Using an organizational framework to drive change in nursing education: An action plan for nurse leaders.

Background: Organizational change within nursing schools that supports growth of students, faculty, and staff from underrepresented groups occurs through purposeful strategies and commitments to building capacity for the spectra and richness of diverse perspectives.

Purpose: To evaluate framework-guided initiatives, our organization implemented to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion to achieve inclusive excellence in nursing education and leadership.

Methods: Framework-guided initiatives include a standardized diversity education model, hiring bias mitigation strategies, equitable spending, partnerships for student and faculty recruitment, and restructuring committees to include diverse perspectives.

Leverage pre-requisite courses to teach bachelor of science in nursing students about social determinants of health.

Background: Nurses have frequent opportunities to address social determinants of health (SDOH) in practice. However, many nurses graduate without completing coursework in SDOH, and there remain barriers to incorporating SDOH content into nursing curricula.

Purpose: We propose the revision of nursing pre-requisites to include substantive, introductory coursework on SDOH.

The growth and development of a novel distance accelerated bachelor of science in nursing program.

Severe nursing shortages threaten the sustainability of US health systems. Rural and underserved communities are disproportionately affected by staffing crises and associated facility closures, as well as health disparities. A major factor contributing to geographic gaps in care is the absence of nursing schools, nursing faculty, and locations for clinical rotations in many rural and underserved areas.

The nurse-led equitable learning framework for training programs: A framework to grow, bolster and diversify the nursing and public health workforce.

Background: Addressing threats to the nursing and public health workforce, while also strengthening the skills of current and future workers, requires programmatic solutions. Training programs should be guided by frameworks, which leverage nursing expertise and leadership, partnerships, and integrate ongoing evaluation.

Purpose Statement: This article provides a replicable framework to grow, bolster, and diversify the nursing and public health workforces, known as the Nurse-led Equitable Learning (NEL) Framework for Training Programs.

Diversity in Nursing Is Not Enough.

An introspective look.

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Implications for Care.

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by difficulties with social interaction and communication and the presence of restrictive and repetitive behavior. Individuals with ASD, particularly those from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, are at higher risk of certain health conditions and mortality over the lifespan. Disparities in timing of diagnosis, access to services, and quality of care have a significant impact on the trajectory of individuals on the autism spectrum.

Social Determinants of Health: Considerations for Care of Older Veterans.

Social determinants of health (SDOH), the environments and circumstances in which people are born, grow, live, work and age, are potent drivers of health, health disparities, and health outcomes over the lifespan. Military service affords unique experiences, exposures, and social and health vulnerabilities which impact the life course and may alter health equity and health outcomes for older veterans. Identifying and addressing SDOH, inclusive of the military experience, allows person-centered, more equitable care to this vulnerable population.

Diversity in nursing and challenges with the NCLEX-RN.

High-stakes, standardized testing has historically impeded education/career attainment for members of underrepresented minority groups and people needing testing accommodations. This study was to understand how high-stakes, standardized testing, particularly the NCLEX-RN, impacts diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in nursing. This study explored the history, context, perspectives surrounding standardized testing, with a focus on the NCLEX-RN.

Role Reversal: In-Situ Simulation to Enhance the Value of Interprofessional Team-Based Care.

Background: Effective interprofessional team-based care relies critically on understanding and valuing the role of each team member. Using role reversal with multiple levels of interprofessional education trainees, we developed an in-situ simulation learning experience to enhance team-based care coordination.

Method: A mixed-methods approach was used to examine participants' readiness, perceived value, and attitude toward interprofessional learning using in-situ simulation in the context of role reversal.

Could Your Patient be Taking Uber or Lyft Post-Anesthesia? A New Era for Transportation Policy and Practice Considerations.

Purpose: The purpose of this project was to examine nurse anesthetists' practice and encounters with ambulatory surgery patients experiencing transportation difficulties after the provision of anesthesia.

Design: A mixed method approach was used.

Methods: An eleven-item questionnaire was disseminated nationally to 2,827 Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) practicing in the outpatient setting.

A framework for evaluating SDOH curriculum integration.

Social determinants of health (SDOH) directly contribute to health inequities among populations and communities. These structural and social forces impact health and health outcomes. Nurses play a vital role in addressing the SDOH and closing gaps relative to disparate outcomes.

