Bereavement care guidelines used in health care facilities immediately following perinatal loss: a scoping review.

Objective: The objective of the scoping review was to explore the evidence and describe what is known about perinatal bereavement care guidelines provided within health care facilities prior to discharge. Additionally, the review sought to identify what is known about parents' mental health outcomes, and map these outcomes to the characteristics of the bereavement care guidelines.

Introduction: Perinatal loss poses a serious risk of emotional trauma and mental health sequelae.

Wound-healing properties of Stryphnodendron adstringens (barbatimão) in skin and mucosa injuries: a scoping review protocol.

Objective: This review will map the literature on the types of research and methods used to investigate the wound-healing properties of Stryphnodendron adstringens ( barbatimão ) in skin and mucosa injuries.

Introduction: Barbatimão is a Brazilian native plant and its wound-healing properties have been described in literature since the colonial period. It is one of the 71 plants included in the Brazilian health system's national list of medicinal plants of interest.

Cultural adaptation and reliability testing of the Chinese version of evidence-based practice knowledge assessment in nursing: A cross-sectional study.

Objective: The EKAN is a reliable and validated tool for objectively measuring the evidence-based practice (EBP) knowledge of nurses. Thus, we set out to translate and culturally modify the Evidence-Based Practice Knowledge Assessment in Nursing (EKAN), and then evaluate its validity and reliability among Chinese practicing nurses.

Methods: This cross-sectional study consisted of two phases.

Methodological rigor and reporting quality of clinical practice guidelines for adults hospitalized with bacterial pneumonia: a scoping review protocol.

Objective: This scoping review will present a profile of methodological rigor and reporting quality of clinical practice guidelines for adults hospitalized with bacterial pneumonia.

Introduction: An ideal clinical practice guideline is evidence-based and the product of a rigorous and robust literature-vetted process, yet reports show that rigor is not being achieved. Moreover, a new vulnerable population has been identified due to COVID-19, increasing the need for high quality clinical practice guidelines.

An analysis of data sources and study registries used in systematic reviews.

Background: Reporting standards for data sources in systematic reviews (SRs) have been developed, yet research shows varying compliance in the methods section. When this happens, replication of search results is difficult and creates ambiguous and biased data sources.

Aims: This study captured author practices in choosing English and non-English-language databases, listing all the databases searched, and incorporating study registries as part of the search strategy.

Burnout, Self-Efficacy, and Resilience in Haitian Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Though nursing burnout is a global problem, research on nurse burnout in Haiti is scarce. In a context of multiple personal, social, and environmental challenges, this study assessed burnout and associated factors among Haitian nurses. A multi-site cross-sectional study.

Bereavement care immediately after perinatal loss in health care facilities: a scoping review protocol.

Objective: This scoping review will summarize what is known about formal and informal perinatal bereavement care guidelines used in health care facilities before discharge, and map the mental health outcomes of parents against characteristics of the guidelines.

Introduction: Conflicting evidence for bereavement care guidelines, the lack of randomized controlled trials and experimental studies, and older synthesized information with a limited focus or population make synthesis complex. A scoping review will help determine the breadth and depth of the literature.

Validation of the Brazilian Portuguese version of Evidence-based Practice Knowledge Assessment in Nursing (EKAN).

Objective: The Evidence-based Practice Knowledge Assessment in Nursing (EKAN) is an objective measure of evidence-based practice (EBP) knowledge. The aims of the project were to translate the EKAN instrument into Brazilian Portuguese, test its psychometric properties, and document a baseline assessment of students' EBP knowledge.

Method: This study used methodological design.

Effectiveness of telemonitoring on self-care behaviors among community-dwelling adults with heart failure: a quantitative systematic review.

Objective: This review examined the effectiveness of telemonitoring versus usual care on self-care behaviors among community-dwelling adults with heart failure.

Introduction: Heart failure is a global health crisis. There is a body of high-level evidence demonstrating that telemonitoring is an appropriate and effective therapy for many chronic conditions, including heart failure.

Dedication in a Difficult Context: Faith-Based Nursing in Haiti.

Haitian nurses live in a precarious environment, with healthcare disparity and low wages. In the presence of significant politico-social-economic disparities, adverse effects of natural disasters, deleterious infrastructure, challenged self-boundaries, and the burden of caring for high-need patients, the authors sought a better understanding of nurses' perspective of the situation. During qualitative interviews, Haitian nurses in two faith-based hospitals (N = 17) reported feeling powerless yet exhibited resilience and dedication to nursing as a calling.

