Promoting psychological safety in simulation using a novel visual tool: A mixed-methods quasi-experimental study.

Background: Psychological safety is imperative for effective simulation-based learning within healthcare education, yet it is challenging for educators to establish. A visual tool, "Simulation Tool to Enhance Psychological Safety" (STEPS) was incorporated into simulation-based activities for prelicensure nursing students to support (or strengthen) psychological safety.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of the STEPS tool on psychological safety during simulated learning for prelicensure nursing students.

Interprofessional Education at the University Level: Evidence, Models, and Future Directions.

Interprofessional education (IPE) continues to evolve as a critical component of providing quality health care. Emerging evidence suggests IPE is most effective if it exists across the continuum of academia to clinical practice. This article provides current evidence and models for IPE deliv-ery to students beginning in their academic programs.

A simulation educational intervention to enhance preclinical family nurse practitioner student preparation.

Simulation has been shown to improve communication and psychometric skills in advanced practice nursing students. Little is known about the impact of a simulation educational intervention with a faculty-facilitated debriefing on the preparation of novice nurse practitioner students for their first clinical practicum. This article describes the development of an educational intervention to accomplish this.

Supporting data driven translational patient-centered care using network analysis to visualize symptom distress in children with serious illness.

Purpose: There are an increasing number of techniques and tools to improve the capacity for children to relay their perceptions of their symptom experience while undergoing blood and marrow transplant (BMT). Network analysis (NA) is a tool that can illustrate associations between symptoms and the distress they cause. We aimed to develop a biopsychosocial assessment clinical analytic tool to examine symptom relationships for children undergoing BMT to find actionable relationships for intervention to improve clinical outcomes including mood.

Medications for opioid use disorder: An interactive educational program developed for the nurse practitioner curriculum.

Opioid overdose deaths remain a major public health concern in the United States and led to the recent changes in regulations that allow nurse practitioners (NPs) to prescribe buprenorphine without the previously required Drug Addiction Treatment Act waiver. Previously, waiver requirements included 24 hours of opioid use disorder (OUD) and medications for OUD (MOUD) training. Although this training is no longer required, NPs need education related to providing nonstigmatizing care to individuals with OUD and safe MOUD prescribing practices.

Development of Trigger Films to Explore Nursing Students' Attitudes Toward Patients with Obesity.

Introduction: Given the increased prevalence of obesity and the existence of negative attitudes among health care providers toward patients with obesity (PWO), strategies are needed to assist nursing students in identifying and examining attitudes and beliefs related to the provision of care for individuals with obesity. Nursing school curricula should incorporate effective interventions for students in order to reduce stigmas and to modify negative attitudes and behaviors that interfere with quality nursing care for PWO. This article describes the process of developing and implementing an innovative bariatric sensitivity intervention (BSI) for prelicensure nursing students.

An innovative interprofessional education simulation for athletic training and prelicensure nursing students: Development, implementation, and student perspectives.

Background: The purpose of this article is to describe the development, implementation, and evaluation of a Simulation Interprofessional Education (Sim-IPE) activity for healthcare students from different disciplines (athletic training [AT] and nursing). The objective for the Sim-IPE activity was to engage AT and prelicensure nursing students in a realistic healthcare scenario to enhance knowledge about one another's profession, develop interprofessional skills, collaborate with one another, and communicate effectively as a team as they performed care.

Methods: This mixed methods study employed a one-time posttest design for a convenience sample of AT and prelicensure nursing students following a simulation intervention.

Creating Inclusive Learning Environments for Chinese and American Pediatric Nursing Students.

Unlabelled: During the COVID-19 pandemic, students from two schools of nursing, in China and the United States respectively, engaged in a transcultural simulation activity to explore how a global healthcare crisis has been managed within their different cultures. This article describes the development and implementation of the project and evaluates student perspectives on the simulation..

Careful considerations for mHealth app development: lessons learned from QuestExplore.

Background: Mobile health (mHealth) applications (app) have proven to be useful in gathering symptom data for a variety of populations living with chronic and serious illnesses. These mHealth tools have been built for a variety of populations but can quickly lose their novelty over time due to the lack of changes and engagement between the mHealth tool and the user. High costs, constantly changing timelines, and difficulties in building compliant data storage systems are some of the reasons why mHealth development and implementation can be a challenge.

Embracing Disruption: Measuring Effectiveness of Virtual Simulations in Advanced Practice Nurse Curriculum.

Changes in academia have occurred quickly in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In-person simulation-based education has been adapted into a virtual format to meet course learning objectives. The methods and procedures leveraged to onboard faculty, staff, and graduate nurse practitioner students to virtual simulation-based education while ensuring simulation best practice standards and obtaining evaluation data using the Simulation Effectiveness Tool-Modified (SET-M) tool are described in this article.

Nursing Students From China and the United States: Learning Together Through Virtual Simulation.

Aim: The purpose of this project was to connect nursing students from schools of nursing in China and the United States for colearning using virtual simulations.

Background: With technology and international partnerships, nursing programs can offer global education without students traveling to other countries.

Method: Virtual simulations were produced by each school for the project.

Skills, community, and rapport: Prelicensure nursing students in the virtual learning environment.

Introduction: The coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic forced changes in program delivery across nursing education. This article describes the innovative virtual lab sessions designed and implemented for Foundations and Pediatrics courses in an Accelerated Baccalaureate Science in Nursing program. The objectives of this quality improvement project were to (1) ascertain student perceptions of learning in virtual lab environment (2) identify benefits and barriers to planning and implementing virtual learning experiences, and (3) explore student attitudes and perceptions regarding group dynamics and the sense of community provided by virtual lab sessions.

