The push to infuse mental health education across advanced nursing curricula.

Research indicates that knowledge gaps and unfavorable attitudes among primary care advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) are linked to stigma surrounding psychiatric care, affecting the management of patients experiencing mental illness. Despite standards of practice and educational guidelines set forth by professional nursing organizations to increase quality of care, challenges exist when delivering care to patients with mental health disorders. Lack of integration of mental health education throughout graduate nursing courses contributes to an underestimation of its significance and applicability within advanced practice nursing in primary care.

Promoting a culture of reciprocity to build social capital in advanced practice nursing students.

A virtual activity integrating the evidence-based Reciprocity Ring model was designed to enhance confidence and skills for building social capital for advanced practice registered nursing (APRN) students. The central objective of the activity was to reduce the stigma of asking for help by providing a framework for the balanced exchange of favors, thus supporting new connections and feelings of trust among APRN students. Students from two APRN practice tracks ( N = 44) participated in a virtual Reciprocity Ring activity where they could post and respond to requests for help.

Practices following the death of a loved one reported by adults from 14 countries or cultural/ethnic group.

Aims: The purpose of this study was to examine the reported ritual practices (dealing with the deceased's remains, wake, funeral, burial and celebration) of White non-Hispanic, Black non-Hispanic and Hispanic/Latino adults in their country of origin or ethnic or cultural group in the United States following the death of a loved one.

Design: This descriptive study is a secondary analysis from a longitudinal mixed-methods study that examined parents' health and functioning following the death of a child.

Methods: Adult parents whose child died in neonatal intensive care units or paediatric intensive care units were recruited from four hospitals and from death records.

Parent and child perceptions of the child's health at 2, 4, 6, and 13 months after sibling intensive care or emergency department death.

Background: Approximately 50,000 US infants and children die annually, leaving surviving children and families with long-lasting effects. In most studies, children's health is rated by parents, but not the children.

Purpose: To compare the surviving children's self-rated health with parents' ratings at 2, 4, 6, and 13 months after sibling neonatal intensive care unit/pediatric intensive care unit/emergency department death death and identify the related factors.

Acute Illnesses, Use of Health Services, and Changes in Medication Among Parents After Infant or Child Death.

Background: The death of an infant or child has been described as the most stressful life event, but few reports exist on the effects on parents' physical health in the year after the death.

Objective: To examine acute illnesses, use of health services, and medication changes among parents from 3 racial/ethnic groups 1 to 13 months after the death of an infant or child in the neonatal intensive care unit or pediatric intensive care unit.

Methods: In a longitudinal study, 96 parents (41% black, 32% Hispanic, 27% white) of deceased infants or children were recruited from 4 children's hospitals and death records.

Children's fears 2-13 months after sibling NICU/PICU/emergency department death.

Background And Purpose: Sibling loss can heighten children's fears. Approximately two million children in the United States experience the death of a sibling each year, leaving 25% of them in need of clinical intervention and more than 50% with significant behavioral problems. Fear, guilt, anxiety, and even distance from parents are some of the reactions that children feel after experiencing the loss of a sibling.

Surviving Siblings' Illnesses, Treatments/Health Services over 13 Months after a Sibling's Death.

Two million children experience sibling death annually and have problems that require clinical intervention although few receive such help. Effects on surviving siblings' mental health has been well documented, however their physical health has not. This study described surviving siblings' illnesses, treatments/health services at 2, 4, 6, and 13 months post-sibling death.

Adolescents' Experiences 7 and 13 Months Following the Death of a Brother or Sister.

This qualitative study used semi-structured interviews to describe adolescents' responses at 7 and 13 months to siblings' NICU/PICU/ED death. At 7 months, adolescents were asked about events around the sibling's death; at 7 and 13 months, about concerns/fears, feelings, and life changes. Seventeen adolescents participated (13-18 years; M=15); 65% Black, 24% Hispanic, 11% White.

Parent & Child Perceptions of Child Health after Sibling Death.

Background: Understanding children's health after a sibling's death and what factors may affect it is important for treatment and clinical care. This study compared children's and their parents' perceptions of children's health and identified relationships of children's age, gender, race/ethnicity, anxiety, and depression and sibling's cause of death to these perceptions at 2 and 4 months after sibling death.

Methods: 64 children and 48 parents rated the child's health "now" and "now vs before" the sibling's death in an ICU or ER or at home shortly after withdrawal of life-prolonging technology.

Death Rituals Reported by White, Black, and Hispanic Parents Following the ICU Death of an Infant or Child.

Unlabelled: To examine rituals (disposing remains, wakes, funerals/burials, celebrations) of White, Black, Hispanic parents post ICU infant/child death.

Design And Methods: Qualitative design, 63 parents completed English or Spanish semi-structured interviews at 7 & 13months after infant's/child's death. Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim, and entered into Atlas.

Infant and child deaths: Parent concerns about subsequent pregnancies.

Purpose: Examine parents' concerns about subsequent pregnancies after experiencing an infant or child death (newborn to 18 years).

Data Sources: Thirty-nine semistructured parent (white, black, Hispanic) interviews 7 and 13 months post infant/child death conducted in English and/or Spanish, audio-recorded, transcribed, and content analyzed. Mothers' mean age was 31.

Physical activity and stress in adult Hispanics.

Purpose: Physical inactivity and obesity are major U.S. health concerns.

Parent's perceptions of health care providers actions around child ICU death: what helped, what did not.

Purpose: To describe parents' perspectives of health care provider actions that helped or did not around the time of infant/child's intensive care unit (ICU) death. Semistructured interviews with 63 parents (Black, White, and Hispanic) 7 months post infant/child death were audio-recorded, transcribed, analyzed, and themes identified.

Findings: What helped most: compassionate, sensitive staff; understandable explanations of infant's/child's condition; experienced, competent nurses; providers did everything to help infant/child; and parents' involvement in care decisions.