Telehealth Competencies for Nursing Education and Practice: The Four P's of Telehealth.

Background: Telehealth is a rapidly growing health care delivery modality with advanced practice nurses as key providers. This growth has occurred without critical consideration of provider training. Training requires the development of competencies situated within a framework.

Exploring uncertainty in advance care planning in African Americans: does low health literacy influence decision making preference at end of life.

African Americans over 65 represent 3.5 of the 35.6 million Americans.

Evaluating strategies for changing acute care nurses' perceptions on end-of-life care.

Providing quality care to the dying has become a primary concern in the United States. Eighty percent of deaths still occur in the hospital even though nurses report they do not think that good deaths are routinely possible within a hospital setting due to lack of appropriate education on end-of-life care. The aim of this pilot study was to test the best method for changing acute nurse's perceptions about end-of-life care.