Leaders Benefit From Organizational Membership: Perspectives From the United States and Canada.

This article explores the value of nurse leader membership in professional organizations in the United States and Canada. Benefits include the sharing of scholarly information, enlarging networks, and professional development.

Building Leaders for an Equitable and Inclusive Future.

The Association for Leadership Science in Nursing (ALSN) 2023 International Conference was held on October 28 to 30 in Birmingham, Alabama, and sponsored by the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing. ALSN is dedicated to uniting academic and practice leaders to shape leadership science, education in nursing, and the practice of nursing leadership. The theme for the conference was Building Leaders for an Equitable and Inclusive Future.

Leadership Science in Nursing: Creating New Solutions for New Challenges.

The Association for Leadership Science in Nursing (ALSN) November 2022 International Conference was held at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western University. ALSN is dedicated to uniting academic and practice leaders to shape leadership science, education in nursing, and the practice of nursing leadership. One hundred fifty-one nurse leaders from the United States, Canada, and Oman gathered to discuss leadership as highlighted in this column.

Hand Gestures Recognition for Human-Machine Interfaces: A Low-Power Bio-Inspired Armband.

Hand gesture recognition has recently increased its popularity as Human-Machine Interface (HMI) in the biomedical field. Indeed, it can be performed involving many different non-invasive techniques, e.g.

Raspberry Pi based Modular System for Multichannel Event-Driven Functional Electrical Stimulation Control.

This paper describes the implementation and testing of a modular software for multichannel control of Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES). Moving towards an embedded scenario, the core of the system is a Raspberry Pi, whose different models (with different computing powers) best suit two different system use-cases: user-supervised and stand-alone. Given the need for real-time and reliable FES applications, software processing timings were analyzed for multiple configurations, along with hardware resources utilization.

The Healthy Disruption of Anger.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, information related to the virus changed so rapidly, and anxiety among healthcare workforce mounted exponentially. The reality of the situation was fluid; leadership had a challenging time communicating even short-term strategies. What evolved was a scared, tired, angry healthcare workforce.

Advancing Nursing Leadership Science Through an Innovative Research-Practice Partnership.

The Association for Leadership Science in Nursing and American Organization for Nursing Leadership Foundation have formed a new research-practice collaborative. The collaborative allows for a synergistic approach to the advancement of leadership science. This article discusses the impetus for the collaborative, its structure, and how its synergy of research and practice expertise provides immense opportunity for robust, practice-relevant research.

ALSN 2021 Conference: Nursing Science for Leadership in the New Decade.

The Association for Leadership Science in Nursing's 2021 conference provided an opportunity to further enhance professional understanding of the difficulties facing nurse leaders as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to create unimaginable challenges. Presentations provided evidence in support of courageous caring leadership interventions.

Combining Action Observation Treatment with a Brain-Computer Interface System: Perspectives on Neurorehabilitation.

Action observation treatment (AOT) exploits a neurophysiological mechanism, matching an observed action on the neural substrates where that action is motorically represented. This mechanism is also known as mirror mechanism. In a typical AOT session, one can distinguish an observation phase and an execution phase.

Motion Analysis for Experimental Evaluation of an Event-Driven FES System.

In this work, a system for controlling Functional Electrical Stimulation (FES) has been experimentally evaluated. The peculiarity of the system is to use an event-driven approach to modulate stimulation intensity, instead of the typical feature extraction of surface ElectroMyoGraphic (sEMG) signal. To validate our methodology, the system capability to control FES was tested on a population of 17 subjects, reproducing 6 different movements.

PTSD and the COVID-19 Continuum.

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause chaos and confusion in health care, the outcome of which manifests itself as erratic and often incomprehensible behaviors of staff. These behaviors are symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This article explores the association of the COVID pandemic and the emergence of PTSD symptoms.

The Remote Influence of Nursing Leadership.

Maintaining connection and support of staff amid the unprecedented challenges of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) was difficult. One nurse leader conscientiously sent "Monday morning messages" to assure consistent inspirational communication with staff. Although remote work caused the leader to be separated from the staff, these messages helped support them through adaption, change, progress, and promotion of resiliency.

The Moral Obligation of Nurse Leaders:: COVID-19.

The international pandemic of COVID-19 is unprecedented. Nurse leaders play a pivotal role in balancing the needs of their staff with the needs of the patients. Maintaining one's moral compass during critical decision times is of the utmost importance.

An Interdisciplinary Framework for Palliative and Hospice Education and Practice.

