Peer-Mentoring: A Call to Create Inclusive Programs to Support All Students' Ability to Be Successful.

Background: Support for diverse nursing students needs to be built into existing peer-mentoring programs to foster success for all students.

Method: Students were intentionally matched in a peer-mentoring program, BUDDY-UP, on several factors, which included students' race and ethnicity (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color [BIPOC]) and gender, and whether they were first-generation.

Results: Mentors and mentees expressed satisfaction and derived benefits from the intentionally matched mentoring program.

The lived experiences of persons with chronic venous insufficiency and lower extremity ulcers.

Purpose: The aim of this qualitative study was to describe the lived experience of chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) sufferers and to explore how this chronic disease affected their health-related quality of life.

Subjects And Setting: Participants included persons with a history of venous insufficiency and leg ulcers or active venous insufficiency patients. The research setting was a hospital-based outpatient wound care clinic in a small naval community approximately 1 hour from Seattle, Washington.

A descriptive study of a clinical evaluation tool and process: student and faculty perspectives.

Clinical evaluation tools are designed to assess nursing students' knowledge, skills, and attitudes related to program and course outcomes and professional nursing standards. Students, faculty, administrators, and the public rely on the effectiveness of the tool and process to determine progression within the curriculum and validate competency. In May 2012, a revised clinical evaluation tool was implemented in a baccalaureate nursing program.

Hispanic nurses' experiences of bias in the workplace.

Purpose: The continuing issue of health inequity for Hispanics highlights the importance of retaining Hispanic nurses in the workplace. This article describes the use of short answers such as "Describe the bias you experienced" and "If a patient refused care, what was the reason given?" to increase understandings about bias through the descriptions of Hispanic nurses. In this study, bias was defined as those implicit negative stereotypes and attitudes that negatively affect judgments about, evaluations of, and actions toward others.

Bias in the nursing workplace: implications for Latino(a) nurses.

The nursing shortage coupled with health inequities makes it imperative to retain nurses from diverse backgrounds in the workplace. Since Latinos are the fastest growing racial/ethnic group in the U.S.

Nurses' knowledge and attitudes toward pain in the emergency department.

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to investigate emergency nurses' knowledge and attitudes about pain.

Methods: A descriptive design was used for this study. A validated tool, the Knowledge and Attitudes Survey Regarding Pain (KASRP), was administered to nurses working in 5 U.

The importance of social connectedness in building age-friendly communities.

The purpose of this paper is to further elucidate the importance of social relationships and social connectedness with aging in place and in developing elder-friendly communities. The process used in this study was inclusive of younger adults (age 40-65) as well as older adults (65+) in order to further understand how they envision a community that could support their own aging in place. A community forum, using the World Café format, was conducted in order to engage community members, 40 years and older, in conversation about the importance of social connectedness in elder-friendly communities.

Being cabezona: success strategies of Hispanic nursing students.

Hispanic registered nurses (RNs) are poorly represented in professional nursing, comprising only 1.7% of RNs despite representing 15% of the population of the United States. Furthermore, their numbers are actually decreasing in nursing at the same time the Hispanic population is experiencing serious health disparities.