Fostering Pan-Canadian Collaboration to Advance Nursing Workforce Development: A Case Study From the Genomics Experience.

A skilled nursing workforce can ensure that Canadians have safe and equitable access to genomics-informed healthcare. Evidence-informed frameworks designed to support the implementation of genomics across nursing indicate that leadership and collaboration are critical to success. However, siloed provincial and territorial healthcare systems create challenges for harmonizing efforts.

Leadership Strategies for Genomics Integration: A Descriptive Study Using the Canadian Adaptation of the Genetics and Genomics Nursing Practice Survey.

The demand for genomic services that improve disease prevention, early detection and safer treatments has already outpaced the capacity of the current system. Nursing leadership strategies are urgently needed to integrate genomic discoveries into education and practice. Using findings from the national Canadian Adaptation of the Genetics and Genomics Nursing Practice Survey completed by 1,012 Canadian nurses, we recommend leadership strategies to build conducive practice environments and assist nurses in developing genomic literacy and confidence to fully participate in the integration of genomics into education and practice.

Association between delay in diabetes development and mortality in people with obesity: Up to 33 years follow-up of the prospective Swedish Obese Subjects study.

Aims: Life expectancy is reduced in people with obesity and is further reduced in those with concomitant type 2 diabetes. The aim of the study was to assess whether a 2-year delay in diabetes development influences life expectancy in people with obesity.

Materials And Methods: Participants from the Swedish Obese Subjects study without diabetes at baseline and known diabetes status at the 2-year follow-up were included: bariatric surgery (n = 1471) and usual obesity care (n = 1392).

Nursing strategies to address health disparities in genomics-informed care: a scoping review.

Objective: The objective of this review was to map the available global evidence on strategies that nurses can use to facilitate genomics-informed health care to address health disparities to inform the development of a research and action agenda.

Introduction: The integration of genomics into health care is improving patient outcomes through better prevention, diagnostics, and treatment; however, scholars have noted concerns with widening health disparities. Nurses work across the health system and can address health disparities from a clinical, research, education, policy, and leadership perspective.

Work-restricting musculoskeletal pain after bariatric surgery or usual obesity care in the Swedish Obese Subjects study.

Objective: The objective of this study was to study the recovery from, and incidence of, work-restricting musculoskeletal pain after bariatric surgery compared with usual obesity care.

Methods: Pain in different body regions was monitored using questionnaires in the nonrandomized, prospective, controlled Swedish Obese Subjects (SOS) study, which included 2007 participants treated with bariatric surgery and a matched control group of 2040 participants receiving usual obesity care at primary health care centers. Self-reported pain in the neck and shoulders, back, hips, knees, and ankles was captured from questionnaires administered at baseline and after 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 15, and 20 years.