Publications by authors named "L J Muirhead"
Background: Organizational change within nursing schools that supports growth of students, faculty, and staff from underrepresented groups occurs through purposeful strategies and commitments to building capacity for the spectra and richness of diverse perspectives.
Purpose: To evaluate framework-guided initiatives, our organization implemented to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion to achieve inclusive excellence in nursing education and leadership.
Methods: Framework-guided initiatives include a standardized diversity education model, hiring bias mitigation strategies, equitable spending, partnerships for student and faculty recruitment, and restructuring committees to include diverse perspectives.
Article Synopsis
- Nocturia (waking up at night to urinate) and chronic insomnia often affect older adults together, leading to more severe sleep disturbances, yet treatments usually focus on one issue at a time.
- A study involved older adults with both conditions to test a new treatment approach combining cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia and nocturia, as well as a control health education program.
- Results showed that participants in the combined treatment group experienced a greater reduction in the number of nightly nocturia episodes compared to those in the control group over four months, suggesting the method's feasibility for future research.
Background: Nurses have frequent opportunities to address social determinants of health (SDOH) in practice. However, many nurses graduate without completing coursework in SDOH, and there remain barriers to incorporating SDOH content into nursing curricula.
Purpose: We propose the revision of nursing pre-requisites to include substantive, introductory coursework on SDOH.
Severe nursing shortages threaten the sustainability of US health systems. Rural and underserved communities are disproportionately affected by staffing crises and associated facility closures, as well as health disparities. A major factor contributing to geographic gaps in care is the absence of nursing schools, nursing faculty, and locations for clinical rotations in many rural and underserved areas.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Addressing threats to the nursing and public health workforce, while also strengthening the skills of current and future workers, requires programmatic solutions. Training programs should be guided by frameworks, which leverage nursing expertise and leadership, partnerships, and integrate ongoing evaluation.
Purpose Statement: This article provides a replicable framework to grow, bolster, and diversify the nursing and public health workforces, known as the Nurse-led Equitable Learning (NEL) Framework for Training Programs.