Serious Gaming for Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting in Older Adults With Cancer: Protocol for a Randomized Clinical Trial.

Background: Older adults are at high risk for toxicity due to cancer treatment and increased risk for adverse events related to chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV). Unfortunately, older adults report multiple treatment-related symptoms but use few strategies to self-manage these symptoms due to erroneous beliefs related to the effectiveness of commonly taught self-management strategies. We developed a novel serious game, Managing at Home (MAH), to help older adults learn how to effectively self-manage CINV at home.

Prediction of Positive Patient Health Questionnaire-2 Screening Using Area Deprivation Index in Primary Care.

Depression is recognized as a significant public health issue in the United States. The National Survey on Drug Use and Health reports that 21.0 million adults aged 18 or older had major depressive disorder in 2020, including 14.

A systematic review of U.S. nursing faculty's knowledge, awareness, inclusion, and perceived importance of sexual and gender minority-related content in nursing curricula.

Background: In the US, sexual and gender minority (SGM) individuals continue to experience health inequities, and nursing curricula content and nursing faculty with SGM health expertise in the US remain limited. Addressing health disparities begins with the preparation of future nurses-US nursing faculty must be supported to meet these growing needs.

Purpose: To describe, appraise, and synthesize research from 2000-2020 on US nursing faculty knowledge, awareness, inclusion, and perceived importance of SGM health content.

Unplanned emergency department visits and hospital admissions of older adults under treatment for cancer in the ambulatory/community setting.

Purpose: This study aims to identify the incidence and risk/protective factors for (1) unplanned emergency department (ED) visits and hospital admissions (HA) and (2) nausea/vomiting/dehydration (NVD) at time of treatment in older adults under treatment for cancer.

Materials And Methods: This is a exploratory retrospective cohort study of adults (60 and older) with cancer. Adults were included if they had a new cancer diagnosis and were being treated with chemotherapy.

Effects of an eHealth Intervention on Patient-Provider Interaction and Functional Health Literacy in Adults With Hypertension.

Introduction: Hypertension is a life-limiting, chronic condition affecting millions of Americans. Modifiable factors, quality of the patient-provider interaction and functional health literacy, have been linked to effective hypertension self-management. However, there has been limited interventional research targeting these modifiable factors.

Preparing for and Hosting Virtual Regulatory and Accreditation Site Visits.

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Using Serious Games to Increase Prevention and Self-Management of Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting in Older Adults With Cancer.

Objectives: To examine the frequency and types of preventive and self-management behaviors reported by participants, as well as report acceptability and usability data for the electronic Symptom Self-Management Training-Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting (CINV) serious game.

Sample & Setting: 80 adults who were aged 60 years or older and newly diagnosed with cancer were recruited from a community cancer center.

Methods & Variables: Participants were randomized to an intervention or control group.

Feasibility and acceptability of a self-managed exercise to rhythmic music intervention for ICU survivors.

Background: Post-ICU rehabilitation is a challenging clinical issue for patients discharged from an Intensive Care Unit ("ICU survivors"). Our exercise to rhythmic music intervention was designed to allow ICU survivors to self-manage their exercise by following a personalized, recorded exercise playlist.

Aim: Our study reports the feasibility and acceptability of an innovative music intervention among ICU survivors enrolled in a randomized controlled pilot study.

Conflicts Within the Discipline of Nursing: Is There a Looming Paradigm War?

This paper presents a view of the current sources of potential conflicts in the academic discipline of nursing. It suggests that these conflicts could lead, in the Kuhnian sense, to a paradigm war. The differing paradigms underlying the education and traditions of the PhD prepared nurse scientist/researcher/scholar and the DNP prepared nurse practitioner are a challenge for the discipline.

Nerve agents: a guide for emergency nurses. Part 1.

Recent incidents in the UK and the alleged chemical attacks in Syria by the Bashar al-Assad regime have brought the subject of chemical weapons back into the public domain. To date these types of event have been relatively rare because terrorist plans to harm large numbers of people have mostly been thwarted. This is the first part of a two-part article on nerve agents.

