Conceptualizing the Influence of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging on Professional Identity in Nursing.

Background: Professional identity in nursing (PIN) is a multifaceted construct that evolves throughout one's nursing career. As new knowledge about PIN emerges, the influence of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) becomes increasingly vital in shaping a nurse's identity.

Method: Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory is used to illustrate the complex, reciprocal, and intersecting influences of DEIB in the transformational process of becoming a nurse.

National Study of Nursing Faculty and Administrators' Perceptions of Professional Identity in Nursing.

Background: Establishing a professional identity in nursing is integral to professional development, yet this area of inquiry remains understudied.

Purpose: This segment of a multiphased national study measured nursing faculty's perceived level of importance regarding key components of professional identity in nursing using the newly developed Professional Identity in Nursing Survey (PINS).

Methods: Fifty subject matter experts from nursing education, practice, and regulation utilized the DeVellis scale development process to develop the PINS over the course of 2 years.

Clinical imagination: dynamic case studies using an attribute listing matrix.

The Attribute Listing Matrix Case Study (ALMCS) is an active instructional strategy for use in the classroom or clinical laboratory designed to engage the learner at the analysis, synthesis, and evaluation levels of Bloom's cognitive domain. Random numbers are used to generate multiple versions of case studies within a matrix that contains categories of real-world variables. Nursing students, either individually or in small groups, can then use the nursing process to analyze the patient case and design an individualized care plan.

Is there logic behind fetal monitoring?

Practitioners of biomedicine pride themselves on making logical decisions based on scientific fact and research evidence. However, continuous electronic fetal monitoring, as it is applied in contemporary North American obstetric practice, does not stand up to the rules of logic or the application of empirical evidence. In the face of growing evidence against the efficacy of continuous electronic fetal monitoring for improving birth outcomes, perinatal health care providers need to critically evaluate the arguments that supported its inception and consider whether its continued application can be defended.