Kintsugi: Fosters Student Nurse Externs' and New Nurse Residents' Sense of Respect, Resilience, and Rebuilding Post Pandemic.

Kintsugi serves as a powerful metaphor for nurse externs and residents to identify lessons learned from the pandemic and to refocus on the golden cracks to foster respect, resilience, and rebuilding. Kintsugi encourages nurses to embrace their challenges, find strength in their vulnerabilities, and grow from their experiences.

Nurse Externships: Exploring Innovations to Recruit and Mentor Clinical Adjunct Faculty.

Background: Recruitment and mentoring of clinical preceptors for adjunct clinical faculty positions is essential to easing the nursing faculty shortage. This exploratory study investigated an academic-practice partnership through a summer nursing externship to recruit and mentor clinical preceptors for the clinical educator role.

Method: This exploratory longitudinal study examined the success of recruiting and mentoring adjunct clinical educators at a Magnet hospital in the northeast United States.

Relationship Between Self-Directed Learning, Grit, and Compassionate Teaching in Doctoral Nursing Education.

Background: The capacity to be self-directed, take responsibility for one's learning, and possess grit, perseverance, and passion for long-term goals is fundamental to doctoral education. Compassionate teaching (CT) strategies may help foster these traits.

Purpose: This study explored CT strategies, self-directedness, and grit in doctoral nursing education.

Alcohol use and binge drinking in baccalaureate nursing students: A descriptive study.

Background: Current literature validates that drinking is a problem on many college and university campuses. While educators are aware that drinking negatively impacts learning, it is imperative that nursing educators understand why this behavior exists and recognize strategies and opportunities to mitigate drinking for students in the nursing major.

Purpose: The purposes of this study were to understand the prevalence of and reasons for alcohol use and binge drinking in undergraduate baccalaureate nursing students in the United States and identify ways faculty may promote a healthy learning environment to decrease the incidence of alcohol use and binge drinking.

Health Care Professional Students' Perceptions of Teamwork and Roles After an Interprofessional Critical Care Simulation.

Background: Educational opportunities for health care professional students to learn collaborative communication and the roles and responsibilities of other disciplines are minimal unless faculty are intentional about facilitating this interdisciplinary learning.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine how a simulation-enhanced interprofessional education (Sim-IPE) teaching strategy fostered communication and interdisciplinary awareness between students from multiple disciplines.

Method: This pretest-posttest design surveyed undergraduate students from 5 disciplines.

How the COVID-19 pandemic can teach educators a few lessons.

In this article, a nurse educator argues that the COVID-19 pandemic provides educators with an opportunity to refocus and include some essential concepts and hard lessons learned from the pandemic into their teachings.

Nurse Educators: Professional Quality of Life Related to Conditions of Work Effectiveness.

Background: Professional quality of life (ProQoL) is the balance between compassion satisfaction (CS) and compassion fatigue (CF). The experience of CF results from secondary traumatic stress stemming from compassionate caregiving and burnout.

Purpose: This study sought to identify the ProQoL of nurse educators and what conditions for work effectiveness affect this ProQoL.

Neuroleptic malignant syndrome: A case report.

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is an increasingly popular treatment for drug-resistant depression that may have utility for some patients with neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) who are unresponsive to pharmacotherapy. Using a case study as an example, this article discusses the diagnosis of a patient with NMS, the use of ECT as a treatment for NMS, and the importance of nursing care for these patients.

Management of the Pregnant Patient With a Spinal Cord Injury.

Introduction: Spinal cord injuries (SCIs) and pregnancy can present a challenging scenario for healthcare professionals. Information regarding the management of patients who become pregnant and have SCIs is limited in the nursing literature, and therefore, more case studies must be presented and research must be conducted to build evidence-based care. Physiologic changes in pregnancy can increase a patient's risk for serious complications during pregnancy and, consequently, may put the fetus at a greater risk.

Extern Programs Promote Confidence and Reduce Anxiety With Clinical Decision Making in Nursing Students.

