Secondary Traumatic Stress in Nursing Students: An Integrative Review.

Background: Nurses have frequent interactions with traumatized individuals and may develop secondary traumatic stress (STS). Similarly, nursing students are at risk for STS development while completing clinical training.

Purpose: To critique and synthesize available research on the prevalence, severity, and experience of STS and its associated factors in prelicensure nursing students.

A concept analysis of psychological trauma in labour and delivery nurses.

Aim: To facilitate an understanding of the risk for psychological trauma in labour and delivery nurses.

Design: Concept analysis.

Methods: The Walker and Avant method of concept analysis was applied to 56 articles.

Effect of an Education Intervention on Nursing Students' Knowledge of and Attitudes Toward Caring for Transgender and Nonbinary People.

Background: Transgender and nonbinary (TGNB) people experience inequities in health care access, quality, and outcomes. Health care professionals' lack of knowledge and biased attitudes toward gender minorities contribute to inequitable care.

Purpose: This study examined the effect of TGNB health education on nursing students' knowledge and attitudes about caring for TGNB clients.

Experiences of new nurses in the United States during the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Aim: This qualitative descriptive study describes the experiences of new nurses during the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.

Background: New nurses faced the dual challenge of transitioning to practice while working during a global pandemic. Although multiple studies have described nurses' experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, research is warranted to understand new nurses' experiences during the acute phase of the pandemic.

A thematic analysis of shared experiences of essential health and support personnel in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Aims And Objectives: Studies have shown that the COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on individuals who interact with patients with SARS-CoV-2 but focused largely on clinicians in acute care settings. This qualitative descriptive study aimed to understand the experiences and well-being of essential workers across settings during the pandemic.

Background: Multiple studies of the well-being of individuals who have cared for patients during the pandemic have included interviews of clinicians from acute care settings and revealed high levels of stress.

An uncertain time: Clinical nurses' first impressions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic overwhelmed the US healthcare system and healthcare providers. Nurses, who comprise one of the most affected groups because they are the largest group of healthcare providers, were in a unique position to speak about their perspectives. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses have experienced ongoing physical and psychological challenges while displaying strength and perseverance during uncertain times.

Vulnerability, loss, and coping experiences of health care workers and first responders during the covid-19 pandemic: a qualitative study.

Introduction: The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic substantially affects health care workers from multiple disciplines, including nurses, physicians, therapists, and first responders. The aims of this study were to 1) explore and describe the experiences of health care workers and first responders working with individuals with COVID-19 infection, and 2) identify the support and strategies that were helpful during their experience.

Methods: A qualitative descriptive study was conducted via online video interviews of 29 health care workers and first responders who agreed to be contacted for an interview.

Original Research: Nurses' Experiences of Caring for Patients and Families During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Communication Challenges.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of the perceptions and experiences of nurses caring for patients and families under the COVID-19 pandemic's socially restrictive practices and policies.

Background: The COVID-19 global pandemic has affected the delivery of health care to patients and their families, with many aspects altered because of the need for social distancing, social isolation, and visitation restriction policies. These policies have created communication challenges for interdisciplinary health care teams, patients, and families.

Compassion satisfaction: A concept analysis in nursing.

Background: Nurses experience an intrinsic sense of fulfillment derived from their work in caring for other people. There is a need to further investigate the concept of compassion satisfaction as it is experienced in the profession of nursing.

Aim: The aim of this analysis is to provide clarity to the concept of compassion satisfaction in nursing.

The lived experience of women in abusive relationships who sought spiritual guidance.

Women in abusive relationships have recognized the silence of religious institutions and clergy in addressing intimate partner violence. The old message, that women are to blame when family dysfunction occurs, remains evident in society. The objective of this qualitative study was to describe the experience of abused women attempting to decrease their spiritual distress and obtain spiritual guidance from their religious leaders.

Partner abuse in physically disabled women: a proposed model for understanding intimate partner violence.

Problem: Physically disabled women are a population at significant risk for intimate partner violence.

Method: This study used a qualitative research design to address the abuse experience of physically disabled women.

Findings: The participants identified multiple incidences of abuse, focusing on how the abuse began, proceeded, and terminated.