PhD-DNP Collaboration: An Integrative Review of Scholarly Partnerships in Nursing.

Nurses holding terminal degrees, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Doctor of Nursing Science (DNS), and Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), fulfill different roles in nursing. The continued growth of nursing science and practice is dependent on alliances between these nurses that produce state-of-the-art knowledge and support the translation of evidence to practice. This integrative review described characteristics of scholarly collaborations between nurses holding a research-focused degree, the PhD, and those holding a practice-focused degree, the DNP.

Nurses' confidence in starting a new venture, startup or project in the context of nurse-led hackathons: Results of prehackathon survey.

Background: A hackathon framework has been successfully applied to solving health care challenges, including COVID-19, without much documented evidence of nurses' baseline or acquired confidence.

Purpose: To understand differences in baseline confidence levels in starting a new venture, startup or project in the context of nurse-led hackathons.

Method: A retrospective secondary analysis of a presurvey of hackathon participants from two NurseHack4Health (NH4H) events held in 2021.

Communication challenges in social isolation, subjective cognitive decline, and mental health status in older adults: A scoping review (2019-2021).

Purpose: Through an evolutionary concept analysis, social isolation (SI) was defined as lack of social belonging and engagement with others, minimal number of social contacts, and insufficient quality relationships. This definition represents broader understanding of most contributing factors to SI and supports the concepts of reduced communication and socialization experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic served to heighten this problem, including communication challenges, and brought negative outcomes of SI to light.

Human Trafficking in Rehabilitation: What Nurses Need to Know.

Violence and human trafficking are frequently paired and violate human rights. Human trafficking is a complex, global health issue. Trafficking survivors report seeking medical care for women's services, physical abuse, mental health, and gastrointestinal issues while being held in captivity.

Teaching nursing quantitative analysis with the integration of Andersen's framework.

Educators are challenged to engage in dramatic reformation and innovation including learning, teaching, and curriculum design. A PhD level quantitative nursing research course was redesigned using the Andersen Behavioral Model of Health Services (ABMHS) to guide data assignments. Students navigated through levels of theoretical abstraction from constructs to concepts to variables.

The Use of Communication Technology to Affect Patient Outcomes in the Intensive Care Unit.

Effective two-way patient-provider communication is challenging and is even more difficult when patients are communication vulnerable. The results of being unheard and unacknowledged can contribute to negative feelings and may manifest as symptoms of anxiety and depression. Researchers explored symptoms of anxiety and depression when using a team-developed, patient-centered, and nurse-led intervention called Speak for Myself-Voice (formerly published as Speak for Myself) in five intensive care units at a Magnet status, university-affiliated medical center in East Tennessee.

Improving Shared Decision-making and Treatment Planning Through Predictive Modeling: Clinical Insights on Ventral Hernia Repair.

Abdominal wall hernia repair, including ventral hernia repair, is one of the most common general surgical procedures. Nationally, at least 350 000 ventral hernia repairs are performed annually, and of those, 150 000 cases were identified as incisional hernias. Outcomes are reported to be poor, resulting in additional surgical repair rates of 12.

Difficulty envisioning a positive future: Secondary analyses in patients in intensive care who are communication vulnerable.

The purpose of this study was to report a secondary analysis of data collected through a primary study. The primary study was a, randomized, control trial that used a team-designed (nursing, speech language hearing, engineering, communication sciences, and biostatistics), nurse-led, electronic communication intervention (Speak for Myself Voice) and measured patient outcomes of symptoms of anxiety and depression in five intensive care units at a regional, magnet-status, academic medical center. A secondary analysis of data using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale is reported here.

Prediction of Sepsis and In-Hospital Mortality Using Electronic Health Records.

Objectives: Our goal was to develop predictive models for sepsis and in-hospital mortality using electronic health records (EHRs). We showcased the efficiency of these algorithms in patients diagnosed with pneumonia, a group that is highly susceptible to sepsis.

Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the Health Facts (HF) dataset to develop models to predict mortality and sepsis using the data from the first few hours after admission.

An Exploration of Sensation Seeking in Persons With Disabilities in Rehabilitation.

Purpose: This study reports the findings of a study about sensation-seeking or high-risk/challenging sports in persons who have disabilities.

Design: Exploratory, cross-sectional, and descriptive.

Methods: Two hundred and twenty-three recruitment e-mails were sent to potential participants.

Evaluation of a Novel Communication Application From Nurses' Perspectives.

The purpose of this article is to report usability of a computer application, Speak for Myself, from nurses' perspectives. This was a one-group exploratory survey. Nurses included patients in the study who were older than 18 years, could write and speak English, were unable to verbalize needs for any reason, and had a specified sedation-agitation scale (-1 to +1).

Communication Needs of Critical Care Patients Who Are Voiceless.

Voice is crucial for communication in all healthcare settings. Evidence-based care highlights the need for clear communication. Clear communication methods must be applied when caring for special populations in order to assess pain effectively.

Evaluation of Speak for Myself with Patients Who Are Voiceless.

Purpose: To describe the creation and initial feasibility study of a new computer application to improve communication with people who cannot communicate by customary means during their hospitalization.

Design: This was a mixed-methods, quasi-experimental design.

Methods: This exploratory feasibility study obtained data about the experiences of 20 intensive care patients in three South Florida hospitals who were unable to speak due to mechanical obstruction.

Embodying identity in chemotherapy-induced alopecia.

Purpose: To report concept analyses of Embodying Identity in chemotherapy-induced alopecia.

Design And Methods: A case study approach was used to explore experiences of alopecia. A transcribed interview was analyzed using phenomenological methods.