Mental health concerns among doctorate (PhD) nursing students may impact program retention, especially among underrepresented racial-/ethnic-minoritized (UREM) students. Understanding mental health concerns among UREM PhD students is necessary to develop retention strategies. We conducted a qualitative secondary data analysis of a descriptive study with focus groups and individual semi-structured interviews.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: There is a global shortage of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)-trained nurses, which is amplified among underrepresented racial and ethnic groups who are minoritized.
Purpose: This study explores barriers and facilitators to recruiting under-represented racial-ethnic group who are minoritized (UREM) PhD nursing students, defined as African American, Black, American Indian, Alaskan Native, or Hispanic/Latinx.
Methods: Using a qualitative descriptive design, interviews of 23 UREM PhD nursing students were analyzed with conventional content analysis.
Background: Nurses are an integral part of outpatient healthcare settings and are needed to provide effective patient care. Ample research and reviews have been done on nurse staffing in inpatient settings relationship with a variety of organizational, nurse and patient outcomes, however there is no review of outpatient nurse staffing relationship with organizational, nurse and patient outcomes.
Objectives: The purpose of this paper is to present a scoping review that evaluates the state of the literature on relationships among nurse staffing and organizational, nurse and patient outcomes in the outpatient setting.
Aim: The aims were to (1) describe nurses' attitudes towards their jobs, (2) identify factors that contribute to nurses' job attitudes and (3) examine how nurses' job attitudes affect their ability to perform their jobs.
Background: Nurses' job attitudes affect their ability to do their jobs well.
Methods: This was a qualitative descriptive study of 18 semi-structured interviews with nurses who work in rural health facilities.
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most diagnosed form of cancer and second most deadly cancer worldwide. Introduction of better screening has improved both incidence and mortality. However, as the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic began, healthcare resources were shunted away from cancer screening services resulting in a sharp decrease in CRC screening and a backlog of patients awaiting screening tests.
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