Publications by authors named "Maryellen Brisbois"
Background: Supporting resilience for nursing student success is critical to future health care. This study explored the meaning and process of resilience among Generation Z traditional baccalaureate nursing students.
Method: Using a qualitative hermeneutical phenomenology approach, 13 Generation Z nursing students with the lived experience of resilience were surveyed and interviewed.
Aims And Objectives: The aim of this study was to identify nurses' responses to psychological trauma and strategies to support nurses' healing and resilience during COVID-19 and generate creative integrated understandings of nurses' responses to psychological trauma and strategies supporting nurses' healing and resilience during COVID-19.
Background: COVID-19 exacerbated trauma already experienced by some nurses. Nursing leadership called for action to improve nurses' mental health and resilience.
Intense emotional demands of oncology nursing create a stressful work environment and increase the likelihood of leaving. The study aims to explore, describe, and understand how pediatric hematology/oncology nurses caring for chronically ill or dying patients use their spirituality to cope with job stress, maintain spiritual well-being (SWB), and continue to work in this specialty. A concurrent mixed-method research design consisted of a web-based survey and interview.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: A growing diversity of cultures globally has intensified the need to educate health professionals to deliver safe, effective, and culturally appropriate care. Collaboration among global partners and development of cultural competence in nursing students in distant communities is one pedagogy to address competencies.
Context: Universities in the United States (US) and Portugal established a bi-directional student exchange to foster professional relationships, enhance cultural awareness, identify health and health care roles from a global perspective, and explore collaborative research opportunities to address the health needs of vulnerable aggregates in both countries.
Background: Little is known about how nurses are prepared to participate or lead teams in conducting safe and effective care transitions, despite being a complex process in which the nurse has an integral role.
Purpose: To conduct mapping review to identify and synthesize key recommendations regarding curriculum content needed to increase Clinical Nurse Leader and Nurse Educator student knowledge and skills regarding transitional care.
Method: Guidelines for developing the transitional care nurse role published by national accrediting bodies and certification organizations were reviewed to identify the required competencies.
Background: Immigration policies can cause significant public health consequences, posing detrimental social and health effects for migrants, their families and communities. Migrants often face obstacles to health due to access, discrimination, language and cultural barriers, legal status, economic difficulties, social isolation, and fear of deportation. The process of deportation has become more rapid and frequent in the U.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAn interpretive description of chemotherapy-induced premature menopause among Latinas with breast cancer.
Oncol Nurs Forum
September 2014
Purpose/objectives: To describe the experience of chemotherapy-induced premature menopause (CIPM) among Latinas, explore how CIPM was assimilated into the breast cancer experience, and relate measured acculturation levels to the CIPM experience.
Research Approach: Interpretive descriptive method from a feminist inquiry lens.
Setting: Telephone interviews with participants from 12 states in the United States.
The Whitehall II Study finds overtime work is related to increased risk of incident coronary heart disease independent of conventional risk factors.
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