Intrusive thoughts and memories in adolescents with major depressive disorder or post-traumatic stress disorder.

Objectives: Research in adults suggests that intrusive memories and intrusive thoughts (often referred to as intrusive cognitions) are common in members of the general population and are often seen in clinical disorders. However, little is known about the experience of intrusive cognitions in adolescents, particularly in adolescents with major depressive disorder (MDD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The present study sought to gather fundamental data on these phenomena (i.

Development of a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) Activity.

Global mobility has made global health a priority within nursing curricula and health care organizations. A collaborative online learning activity could promote international perspectives of health care delivery. Including a collaborative online international learning activity in continuing education for practicing nurses is a viable strategy that is consistent with the internationalization at home movement.

Stakeholder views on the design of National Health Service perinatal mental health services: 360-degree survey.

Aims And Method: At the start of a new community perinatal mental health service in Scotland we sought the opinions and aspirations of professional and lay stakeholders. A student elective project supported the creation of an anonymous 360-degree online survey of a variety of staff and people with lived experience of suffering from or managing perinatal mental health problems. The survey was designed and piloted with trainees and volunteer patients.

The effectiveness of an educational intervention to enhance undergraduate nursing students' competence with interprofessional collaboration.

Background: Interprofessional collaboration and teamwork have been identified as priorities for delivering quality client care. Improved teamwork, communication, and collaboration among healthcare professionals improve client outcomes. Nurse professionals are challenged to be equally engaged with other healthcare professionals to develop a culturally competent client-centered plan of care.

Parental Anxiety and Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms in Pediatric Food Allergy.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to explore anxiety, worry, and posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) in parents of children with food allergies, and to evaluate whether these three psychological outcomes could be predicted by allergy severity, intolerance of uncertainty, and food allergy self-efficacy.

Methods: Participants were 105 parents who reported their children to have medically diagnosed food allergies. Participants were recruited to a study on parent wellbeing through an allergy clinic and social media advertisements.

Promoting nursing students' transcultural self-efficacy to care for Burmese refugees using a set of educational strategies.

Background: Educators must respond to changing societal demographics with revised curricula that facilitate student transcultural self-efficacy to care for diverse client populations.

Problem: A Midwest University was situated in a community wherein the Burmese Chin refugees were predominant arrivals, and the least known.

Objectives: This project examined the change in mean scores for transcultural self-efficacy for nursing cohorts following their engagement in educational strategies focused on the Burmese Chin culture.

A Multisite Study Demonstrates Positive Impacts to Systems Thinking Using a Table-top Simulation Experience.

Background: Systems thinking (ST) is the ability to recognize, understand, and synthesize interactions and interdependencies in a set of components designed for a purpose. Systems thinking has been shown to improve systems and decrease error. Despite these benefits, ST has not yet been consistently integrated into all health care education programs.

The Psychosocial Patient-Reported Outcomes of End of Pathway Cleft Surgery: A Systematic Review.

Objective: To identify and review the literature on the psychosocial patient-reported outcomes (PROs) of surgery at the end of the cleft treatment pathway.

Design: A systematic literature search was performed using electronic databases (Medline, PubMed, EMBASE, PsycInfo, Web of Science, and Science Direct) from database inception to September 2017, to identify studies measuring and reporting the psychosocial PROs of end of pathway cleft surgery.

Results: Of 263 identified papers, 22 studies were eligible for inclusion.

Psychological services for food allergy: The unmet need for patients and families in the United Kingdom.

Research over the past 20 years has demonstrated the significant impact food allergy can have on quality of life and mental health of patients and their families, yet there is a paucity of psychological services to support families in coping with this condition. This paper provides a short overview of the psychological impact of food allergy, followed by a discussion of the use of paediatric psychological services for long-term conditions. To our knowledge, few paediatric allergy clinics in the UK have funding for dedicated clinical psychology services.

The relationship between maladaptive appraisals and posttraumatic stress disorder: a meta-analysis.

Cognitive models of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) suggest maladaptive appraisals play a central role in the aetiology of this disorder. The current meta-analysis sought to provide a comprehensive, quantitative examination of the relationship between maladaptive appraisals and PTSD. One-hundred and 35 studies met study inclusion criteria and were subject to random effects meta-analysis.

The prevalence of intrusive memories in adult depression: A meta-analysis.

Background: Intrusive memories have typically been associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) but some studies have suggested they can also occur in depression-alone.

Objective: This meta-analysis aimed to estimate the prevalence of intrusive memories in adult depression and to explore methodological and other factors that may moderate this prevalence.

Method: The databases PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, MedLine, PubMed, CINAHL and Embase were searched for relevant articles, published up to and including July 2016.

An Educational Strategy to Inform Legislators and Nurses About the Professional Nursing Role.

Nurses provide an informed perspective to influence decision making with health care-related legislation. This article describes a strategy that can inform legislators about the contemporary nursing role and its influence on patient safety, as well as raise nurse awareness of the professional responsibility for political advocacy and how to engage in this role. [J Contin Educ Nurs.

Strategies for Integrating Global Awareness and Engagement Into Clinical Practice.

