Mentoring and Support for Underrepresented Nursing Faculty: An Integrative Research Review.

Background: Nursing faculty members may need several mentors to succeed in scholarly productivity, career development, work-life balance, and socialization in the academy. Underrepresented (UR) faculty report additional challenges to success.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to search the literature for best practices in mentoring UR faculty.

Educational outcomes of an online educational intervention teaching cultural competency to graduate nursing students.

Cultural competency has become an increasingly important learning outcome for advanced practice nursing students. Yet, despite a broad focus on teaching these skills, learning outcomes and student experiences. The purpose of this study was to describe the learning outcomes of a brief educational intervention used to teach cultural competency online to post-graduate students completing their master's degrees.

Art and Advanced Practice Nursing: Evidence Supporting Its Relevance in Graduate Education.

Background: Nurses spend more time with health care consumers than any other health care professional and are the largest, most trusted group of health care providers in the U.S. health care system.

The Modified-Fetzer Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness and Spirituality: Examination of Construct Validity in Older Black Adults.

Background And Purpose: Sociocultural explanatory frameworks are increasingly being considered to address causes of health disparities, and attention has been focused on religion among Black Americans and its subsequent influence on health. The purpose of this study was to examine a multidimensional measure of religiousness and spirituality (Modified-Fetzer Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness and Spirituality [M-FMMRS]) in a sample of Black older adults.

Methods: The M-FMMRS was administered to 130 study participants, and confirmatory factor analysis was conducted.

Acceptability of the Fetzer/NIA Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness and Spirituality in a sample of community-dwelling Black adults.

Purpose: To examine the acceptability of the National Institute on Aging/Fetzer Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness and Spirituality in a sample of Black, community-dwelling, older adults using focus group inquiry (N =15).

Design And Method: Focus group methodology was used for data collection and analysis. Three focus groups (N = 15) were conducted in two different urban settings in the northeastern part of the United States.

An integrative research review of instruments measuring religious involvement: implications for nursing research with African Americans.

Background And Purpose: Many instruments in which religious involvement is measured often (a) contain unclear, poorly developed constructs; (b) lack methodological rigor in scale development; and (c) contain language and content culturally incongruent with the religious experiences of diverse ethnic groups. The primary aims of this review were to (a) synthesize the research on instruments designed to measure religious involvement, (b) evaluate the methodological quality of instruments that measure religious involvement, and (c) examine these instruments for conceptual congruency with African American religious involvement.

Methods: An updated integrative research review method guided the process (Whittemore & Knafl, 2005).