Exploring the Relationship Between Psychological Capital and Turnover Among New Nurses.

The COVID-19 pandemic drastically changed the health care work environment and exacerbated workplace demands and stress. New graduate nurses (NGNs) transitioning into their first registered nurse role were not exempt. Little is known about the emotional well-being of NGNs during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Analyzing a Multifactorial Fall Prevention Program Using ARIMA Models.

Background: Preventing inpatient falls is challenging for hospitals to improve and often leads to patient injury.

Purpose: To describe multifactorial patient-tailored interventions and to evaluate whether they were associated with a sustained decline in total and injury falls.

Methods: A multifactorial fall prevention program was instituted over the course of several years.

The nurse COVID and historical epidemics literature repository: Development, description, and summary.

Background: During COVID-19, a Kaggle challenge was issued to data scientists to leverage text mining to provide high-level summaries of full-text articles in the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) data set, a data set containing articles around COVID-19 and other epidemics. A question was asked: "What if nursing had something similar?"

Purpose: Describe the development and function of the Nursing COVID and Historical Epidemic Literature and describe high-level summaries of abstracts within the repository.

Method: Nurse-specific literature was abstracted from two data sets: CORD-19 and LitCOVID.

Assessing the Effect of Unit Champion-Initiated Audits on Fall Rates: Improving Awareness.

Background: Inpatient falls remain challenging with repercussions that can include patient injury and increased hospital expense. Fall rates were consistently above the national benchmark. An initiative to reduce fall rates was use of Fall Champion Audits (FCAs).

Exploring Inpatient Medication Patterns: A Big Data and Multilevel Approach.

Purpose: Exploratory study to examine inpatient medication administration patterns.

Methods: Data from multiple sources were utilized for this study. The outcome was time difference between medication schedule and administration.

Examining differences in characteristics between patients receiving primary care from nurse practitioners or physicians using Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey data and Medicare claims data.

Background: Few studies have examined differences in functional, cognitive, and psychological factors between patients utilizing only nurse practitioners (NPs) and those utilizing only primary care medical doctors (PCMDs) for primary care.

Purpose: Patients utilizing NP-only or PCMD-only models for primary care will be characterized and compared in terms of functional, cognitive, and psychological factors.

Methodology: Cohorts were obtained from the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey linked to Medicare claims data.

States with the least restrictive regulations experienced the largest increase in patients seen by nurse practitioners.

The use of nurse practitioners (NPs) is one way to address the shortage of physician primary care providers. NP training programs and the number of practicing NPs have increased in the past two decades. However, regulations limiting their scope of practice vary greatly by state.