Nurse administrators as the cause of moral distress among nurse educators: A qualitative research study.

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the causes of moral distress among nurse educators.

Background: Educational administration factors can cause moral distress among nursing faculty members. Despite this, limited attention has been paid to addressing these factors.

Spirituality as a core concept in the theoretical literature of nursing: A comparative overview between Watson & Lovering's perspectives.

Nurse theorists have addressed the primacy of the phenomenon of caring, aiming at providing a framework that captures the complex nature of caring. Several theorists emphasized the mechanical facet of care while others emphasized the holistic aspect of care. Spirituality as a central concept in caring theories was targeted in this manuscript; as it a fundamental aspect of holistic care.

Protecting the Vulnerable: The Importance of Effective Parental Tobacco-Dependence Treatment During Prenatal and Newborn Care.

Tobacco use among pregnant women, as well as second- and third-hand smoke exposure of their infants, translates into the startling fact that more than one third of American children live with at least one parent who smokes cigarettes daily. Maternal smoking or second-hand smoke exposure during pregnancy is deleterious to the mother's health and contributes to prematurity, low birth-weight infants, and increased risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and recurrent wheezing during the first year of life. Pregnant women who stop tobacco use during pregnancy are at high risk for postpartum relapse frequently associated with a partner who smokes tobacco, stress, poverty, and lack of social and medical support to remain tobacco free.

Simulating care: technology-mediated learning in twenty-first century nursing education.

Problem: The increased reliance on simulation classrooms has proven successful in learning skills. Questions persist concerning the ability of technology-driven robotic devices to form and cultivate caring behaviors, or sufficiently develop interactive nurse-client communication necessary in the context of nursing.

Methods: This article examines the disconnects created by use of simulation technology in nursing education, raising the question: "Can learning of caring-as-being, be facilitated in simulation classrooms?"

Findings: We propose that unless time is spent with human beings in the earliest stages of nursing education, transpersonal caring relationships do not have space to develop.