Academic-Practice Partnership Pivot During COVID-19 Pandemic Surge.

Health care systems continue to experience the sequential aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, with major care access, quality, safety, financial sustainability, and workforce considerations. Yet, academic-clinical partnership opportunities exist for transformational change, even when efforts to respond to a pandemic seem insurmountable. A nursing partnership between an academic health center nursing school and university health system provided short- and long-term support for the nursing workforce shortage during a COVID-19 surge.

Strengthening universal health: development of a nursing and midwifery education quality improvement toolkit.

Objective: to present the development of a toolkit for education quality improvement in universal health and primary health care, targeting schools of nursing and midwifery in Latin American and Caribbean countries.

Methods: an expert work group conducted a systematic literature review, selected key content and completed toolkit drafting, using an iterative consensus approach. International partners reviewed the toolkit.

Innovative Model to Recognize Previous Military Training of BSN Students.

Background: Many of our military transitioning to civilian life are expertly trained medics, corpsmen, and health care specialists.

Problem: The medical training of these veterans does not follow traditional degree granting academic protocols. These individuals seeking formal academic credentials to work in the nonmilitary sector are often forced to start their health education over from the beginning.

Student Success Survey: Supporting Academic Success for At-Risk Nursing Students Through Early Intervention.

Diversity in the nursing workforce has a positive impact on the quality of care provided to minority patients. Although the number of students from diverse backgrounds entering nursing programs has increased, the attrition rate of these students remains high. This study assessed the construct validity of a self-assessment tool that can be used by faculty advisors to determine individual academic needs of students.

Race, regionality and pre-diabetes in the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) study.

Objective: To determine the association between race, region and pre-diabetes.

Method: The study used 2003-2007 United States baseline data from the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) study for this cross-sectional analysis. Participants in this study were 45years or older at recruitment.

Family stress, family adaptation, and psychological well-being of elderly coronary artery bypass grafting patients.

As our population ages, more elderly patients will undergo coronary artery bypass grafting. The psychological well-being of a patient is influenced by many factors, including family support. This descriptive, correlational pilot study was conducted to examine the relationship between family characteristics and psychological well-being in elderly coronary artery bypass grafting patients.

Parent-adolescent communication and diabetes: an integrative review.

Aim: This paper presents a synthesis of findings from empirical studies about communication and interaction between parents and their adolescents with diabetes.

Background: Communication between parent and adolescent is essential in transitioning the adolescent to increased responsibility for diabetes self-management. Nurses are in a pivotal position to enhance the type of parent-adolescent communication that facilitates this transition.