Background: The high stress of nursing education can adversely affect students' well-being. Nature-based therapies aim to lessen stress. There is a gap in knowledge related to nature-based therapies and the nursing student population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Peer physical examination is a clinical teaching-learning approach used for decades because of the convenient sample of peers for practicing. However, this approach has limitations when learning to assess abnormalities and threatens psychologically safe learning. A wearable simulator system was designed for learning physical examination skills to minimize ethical and learning challenges.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis report describes a One Health approach to address food insecurity among two distinct campus populations-college students and patients at a campus-based community health clinic serving Latine adults. The multidisciplinary collaboration includes college staff, faculty, and students, and the founders, both women-centered institutions. Organic community gardens located on and near campus property, pollinated by campus-based beehives, contribute local organic produce to a campus-based food shelf increasing food security and nutritional health for both populations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBiomed Eng Syst Technol Int Jt Conf BIOSTEC Revis Sel Pap
February 2022
Clinical named entity recognition (NER) is an essential building block for many downstream natural language processing (NLP) applications such as information extraction and de-identification. Recently, deep learning (DL) methods that utilize word embeddings have become popular in clinical NLP tasks. However, there has been little work on evaluating and combining the word embeddings trained from different domains.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Wound Ostomy Continence Nurs
February 2023
Purpose: To describe results of a study evaluating a Projected Augmented Reality (P-AR) system for its potential to enhance nursing education about pressure injuries.
Design: Pilot evaluation survey.
Subjects And Setting: The sample comprised nursing students and faculty at a school of nursing in a large, Midwestern public university.
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify gaps in support for parents of children with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome.
Design And Methods: Using a mixed-methods approach, the researchers first studied the parental and care team experience through interviews of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome mothers and members of the inter-professional care team and then conducted an international survey of 690 Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome primary caregivers to validate the qualitative findings.
Results: Parental and care team interviews revealed three main gaps in parental support, including lack of open communication, unrealistic parental expectations, and unclear inter-professional team roles.