Valuing Joyful Teaching Moments: Nursing Faculty Experiences in Texas.

Studies of joyful experiences in teaching nursing and related implications are lacking in the literature. The concept of joy seems undervalued yet critical to the theoretical basis for improving holistic faculty experiences and potentially affecting students and patients. The purpose of this study is to give voice to instances of joyful teaching identified by nursing faculty and to consider related implications, including advancing holistic nursing education.

Behavioral and Psychosocial Health of New Mothers and Associations With Contextual Factors and Perceived Health.

Objective: To test the association of behavioral and psychosocial health domains with contextual variables and perceived health in ethnically and economically diverse postpartum women.

Design: Mail survey of a stratified random sample.

Setting: Southwestern community in Texas.

Focusing on the "T" in LGBT: an online survey of related content in texas nursing programs.

Background: As nurses, we advocate for the most vulnerable and underserved, who, within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community, are transgender individuals. Yet, the existence of LGBT education in nursing schools has not been examined.

Method: After approval by the university institutional review board, 113 nursing programs in Texas were surveyed between November 2013 and January 2014, with a 12-question, Web-based questionnaire.

Translation cost, quality, and adequacy.

Purpose: Although the inclusion of non-native-speaking participants in nursing research is important in every country where nursing research takes place, the literature contains little on the method of achieving quality translation while simultaneously addressing cost containment. We describe a process for evaluating translation adequacy and demonstrate its use in comparing procedures for translating data from non-native-speaking interviews.

Organizing Construct: This work demonstrates a process for establishing, evaluating, and achieving translation adequacy when conducting qualitative research for cross-cultural comparisons.

The pain and suffering of a Mexican American woman with mobility impairment.

There is a dearth of literature examining how adversity shapes the experiences of pain and/or suffering in middle-aged Mexican American women. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to understand pain and suffering from a life course perspective as described by a Mexican American woman aging with early-onset mobility impairment. This Hispanic woman experienced episodes of abuse and rejection over the life course, which may have significantly influenced her pain and suffering experience in adulthood.

Maternal worries, home safety behaviors, and perceived difficulties.

Purpose: The aim of the study was to explore the worries, safety behaviors, and perceived difficulties in keeping children safe at home in a purposive sample of low-income, predominantly non-English speaking mothers as a foundation for later nursing interventions.

Design: This study was a qualitative, descriptive design with content analysis to identify maternal concerns, behaviors, and perceptions of home safety as part of a larger study.

Methods: Eighty-two mothers, 64% of whom were monolingual Spanish-speakers, responded in writing to three semistructured interview questions.

Video recruitment of non-English-speaking participants.

Recruitment of underserved participants begins to close the disparity gap evident within disadvantaged communities, and innovative approaches to recruitment support this effort. Literacy, communication, and credibility barriers distance potential research participants. The literature search from 1975 to 2005 included the Cochrane Review, MEDLINE, EBSCO, PsycINFO, Google Scholar, and CINAHL for the terms video recruitment, videotaped, minority recruitment, and research subject recruitment with no documented use of videotape recruitment of non-English-speaking (NES) participants.

Beyond translation ... cultural fit.

Reaching non-English-speaking families, the economically disadvantaged, and those who are disproportionately represented in disease and injury statistics is challenging. This article describes the process of making a questionnaire developed in English, culturally appropriate for low-income, monolingual, Mexican and Mexican American mothers. The questionnaire, guided by the Health Belief Model, assesses maternal childhood injury health beliefs and was originally used with a 96% African American, English-speaking sample in the Eastern United States.

Broadening the understanding of injury prevention: a case study.

The death or injury of a loved one is tragic, especially if that injury could have been prevented. Programs to reduce the incidence and severity of neurological trauma are traditionally driven by injury statistics, and the literature on neurological injury prevention often fails to capture individual experiences. Understanding community members' concerns about injury and safety efforts can move injury-prevention programs to a new level by assessing injury-related beliefs and refining interventions suited to the community.