Exploratory evaluation of baseline cognition as a predictor of perceived benefit in a study of behavioral therapy for urinary incontinence in Parkinson disease.

Aims: While behavior-based pelvic floor muscle exercise therapy is an effective treatment for overactive bladder in Parkinson's disease (PD) patients, cognitive function may be a predictor of rehabilitation outcomes.

Methods: In a planned exploratory analysis, participants who had a Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) with a score ≥18 who were randomized in a clinical trial to behavioral treatment were classified by perceived improvement (Benefit vs. No Benefit) as reported on a validated Satisfaction and Benefit Questionnaire.

A syndemic effect: Interrelationships between systemic racism, health disparities, and COVID-19.

This article discusses the interconnection between the syndemic effect of racial inequities and disparities as well as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Black Americans. It also highlights meaningful reforms and priorities to achieve health equity in Black communities.

Establishing competency-based measures for Department of Veterans Affairs post-graduate nurse practitioner residencies.

Background: In the past decade, numerous nurse residency models have been created and implemented nationwide; however, validated specialty-specific competency standards have not been established to evaluate Nurse Practitioner (NP) resident core competencies.

Purpose: To report the specialty-specific competency assessment tool devised to assess Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) NP residents' competencies and discuss the VA NP residency program's effectiveness in expanding new graduate NP knowledge and skills in the veteran-centric care setting.

Methods: The VA Nursing Academic Partnership NP residency faculty established and piloted a web-based Nurse Practitioner Resident Competency Assessment (NPRCA) instrument for the comprehensive, specialty-specific assessment of individual NP resident's skill competencies across 24 areas.

'GP Live'- recorded General Practice consultations as a learning tool for junior medical students faced with the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions.

Background: First year medical students value doctor and patient contact. However, it can be challenging to achieve positive exposure to primary care on a large scale. The COVID-19 pandemic has placed even greater pressure on placing students in General Practice (GP).

Assimilation of Expert Clinician Into the Academy: A Competency-Based Faculty Development Plan.

Background: As expert clinicians are recruited to academic positions in response to nursing faculty shortages, comprehensive plans are needed for transitioning and role development.

Problem: Schools of nursing often lack infrastructures to support and develop new faculty.

Approach: Team members from an academic-clinical partnership with the Department of Veterans Affairs created a competency-based faculty development plan.

Measuring quality of life in patients with abdominal wall hernias: a systematic review of available tools.

Introduction: Abdominal wall herniation (AWH) is an increasing problem for patients, surgeons, and healthcare providers. Surgical-site specific outcomes, such as infection, recurrence, and mesh explantation, are improving; however, successful repair still exposes the patient to what is often a complex major operation aimed at improving quality of life. Quality-of-life (QOL) outcomes, such as aesthetics, pain, and physical and emotional functioning, are less often and less well reported.

Behavioral therapy for urinary symptoms in Parkinson's disease: A randomized clinical trial.

Aim: Determine the efficacy of behavioral therapy for urinary symptoms in Parkinson's disease.

Methods: Randomized trial of behavioral therapy compared with control condition among adults (aged 54-85 years, 74% male, 10% Black/ 83% White) with Parkinson's and greater than or equal to 4 incontinence episodes weekly. Behavioral therapy included pelvic floor muscle exercises, bladder training, fluid and constipation management.

Usability of Health Information Websites Designed for Adolescents: Systematic Review, Neurodevelopmental Model, and Design Brief.

Background: Adolescence is a unique developmental period characterized by biological, social, and cognitive changes, as well as an interest in managing one's own health care. Many adolescents use the internet to seek health care information. However, young people face barriers before they can understand and apply the health information that they access on the web.

Growing a Robust Academic Practice Partnership in an Academic Health System.

Schools of nursing located within academic health centers have embraced expanded opportunities to lead in this era of rapid change and considerable uncertainty in US health care. These schools bear a unique responsibility to work with their clinical nursing partners to advance the care of patients, improve the health of communities and populations, and help steward the nation's health care resources. This article describes how the Emory University Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing has formed and sustained academic-practice partnerships in response to these imperatives.

Critical questions: Advancing the health of female Veterans.

Purpose: Women are the fastest growing Veteran population in the United States and many receive all or part of their health care outside of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The purpose of this article is to review the healthcare issues of women Veterans and discuss implications for care.

Data Sources: Review of selected literature, VA resources and guidelines, and expert opinion.