Brazilian questionnaire of competencies of oncology nurses: Construction and test of content validation.

Objective: This study aimed to describe construction and content validation of the Brazilian Questionnaire of Competencies of Oncology Nurses.

Methods: The methodological research was constructed based on the literature and observation in Brazilian hospitals searching to identify local evidence in the nursing practice. After, the construction of the 30 items distributed in eight sub-dimensions of competencies, the instrument was tested the content validation by 7 experts and 61 oncology nurses.

Global nurse/midwife workforce and reproductive health through social ecology lens.

Objective: To explore how community social ecology factors may be associated with country registered nurse/registered midwife (RN/RM) workforce supply and reproductive health globally.

Design: A cross-sectional design using a social ecology framework was employed.

Sample: Data were retrieved from publicly available websites for 107 countries.

Leading and Participating in International Medical Service Trips.

In communities around the world, health professionals and students preparing for health careers are increasingly responding to global health needs stemming from natural disasters, infectious disease outbreaks, and inadequate resources. This has resulted in a wide range of faith-based and nonfaith-based health care organizations establishing international medical service programs. This article provides guidance for nursing professional development educators and faculty on leading and participating in these programs.

Uses and Perspectives of Aging Well Terminology in Taiwanese and International Literature: A Systematic Review.

The aim of this study is to examine aging well (AW) terminology in Taiwan in its local and global contexts, and to suggest ways of communication by Taiwanese professionals that is sensitive to the lay public's preferences. Researchers conducted a systematic review using Khan et al.'s strategy, and Harden and Thomas' method, to sift through seven databases and synthesize diverse studies on AW.

Global Health Engagement: At Home and Abroad.

Nurses and nurse educators need to be prepared to accelerate progress toward the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals to improve local and global health in the face of continued poverty, hunger, and disease. This four-part Teaching Tips series will focus on developing nurse educators to prepare nurses for global engagement on the following topics: introduction to global health, systems thinking for global health, strategies for integrating global awareness and engagement into clinical practice, and leading and participating in service trips. The authors offer tips for increasing global awareness and using frameworks, strategies, and resources for both students and nurses to use in their own settings and practice.

Using implementation science as the core of the doctor of nursing practice inquiry project.

New knowledge in health care needs to be implemented for continuous practice improvement. Doctor of nursing practice (DNP) programs are designed to increase clinical practice knowledge and leadership skills of graduates. This article describes an implementation science course developed in a DNP program focused on advancing graduates' capacity for health systems leadership.

The global perspective of nursing students in relation to college peers.

Objective: The purpose of the present study was to assess the nursing students' global perspectives and compare it to a nationally normed reference group.

Background: An individual's global perspective impacts the extent to which the person perceives and knows the people and cultures within the world. Nursing care is expected to take a holistic perspective in providing care and respond in culturally appropriate ways to a diverse population through understanding the impact of cultural influences.

The Impact of Cultural Competence Education on Short-Term Medical Mission Groups: A Pilot Study.

Background: There are large numbers of short-term medical mission (STMM) groups traveling yearly from the United States to underdeveloped countries. Medical professionals educated in the Western biomedical model of treatment have an ethnocentric view of how to treat illness.

Purpose: The purpose of this pilot study was to demonstrate that a 2-hour culturally sensitive educational program administered to medical professionals travelling to Haiti on a STMM could raise their cultural competency as measured by a specific tool.

Scholarly publication practices of Doctor of Nursing Practice-prepared nurses.

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) graduates are expected to contribute to nursing knowledge through empirically based studies testing the effectiveness of practice approaches that ultimately benefit patients and health care systems. This article describes publication practices of DNP graduates in the scholarly literature. Published studies (2005 to 2012) with at least one author with a DNP degree were identified.

Globally engaged nursing education with local immigrant populations.

This case study describes how a community health nursing practicum course was redesigned to increase undergraduate students' knowledge of and interactions with local immigrant populations. The goal of this tailored practicum is to develop students' sense of global engagement while remaining in the local community. The GENE framework is applied to course planning, delivery, and evaluation of the experience.

Globally engaged nursing education: an academic program framework.

Objective: This paper presents a model for designing, providing, and evaluating global experiential education, both local and internationally.

Methods: A literature review was conducted to identify studies and models of global nursing education experiences in the scientific indexed literature and the gray literature on the Internet published by professional associations.

Results: Key elements of the model developed include institutional and program mission and goals, global health core content, program characteristics, student characteristics, reflection, and perspective transformation.

An international, multidisciplinary, service-learning program: an option in the dental school curriculum.

Introduction: Many health professions students who treat Spanish-speaking patients in the United States have little concept of their culture and health related traditions. The lack of understanding of these concepts may constitute major barriers to healthcare for these patients. International service-learning experiences allow students to work directly in communities from which patients immigrate and, as a result, students gain a better understanding of these barriers.

A social ecological approach of community efforts to promote physical activity and weight management.

Obesity and physical inactivity are major public health problems in the United States. Campus-Community partnerships have the potential to address the community health and quality of life issues at the local level. The purposes of this study were: (a) to identify groups who are at risk for being overweight and physically inactive; (b) to identify a relationship between broad social ecological layers and weight and exercise levels; and (c) to identify community features that are associated with weight and exercise levels.

Individual and neighborhood-level factors in predicting asthma.

Objective: To identify the neighborhood socioeconomic and housing factors at the census-block level and the sociodemographic factors at the individual level that are associated with the risk of asthma.

Design: Cross-sectional study of children aged between 5 and 18 years seen in a network of urban primary care clinics.

Setting: A network of urban primary care clinics (Indiana University Medical Group) in Marion County, Indiana, in the calendar year 2000.

Public health education and practice using geographic information system technology.

The use of geographic information system (GIS) technology allows public health practitioners to explore disparities in health, analyze disease outbreaks, and prioritize the use of limited resources for improving population health. Nursing students benefit from use of World Wide Web GIS resources as they develop knowledge and skill in assessing population health and planning interventions. This article identifies the benefits of GIS for public health practitioners, presents a communicable disease control application of GIS, and discusses a GIS module used in an undergraduate nursing education course.

Development of the social ecology model of adolescent interpersonal violence prevention (SEMAIVP).

The Social Ecology Model of Adolescent Interpersonal Violence Prevention (SEMAIVP) was used to examine adolescent beliefs and behaviors about interpersonal violence. Cross-sectional data were collected from middle school students using the Youth Conflict Mediation Survey. Regression models were developed for the total sample, by gender and by race.