Publications by authors named "Lorelli Nowell"

Background: Nursing students are tasked with connecting theoretical knowledge with clinical practice to ensure patient safety and provide quality care. However, there is a distinct lack of research on nursing student learning transfer. More exploration and research are necessary to understand how nursing students apply their learning in complex and evolving clinical situations.

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Aims: The aim of this review was to synthesize and appraise the available literature regarding academic success in undergraduate nursing education.

Design: We used Whittemore and Knafl's five-stage framework for integrative reviews. Toronto and Remington's step-by-step guide to integrative reviews provided practical guidance in the review process.

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Background: Professionals in caring disciplines have been pivotal in advancing virtual care, which leverages remote technologies to deliver effective support and services from a distance. Educators in these caring professions are required to teach students the skills and competencies needed to provide high-quality and effective care and as virtual care becomes more integral, educators must equip students in these fields with both interpersonal and technological skills, bridging traditional hands-on learning with digital literacy. However, there is a gap in evidence exploring educators' perceptions and experiences of teaching caring professions students about virtual caring skills within online environments.

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Introduction: Health care educators in the practice setting are responsible for providing education to frontline staff and require knowledge and skills to interact with interprofessional health care providers and teach content in an effective way. Interprofessional education opportunities for health care educators in the practice setting may be helpful in preparing educators to meet the needs of frontline staff, yet the extant state of literature on this topic has not been recently synthesized. In this integrative review, we aimed to explore what is known about interprofessional education opportunities offered to health care educators who are responsible for educating other health care professionals in practice settings and assess how these education opportunities were described and evaluated in the literature.

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Background: Caring profession students require skills and competencies to proficiently use information technologies for providing high-quality and effective care. However, there is a gap in exploring the perceptions and experiences of students in developing virtual care skills within online environments.

Objective: This study aims to better understand caring professional students' online learning experiences with developing virtual care skills and competencies.

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Background: An often-hidden element in healthcare students' education is the pedagogy of public involvement, yet public participation can result in deep learning for students with positive impacts on the public who participate.

Objective: This article aimed to synthesize published literature reviews that described the impact of public participation in healthcare students' education.

Search Strategy: We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, ERIC, PsychINFO, CINAHL, PubMed, JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Implementation Reports, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects and the PROSPERO register for literature reviews on public participation in healthcare students' education.

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Background: Health research partnership approaches have grown in popularity over the past decade, but the systematic evaluation of their outcomes and impacts has not kept equal pace. Identifying partnership assessment tools and key partnership characteristics is needed to advance partnerships, partnership measurement, and the assessment of their outcomes and impacts through systematic study.

Objective: To locate and identify globally available tools for assessing the outcomes and impacts of health research partnerships.

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We report a concept analysis of the term , conducted using the Walker and Avant approach. Our literature search resulted in 27 publications with meaningful insights regarding interprofessional socialization, published between 1994-2022. We identified five defining attributes of interprofessional socialization: (a) learning about other professionals and the roles they play on interprofessional teams, (b) recognizing the value of collaborating with other professionals, (c) identifying a common goal shared across professions, (d) breaking down barriers between professional silos, and (e) developing dual identity: a professional identity and an interprofessional identity.

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Aim: The aim of this integrative review was to examine the theoretical, qualitative, quantitative and mixed-methods literature focused on how nursing students transfer learning from theory courses into clinical practice.

Background: As nursing curriculum aligns with the growing body of nursing knowledge, nursing students continue to develop their knowledge base and skill sets to prepare for future nursing practice. The bulk of this preparation involves developing connections between classroom/lab knowledge and further demonstrating those connections in clinical practice.

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Aims: To synthesize the empirical and theoretical literature on change fatigue in nursing, including how change fatigue affects nurses, the nursing profession and strategies to prevent and overcome it.

Background: Change fatigue refers to the overwhelming feelings of stress, exhaustion and burnout associated with rapid and continuous change across healthcare organizations. Change fatigue can affect nurses' wellbeing, yet there is a distinct lack of literature which synthesizes the relationship between cumulative organizational change and nurses' wellbeing.

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Background: Accurate, consistent assessment of outcomes and impacts is challenging in the health research partnerships domain. Increased focus on tool quality, including conceptual, psychometric and pragmatic characteristics, could improve the quantification, measurement and reporting partnership outcomes and impacts. This cascading review was undertaken as part of a coordinated, multicentre effort to identify, synthesize and assess a vast body of health research partnership literature.

