Double-Duty Caregivers' Satisfaction With Health Care Provider Communication.

Background: Double-duty caregivers are health care professionals caring for family members or friends outside the workplace. While they may communicate frequently with colleagues in their professional role, little is known about communication with health care providers in the caregiving role.

Objective: To measure double-duty caregiver satisfaction when communicating with health care providers and to identify correlates and predictors of satisfaction.

Nursing student perceptions of required online educational programs utilized outside the classroom.

Background: The use of online educational programs (OEPs) such as ATI™, Kaplan™, and Course Point™, to facilitate learning is generally thought to be an innovative and complementary approach to supplement learning across many nursing programs. The rapid transition to an online learning environment, dominated by Zoom, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has further increased faculty and student reliance on OEPs both in and out of the classroom. The aim of this study is to examine student perceptions of faculty assigned OEPs utilized outside the classroom.

Predictors of Burden and Resilience in Family Caregivers of Individuals With Opioid Use Disorder.

Background: Family caregivers are an essential resource for individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD). Overburdened caregivers often experience detrimental effects to their emotional and physical well-being.

Method: A cross-sectional, nonexperimental, correlational study was used to identify correlates and predictors of burden and resilience in caregivers of care recipients with OUD.

A Community Hospital's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

The novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV (COVID-19) has disrupted and altered the way health care is delivered in the United States and across the world. Patient care guidelines and isolation recommendations continue to hastily change, demonstrating the key role of nursing professional development practitioners in educating and preparing frontline staff to provide safe patient care during the COVID-19 pandemic. This article describes a community hospital's strategic educational response to a highly contagious respiratory pandemic.

An Integrative Review of Measuring Caregiver Burden in Substance Use Disorder.

Background: Family caregivers contribute to engagement in treatment and adherence, reduced substance misuse and relapse, and increased well-being of recipients with substance use disorder. However, providing care has also been associated with negative emotional and physical health outcomes for caregivers. The purpose of this integrative review was to determine what instruments are used to measure caregiver burden in informal caregivers of individuals with substance use disorder.

Leading the Charge: Achievement of National Accreditation for a Nurse Residency Program.

This article describes best practice recommendations in program development for a nurse residency program. This registered nurse residency program is the first in New England to acquire the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Practice Transition Accreditation. Best practices identified in this effort include (a) use of a quality improvement analyst for data trending, (b) inclusion of an off-shift nurse educator, (c) use of evidence-based practice, (d) a standardized preceptor program, and (e) appropriate evaluation instruments.

An Integrative Review of Clinical Reasoning Teaching Strategies and Outcome Evaluation in Nursing Education.

Background: This study explored teaching strategies used to promote clinical reasoning in nursing education and identify outcomes used to evaluate effectiveness.

Method: The integrative review framework by Whittemore and Knafl (2005) was used in this study.

Results: Strategies included simulation (n = 10); active learning strategies such as case studies, reflection, journaling, and collaborative learning (n = 13); teaching strategies such as think aloud or case studies with simulation (n = 12); and experiential or clinical experiences (n = 2).