Leading highly functional health care teams in all practice settings is sustained through the identification of a conceptual framework to guide education and practice. This article presents an interdisciplinary framework for palliative and hospice education and practice. The framework builds on theoretical caring to convey elements of relational, holistic and compassion; articulates interprofessional tenets for guiding values; and aligns with constructs for palliative and hospice best practices.

Prognostic value of Alzheimer's biomarkers in mild cognitive impairment: the effect of age at onset.

Objective: The aim of this study is to assess the impact of age at onset on the prognostic value of Alzheimer's biomarkers in a large sample of patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

Methods: We measured Aβ42, t-tau, hippocampal volume on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and cortical metabolism on fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) in 188 MCI patients followed for at least 1 year. We categorised patients into earlier and later onset (EO/LO).

Leadership, Longevity, and Leaning In: An Interview With Mary Jo (Joey) Bulfin.

This column profiles Mary Jo Bulfin, MBA, RN, CENP, chief executive officer of St. Mary's Medical Center, West Palm Beach, Florida. Ms Bulfin began her career as a staff nurse in the organization where she is now the CEO and discusses her career path and lessons learned.

Self-Care for Nurse Leaders in Acute Care Environment Reduces Perceived Stress: A Mixed-Methods Pilot Study Merits Further Investigation.

Acute care practice settings are stressful. Nurse leaders face stressful demands of numerous competing priorities. Some nurse leaders experience unmanageable stress, but success requires self-care.

Chief Nursing Officers' Experiences With Moral Distress.

Objective: This study explores if moral distress and its lingering residue were experienced by chief nursing officers (CNOs).

Background: Chief nursing officers, by virtue of their position and experience, are expected to uphold their professional values and act for the benefit of others. Exploration is needed to determine if the inability to do so contributes to the moral distress of these leaders.

Chief Nursing Officer Sustainment: A Phenomenological Inquiry.

Objective: The study explored factors leading to chief nursing officer (CNO) sustainment in the professional practice of nurse executive leadership.

Background: CNOs are expected to lead adaptations in care delivery in this current era of healthcare reform, requiring a multitude of new leadership skills. Exploration is needed to understand barriers to longevity, which prevent consistency of leadership and execution of vision.

Support for caring and resiliency among successful nurse leaders.

Health care practice settings are replete with competing priorities for nurse leaders who are responsible to the staff, the organization, and the patients and their families. In the midst of the competing priorities, there is a mandate for successful nursing leadership that is patient centered. To support the continuance of nurse leader success and avoid discouragement and attrition, a caring and resilient model for leadership may be necessary.

Prediction of AD dementia by biomarkers following the NIA-AA and IWG diagnostic criteria in MCI patients from three European memory clinics.

Introduction: Proposed diagnostic criteria (international working group and National Institute on Aging and Alzheimer's Association) for Alzheimer's disease (AD) include markers of amyloidosis (abnormal cerebrospinal fluid [CSF] amyloid beta [Aβ]42) and neurodegeneration (hippocampal atrophy, temporo-parietal hypometabolism on [18F]-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography (FDG-PET), and abnormal CSF tau). We aim to compare the accuracy of these biomarkers, individually and in combination, in predicting AD among mild cognitive impairment (MCI) patients.

Methods: In 73 MCI patients, followed to ascertain AD progression, markers were measured.

Mild cognitive impairment with suspected nonamyloid pathology (SNAP): Prediction of progression.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate predictors of progressive cognitive deterioration in patients with suspected non-Alzheimer disease pathology (SNAP) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

Methods: We measured markers of amyloid pathology (CSF β-amyloid 42) and neurodegeneration (hippocampal volume on MRI and cortical metabolism on [(18)F]-fluorodeoxyglucose-PET) in 201 patients with MCI clinically followed for up to 6 years to detect progressive cognitive deterioration. We categorized patients with MCI as A+/A- and N+/N- based on presence/absence of amyloid pathology and neurodegeneration.

Occipital sources of resting-state alpha rhythms are related to local gray matter density in subjects with amnesic mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease.

Occipital sources of resting-state electroencephalographic (EEG) alpha rhythms are abnormal, at the group level, in patients with amnesic mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD). Here, we evaluated the hypothesis that amplitude of these occipital sources is related to neurodegeneration in occipital lobe as measured by magnetic resonance imaging. Resting-state eyes-closed EEG rhythms were recorded in 45 healthy elderly (Nold), 100 MCI, and 90 AD subjects.