Effect of telemonitoring on self-care behaviors among community-dwelling adults with heart failure: a quantitative systematic review protocol.

Objective: This systematic review seeks to synthesize evidence to determine the effect of telemonitoring on self-care behaviors of adults with heart failure.

Introduction: There is a high-level body of evidence demonstrating that telemonitoring is an appropriate and effective therapy for many chronic conditions and, specifically, for patients with heart failure. However, the effect of telemonitoring on self-care behaviors in the adult population with heart failure is unknown.

Establishing A Global EBP Tool to Measure Evidence-Based Practice Knowledge: Translating and Testing the French Version of EKAN.

Background And Purpose: Government and professional organizations around the world have issued a call for evidence-based practice (EBP), affecting nursing globally. This study aimed to establish a baseline measure of EBP knowledge in French-speaking, baccalaureate nursing students and test the psychometric performance of a newly translated instrument.

Methods: For the cross-sectional, descriptive, correlational study, 103 baccalaureate nursing students from Haiti were included in the analysis.

A Global Approach to Promoting Evidence-Based Practice Knowledge: Validating the Translated Version of the Evidence-Based Practice Knowledge Assessment in Nursing Into Spanish.

Background: Government and professional organizations have issued a call for evidence-based practice (EBP), prompting the development of competencies and expectations for knowledge, skills, and attitudes. However, EBP is still inconsistently implemented. To advance the science of nursing globally, educators and leaders need to use consistent, rigorous evaluation methods to assess the EBP knowledge of students and clinicians.

Dealing with academic dishonesty: a redemptive approach.

Studies reveal that as many as 80% of college students cheat; over half do not think cheating is a serious transgression. Developing integrity in nursing students is crucial, as their later actions impact patients' lives. How can educators foster academic integrity? Two educators from a Christian university relay how they approached a student's cheating and the transformative lessons they learned.

From committee to commission: the history of the NLN's Academic Certified Nurse Educator Program.

Aim: To describe the historical events surrounding the development of the National League for Nursing (NLN) Academic Nurse Educator Certification Program (ANECP) and document its transition from a committee to a commission.

Background: During the latter half of the 20th century, certification became a demonstrated standard of excellence in nursing. A few visionaries suggested that nursing education itself was a specialty, but the timing for certification was not right.

Connecting in distance mentoring: communication practices that work.

Background: As nursing and healthcare become more global, supported by technology, the opportunities for distance mentoring increase. Mentorship is critical to nurse educator recruitment and retention.

Study Objective: The purpose of this study was to identify communication practices of nurse educators involved in mentoring at a distance.

Best practices in academic mentoring: a model for excellence.

Mentoring is important for the recruitment and retention of qualified nurse faculty, their ongoing career development, and leadership development. However, what are current best practices of mentoring? The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of a model for excellence in establishing a formal mentoring program for academic nurse educators. Six themes for establishing a formal mentoring program are presented, highlighting best practices in mentoring as culled from experience and the literature.

Open access part I: the movement, the issues, and the benefits.

The advent of Open Access (OA) has changed the landscape of accessing digital information globally. OA offers valuable free, full-text, online resources for all health-related professionals, regardless of the practice setting. Because much scholarly information may now be accessed without charge, nurses worldwide can reach a higher level of information competency-a prime requirement for evidence-based practice.

Deep tendon reflexes, magnesium, and calcium: assessments and implications.

The perinatal nurse, in collaboration with physicians, can use deep tendon reflexes as a powerful tool in determining the need to start, adjust, or stop magnesium infusion. Toxicity can be detected using physical manifestations as a guide. Clinical signs may be a better indicator than serum levels of tissue levels of magnesium.

Deep tendon reflexes: the what, why, where, and how of tapping.

Deep tendon reflexes demonstrate the homeostasis between the cerebral cortex and the spinal cord. When these reflexes are disrupted, hyperreflexia (disease induced) or hyporeflexia/areflexia (drug induced) occurs. Although nurses perform deep tendon reflex assessments regularly, it is difficult to incorporate theoretical principles in these assessments because of scant medical literature, a lack of nursing research, and time constraints in nursing programs.