Publications by authors named "Heather DeGrande"

For nurse leaders to excel in leadership roles in the clinical world of informatics, a comprehensive understanding of nursing informatics as translated within the broader scope of health informatics including clinical informatics and business intelligence is necessary. The translation of nursing informatics in the comprehensive scope of health informatics is not consistently taught in graduate nursing leadership curricula. Collaboratively, from an interprofessional education stance, a graduate nurse informatics course was re-visioned using translational pedagogy: the idea of teaching related concepts by translating each and vice versa.

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Introduction: There has been unprecedented uncertainty involved in the COVID-19 pandemic, especially for working nurses. Nurses working while attending graduate school faced additional unique challenges including working extended hours while also home-schooling young children, managing a family life while also navigating pandemic-related changes affecting students' educational paths.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experiences of working nurses attending graduate school during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Background: Reconceptualized nursing education can prepare registered nurses to practice at the full scope of licensure on interprofessional teams across care continua while enhancing the quality of health care systems.

Problem: Traditional nursing programs minimally address primary care competencies. Rapidly changing managed care models demand nurses develop knowledge, skills, and attitudes to effectively deliver population health, primary care, care coordination, and disease prevention/management services across care continua.

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Background: Many veterans take advantage of the educational benefits afforded them after service. As veterans, students in higher education are a special population with subsequent needs.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experience of medic student veterans attending a full-time Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program.

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Background: It is a common practice that new graduate Registered Nurses are hired into adult intensive care units as initial entry into practise. There exists a practice readiness gap between nursing curricula and actual clinical practise expectations at adult intensive care settings; this has led to negative consequences and subsequent nurse turnover, a concern nationwide. Nonetheless, some new graduate nurses survived their initial transition and continue to practise in adult settings.

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Background: Professional competence is the ability to base clinical decisions on prior experiences with particular clinical situations.

Methods: An integrative review of the literature using the methodology of Whittemore and Knafl. The guiding question was: What is the extent and nature of the published literature on intensive care nurses developing professional competence?

Results: This review analysed 21 peer-reviewed articles obtained from electronic databases.

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Aim: A critical analysis of online public postings in response to the news about the ending of China's one-child policy was conducted. The specific study aims were to 1) identify the dominant public discourse in response to the news about the ending of the one-child policy and the beginning of the new two-child policy, and 2) explore implications for preconception care from the public discourse.

Material And Methods: Data sources were 10 top-ranked, online news media sites in China, including one Hong Kong-based media site.

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