Using Evidence to Design Cancer Care Facilities.

The nuts and bolts of planning and designing cancer care facilities-the physical space, the social systems, the clinical and nonclinical workflows, and all of the patient-facing services-directly influence the quality of clinical care and the overall patient experience. Cancer facilities should be conceived and constructed on the basis of evidence-based design thinking and implementation, complemented by input from key stakeholders such as patients, families, and clinicians. Specifically, facilities should be designed to improve the patient experience, offer options for urgent care, maximize infection control, support and streamline the work of multidisciplinary teams, integrate research and teaching, incorporate palliative care, and look beyond mere diagnosis and treatment to patient wellness-all tailored to each cancer center's patient population and logistical and financial constraints.

The Robert Wood Johnson Nurse Faculty Scholars Diversity and Inclusion Research.

The purpose of this research is to deepen the understanding of DEI training and show how scholars across the nation incorporated DEI leadership into academic roles. Faculty and administrators' experiential experience in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) plays a role in the success or failure of DEI training. DEI training at institutes of higher learning should include metrics that examine our bias for invisible and overt support for DEI.

Does Having Been Mentored Affect Subsequent Mentoring?

Background: How to be an effective mentor is typically not taught formally because good mentoring is thought to beget good mentoring, but there is little concrete data to support that connection.

Purpose: Scholars in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Nurse Faculty Scholars (NFS) program were surveyed to find out if the mentoring they received influenced their subsequent mentoring.

Method: The qualities that form the Mentorship Effectiveness Scale were used to investigate if the experience changed scholars' views of mentoring; open-ended questions provided an opportunity for scholars to describe additional insights.

Is it time to reconsider the term "cancer survivor"?

Purpose: To improve understanding of how people diagnosed with cancer perceive the term "cancer survivor" and what influences those perceptions.

Design: Patients' reactions to the term were surveyed quantitatively and qualitatively.

Sample: Women who have primarily experienced breast cancer belonging to The Dr.

Improving Nonclinical and Clinical-Support Services: Lessons From Oncology.

Nonclinical and clinical-support personnel serve patients on the front lines of care. Their service interactions have a powerful influence on how patients perceive their entire care experience, including the all-important interactions with clinical staff. Ignoring this reality means squandering opportunities to start patients out on the right foot at each care visit.

Diversity: A key aspect of 21st century faculty roles as implemented in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars program.

Background: Academic nursing faculty play a vital role in recruiting a diverse student body to increase the diversity of the profession and educate students to provide culturally sensitive care to expand equitable health care.

Purpose: The purpose of the study is to present the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars program diversity initiatives and outcomes.

Methods: Data on the diversity of the 90 scholars and their diversity-related leadership positions were compiled.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars program leadership training.

Background: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars program was created to address the nursing shortage via development of the next generation of national leaders in academic nursing.

Purpose: The leadership training combined development at the scholar's home institution with in-person didactic and interactive sessions with notable leaders in nursing and other disciplines.

Methods: A curriculum matrix, organized by six domains, was evaluated quantitatively and qualitatively.

Overview of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars program.

Background: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars program was created to address the nursing faculty shortage and thereby decrease the nursing shortage.

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to describe the program development, implementation, and ongoing outcome evaluation.

Methods: Data on scholarly productivity, impact of research, research funding, and leadership positions were compiled, including an h-index (impact of publications) comparison with a comparison group of other interdisciplinary faculty at the same institutions of the 90 current and alumni scholars.

Characteristics of hypotonia in children: a consensus opinion of pediatric occupational and physical therapists.

Purpose: The term hypotonia is often used to describe children with reduced muscle tone, yet it remains abstract and undefined. The purpose of this study was to identify characteristics of children with hypotonia to begin the process of developing an operational definition of hypotonia.

Methods: Three hundred physical and occupational therapists were systematically selected from the memberships of the Pediatric Section of the American Physical Therapy Association and the Developmental Delay Section of the American Occupational Therapy Association and asked to complete an open-ended survey exploring characteristics of strength, endurance, mobility, posture, and flexibility.