Transcultural Nurse Views on Culture-Sensitive/Patient-Centered Assessment and Care Planning: A Descriptive Study.

Introduction: Culture-sensitive (CS) and patient-centered (PC) care are considered essential to achieve high-quality equitable care. The purpose of this study was to determine how expert nurses incorporate CS/PC care into their assessment and care planning practices, especially for culturally diverse and marginalized patients.

Methodology: Using a qualitative, descriptive design, we conducted a focus group at the October 2019 Transcultural Nursing Society Conference.

Bedside Technologies to Enhance the Early Detection of Pressure Injuries: A Systematic Review.

Background: Hospital-acquired pressure injuries strain organizational resources and negatively impact the quality of life of affected patients. However, early detection of pressure injuries is limited due to challenges with visual assessment, particularly in individuals with dark skin.

Purpose: The purpose of this systematic review was to determine whether sufficient research evidence exists to support the use of bedside technologies for early detection of pressure injures, which is inclusive of pressure-related blanchable erythema (PrBE), pressure-related nonblanchable erythema (PrNBE), and deep tissue pressure injury (DTPI).

CE: Addressing Implicit Bias in Nursing: A Review.

: This article examines the nature of implicit, or unconscious, bias and how such bias develops. It describes the ways that implicit bias among health care providers can contribute to health care disparities and discusses strategies nurses can use to recognize and mitigate any biases they may have so that all patients receive respectful and equitable care-regardless of their race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identification, socioeconomic status, disabilities, stigmatized diagnoses, or any characteristic that distinguishes them from societal norms.

Systematic Review of Racial/Ethnic Outcome Disparities in Home Health Care.

Introduction: Though extensive evidence demonstrates that U.S. minority patients suffer health care disparities, the incidence of disparities among the 3.

Using SBAR communications in efforts to prevent patient rehospitalizations.

Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation (SBAR) communication has become the standard for communicating across disciplines. It has demonstrated its effectiveness at improving patient outcomes, enhancing patient and clinician satisfaction, and helping to control healthcare costs. It can help home healthcare clinicians with efforts to prevent avoidable hospitalizations.

Culture's effects on pain assessment and management.

Minority patients are at high risk for poor pain outcomes. When patients belong to a culture or speak a language that's different from that of their health care provider, the provider faces additional challenges in successfully assessing and managing the patients' pain. This article describes how and why culture affects both patients and nurses.

Halving our sorrows and doubling our joys.

Late yesterday, I received a terrible shock. I e-mailed a colleague in another one of our agency's offices, about 60 miles from the office where I work, asking her to review an educational plan I was developing for our agency's Outcome and Assessment Information Set-C follow-up training. She responded she didn't have time to do the review for at least several days because she was feeling overwhelmed, not only with work responsibilities, but because, as I may I have heard, "We lost Cathy Smith (not her real name) last night.