Unifying a school of nursing: Developing a framework to guide nursing education.

For one School of Nursing in a mid-sized, urban, private, liberal arts university in the upper Midwest, internal and external factors coalesced, requiring the reassessment/alignment of the baccalaureate, masters, and doctoral programs with professional standards/competencies and institutional mission/values. The development process of a new curricular framework to conceptually support the curriculum within the School of Nursing was reflective of participatory inquiry. The process closely followed the principles of the nursing complexity leadership model, complexity science, and improvement science.

Impact of healing touch with healing harp on inpatient acute care pain: a retrospective analysis.

This study examined the concomitant use of 2 complementary and alternative medicine modalities, Healing Harp and Healing Touch, to reduce pain, anxiety, and nausea in the postoperative patient population. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of using concomitant Healing Touch and Healing Harp to significantly reduce moderate to severe pain and anxiety in this patient population. Further research is warranted.

Vigilance in parents' experiences of fetal and infant loss.

Objective: To develop an in-depth understanding of the experiences and contexts of fetal and infant mortality from the perspective of women and men who experienced a fetal or infant loss.

Design: Qualitative, descriptive.

Setting: Small urban community of 100,000.

Using Fetal and Infant Mortality Reviews to improve birth outcomes in an urban community.

Objective: To describe the implementation of a Fetal and Infant Mortality Review (FIMR) in a small urban community to improve perinatal birth outcomes.

Design: Descriptive study.

Setting: Urban community within a Wisconsin city, population 85,000.