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.

Barriers and Facilitators to Recruitment of a Multifaceted Population of Opioid Use Disorder Community Stakeholders.

Background: Opioid use disorder (OUD) research is essential to inform evidence-based responses to the OUD crisis in the United States. Individuals with OUD, their caregivers, and support group leaders are historically difficult to recruit for research studies. The purpose of this study was to describe barriers and facilitators in recruitment during the implementation of a qualitative study that sought to explore stigma, barriers, and facilitators to healthcare.

Understanding what aspects of Parkinson's disease matter most to patients and families.

Understanding what matters to people with Parkinson's and their family is essential to derive relevant clinical outcome measures and guide clinical care. The purpose of this study was to explore what is important to people with Parkinson's disease vs. family over time.

Perceived Stressors and Support in Family Caregivers of Individuals With Opioid Use Disorder.

Stress experienced by family caregivers of individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD) contributes to caregiver burden. To understand the stressors experienced by family caregivers of individuals with OUD and the factors that influence their personal resiliency, data were collected from a convenience sample of family caregivers who answered two open-ended questions about sources of stress and factors that affect their personal resilience as part of an online survey. Yin's thematic analysis revealed five objective and two subjective burden themes and four resilience themes.

Content analysis of qualitative interviews for user-centered design of a prototype mobile health app for direct support professionals' resilience.

Background: Direct support professionals support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities with essential health and community living needs. Despite an unrelenting workforce shortage crisis, limited evidence-based resources exist for their support. Resilience, or the ability to thrive in the face of challenges, is a target for health care professional wellbeing initiatives.

e-Delphi Study: Expert Consensus on the Needs and Resources Available to Family Caregivers of Individuals with Substance Use Disorder.

Family caregivers of individuals with substance use disorder (SUD) experience a significant burden and have few evidence-based resources available. To obtain a consensus of expert views on the needs, and resources available, to family caregivers of individuals with SUD given the COVID-19 pandemic and other sociopolitical factors. Quantitative design using the Classic e-Delphi method of multiple iterations of questioning to reach a consensus among expert panelists.

Promoting Resilience in Direct Support Professionals of Adults With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: A Qualitative Descriptive Study.

The direct support professional (DSP) workforce shortage crisis has reached untenable levels during the COVID-19 pandemic as DSPs rapidly exit the workforce. To gain a better understanding of factors that contribute to DSP resilience during stressful and challenging times, we interviewed 10 DSPs identified by colleagues as resilient to elicit strategies to promote DSP resilience. Our content analysis revealed nine distinct strategies: (a) communication; (b) self-worth and recognition; (c) authentic, equitable relationships; (d) embracing change and learning; (e) establishing and maintaining boundaries; (f) cultivating an intentional mindset; (g) self-care; (h) spirituality/"the bigger picture"; and (i) a daily practice of humor and fun.

Perceived stigma, barriers, and facilitators experienced by members of the opioid use disorder community when seeking healthcare.

Introduction: Healthcare professionals, particularly nurses, have negative attitudes towards individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD) and these attitudes can contribute to suboptimal care. The aim of this study was to identify stigma, barriers and facilitators experienced by members of the OUD community when interacting with the healthcare system.

Design: A qualitative exploratory design used semi-structured focus group interviews to address the study aim.

Model of Family Caregiver Resilience and Burden in Opioid Use Disorder: A Theoretical Framework.

This theory synthesis provides a theoretical model for nursing researchers to examine factors that influence resilience and burden in family caregivers of individuals with opioid use disorder. Two frameworks, the Resiliency Model and the Conceptual Framework for Family Involvement with Adults with Co-occurring Substance and Mental Disorders, were synthesized and modified by incorporating concepts and conceptual relationships from recent research studies and experiential knowledge from clinical practice to develop a new model. The model predicts the impact of caregiver characteristics, caregiver support, stressors, and caregiver-care recipient dyad characteristics on caregiver well-being.

Examination of Factors Affecting Therapeutic Attitude and Empowerment of Perianesthesia Nurses Who Care for Patients With Opioid Use Disorder.

Purpose: Patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) and associated complexities are presenting to hospitals in increasing numbers. Preparation of perianesthesia nurses caring for this patient population has lagged, with noted deficits in continuing education, resources, and role support. Previous research found education without considering therapeutic attitude (TA), empowerment and factors that influence nursing practice does not translate into feelings of competence in nursing care.

Using Board Games to Foster Clinical Reasoning Among New Graduate Nurses.

Gamification has gained popularity among clinical nurse educators as a method to engage novice and experienced nurses in higher-level thinking. Classic board games can be cost-effectively transformed into educational games; however, it is important to use a clinical reasoning framework to ensure that learning outcomes focus on stimulating higher-level thinking. This article describes the development of a game as an innovative approach to designing new methods that better prepare new graduate nurses for current nursing practice.

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.