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As mixed methods research approaches become increasingly more common, it is imperative they are conducted in a thoughtful and rigorous manner to yield useful results. While researchers have begun to explore the use of various qualitative research methodologies in mixed methods research, there is a gap in literature discussing the philosophical congruence of using interpretive description in mixed method studies, and how to ensure rigor while integrating interpretive description results. Our purpose in writing this article is to discuss the issues of fit, purpose, process, context, and design when using interpretive description in mixed methods research approaches by drawing on examples from the literature.

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Background: While distractions and interruptions are leading causes of errors during medication preparation, most nursing students are not taught how to manage distractions in a highly-interruptive environment. To help prepare nursing students to manage distractions and interruptions in clinical practice, we developed, implemented, and evaluated a medication preparation distraction and interruption simulation.

Objectives: To explore student and simulation facilitators experiences and perceptions of a distraction and interruption simulation.

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Aim: A discussion of the philosophy of pragmatism and how it can underpin and integrate nursing education, practice, research and policy across the nursing profession.

Background: Although the concepts of plurality, truth, fallibilism, subjectivity and meliorism have been discussed across foundational philosophical literature, the relation of these concepts across various facets of the nursing profession have not been thoroughly articulated in the nursing literature.

Design: Critical theoretical reflection.

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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has altered caring professions education and the range of technological competencies needed to thrive in today's digital economy. We aimed to identify the various technologies and design strategies being used to help students develop and translate professional caring competencies into remote working environments. Eight databases were systematically searched in February 2021 for relevant studies.

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Universities are places to promote the wellbeing of people who learn, work, and live within them. This article reports on an innovative, holistic, and embedded wellness dog program that was developed by the Faculty of Nursing to support the wellbeing of students, faculty, and staff. The innovation included a collaborative partnership between two faculties (the faculties of Veterinary Medicine and Nursing), and the targeted purchase, training, and socialization of a wellness dog.

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Aim: To explore undergraduate nursing students' understanding of fundamental care and identify educational leadership opportunities to deepen students' understanding of fundamental care concepts.

Design: Sequential-explanatory mixed methods study.

Methods: We conducted a cross sectional survey (n = 202) and focus groups (n = 24) to explore undergraduate nursing students' ability to identify fundamental care needs.

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Nursing leaders are increasingly required to create and implement innovative solutions to address challenges in the workplace. However, the present-day education of graduate nurses may not adequately prepare them for entrepreneurial approaches to problem solving required in today's complex healthcare environments. To fill this gap, we designed, implemented, and evaluated a Healthcare Grand Challenge course for graduate nurses interested in developing their leadership skills.

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Background: Reflective practice is an essential step to learning in high-fidelity simulation, yet, reflection-in-action is an often overlooked yet important opportunity to support student learning.

Objectives: To explore and describe the lived experience of undergraduate nursing simulation facilitators use of reflection-in-action during high-fidelity simulation.

Design: A descriptive phenomenological study.

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Aim: The purpose of this study was to understand the experiences of nurse managers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: There is a growing body of knowledge about the experiences of clinical nurses during COVID-19. However, there is less evidence about the experiences of nurse managers during the pandemic.

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Introduction: Caring professions attend to the health, educational and social needs of society rather than its material needs. Caring professionals are a vital part of the world's response to COVID-19, yet the global pandemic and its aftermath have significantly changed the ways in which care is provided. The rapid pivot to remote care, where the essential caring cues and opportunities are not as readily available, has put unprecedented pressure on caring professions.

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Aims And Objectives: To explore clinical nurses' process of coping during COVID-19 and develop a grounded theory that can be used by leaders to support clinical nurses during a disaster.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has provoked widespread disruption to clinical nurses' work. It is important to understand clinical nurses' processes of coping during disasters to support the nursing workforce during events such as global pandemics.

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Objectives: Our primary aim was to complete an in-depth analysis of the concept of "reflection-in-action" during high-fidelity simulation. We sought to identify what is currently known about the topic and establish a strong foundation for theory development regarding cultivating reflection-in-action during high-fidelity simulation.

Design: Walker and Avant's (2011) systematic approach to concept analysis was used as a framework to develop a comprehensive understanding of reflection-in-action during high-fidelity simulation.

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