Using a community advisory board to develop a serious game for older adults undergoing treatment for cancer.

Introduction: Older adults undergoing treatment for cancer are at risk for serious complications such as chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV). Older adults are often overwhelmed by information and under-manage cancer treatment-related side effects. New educational strategies such as serious gaming may help teach or reinforce key symptom self-management strategies.

Intervention Mapping Approach in the Design of an Interactive Mobile Health Application to Improve Self-care in Heart Failure.

Heart failure is a complex syndrome among older adults who may experience and interpret symptoms differently. These differences in symptom interpretation may influence decision-making in symptom management. A well-informed and motivated person may develop the knowledge and skills needed to successfully manage symptoms.

Construct Validity and Reliability of the Questionnaire on the Quality of Physician-Patient Interaction in Adults With Hypertension.

Background And Purpose: There are limited reliable and valid measures of the patient- provider interaction among adults with hypertension. Therefore, the purpose of this report is to describe the construct validity and reliability of the Questionnaire on the Quality of Physician-Patient Interaction (QQPPI), in community-dwelling adults with hypertension.

Methods: A convenience sample of 109 participants with hypertension was recruited and administered the QQPPI at baseline and 8 weeks later.

From scientific discovery to health outcomes: A synergistic model of doctoral nursing education.

Across the globe, health system leaders and stakeholder are calling for system-level reforms in education, research, and practice to accelerate the uptake and application of new knowledge in practice and to improve health care delivery and health outcomes. An evolving bi-dimensional research-practice focused model of doctoral nursing education in the U.S.

Leveraging the lived experience of surrogate decision makers of the seriously ill to develop a decision support intervention.

Background: Surrogate decision makers of seriously ill patients are frequently asked to make healthcare decisions without evidence-based decision support.

Aims: To describe the lived experiences of surrogate decision makers who have made advance care decisions and identify relevant features of a decision support intervention from their perspectives.

Methods: A convenience sample of surrogate decision makers (n=10) of seriously ill patients discharged to an extended care facility within the past 6 months participated in focus group discussions.

Validation of an Interaction Model of Health Behavior Among Adults With Hypertension.

The purpose of this study was to test the Interaction Model of Client Health Behavior among adults with hypertension. The predictive associations among health literacy, quality of the provider interaction, perceived communication skills, and behavioral activation on blood pressure control were examined. Participants were 109 adults with hypertension recruited from community settings.

Assessing and managing spider and scorpion envenomation.

Envenomation by spiders or scorpions is a public health problem in many parts of the world and is not isolated to the tropics and subtropics. Spiders and scorpions can be unintentionally transported globally, and keeping them as pets is becoming more popular, so envenomation can occur anywhere. Emergency nurses should be prepared to assess and treat patients who present with a bite or sting.

IMPACT OF A SERIOUS GAME FOR HEALTH ON CHRONIC DISEASE SELF-MANAGEMENT: PRELIMINARY EFFICACY AMONG COMMUNITY DWELLING ADULTS WITH HYPERTENSION.

Most Americans will acquire a chronic disease during their lifetime. One of the most prevalent chronic diseases that affect Americans is hypertension (HTN). Despite the known comorbidities and increased mortality rate associated with uncontrolled HTN, most community dwelling adults with HTN do not have sufficient blood pressure control Therefore, the aim of this article is to report the preliminary efficacy of a serious game for health to enhance blood pressure control among community dwelling adults with HTN.

WAIT, WON'T! WANT: BARRIERS TO HEALTH CARE AS PERCEIVED BY MEDICALLY AND SOCIALLY DISENFRANCHISED COMMUNITIES.

Objectives: We explored barriers to healthcare as perceived by members of medically and socially disenfranchised communities.

Methods: We conducted focus groups with 28 women and 32 men from Northeast Ohio who identified themselves as African-American, Hispanic/Latino, lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgendered, and/or Russian immigrant.

Results: Participants described their experiences of waiting, things they won't tolerate, when they won't participate, and what they want from providers.