Fathers' Ongoing Journey When a Child in the Family Has a Chronic Condition: A Meta-Synthesis.

This qualitative meta-synthesis was conducted with the aim to understand fathers' experiences and involvement when their child has a chronic condition within family context. Family nurse researchers from five countries identified 19 studies through a systematic search. Inclusion criteria were: (a) fathers as primary informant; (b) children (<19 years) with a chronic condition; (c) written in English, Spanish, French, or Portuguese.

Identifying strategies to support implementation of interprofessional primary care teams in Nova Scotia: Results of a survey and knowledge sharing event.

Background: Interprofessional primary care teams (IPCTs) work together to enhance care. Despite evidence on the benefits of IPCTs, implementation remains challenging. This research aims to 1) identify and prioritize barriers and enablers, and 2) co-develop team-level strategies to support IPCT implementation in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Exploring the Meaning of Sexuality, the Body, and Identity After Birth Using Feminist Poststructuralism.

Objective: To explore how sexual health in the postpartum period is influenced by and negotiated through relations of power.

Design: Discourse analysis informed by feminist poststructuralism.

Setting: Telephone interviews conducted in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Barriers and enablers to implementing interprofessional primary care teams: a narrative review of the literature using the consolidated framework for implementation research.

Background: Interprofessional primary care teams have been introduced across Canada to improve access (e.g., a regular primary care provider, timely access to care when needed) to and quality of primary care.

'Feeling Ready': A Feminist Poststructural Analysis of Postpartum Sexual Health.

There exists a lack of literature surrounding how postpartum individuals define feeling 'ready' to resume sexual activities after childbirth. Many factors may influence feelings of desire or readiness for sexual activities, such as breastfeeding. Therefore, it is important to understand why and how postpartum individuals understand and make meaning of their experiences surrounding postpartum sexual activities, as well as how those experiences are influenced or negotiated through relations of power.

Implementation and efficacy of knowledge translation frameworks in family focused nursing care: A scoping review.

Aim: To provide an overview of the characteristics, variety and outcomes of knowledge translation (KT) strategies used in nursing care involving adult patients and their family members.

Background: The gap in providing family nursing practice could be due to a lack of explicit KT frameworks and understanding of ways to translate evidence-based knowledge into clinical practice.

Design: A scoping review conducted according to the Joanna Briggs Institute.

International Family Nursing Association: toolkit of resources for caring for refugee/migrating families.

Objective: To report the experience of the International Family Nursing Association (IFNA) Practice Committee on developing a Toolkit of resources to care for refugee/migrating families as a response to the global migration and refugee crisis.

Method: Qualitative and descriptive study, experience report, which describes the development of a toolkit of resources for caring for refugee/migrating families.

Results: The development of this Toolkit of resources to care for refugee/migrating families is supported by current literature related to family-centered evaluation and intervention, culturally sensitive practice based on family strengths; statements of positioning on immigrant and refugee families; and nursing and health organizations that addressed the health of the refugee family.

Fathers' Experiences of Caring for a Child with a Chronic Illness: A Systematic Review.

The prevalence of children living with chronic health conditions is increasing worldwide and can disrupt family roles, relationships, function, and parental involvement in family caregiving. The purpose of this systematic review was to explore fathers' experiences and involvement in caring for a child with a chronic condition. Systematic searches using seven databases were conducted.

Children as innovators: harnessing the creative expertise of children to address practical and psychosocial challenges of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic - COVISION study protocol.

We are currently in a period of transition, from the pre-COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) era and the initial reactive lockdowns, to now the ongoing living with and potentially the after COVID-19 period. Each country is at its own individual stage of this transition, but many have gone through a period of feeling adrift; disconnected from normal lives, habits and routines, finding oneself betwixt and between stages, similar to that of liminality. Children and young people have been particularly affected.

Empowering Public Health Nurses and Community Home Visitors through Effective Communication Relationships.

Home visiting programs for marginalized families have included both Public Health Nurses (PHNs) and Community Home Visitors (CHV). Support for families requires health care providers to implement effective communication and collaboration practices; however, few studies have examined how this is carried out. The purpose of this qualitative research study was to explore how an Enhanced Home Visiting (EHV) program in Nova Scotia Canada was organized, delivered through the experiences of PHNs and CHVs.

Evaluating the integration of cultural competence skills into health and physical assessment tools: a survey of Canadian schools of nursing.

Currently used audiovisual (AV) teaching tools to teach health and physical assessment reflect a Eurocentric bias using the biomedical model. The purpose of our study was to (a) identify commonly used AV teaching tools of Canadian schools of nursing and (b) evaluate the identified tools. A two-part descriptive quantitative method design was used.

Family health nursing and empowering relationships.

Purpose: To examine how empowerment, as an ideology and a practice of teaching and learning, was understood and applied by public health nurses (PHNs) in health education with child bearing and child rearing families.

Method: Feminist poststructuralism was used to guide data collection and analysis. In-depth, individual interviews were conducted with three mothers and three PHNs and explored the different perspectives held by mothers and PHNs during a home visit.

Exploring nursing roles across North American borders.

Professional nurses are challenged by the increasing complexity of their own healthcare delivery systems and by the growing interconnectivity of healthcare systems worldwide. There are increasing calls for practice across boundaries; however, the role and scope of nursing practice within individual countries are often unclear, ill-defined, and misunderstood by nurses from other countries. In this collaborative educational project among six schools of nursing located in Canada, México, and the United States, nursing students and faculty are exploring the role of the nurse within each country's healthcare system while striving to develop their multicultural awareness.