Creating infrastructure for supporting nurse engagement in evidence-based practice at a Veterans Administration Hospital.

Background: Evidence-based practice (EBP) is foundational to safe and quality health care; however, barriers to nursing engagement in EBP have been well documented. To circumvent these barriers, nursing leadership must proactively implement system-level, multifaceted strategies within their organization to enhance EBP engagement. One Veterans Administration (VA) hospital has operationalized these strategies.

Five-Year Program Evaluation of an Evidence-Based Practice Scholars Program.

The purpose of this article is to describe the findings of a 5-year program evaluation of a hospital-based Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Scholars Program. The EBP Scholars Program was developed in 2011 to (a) educate and engage staff in the EBP process and (b) develop a cadre of EBP mentors within each clinical unit of the organization. The evaluation of the EBP Scholars Program examined both the feasibility and the impact of the program.

Nurses' concerns about caring for patients with acute and chronic traumatic brain injury.

Aims And Objectives: As a first step in developing traumatic brain injury-specific nursing education, the purpose of this study was to investigate nurses' concerns about caring for patients with moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury.

Background: Patients with moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury typically have significant immediate and chronic cognitive impairments. These cognitive impairments can negatively affect their inpatient stay after an acute traumatic brain injury and affect their health care later in life when seeking care for other acute health conditions during the chronic phase of traumatic brain injury.

Young women's reasons to seek sexually transmitted infection screening.

Objectives: To describe young women's reasons to seek and not to seek sexually transmitted infection (STI) screening; to explore whether reasons differed by age and STI screening history.

Design And Sample: Cross-sectional, descriptive. Female students (N = 216) at a university in the Midwestern United States.

Formative research for the development of an interactive web-based sexually transmitted disease management intervention for young women.

Sexually transmitted diseases are common among young women and effective self-management is foundational to improving health outcomes and preventing negative sequelae. Advances in technology create the opportunity for innovative delivery methods of self-management interventions. However, it is essential to conduct formative research with the target population to identify both the needs and the preferences for the content and delivery method of a sexually transmitted disease self-management intervention prior to intervention development.

Sexually transmitted disease testing misconceptions threaten the validity of self-reported testing history.

Objective: Sexually transmitted disease (STD) testing is fundamental to STD prevention and control. We sought to comprehensively examine young women's beliefs about the STD testing process.

Design And Sample: Descriptive, cross-sectional, survey investigation.

Genital herpes beliefs: implications for sexual health.

Study Objective: Genital herpes (HSV) is exceedingly common in the United States and women are disproportionally affected. This study aims to describe young women's beliefs about HSV and examine the correlates of those beliefs.

Design: A 40-item Herpes Representation measure (HSV-RoSTD) and a demographic questionnaire were administered to a convenience sample of young women.

Young women's beliefs regarding human papillomavirus.

Objective: To describe young women's perceptions of human papillomavirus (HPV) using the Common Sense Model and examine whether perceptions differ based on history of HPV diagnosis or sexually transmitted disease (STD) testing.

Design: Cross-sectional, survey data.

Setting: Four women's health clinics and one university classroom.

Young women's Representations of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (RoSTD): a psychometric study.

Measurement of beliefs about sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) is important to understanding sexual health behaviors. The purpose of this study was to develop and test the psychometric properties of the Representations of STDs (RoSTD) Scale. The RoSTD was developed to measure young women's representations of STDs, and it is intended to be used to measure beliefs about any of the seven most common STDs.

Young women's beliefs about the terms sexually transmitted disease and sexually transmitted infection.

Objective: To determine whether young women differentiate between the terms sexually transmitted disease and sexually transmitted infection and if they do whether their reasons are consistent with those of health care providers.

Design: Secondary analysis of cross-sectional, survey data.

Setting: Four women's health clinics and one university classroom.

Older breast cancer survivors' symptom beliefs.

Purpose/objectives: To use Leventhal's Common Sense Model (CSM) to describe older breast cancer survivors' symptom representations, symptom management strategies, and perceived barriers to symptom management.

Design: A secondary analysis was conducted using data from three pilot studies that tested a theory-based intervention to improve symptom management in older breast cancer survivors.

Setting: Advanced practice nurses conducted open-ended interviews with older breast cancer survivors either in their homes or via telephone.

Providers' experiences with young people's cognitive representations and emotions related to the prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections.

Objective: The Common Sense Model (CSM) was used as the organizing framework to examine providers' experiences with young people's cognitive representations and emotions related to the prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). This study was conducted to develop insights into potential avenues for enhancing the effectiveness of STI education and counseling for young people.

Design: This was a qualitative investigation using semi-structured focus group interviews.