A Qualitative Exploration of Nurse Faculty Experiences Related to the Sudden Unanticipated Death of a Nursing Student.

Background: Nurse faculty serve as teachers, role models, and mentors to nursing students. This unique relationship results in a myriad of feelings when a student dies. Limited research exists in examining faculty grief related to the sudden unanticipated death of a nursing student.

Work-life balance and professional quality of life among nurse faculty during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: The rapid transition to online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic created additional stress and workload issues for nurse faculty. Burnout has been reported in nurse faculty who cite workplace factors that influence satisfaction and work-life balance as major contributing factors.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine life balance and professional quality of life among nurse faculty (N = 216) in 2021 during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic and to describe the challenges of delivering virtual learning experiences.

Cultural Competence of Baccalaureate Nurse Faculty: Relationship to Cultural Experiences.

Background: Introducing and fostering cultural competence development in nursing students only may occur with well-qualified, committed nurse faculty who are self-aware of their own cultural values and beliefs, unfortunately, there is limited research on the factors that influence the development of nurse faculty cultural competence.

Purpose And Methods: This descriptive, correlational study examined cultural experiences of 118 full-time nurse faculty in the United States (U.S.

Measuring and improving ambulatory surgery patients' satisfaction.

The pressure on perioperative services to improve quality for health care consumers creates both challenges and opportunities. To make positive changes, many health care organizations contract with Press Ganey (PG), which processes an extensive database of more than 9.5 million surveys annually and provides benchmark reports to same-type organizations.