Reframing care while enduring the traumatic nature of witnessing disrupted family-patient-nurses' relationships during COVID-19.

Aim: To describe the lived experiences of nurses caring for patients and families in the context of COVID-19 in Brazil and United States.

Design: A phenomenological philosophical approach following the van Manen analysis method.

Methods: Participants were recruited in Brazil and the United States, including nurses working in health care settings caring for COVID-19 patients.

Living in COVID's Disbeliefs, Media, and Fear: Nurses in Brazil and the United States Share Their Experiences.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses were placed in an unprecedented context in which they engaged with community members, family members, and friends while positioned between dire hospital situations and community disbelief about the seriousness of the pandemic, often along political lines. A secondary analysis of a qualitative study exploring experiences of 39 nurses in the United States and Brazil in engaging with the community and political discourse during the pandemic provided insights into the impact of these interactions on nurses, and implications for how nurses may emerge from this pandemic time stronger and more supported by those in administrative positions.

Social Isolation Among Individuals With Cancer.

The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified the social isolation of individuals with cancer. Studies about how to address social isolation among patients with cancer are limited, yet data from other high-risk populations can inform.

Implementing the Serious Illness Care Program in Primary Care.

Inadequate communication about serious illness care preferences affects patients, families, health care providers, and health care systems. Many patient and system barriers prevent comprehensive serious illness communication. The purpose of this evidence-based practice project was to provide a structure within a primary care clinic to facilitate conversations with seriously ill individuals about their care preferences that (a) was adaptable to clinic workflow, (b) improved providers' perception of the care conversation experience, (c) improved documentation of care preferences, and (d) provided a comfortable and helpful experience.

Propofol Disposal in the Anesthesia Setting: Overcoming Barriers.

Propofol accounts for 41% of reported substance abuse cases among anesthesia providers. No guidelines outline appropriate propofol disposal in the healthcare setting. The lack of controlled disposal presents concerns for environmental harm, economic waste, and diversion.

Group interpersonal and social rhythm therapy for bipolar depression.

Purpose: To evaluate the feasibility of 2-week interpersonal and social rhythm therapy group (IPSRT-G) for bipolar depression.

Design And Methods: Participants with bipolar depression received two individual sessions, six IPSRT-G sessions, and a 12-week telephone call. The Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology-Clinician Rated (IDS-C), Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS), Sheehan Disability Scale (SDS), and Clinical Global Impressions-Bipolar Version (CGI-BP) were used.

Cognitive behavioral therapy, self-efficacy, and depression in persons with chronic pain.

Chronic pain is a complex and often disabling condition compounded by depression and poor self-efficacy. The purpose of this evidence-based project was to explore the relationship of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)-focused groups with self-efficacy and depression in persons with chronic pain at an intensive interdisciplinary 3-week pain rehabilitation center (PRC). The project sample consisted of 138 persons admitted to a PRC and scoring ≥27 on the Center for Epidemiological Study Depression Scale (CES-D) and then completing the Pain Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (PSEQ).

The value of oncology nursing certification.

The attainment of oncology nursing certification indicates that a nurse has the knowledge and expertise to competently care for patients with an actual or potential diagnosis of cancer. Research regarding the value nurses associate with certification is lacking; therefore, the Oncology Nursing Certification Corporation participated in a national study led by the American Board of Nursing Specialties Research Committee to explore the value of certification in a sample of certified and noncertified nurses and nurse managers. A total of 940 oncology nurses participated and completed a demographic survey and the Perceived Value of Certification Tool.

Predictors of adjustment and growth in women with recurrent ovarian cancer.

Purpose/objectives: To analyze predictors of adjustment and growth in women who had experienced recurrent ovarian cancer using components of the Resiliency Model of Family Stress, Adjustment, and Adaptation as a conceptual framework.

Design: Cross-sectional.

Setting: Participants were recruited from national cancer advocacy groups.

Husbands' perspective of living with wives' ovarian cancer.

Objectives: The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe the experience of ovarian cancer from the husband's perspective.

Methods: Participants were recruited through a large Midwestern hospital and a state ovarian cancer advocacy organization. A one-time telephone interview was conducted with each participant.

An experiential interdisciplinary quality improvement education initiative.

Seven learners, including 2 preventive medicine fellows, 2 family medicine residents, 1 internal medicine resident, and 2 master's-level nursing students participated in an experiential 4-week quality improvement rotation at a major academic medical center. Together they worked on a quality improvement project that resulted in enhanced medication reconciliation in a preventive medicine clinic. Learner knowledge measured on the QI Knowledge Application Tool increased from an average of 2.

Stories of breast cancer through art.

Purpose/objectives: To describe the use of an art exhibit, created in response to breast cancer survivor stories, and additional supplementary activities to increase cancer awareness and provide support to those with cancer.

Data Sources: Published articles and books, personal experiences.

Data Synthesis: Art has been used to educate and promote the expression of emotions.

Twin quilts--stories to be told.

A perusal of the literature reveals the many ways quilt design and personal communication is interwoven. We selected quilt making to provide those affected by breast cancer-as a patient, friend or relative-the opportunity to communicate their experience through quilt making. With the participation of community quilters, a concept and quilt design was developed to incorporate the work of patients and others in making a quilt.

Operationalizing advanced practice registered nurse legislation: perspectives from a clinical nurse specialist task force.

Many state boards of nursing are currently examining advanced nursing practice and determining a process to recognize and regulate it appropriately. In 1999, Minnesota state law was altered to define and provide title protection for advanced practice registered nurses. After passage of the new law, the Minnesota Board of Nursing convened 4 task forces, representing each of 4 advanced practice nursing groups, to develop recommendations regarding issues of certification, criteria for determining acceptable certifying organizations, procedures in the event of examination failure, and a process for communicating this information to the nursing community.