Evaluation of an Innovative Program To Improve Outcomes among Military Beneficiaries with Diabetes.

Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) are a challenging population and the goals of maintaining a HgA1c of 7 or less, and limiting emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations, are not new. The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) is a practice model mandated by the U.S.

Nursing journal editor survey results to help nurses publish.

This study gathered data from 61 nursing journal editors (31% response rate) on 7 variables. The information is designed to help novice and seasoned authors make decisions about journal selection for article submission. Variables include the average number of submitted manuscripts annually, the percentage of initially accepted and resubmitted manuscripts, weeks from submission to decision, number of reviewers, types of accepted manuscripts, and top reasons for rejection.

Early term birth: the impact of practice patterns on rates and outcomes.

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists guidelines discourage elective deliveries before 39 weeks gestation, but clinicians continue to schedule elective inductions and cesareans resulting in births at 37 0/7 to 38 6/7 weeks gestation. These "early term" (ET) infants incur more morbidity and mortality than their 39-to-41-week counterparts. Using the Quality Health Outcomes Model, four hypotheses were tested: Among hospitals in one southwestern U.

Pain management knowledge and attitudes of baccalaureate nursing students and faculty.

Pain affects approximately 76 million adults in the US. Though pain management has been targeted as a top priority, it continues to be inadequately addressed. Nursing faculty are in a unique position to significantly address the problem through facilitating the acquisition and utilization of knowledge by student nurses.

The Perinatal Palliative Care Perceptions and Barriers Scale Instrument©: development and validation.

Purpose: To devise and test an instrument measuring clinician perceptions of perinatal palliative care (PPC) and barriers to care delivery.

Theory: PPC was theorized to involve the care of pregnant women and their families after prenatal testing resulted in a life-limiting fetal diagnosis. Both giving birth to a child with a life-limiting condition or termination of pregnancy for fetal anomaly can be emotionally traumatic life events.

Impact factors in nursing journals.

Journal impact factors (IFs), a measure of citation frequency, are published annually in Journal Citation Reports (JCR). Journal IFs, although controversial because of the uses to which they have been put in academic arenas, remain a metric about which nurses should be informed. This paper discusses key issues in the controversy, explains how IFs are computed, and presents historical and 2009 IF data for nursing journals.

Publication opportunities in nonnursing journals.

The purpose of this article was to identify nonnursing journals that have relevance to nursing, that publish articles that cite the nursing literature and may offer excellent but seldom-considered publication opportunities for nurses. Using 22 indicators derived through citation analysis, 64 nonnursing journals that are highly related to nursing were identified. The authors provide information about these 64 journals related to their subject matter, number of issues annually, and their 2008 impact factor.

Journal editor survey: information to help authors publish.

Faculty are expected to publish but often do not know how to write a manuscript that avoids major reasons for subsequent rejection. The authors share the results of a survey of 63 journal editors who reported journal characteristics and reasons for rejection of manuscripts. Suggestions to improve the acceptance rate of faculty publications are offered.

What nurses want: the nurse incentives project.

Today's nurse executives are struggling with leadership challenges of managing the multigenerational workforce, financial imperatives to deliver better care for lower costs, and competition to provide the optimal work environment to retain nurses. The purpose of the Nurse Incentives Project was to determine satisfaction with current employment incentives and potential managerial actions which might decrease or delay turnover by registered nurses. This study spawned recommendations regarding the role of incentives in designing an environment where benefits and perks will be seen as incentives to stay and thrive in the current nursing workplace.

Conflict in the workplace: part 2.

Last month, in Part 1 of this two-part article, I explored factors that contribute to workplace conflict among nurses (such as sex, age, power, and culture), as well as individual responses to conflict. I also discussed my observation that nurses apply their skills in therapeutic communication to solving workplace conflict, and that they therefore tend to focus on emotions rather than on solutions. In Part 2, I present strategies nurses can use to resolve conflict and build more effective-and harmonious-workplace relationships.

The reliability and validity of birth certificates.

Objectives: To summarize the reliability and validity of birth certificate variables and encourage nurses to spearhead data improvement.

Data Sources: A Medline key word search of reliability and validity of birth certificate, and a reference review of more than 60 articles were done.

Study Selection: Twenty-four primary research studies of U.

Birth certificate methods in five hospitals.

This study evaluated the methods of data collection of birth certificate information by five high-delivery hospitals in northern Texas. Research purposes were to identify sources and methods of birth certificate data collection and identify the most-reliable methods. This descriptive study involved interviews of each hospital's data collectors and review of 1999 Texas birth certificate data.