Barriers to Nursing School Admissions for Students With Physical or Sensory Disabilities: Do Essential Abilities Requirements Align With Licensure Standards and Legal Precedence?

Aim: The aim of the study was to examine sensory and motor essential abilities required by nursing boards and assess their inclusion in prelicensure nursing program admissions.

Background: The nursing workforce should mirror diverse patient populations for better concordance; however, essential abilities restrictions hinder admissions for students with disabilities.

Method: Requirements for licensure were collected from state boards of nursing and compared with essential abilities admissions requirements from 58 prelicensure programs.

Empowering Faculty to Incorporate Large Language Models in Nursing Education Using a Delegation Framework.

Large language models (LLMs) can support nursing education but pose questions of validity, reliability, and ethical use. This article proposes using the five rights of nursing delegation framework by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing to teach nursing students about the appropriate use of LLMs in health care and nursing education. Nursing faculty can teach students how to assess the validity and reliability of the information provided by LLMs, document its use, and reference and cite information appropriately.

Understanding beliefs, preferences and actions amongst potential body donors.

Body donation is a prosocial act providing a unique learning experience to students, ultimately impacting on patient care and science. With an increasing number of training professionals, there is an increasing need for body donors, yet little is understood about donors' beliefs and preferences. A four-center study aimed to understand donors' perceptions, 843 responses highlighted a significant relationship between completing a body donor consent form and being both an organ donor and having ever donated blood (p < 0.

Screening for chronic kidney disease in a hypertensive primary care cohort.

Background: Screening rates for chronic kidney disease (CKD) in primary care settings remain low. Although primary care providers are well positioned to offer this testing, there are many barriers that contribute to low screening rates.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine both practice and contextual factors that relate to screening for CKD in a cohort of primary care patients with hypertension.

The Chronic Care Model, Kidney Disease, and Primary Care: A Scoping Review.

Early diagnosis and management of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in primary care settings remains complex. Nephrology nurses have the opportunity to positively impact this care trajectory. The Chronic Care Model has been applied as a means to improve chronic care management.

Concept Clarification: Uncertainty in Individuals with Chronic Kidney Disease.

Uncertainty is often presented in the literature as a barrier to chronic kidney disease (CKD) management and end stage renal disease (ESRD) planning by individuals, but the definition of uncertainty has not been clarified for individuals with CKD. After reviewing the literature, a conceptual definition for uncertainty in individuals with CKD was developed. To further clarify this concept, exemplars of individuals with CKD who do and do not exhibit uncertainty are offered.