Background: Clinical decision making (CDM), expected of professional nurses, affects patient outcomes but is arduous for nursing students to learn. Psychological barriers (low self-confidence [SC] and high anxiety with CDM) have an impact on its achievement. Externship programs help mitigate these barriers.

Collaborating With Hospital Chaplains to Meet the Spiritual Needs of Critical Care Patients.

There are many opportunities for critical-care nurses to collaborate with chaplains in an effort to provide spiritual care for patients and their families. By recognizing the educational requirements as well as the unique roles of board-certified chaplains (BCCs), the critical-care nurse will view them as respected members of the health care team. This collaboration positively impacts the work environment and creates a holistic space for healing for patients, as well as the health care team.

The Importance of Healthy Academic Learning Environments in Nursing Education.

Work environment is frequently discussed in nursing literature, particularly within the realm of practice and patient safety. However, there is limited literature regarding the work environment in academic settings and how it affects faculty and students. There is no literature that looks at work environments in relation to human needs theory.

Fecal microbiota transplant to treat recurrent Clostridium difficile infections.

The prevalence of recurrent or refractory Clostridium difficile infection has been steadily increasing since 2000. Consequently, alternative treatments to the standard antibiotic therapies are now being considered. One alternative treatment is fecal microbiota transplant.

Faculty and student perceptions about attendance policies in baccalaureate nursing programs.

Aim: To understand perceptions of faculty and students about attendance policies in baccalaureate nursing programs.

Background: Classroom attendance is an issue of debate across academic disciplines.

Method: A mixed-methods study was conducted using qualitative data from a stratified random sample of 65 accredited baccalaureate nursing programs; 591 students and 91 faculty from 19 schools responded.

What lies within: phenomenology and intuitive self-knowledge.

This article discusses the significance of intuitiveness as a component of phenomenological knowing and demonstrates how this way of knowing may exist independently of or coexist collaboratively with rationality and evidence-based practice. By using a holistic approach to knowing, nurses use clinical reasoning skills to prevent adverse patient outcomes from failure to diagnose problems, to establish appropriate treatments, and/or to deal with complications. As the complexity of health care escalates, health care providers must strive to think holistically to advance knowledge and contribute to their discipline.

A call to action: nursing education must embrace change and move forward.

Nursing and medical educators are challenged by the education-practice gap and look for ways to smooth the transition and prepare our graduates for practice. Clinical practitioners believe that education does not keep pace with the demands in the clinical setting. This article highlights educational challenges, and-where relevant-will compare and contrast these challenges in nursing education with those taking place in medical education and will present creative admission requirements and teaching strategies.

Collaborative educational initiative: developing and implementing a perioperative nursing course for baccalaureate nursing students.

Baccalaureate nursing curricula provide minimal exposure to the perioperative specialty area despite the fact that students are often very interested in this area of nursing. Usually the baccalaureate learning experience is that of a single passive observation rather than actively participating in care of perioperative patients. There are many reasons for this lack of exposure including the focus on preparation of nurse "generalists" for practice.

Carbon monoxide poisoning: case studies and review.

This article describes carbon monoxide poisoning. Using a case study approach, the article covers pathophysiology, epidemiology, clinical presentation, and complications. A nursing care plan is presented to guide the critical care nurse in the care of patients in this type of condition.

Fostering cultural and interdisciplinary awareness with "low-tech" simulation in a fundamentals nursing course to prepare student nurses for critical care clinical rotations.

This article focuses on the advancement of nursing education and practice through implementing "low-tech" simulation in a fundamentals nursing course to foster an awareness of scope of practice and interdisciplinary teamwork and collaboration to prepare student nurses for their critical care clinical experience. The integration of low-tech simulation during the students' first clinical course at 2 different times during the semester was utilized to accomplish this awareness. This article was added to the scant published articles that highlight the benefits of low-tech simulation in a fundamentals of nursing course.