Essential global health competencies for baccalaureate nursing students in the United States: A mixed methods Delphi study.

Aims: To reach consensus among experts on global health competencies for baccalaureate nursing students in the USA.

Design: A three-round modified Delphi study using a mixed methods research approach.

Methods: In the first round, the original list of competencies (Wilson et al.

The situation of nursing education in Latin America and the Caribbean towards universal health.

Objective:: to assess the situation of nursing education and to analyze the extent to which baccalaureate level nursing education programs in Latin America and the Caribbean are preparing graduates to contribute to the achievement of Universal Health.

Method:: quantitative, descriptive/exploratory, cross-sectional study carried out in 25 countries.

Results:: a total of 246 nursing schools participated in the study.

Perspectives of nursing faculty in Africa on global health nursing competencies.

Background: It is important to define global health competencies for health professionals. To date, we know little about perspectives of nurses in Africa where environments are particularly challenging.

Purpose: The purpose was to describe perceptions of nursing faculty in Africa about global health competencies and compare those to faculty from the Americas.

Research nurse manager perceptions about research activities performed by non-nurse clinical research coordinators.

Objectives: There has been limited research to document differences in roles between nurses and non-nurses who assume clinical research coordination and management roles. Several authors have suggested that there is no acknowledged guidance for the licensure requirements for research study coordinators and that some non-nurse research coordinators may be assuming roles that are outside of their legal scopes of practice. There is a need for further research on issues related to the delegation of clinical research activities to non-nurses.

Global health competencies according to nursing faculty from Brazilian higher education institutions.

Objectives: to identify the agreement of faculty affiliated with Brazilian higher education institutions about the global health competencies needed for undergraduate nursing students' education and whether these competencies were covered in the curriculum offered at the institution where they were teaching.

Method: exploratory-descriptive study, involving 222 faculty members who answered the Brazilian version of the "Questionnaire on Core Competencies in Global Health", made available electronically on the website Survey Monkey.

Results: participants predominantly held a Ph.

Teaching of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness strategy in undergraduate nursing programs.

Objective: To describe and analyze the teaching of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy on Brazilian undergraduate nursing programs.

Method: Integrating an international multicentric study, a cross-sectional online survey was conducted between May and October 2010 with 571 undergraduate nursing programs in Brazil

Results: Responses were received from 142 programs, 75% private and 25% public. 64% of them included the IMCI strategy in the theoretical content, and 50% of the programs included IMCI as part of the students' practical experience.

Enhancing global health and education in Malawi, Zambia, and the United States through an interprofessional global health exchange program.

Aim: This article describes participant outcomes of an interprofessional collaboration between health professionals and faculty in Malawi, Zambia, and the United States (US).

Background: One strategy critical for improving global health and addressing Millennium Development goals is promotion of interprofessional education and collaboration.

Methods: Program participants included 25 health professionals from Malawi and Zambia, and 19 faculty/health professionals from Alabama and California.

Enhancing research capacity for global health: evaluation of a distance-based program for international study coordinators.

Introduction: Due to the increasing number of clinical trials conducted globally, there is a need for quality continuing education for health professionals in clinical research manager (CRM) roles. This article describes the development, implementation, and evaluation of a distance-based continuing education program for CRMs working outside the United States.

Methods: A total of 692 applications were received from CRMs in 50 countries.

Perioperative music and its effects on anxiety, hemodynamics, and pain in women undergoing mastectomy.

There is increasing interest in evaluating the use of nonpharmacologic interventions such as music to minimize potential adverse effects of anxiety-reducing medications. This study used a quasi-experimental design to evaluate the effects of a perioperative music intervention (provided continuously throughout the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative periods) on changes in mean arterial pressure (MAP), heart rate, anxiety, and pain in women with a diagnosis of breast cancer undergoing mastectomy. A total of 30 women were assigned randomly to a control group or to the music intervention group.

Outcomes of a massage intervention on teen mothers: a pilot study.

The difficulties that adolescent mothers encounter as a result of the combined stress of adolescence, parenthood, maintaining peer relationships, and establishing positive relationships with their infants have been identified in the literature, and these characteristics are often associated with poor infant outcomes. This study was designed to examine the effects of an infant massage intervention on adolescent mothers' attitudes and perceptions of their infants. Twenty-five African-American adolescent mothers (mean age 16.

Supporting and retaining preceptors for NNP programs: results from a survey of NNP preceptors and program directors.

Preceptors are vital resources for the clinical education of healthcare providers, especially neonatal nurse practitioners (NNPs). With the increasing number of NNP programs, including distance accessible programs, there is a need for research to identify effective strategies for recruiting, preparing, and supporting preceptors in their roles. This article presents a review of existing literature and describes findings from a survey of NNP program directors in the United States and from a survey of preceptors for a distance-based NNP program in an Academic Health Sciences Center in the southern United States.