Asking for Feedback: Clinical Nurses' Perceptions of a Peer Review Program in a Community Hospital.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to understand clinical nurses' perceptions of their participation in a formal, annual peer review process at a metropolitan community hospital.

Background: Peer review is an essential component of professional nursing practice for self-regulation of the practice and promotion of quality and safety. Robust empirical evidence of formalized and effective peer review nursing processes is not evident.

The Life Pattern of Incarcerated Women: The Complex and Interwoven Lives of Trauma, Mental Illness, and Substance Abuse.

Problem: The fastest growing population in the U.S. prisons consists of women whose rate rose nearly twice that of men (Sipes, 2012).

The lived experience of mothering after prison.

The purpose of this interpretive phenomenological study was to gain a better understanding of the experience of mothering after prison. In-depth interviewing was conducted with six participants for a period of up to 1 year after their release from prison. All interviews were focused on the research question, "What has been your experience of mothering since your release from prison?" Data were analyzed using thematic analysis.

Health as expanding consciousness: pattern recognition and incarcerated mothers, a transforming experience.

Margaret Newman's theory, Health as Expanding Consciousness (HEC), was used to examine the life pattern of two incarcerated mothers awaiting release from prison. Pattern recognition provided a way to approach understanding the experience of incarceration in a novel fashion. The process increased trust between the mothers and the nurse, and was a useful strategy in articulating the contribution of nursing science and humanistic care.

Prisoners and autonomy: implications for the informed consent process with vulnerable populations.

This article uses certain essential characteristics of the principle of autonomy to explore the issue of prisoners' rights to decision-making and action in general, and research participation in particular. Exploring the moral principle of autonomy and its importance in furthering human rights will inform nurses who are conducting research with prisoners or other vulnerable populations.