Community Resilience After Hurricanes: Can Neuman's Systems Theory Guide Public Health Nursing?

Examination of community resilience after Hurricane Harvey and -applicability of Neuman's systems model to the role of public health nurses in applying primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention strategies to communities susceptible to natural disasters. Descriptive, exploratory study. A convenience sample (N = 1,470).

Developing and Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Nursing Leadership Mentoring Pilot Program.

The nurse leader role is a vital role in ensuring quality, safety, and staff retention in the health care setting. A new nurse manager often receives little mentoring support when assuming a new role. Fifteen mentor/mentee pairs were provided with 6 training sessions specifically designed using the Hale Mentoring Up theoretical framework.

Increasing student involvement in research: a collaborative approach between faculty and students.

Baccalaureate nursing curriculum generally include a research or evidence-based practice course, but students may have little opportunity for specific application of the research process during their nursing education. Using Modeling and Role-modeling as a theoretical framework, a scholarly collaboration between faculty and student was developed to promote a unique and engaging undergraduate research endeavor. Faculty researchers developed an exploratory community-based research study to survey the local population about the immediate and lingering physical, financial, psychological, and emotional effects of Hurricane Harvey on the community.

Improving nursing students' confidence in caring for persons with dementia.

Background: Nursing students need experiences providing patient centered care for persons with dementia.

Methods: Students were provided with a voluntary opportunity to complete an online educational module that focused on caring for persons with dementia. Dementia knowledge was measured with the Alzheimer Dementia and Knowledge Scale and confidence was assessed with the Sense of Competence in Dementia Care Staff Scale.

Mentoring up: A grounded theory of nurse-to-nurse mentoring.

Aims And Objectives: To generate a theoretical explanation of nurse-to-nurse mentoring in the clinical setting.

Background: Despite an abundance of mentoring literature, the processes involved between nurses in mentoring relationships have yet to be studied. Nursing literature has focused on mentor attributes and relationship outcomes rather than focusing on theoretical discovery.