Perceptions of Using Multiple Mobile Health Devices to Support Self-Management Among Adults With Type 2 Diabetes: A Qualitative Descriptive Study.

Purpose: This study identified facilitators and barriers pertaining to the use of multiple mobile health (mHealth) devices (Fitbit Alta® fitness tracker, iHealth® glucometer, BodyTrace® scale) that support self-management behaviors in individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).

Design: This qualitative descriptive study presents study participants' perceptions of using multiple mobile devices to support T2DM self-management. Additionally, this study assessed whether participants found visualizations, generated from each participant's health data as obtained from the three separate devices, useful and easy to interpret.

Seriously ill pediatric patient, parent, and clinician perspectives on visualizing symptom data.

Objective: This study examined the perspectives on the use of data visualizations and identified key features seriously ill children, their parents, and clinicians prefer to see when visualizing symptom data obtained from mobile health technologies (an Apple Watch and smartphone symptom app).

Materials And Methods: Children with serious illness and their parents were enrolled into a symptom monitoring study then a subset was interviewed for this study. A study team member created symptom data visualizations using the pediatric participant's mobile technology data.

Symptom Monitoring in Children With Life-Threatening Illness: A Feasibility Study Using mHealth.

Children with life-threatening illness (C-LTI) experience considerable symptom distress. Mobile technology may offer opportunities to better obtain symptom data that will lead to better symptom management. A mixed-methods study was conducted to explore the feasibility of monitoring and visualizing symptoms using 2 mobile health devices in C-LTI.

Measuring Pain in Sickle Cell Disease using Clinical Text.

Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is a hereditary disorder of red blood cells in humans. Complications such as pain, stroke, and organ failure occur in SCD as malformed, sickled red blood cells passing through small blood vessels get trapped. Particularly, acute pain is known to be the primary symptom of SCD.

User-Centered App Design for Acutely Ill Children and Adolescents.

The high level of acceptance and consistent use of smartphones by children and adolescents present new opportunities to monitor and collect health data. For acutely ill children and adolescents, collecting symptom data via smartphone applications (apps) provides patient-reported data that can be collected daily and offers the potential to provide a more comprehensive picture of the symptom experience. The purpose of this study was to employ user-centered design principles and medical professional input in order to obtain feedback and insight into redesigning our Technology Recordings for better Understanding Blood and Marrow Transplant (TRU-PBMT) app.

Digital Phenotyping Self-Monitoring Behaviors for Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Observational Study Using Latent Class Growth Analysis.

Background: Sustained self-monitoring and self-management behaviors are crucial to maintain optimal health for individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). As smartphones and mobile health (mHealth) devices become widely available, self-monitoring using mHealth devices is an appealing strategy in support of successful self-management of T2DM. However, research indicates that engagement with mHealth devices decreases over time.

Genetic diversity and virulence characteristics of Staphylococcus aureus isolates from cases of bovine mastitis.

Staphylococcus aureus is one of the major bacterial mastitis pathogens with significant effects on animal and human health. Some studies showed that S. aureus strains that infect different host species are genetically distinct, although most strains can infect a wide range of host species.

Mobile Health Technology for Pediatric Symptom Monitoring: A Feasibility Study.

Background: Pediatric blood and marrow transplant (PBMT) patients experience significant symptom distress. Mobile health (mHealth) technologies can be leveraged to improve understanding of the patient's symptom experience by providing continuous, real-time, in situ, patient-generated symptom data. This rich data stream can subsequently enhance symptom management strategies.

Diabetes Mobile Care: Aggregating and Visualizing Data from Multiple Mobile Health Technologies.

As the appeal and use of mobile health (mHealth) technologies continues to grow, where does mHealth fit into clinical practice? This article explores the approach and obstacles encountered when integrating mHealth data into existing clinical frameworks and explores data visualization design tradeoffs. Specifically, this paper discusses the successes and challenges that arose when using commercial mHealth technologies, synthesizing multiple mHealth device data, and tailoring visualizations based on iterative feedback from type II diabetes mellitus patients. This research aims to influence the development of patient portals within electronic health records by understanding and addressing the challenges involved in acquiring, interpreting, and displaying this data set.

Enhancing Diabetes Self-Management Through Collection and Visualization of Data From Multiple Mobile Health Technologies: Protocol for a Development and Feasibility Trial.

Background: Self-management is integral for control of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Patient self-management is improved when they receive real-time information on their health status and behaviors and ongoing facilitation from health professionals. However, timely information for these behaviors is notably absent in the health care system.

A Protocol to Assess Feasibility, Acceptability, and Usability of Mobile Technology for Symptom Management in Pediatric Transplant Patients.

Background: Pediatric blood and marrow transplant (PBMT) patients experience significant symptom distress, and the use of mobile health (mHealth) technologies may enhance symptom management by providing patient-generated health data to foster personalized health strategies.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to present a study protocol to explore feasibility, acceptability, and usability of integrating mHealth technologies to collect and monitor symptom data for PBMT patients.

Methods: An exploratory mixed-methods design is employed for 20 PBMT patients to monitor symptoms using real-time data from two mHealth devices: (a) a self-developed mHealth application and (b) a wearable tracking device.

Customization of the TRU-PBMT App (Technology Recordings to better Understand Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant).

Purpose: Our investigative team is integrating mobile health technologies into pediatric blood and marrow transplant (PBMT) care. We aim to evaluate whether patient-generated health data can be used to monitor health status and enhance symptom management. While there are numerous health-related apps, none address the symptoms or care needs specific to PBMT patients.