The Art of Discharge Planning: Teaching Nursing Students to Address Disparities Through Simulation.

: Discharge planning is crucial to ensuring that patients' care and recovery needs are addressed. A new nurse graduate must be prepared to enter a clinical practice environment in which hospitals face penalties for patient readmissions. : Student nurses were assigned simulated patients with a variety of health disparities and health-care diagnoses to address.

Seeing Past the Sentence: Caring for Pregnant Women Who Are Incarcerated.

The number of women who are incarcerated in the United States has grown significantly since 1980. Caring for pregnant women who are in the correctional system requires special knowledge and the skills of advocacy and compassion. The purpose of this article is to discuss strategies to provide compassionate, sensitive, and trauma-informed care that demonstrates the love of Christ to incarcerated pregnant women.

Influences of Antenatal Smoking Cessation Education on Smoking Rates of Incarcerated Women.

The project purpose was to examine the impact of smoking cessation education, targeting associated antenatal risks on smoking rates in female prisoners of childbearing age. The project used a pre-/postdesign for the assessment of awareness of antenatal smoking risks and smoking habits and was conducted at a female state prison in the Southeastern United States. Data analysis resulting from a comparison of means of tests identified knowledge increases posteducation.