Early Prelicensure Nursing Students' Perceptions of Case Studies Through the Lens of the Clinical Judgment Measurement Model.

Background: Research indicates new nursing graduates struggle with clinical reasoning, despite some related skill development throughout their education. The question remains, "Could an earlier focus on clinical reasoning in nursing programs enhance nursing students' clinical reasoning?"

Purpose: This pilot study investigated how first-semester nursing students perceive the use of case studies in clinical reasoning skill development and the perceived benefits of case studies related to the NCSBN Clinical Judgment Measurement Model (NCJMM).

Methods: Case studies and written reflections were introduced to a convenience sample (n = 45) of first-semester nursing students.

Predictors and a framework for fostering community advocacy as a community health worker core function to eliminate health disparities.

Objectives: Using a mixed-method, participatory research approach, we investigated factors related to community health worker (CHW) community advocacy that affect social determinants of health.

Methods: We used cross-sectional survey data for 371 CHWs to assess demographics, training, work environment, and leadership qualities on civic, political, and organizational advocacy. We present advocacy stories to further articulate CHW activities.

Sex offender management: the public policy challenges.

Few issues within the crime policy arena are as volatile as those involving sex offending, yet there is an enormous "knowledge gap" between research, science, and clinical practice, on the one hand, and the policy and criminal justice practitioner communities, on the other. Recent highly publicized cases involving sex offending, which have elevated the issue in the public eye, provide an opportunity for experts in this field to play an aggressive role in informing this debate. In particular, high priority should be given to developing more effective means of communicating to policymakers, practitioners, the media, elected officials, and the public what is known from science and clinical practice about sex offending and about what works in addressing it.