New graduate registered nurses: Risk mitigation strategies to ensure safety and successful transition to practice.

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted traditional pathways for new graduate registered nurses (NGRN's) transition to practice. In response to stay at home emergency orders in 2020, NGRN's experienced changes in pre-licensure curriculum, clinical practicums, NCLEX testing, and licensure, all which influence preparedness for professional practice. The adverse impact on education and clinical training extends to all nursing students who attended higher education institutions of learning during 2020 to present and is a significant consideration with new graduates over the long-term, whom will be caring for patients in healthcare settings.

Developing Nursing Leadership Potential Through Education in a Low-Resource Setting.

Background: Global partnerships amplify nursing leadership capacity in low-resource countries through targeted education efforts.

Purpose: We examined a nursing faculty partnership between US and Haitian universities, where Haitian faculty completed graduate-level degrees highlighting leadership and education. This marked the first time a Haitian university awarded a master's of nursing degree.

Human Resources for Health: Advancing Nursing in Haiti-A Qualitative Evaluation of a Master's Level Nursing Faculty Development Project.

Using an educate-the-educator model, this partnership responds to an international imperative to build human resource capacity among Haitian nurses. We created a graduate program of study for nursing faculty in leadership and education at the State University of Haiti. This paper describes a process and impact evaluation of the Regis College Haiti Project (RCHP).

Examining family and neighborhood level predictors of sleep duration in urban youth.

Introduction: Shortened sleep duration in adolescence has been found to be associated with adverse health outcomes. While several studies have explored individual predictors, few have examined the role of neighborhood-level factors, family, and peer contexts as predictors of sleep among adolescents.

Method: We examined contextual factors of sleep duration in a sample of 1,614 urban, public high school students from the 2008 Boston Youth Survey.

Sleep duration and risk of physical aggression against peers in urban youth.

Purpose: Optimal sleep takes up one-third of a person's day and is known to be an important component of health and well-being. Shortened sleep duration in adolescence has been found to be associated with adverse health outcomes. In this study, we examined the association between sleep duration and physical aggression against peers among a large representative sample of urban youth, hypothesizing that shorter sleep would lead to more physical aggression.