Applying an Equity Lens to Manuscript Writing, Reviewing, and Publishing.

Background: The profession of nursing currently is examining systemic racism within the discipline. Nursing journals, as the gatekeepers of knowledge in the discipline, can reinforce dominant paradigms of racism in nursing science and scholarship.

Method: This article discusses the hegemonic forces operating in nursing science with examples of research topics and approaches lacking equity considerations.

Palliative Care Practices and Knowledge of Home Care Nurses in Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Palliative Care (PC) is an interdisciplinary specialty focused on relieving symptoms and optimizing quality of life for people living with serious illnesses and their families. A great need for PC exists in Saudi Arabia due to its aging population and prevalence of cancer and other chronic diseases. Home healthcare can make PC more accessible to patients, but clinicians must be equipped with the PC knowledge and skills to perform their roles.

Centering diversity, equity, and inclusion in a regional professional nursing organization.

Background: Professional nursing organizations can respond to threats to social justice by strengthening structures to support diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

Purpose: Describe implementation strategies and outcomes to advance DEI from the Western Institute of Nursing (WIN).

Methods: In 2019, WIN committed to prioritizing DEI by updating its vision and mission.

Reflections on the Process of Implementing Trauma-Informed Education Lunch and Learns.

Background: The trauma-informed education (TIE) framework can help create an equitable learning environment supportive of all learners.

Problem: Stress and trauma can be impediments to academic success for students, particularly from backgrounds historically excluded from nursing.

Approach: This article shares the initial steps of a training program on implementing a series of Lunch and Learns (LLs) on TIE in a school of nursing to introduce TIE to faculty and staff and obtain their feedback on facilitators and barriers to implementing recommended approaches.

Supporting an Inclusive Environment Through Correct Name Pronunciation.

Background: The Future of Nursing 2020-2030 Report recommends eliminating practices within nursing education that contribute to racism and discrimination.

Problem: Name mispronunciation has been identified as a microaggression that can interfere with an inclusive learning environment and a sense of belonging.

Approach: The faculty development approach used a TEDx talk of a story about personal naming, followed by a discussion on appropriate and inappropriate responses to name mispronunciation.

Oregon PRAMS 2012-2018: Revealing racial inequity in postpartum depression.

Researchers have suggested that some women are undiagnosed and untreated for postpartum depression (PPD). However, there are mixed findings of the factors most likely to predict those most at risk. Recognizing historical racial and ethnic disparities existing in health outcomes, we sought to determine the extent of PPD inequity in Oregon.

Minimizing Unconscious Bias in Nursing School Admission.

Background: The potential exists for unconscious bias to influence decisions throughout the admission process to nursing school and derail holistic admission review processes. Although little is known about unconscious bias in nursing school admissions, unconscious bias has been demonstrated in nurse educators at levels similar to the general population.

Method: This article examines concepts of unconscious bias, factors that may interfere with accurate and fair assessment of applicants to nursing school, and ways to mitigate unconscious bias in the application and admission decision processes.

Nursing workforce diversity: Promising educational practices.

Background: Nursing workforce diversity is a national priority for providing culturally competent care and contributing to improved health equity. While nurses from underrepresented populations are increasing in the nursing workforce, the distribution of nurses in the United States is still not representative of the population.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe the current state of workforce diversity in Western states and identify promising practices from programs located in Arizona, California, Colorado, and Oregon that are focused on improving nursing workforce diversity.

Postpartum depression screening in the first year: A cross-sectional provider analysis in Oregon.

Background And Purpose: Postpartum depression (PPD) has significant sequelae for mother and child. To aid diagnosis, PPD screening should continue throughout the postpartum year. In primary care, there may be a lack of consistency in how screening is applied.

Enhancing Student Engagement: Innovative Strategies for Intentional Learning.

Aim: This paper presents four innovative teaching modalities conceptually designed and adherent to National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) indicators.

Background: Nurse education has received 'calls' for transformation, demanding a pedagogical refocus that better equips the future workforce. A key aspect is the need to actively engage students in learning, an approach shown to improve outcomes.

Pharmacist and student pharmacist perspectives on providing preconception care in the United States.

Objectives: The primary objective was to assess pharmacist and student pharmacist current involvement and interest in providing preconception care services. Secondary objectives were to assess comfort in providing these services to various subpopulations in addition to training and resource needs.

Methods: A cross-sectional online survey was conducted in the United States and its territories from August 26 to October 14, 2016.

Eating Behaviors, Weight Bias, and Psychological Functioning in Multi-ethnic Low-income Adolescents.

Purpose: The purposes of this study were to: 1) Describe the incidence of disordered eating, weight bias, body dissatisfaction, and psychological distress, 2) Examine the relationship between sociodemographic variables (gender, ethnicity, and income) and disordered eating, weight bias, body dissatisfaction, and psychological distress in a sample of low-income adolescents.

Design And Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with 105 adolescents from low-income neighborhoods. Participants completed self-report questionnaires to assess eating behaviors, weight bias, body dissatisfaction, and psychological functioning.

Advancing Health Equity Through Student Empowerment and Professional Success: A Statewide Approach.

Background: A lack of diversity in the nursing workforce nationally has been identified by Oregon state leaders as a factor contributing to health inequity.

Method: The goal of Advancing Health Equity Through Student Empowerment and Professional Success (HealthE STEPS) is to graduate nursing students from disadvantaged backgrounds to improve health equity within their communities. A comprehensive plan of evidence-based strategies was developed based on social determinants of health and addresses academic socialization, learning support, financial resources, networking, curriculum development, and campus culture.

Nursing students' experiences with high-fidelity simulation.

Research has revealed the effectiveness of simulation for facilitating student development of self-efficacy, knowledge, clinical judgment, and proficiency in technical skills. This grounded theory study was conducted to describe the experience of nursing students in high-fidelity simulation and develop a model which explicates the experience of nursing students in simulation. Focus group interviews were conducted with three cohorts of students enrolled in a baccalaureate nursing program who experienced simulation four to twelve times per academic year.