' illness experience with structured self-monitoring of blood glucose. Clients' numeracy skills contribute to their response to blood glucose readings.

Complementary and Alternative Medicine: The Mozart Effect on Childhood Epilepsy-A Systematic Review.

This systematic review examines the effectiveness of Mozart's music in decreasing seizures in children with epilepsy (Mozart Effect) using the Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice rating scale. A search for articles with "Mozart Effect," "child*," and "epilepsy" was conducted in CINAHL Complete, Science Direct, Cochrane, and PubMed databases. Eight studies were selected based on the exclusion and inclusion criteria after removal of duplicates ( n = 17) and others ( n = 46).

Simulation Performance and National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses Outcomes: Field Research Perspectives.

Purpose: This descriptive field study examines processes used to evaluate simulation for senior-level Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) students in a capstone course, discusses challenges related to simulation evaluation, and reports the relationship between faculty evaluation of student performance and National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN) first-time passing rates.

Methods: Researchers applied seven terms used to rank BSN student performance (n = 41, female, ages 22-24 years) in a senior-level capstone simulation. Faculty evaluation was correlated with students' NCLEX-RN outcomes.

Back to Reality: The Use of the Presence Questionnaire for Measurement of Fidelity in Simulation.

Background And Purpose: Simulation fidelity includes three aspects: physical, conceptual, and psychological. This study reports on strengths and limitations of the Presence Questionnaire (PQ) for measurement of fidelity in human patient simulation.

Methods: This nonexperimental correlational study includes a convenience sample of 83 undergraduate nursing students who participated in an emergency simulation and completed the PQ.

Going Domestic: Importing the Study Abroad Experience. The Development of a Multicultural New York City Study Away Program.

Problem: Significant off-campus domestic study away experiences have been shown to be a transformative active learning environment for students and achieve similar learning outcomes as study abroad programs.

Methods: This manuscript describes the conception, development, and pedagogical approach of a faculty-led domestic study away experience in New York City for pre-licensure and post-licensure nursing students as an active learning strategy for developing cultural competence. Students participated in service-learning activities that illuminated the realities and challenges persons from other cultures face as they interact with health care in a culture that is not their own.

Prevention of type 2 diabetes among youth: a systematic review, implications for the school nurse.

Childhood obesity and the early development of type 2 diabetes (T2 DM) place students at risk for chronic health problems. The school nurse is uniquely situated to promote school health initiatives that influence health behavior. The purpose of this review was to determine effective nonpharmacological interventions for prevention of T2 DM in youth.