Operationalizing Anti-Racism Accountability with Equitable Admissions in Nursing Education Accreditation.

For decades, health professional organizations have recommended increased diversity in the workforce and education. To address persistent inequities in health care, the racial composition of the nursing workforce needs be congruent with the U.S.

A Multimodal Protocol to Limit Opioid Exposure and Effectively Manage Postoperative Cesarean Birth Pain.

Purpose: To evaluate the impact of implementing a multimodal plan of care in treating the pain of the postoperative cesarean birth patient that limited opioid exposure.

Study Design And Methods: A retrospective medical record review was conducted to evaluate a pain management protocol implemented for postoperative cesarean patients before and after a practice change. Sample included term postoperative cesarean patients ≥ 37 weeks of gestation, who had spinal or epidural, were 18 years or older, gave birth to a singleton newborn, admitted to the maternal child health department, and were prescribed opioids as a postoperative pain management treatment plan.

Holistic Admissions Review Integration in Nursing Programs.

Background: To address health inequities, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, Institute of Medicine, and Association of American Medical Colleges recommend holistic admissions review (HAR) to increase health professional diversity.

Method: This cross-sectional study collected admissions criteria from 1,547 nursing programs. Criteria were categorized according to the experiences, attributes, and academic metrics (EAM) model, and programs were dichotomized into those with holistic admissions criteria versus none.

Experiences of critical care nurses during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: Critical care nurses have risked their lives and in some cases their families through hazardous duty during the COVID-19 pandemic and have faced multiple ethical challenges.

Research/aim: The purpose of our study was to examine how critical care nurses coped with the sustained multi-faceted pressures of the critical care environment during the unchartered waters of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was anticipated that our study might reveal numerous ethical challenges and decision points.

Recruitment and Retention of Minority High School Students to Increase Diversity in the Nursing Profession.

Disparities in the quality of health care for the black population have been apparent for many decades, evidenced by the high mortality and morbidity rates for the black/African American community. Major health care organizations have recognized that a culturally diverse nursing workforce is essential to improve the health of this community. Recruitment of prenursing students from the black population is vital to building a diversified workforce sensitive to the community's needs.

Nursing Program Admission Barriers in the United States: Considerations for Increasing Black Student Enrollment.

Background: The percentage of Black registered nurses (RN) is disproportionate to Black residents in the population, particularly in Southern states.

Purpose: This study's purpose was to identify the potential admission barriers for Black students in RN education in the South versus Midwest, Northeast, and West.

Methods: A cross-sectional design was used to compare admission criteria for 1597 accredited associate degree in nursing and bachelor of science in nursing programs by geographic region.

Comparing the effectiveness of video-assisted oral debriefing and oral debriefing alone on behaviors by undergraduate nursing students during high-fidelity simulation.

Complex healthcare, less resources, high-level medical equipment, and fewer available clinical settings have led many health professionals to use simulation as a method to further augment educational experiences for nursing students. While debriefing is recommended in the literature as a key component of simulation, the optimal format in which to conduct debriefing is unknown. This pre- and posttest two-group randomized quasi-experimental design compared the effectiveness of video-assisted oral debriefing (VAOD) and oral debriefing alone (ODA) on behaviors of 48 undergraduate nursing students during high-fidelity simulation.

Intraorbital wooden foreign body (IOFB): mimicking air on CT.

We report the case of a 41-year-old man who presented to the ER following a fall in his back garden during which he sustained a left orbital injury. Computed tomography (CT) demonstrated an intraorbital linear lucency surrounded by haziness in the intraconal fat. An intraocular wooden twig was confirmed during subsequent surgery.