Nurses in Action: A Response to Cultural Care Challenges in a Pediatric Acute Care Setting.

Culturally congruent care is satisfying, meaningful, fits with people's daily lives, and promotes their health and wellbeing. A group of staff nurses identified specific clinical challenges they faced in providing such care for Hispanic and underserved Caucasian children and families in the pediatric medical-surgical unit of an urban regional children's hospital in the southeastern U.S.

The moral courage of nursing students who complete advance directives with homeless persons.

Background: Homeless persons in the United States have disproportionately high rates of illness, injury, and mortality and tend to believe that the quality of their end-of-life care will be poor. No studies were found as to whether nurses or nursing students require moral courage to help homeless persons or members of any other demographic complete advance directives.

Research Hypothesis: We hypothesized that baccalaureate nursing students require moral courage to help homeless persons complete advance directives.

Novel Active Learning Experiences for Students to Identify Barriers to Independent Living for People with Disabilities.

Purpose: This article describes interactive learning about independent living for people with disabilities and features the partnership of the College of Nursing and a Center for Independent Living (CIL).

Design: Using qualitative descriptive approach, students' written reflections were analyzed.

Methods: Through "Xtreme Challenge," 82 undergraduate nursing students participated in aspects of independent living as well as identifying barriers.

Thriving as becoming resolute in narratives of women surviving childhood maltreatment.

The purpose of this feminist interpretive study was to portray the experience of women thriving after childhood maltreatment (CM) through personal narratives. An interdisciplinary team conducted multiple in-depth interviews of 44 women survivors of CM who identified themselves as successful and doing well. The interviews focused on "what worked" and "what did not" with the aim of exploring aftereffects of CM; strengths and strategies; interactions helpful in overcoming abuse; and related sociopolitical contexts.