Examining Relationships Among Nursing Students' Views of Suffering, Positive Thinking, and Professional Quality of Life.

Background: Exposure to suffering can lead to compassion fatigue in undergraduate nursing students.

Objective: Guided by resilience theory, a cross-sectional, correlational design was used to investigate the potential moderating effect of positive thinking skills on the relationships between views of suffering, compassion fatigue, and compassion satisfaction.

Results: In 157 undergraduate nursing students, multiple regressions revealed that views of suffering and positive thinking explained 23.

Psychometric properties of the Positive Thinking Skills Scale among undergraduate nursing students.

Increasing the resilience of undergraduate nursing students is essential for the individual student's well-being and the healthcare system dealing with a looming nursing shortage. Undergraduate nursing students have reported that positive thinking and positive reframing are ways of coping with exposure to suffering, but measurement of these skills remains limited in this population. This is the first study to examine the psychometric properties of the Positive Thinking Skills Scale specifically in undergraduate nursing students and in a sample that includes students from both public and private universities.

Students' perceptions of interventions designed to foster empathy: An integrative review.

Objective: Empathy is assumed to be an important element of nursing care, and nursing educators are attempting to find ways to effectively foster empathy in their students. The purpose of this review is to gain a deeper grasp of what undergraduate nursing students are learning from interventions educators have designed to cultivate empathy by synthesizing qualitative data.

Review Methods: Utilizing the review methodology proposed by Whittemore and Knafl, a survey of the CINAHL, Web of Science, PubMed, and PsychINFO databases was undertaken to answer the question: What are undergraduate nursing students' perceptions of interventions designed to foster empathy?

Results: A thematic synthesis of the students' perceptions from the 17 articles meeting inclusion criteria revealed five themes: Understanding the other's experience, embodying the other's experience, becoming aware of self, informing the role of the nurse, and learning or transforming.

Informal Caregivers' Perceptions of Needs From Hospice Providers: An Integrative Review.

Introduction: In the United States, informal caregivers (ICs) provide care to over 70% of patients at the end of life. Approximately 500 000 ICs contribute to the end-of-life care for patients in the United Kingdom. Hospice care is expanding worldwide to meet the needs of these ICs.