Exploring Health Care Disparities in Maternal-Child Simulation-Based Education.

Aim: The purpose of this study was to explore student experiences within a health care disparity simulation, embedded in maternal-child content.

Background: Health care disparities related to race and ethnicity in the maternal-child population are daunting among African American and Hispanic women.

Method: Participants completed the Simulation Effectiveness Tool-Modified, a rapid-fire huddle questionnaire, and a demographic instrument.

Moving toward cultural competency: DREAMWork online summer program.

This article describes the origination and implementation of an online, interactive summer component of the Diversity Recruitment and Education to Advance Minorities in the Nursing Workforce Program (DREAMWork) at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC). The summer course was designed as a strategy to help prepare baccalaureate nursing students to provide both culturally sensitive and competent care through online learning. Sixteen baccalaureate nursing students participated in the four week online summer program.

Relevance, writing style, and synthesis: key elements in a focused review of the literature.

Have the major points of the topic been covered? Did the slant of the article reflect the major theme being investigated by the author(s)? Were the strengths of the focused literature review emphasized? In this article, the authors were able to address a major gap in the existing body of knowledge impacting patient care. As a result, patients recovering from hip fractures in nursing home settings will have more effective pain management.