Nurse educators are faced with the challenge of educating learners about global health for clinical practice, particularly as cultural diversity increases in their own communities. This third article in the four-part Teaching Tips series focuses on active teaching-learning strategies for global health awareness and engagement in clinical practice using interprofessional education global health competencies and evidence-based interactive teaching strategies. Tips and topic ideas are offered for integrating global awareness and engagement in both the academic and practice settings to prepare today's nurses for systems-based culturally competent care in clinical practice.

Using a Role-Play Simulation Game to Promote Systems Thinking.

Learning is a dynamic process where the learner discovers new knowledge and constructs new insights. The "Friday Night in the ER" role-play simulation game facilitates system thinking, data-based decision making, and collaboration. Nurse educators in academe and health care settings can use this game to practice the essential skills of nurse professionals.

Age-related eye diseases and recommendations for low-vision AIDS.

As the number of people older than 65 years in the United States increases, the home care population will increase as well. Many of these patients will have several chronic diseases, including those related to vision loss. Home healthcare clinicians are in a position to promote patient safety by educating these patients about the devices available for those with decreased vision.

Creating a faculty community that values curricular assessment and improvement: one DNP program's experience.

Developing faculty ownership of ongoing curricular improvement presents educational and management challenges for schools of nursing, yet little has been published about which components help build a faculty community that values curricular assessment and improvement. The purpose of this case study was to describe key features of and faculty satisfaction with one school of nursing's doctor of nursing practice curricular assessment process, with a description of key considerations for developing an ePortfolio-supported curricular assessment process. ePortfolio matrices were used as a curricular organizing structure for mapping and scoring each completed student assignment to an American Association of Colleges of Nursing Essential descriptor using a rubric that measured evidence of student learning.

Online resources for culturally and linguistically appropriate services for home healthcare and hospice, Part 5: resources for African patients.

Providing culturally and linguistically appropriate home healthcare and hospice care to patients who have emigrated from the African continent can be a challenge. This article reviews Web sites that provide introductions to some of the predominant cultures in Africa. Web sites providing patient education material in 13 African languages are also discussed.

Online resources for culturally and linguistically appropriate services in home healthcare and hospice. Part 4: resources for European patients.

Provision of culturally and linguistically appropriate care for home care and hospice patients is a national mandate. Finding patient-education materials in languages other than English can be a challenge for clinicians in workplaces lacking affiliation with a hospital that provides multilingual resources to its patients. Many hospitals, government agencies, and foundations have made appropriate resources freely available on the Internet.

Resources for Middle Eastern patients: online resources for culturally and linguistically appropriate services in home healthcare and hospice, Part 3.

As the population of patients for whom English is not their primary language grows, home care and hospice clinicians are challenged to provide culturally respectful and acceptable patient-centered care for cultures and languages unfamiliar to them. This article identifies resources for understanding the culture of Middle Eastern-born patients and appropriate patient education materials in most of the languages spoken by this population. The resources have been made available for free on the Web by healthcare professionals, government agencies, and support organizations from around the world.

Online resources for culturally and linguistically appropriate services in home healthcare and hospice, Part 2: resources for Asian patients.

Home care and hospice clinicians are increasingly working with patients for whom English is not their primary language. Provision of culturally respectful and acceptable patient-centered care includes both an awareness of cultural beliefs that influence the patient's health and also the ability to provide the patient with health information in the language with which he or she is most comfortable. This article identifies resources for understanding the cultural norms of Asian-born patients and appropriate patient education materials in the many languages spoken by this population.

Online resources for culturally and linguistically appropriate services in home healthcare and hospice: resources for Spanish-speaking patients.

Home healthcare and hospice clinicians are increasingly working with patients for whom English is not their primary language. Provision of culturally respectful and acceptable patient-centered care includes both an awareness of cultural beliefs that influence the patient's health and also the ability to provide the patient with health information in the language with which he or she is most comfortable. This article identifies resources for understanding the cultural norms of different Spanish-speaking groups as well as materials appropriate for Spanish-speaking patients that healthcare professionals and government agencies from around the world have made available for others to use.

Online resources for culturally and linguistically appropriate services for home healthcare and hospice, part 5: resources for African patients.

Providing culturally and linguistically appropriate home healthcare and hospice care to patients who have emigrated from the African continent can be a challenge. This article reviews Web sites that provide introductions to some of the predominant cultures in Africa. Web sites providing patient education material in 13 African languages are also discussed.

Nineteenth-Century Nurses and Midwives in Three Canadian Cities, 1861-1891.

This paper focuses on nurses and midwives in Montreal, Halifax, and Saint John in the decades leading up to the introduction of trained nurses. Self-employed (private) nurses are compared with those in hospitals. Overwhelmingly of the working-class, predominantly women, and frequently widows, the nurses were not formally trained, though some midwives were.

Online resources for culturally and linguistically appropriate services in home healthcare and hospice: part 4: resources for European patients.

Provision of culturally and linguistically appropriate care for home care and hospice patients is a national mandate. Finding patient-education materials in languages other than English can be a challenge for clinicians in workplaces lacking affiliation with a hospital that provides multilingual resources to its patients. Many hospitals, government agencies, and foundations have made appropriate resources freely available on the Internet.