"Moral spaces": A feasibility study to build nurses' ethical confidence and competence.

Pre-licensure ethics nursing education does not adequately prepare and instill confidence in nurses to address ethical issues, and yet ethics education provides nurses with greater confidence to take moral action, which can mitigate the negative effects of moral distress. To assess the feasibility and acceptability of a nursing ethics education program that included simulated case-based ethics competencies as a form of evaluation. The program aimed at building nurses' ethical knowledge and confidence to respond to ethical challenges in practice.

Impacts of ambient air quality on acute asthma hospital admissions during the COVID-19 pandemic in Oxford City, UK: a time-series study.

Objectives: The study aims to investigate the short-term associations between exposure to ambient air pollution (nitrogen dioxide (NO), particulate matter pollution-particles with diameter<2.5 µm (PM) and PM) and incidence of asthma hospital admissions among adults, in Oxford, UK.

Design: Retrospective time-series study.

A special issue preface: diamond for quantum applications.

This special issue discusses current progress in the utilization of defect centres in diamond as spin-photon interfaces for quantum applications. This issue is based on the discussions of the Theo Murphy meeting 'Diamond for quantum applications' which covered the recent progress of diamond growth and engineering for the creation and optimization of colour centres, toward the integration of diamond-based qubits in quantum systems. This article is part of the Theo Murphy meeting issue 'Diamond for quantum applications'.

Additive GaN Solid Immersion Lenses for Enhanced Photon Extraction Efficiency from Diamond Color Centers.

Effective light extraction from optically active solid-state spin centers inside high-index semiconductor host crystals is an important factor in integrating these pseudo-atomic centers in wider quantum systems. Here, we report increased fluorescent light collection efficiency from laser-written nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in bulk diamond facilitated by micro-transfer printed GaN solid immersion lenses. Both laser-writing of NV centers and transfer printing of micro-lens structures are compatible with high spatial resolution, enabling deterministic fabrication routes toward future scalable systems development.

A divided community: A descriptive qualitative study of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on nurses and their relationships.

Aims: To identify the personal and professional impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on clinical nurses with regard to personal and workplace safety, personal and professional relationships and perceptions of their team, organization and community, and to understand lessons learned to inform future responses to pandemics or global emergencies.

Design: Qualitative, descriptive free-text surveys, informed by appreciative inquiry.

Methods: Nurses working in adult COVID- and non-COVID cohort medical-surgical and intensive care units, outpatient cancer and general surgery centres were invited to participate.

Sub-categories of moral distress among nurses: A descriptive longitudinal study.

Background: There is ongoing debate regarding how moral distress should be defined. Some scholars argue that the standard "narrow" definition overlooks morally relevant causes of distress, while others argue that broadening the definition of moral distress risks making measurement impractical. However, without measurement, the true extent of moral distress remains unknown.

Re-examining the relationship between moral distress and moral agency in nursing.

In recent years, the phenomenon of moral distress has been critically examined-and for a good reason. There have been a number of different definitions suggested, some that claimed to be consistent with the original definition but in fact referred to different epistemological states. In this paper, we re-examine moral distress by exploring its relationship with moral agency.

Chronic Kidney Disease Induces Proarrhythmic Remodeling.

Background: Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are at increased risk of developing cardiac arrhythmogenesis and sudden cardiac death; however, the basis for this association is incompletely known.

Methods: Here, using murine models of CKD, we examined interactions between kidney disease progression and structural, electrophysiological, and molecular cardiac remodeling.

Results: C57BL/6 mice with adenine supplemented in their diet developed progressive CKD.

Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age.

Present-day people from England and Wales have more ancestry derived from early European farmers (EEF) than did people of the Early Bronze Age. To understand this, here we generated genome-wide data from 793 individuals, increasing data from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age in Britain by 12-fold, and western and central Europe by 3.5-fold.