"They Assume I'm Not Intelligent Just Because I Have an Accent": Supporting Retention of Nursing Students Who Speak English as an Additional Language.

Background: Many nursing students who speak English as an additional language unfortunately face challenges that can hinder their academic success.

Method: A literature review was carried out to investigate challenges faced by nursing students who speak English as an additional language and strategies to promote academic success.

Results: A significant challenge is an implicit bias toward students who speak accented English, resulting in stigmatization from faculty and peers.

Simulation to Develop Teaching Competencies in Health Professions Educators: A Scoping Review.

Aim: The aim of this study was to determine what is known about using simulation as an intervention to develop teaching competencies in health professions educators.

Background: No reviews are available that integrate the body of evidence about simulation to develop role competency in clinical educators.

Method: Scoping review methodology was used to identify interventions that used simulation to develop teaching competencies for health professions educators.

Don't Be a Serial Citer. Synthesize!

This article describes an interactive teaching-learning strategy titled "Don't Be a Serial Citer. Synthesize!" The strategy is used during an onsite, face-to-face orientation to help new graduate nursing students overcome the tendency to be "serial citers." Although the primary purpose is to develop students' beginning skills at performing synthesis writing, there are important secondary outcomes attached to the experience, including the opportunity for students to be involved in a positive experience during group work and getting to know their classmates.

Partnering to Develop Online Teaching Skills for Master of Science in Nursing Education Students.

Background: The continued growth of online programs in nursing education creates a demand for faculty who are familiar with the best practices in online pedagogy. However, the opportunity to become familiar with, and then apply, these best practices is often not available to students enrolled in Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) nursing education programs.

Method: An innovative partnership with The Center for Instructional Design's Teaching Online Academy over the past few years has provided the opportunity for students in the MSN Nursing Education program at The University of Texas at El Paso to learn and then apply best practices in online pedagogy.

Screening and management of overweight and obesity at a university student health center.

This article discusses a quality improvement project focused on developing, implementing, and evaluating an evidence-based best practice protocol for screening and management of overweight and obesity in college students in a university-based student health center.

Developing Students as Future Researchers Using QSEN Competencies as a Framework.

Purpose: This article discusses the development of students as future researchers within the context of carrying out an R-15-funded research project, and demonstrates the application of selected competencies from the Quality and Safety Education for Nursing project as a project framework. Operationally, the project had two parallel tracks; the first track was the research project itself, and the second track was the development of researchers through carrying out the research project.

Objectives Of The Project: The objectives of the research project were to (a) translate project documents into Spanish, (b) test the acceptability of the intervention in a Hispanic population along the Unites States-Mexico border, and (c) assess the feasibility of conducting a trial of the intervention in the same population.

From Dissertation Defense to Dissemination: Jump Start Your Academic Career With a Scholar Mentor Group.

Problem: The dissertation provides an excellent source of scholarly productivity for new doctoral faculty, yet is often neglected because of the demands inherent in the faculty role.

Methods: The purpose of this paper is to present a case study of a scholar mentor group composed of three graduates of a PhD nursing program and their shared dissertation chair, who acted as a senior scholar mentor to the group.

Findings: By working together, we have been able to enhance our scholarly productivity by disseminating our dissertations through presentations and publications.

The long-term safety and efficacy of intrathecal therapy using sufentanil in chronic intractable non-malignant pain.

This report describes the long term safety and efficacy of intrathecal therapy using Sufentanil for the management of chronic intractable neuropathic pain in 12 chronic pain patients. Standardized psychological screening was used to determine treatment suitability. Evaluation data included the Visual Analog Scale (VAS), Wong-Baker Faces Scale, Brief Pain Inventory (BPI), Disability of Arm, Shoulder, and Hand (DASH), McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire, and complications (granulomas, toxicity, withdrawal, or deaths).

Decreasing the stigma burden of chronic pain.

Purpose: To describe stigmatizing experiences in a group of Mexican-American women with chronic pain and provide clinical implications for decreasing stigma.

Data Sources: This focused ethnographic study derived data from semistructured interviews, participant observations, and fieldwork. Participants provided detailed descriptions of communicating about chronic pain symptoms, treatment, and management.

"I'm just not that sick": pain medication and identity in Mexican American women with chronic pain.

Purpose: To describe the beliefs and attitudes about self-identity and pain medication in a sample of Mexican American women with chronic pain living in the El Paso, Texas, area. The findings are drawn from a larger qualitative study of 15 women describing the expression and communication of chronic pain symptoms, pain-related cultural beliefs, decision making, and treatment preferences of chronic pain.

Methods: Participants who had chronic pain syndromes for at least 1 year were recruited from a pain clinic and fibromyalgia support group.

Cultural cues: review of qualitative evidence of patient-centered care in patients with nonmalignant chronic pain.

The purpose of this paper was to examine published qualitative studies that explored the beliefs, values, and behaviors of patients with nonmalignant chronic pain during their interactions with the healthcare system. The findings were used as "cultural cues" to create patient-centered care. A literature review of primary qualitative studies that focused on beliefs, values, or behaviors of patients with chronic nonmalignant pain in the formal healthcare setting was conducted.

Promoting culturally competent chronic pain management using the clinically relevant continuum model.

This article reviews the culture of biomedicine and current practices in pain management education, which often merge to create a hostile environment for effective chronic pain care. Areas of cultural tensions in chronic pain frequently involve the struggle to achieve credibility regarding one's complaints of pain (or being believed that the pain is real) and complying with pain medication protocols. The clinically relevant continuum model is presented as a framework allowing providers to approach care from an evidence-based, culturally appropriate (patient centered) perspective that takes into account the highest level of evidence available, provider expertise, and patient preferences and values.