Leadership qualities faculty desire in academic leaders: An international Delphi study.

Background: The global nursing workforce is confounded by shortages of nurses, faculty, and academic nursing leaders. Nursing academic leaders influence faculty recruitment and retention influencing the enrollment pipeline to fill nurse workforce capacity.

Objective: To identify leadership qualities nursing faculty prefer in nursing academic leaders globally.

Development of caring behaviour in undergraduate nursing students participating in a caring behaviour course.

Background: In today's complex healthcare organisations there is an increasing recognition of the need to enhance care quality and patient safety. Nurses' competence in demonstrating caring behaviour during patient encounters affects how patients experience and participate in their care. Nurse educators are faced with the challenge of balancing the demand for increasingly complex knowledge and skills with facilitating students' abilities essential to becoming compassionate and caring nurses.

Quality and safety education for nurses: A bibliometric analysis.

Purpose: Since its origin in the United States in 2005, Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) has guided nurses' preparation for alleviating preventable harm and improving quality safe care. QSEN's value is illustrated through specific inclusion in the competency-based 2021 American Association for Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Essentials. The purpose of this bibliometric analysis is to explore publication patterns of the extant QSEN literature to assess QSEN's spread and global penetration and to map the available knowledge and data regarding quality and safety education for nurses.

Embracing diversity: measuring the impact of an international immersion learning experience on nursing students' cultural beliefs and values.

Objectives: An international Nursing Leadership Collaborative covened in Japan to hold a patient safety and quality workshop for nursing students from six countries. The purpose was to measure students' self reported beliefs reflecting sensitivity and openness to cultural diversity before and after the international experience.

Methods: A pre-post-test design was used and the Beliefs, Events, and Values Inventory was administered to international undergraduate and graduate nursing students.

Machine Learning-Based Rapid Detection of Volatile Organic Compounds in a Graphene Electronic Nose.

Rapid detection of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) is growing in importance in many sectors. Noninvasive medical diagnoses may be based upon particular combinations of VOCs in human breath; detecting VOCs emitted from environmental hazards such as fungal growth could prevent illness; and waste could be reduced through monitoring of gases produced during food storage. Electronic noses have been applied to such problems, however, a common limitation is in improving selectivity.

Plasma Amyloid and in vivo Brain Amyloid in Late Middle-Aged Hispanics.

Background: Determining amyloid positivity is possible with cerebrospinal fluid and brain imaging of amyloid, but these methods are invasive and expensive.

Objective: To relate plasma amyloid-β (Aβ), measured using Single-molecule array (Simoatrademark) assays, to in vivo brain Aβ, measured using positron emission tomography (PET), examine the accuracy of plasma Aβ to predict brain Aβ positivity, and the relation of APOE ɛ4 with plasma Aβ.

Methods: We performed a cross-sectional analysis in a cohort of 345 late middle-aged Hispanic men and women (age 64 years, 72% women).

Undergraduate nursing students' experiences of practicing caring behaviours with standardised patients.

Rationale: Undergraduate nursing students' learning opportunities to practice caring behaviours to assure compassionate and competent nursing practice with standardised patients are few. Earlier studies primarily focused on practicing communication skills in relation to mental health or developing psychomotor skills while caring for a patient with a specific diagnosis.

Aim: The study aim was to describe undergraduate nursing students' experiences of practicing caring behaviours with a standardised patient.

Student outcomes of an international learning collaborative to develop patient safety and quality competencies in nursing.

Background: Patient harm is a global crisis fueling negative outcomes for patients around the world. Working together in an international learning collaborative fostered learning with, from and about each other to develop evidence-based strategies for developing quality and safety competencies in nursing.

Aims: To report student outcomes from an international learning collaborative focused on patient safety using the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses competency framework.

Supporting the implementation of guidelines to prevent mother-to-child-transmission of HIV in Malawi: a multi-case study.

Background: High HIV infection and fertility rates contributed to over 12,000 children acquiring HIV from their mothers in 2011 in Malawi. To prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, Malawi adopted the Option B+ guidelines, and for three years, the University of North Carolina (UNC) Project provided support to strengthen guideline implementation in 134 health centres. Little is known about how implementation support strategies are delivered in low resource countries or contextual factors that may influence their delivery.

Outpatient nurse staffing relationship with organizational, nurse and patient outcomes: A scoping review.

Background: Nurses are an integral part of outpatient healthcare settings and are needed to provide effective patient care. Ample research and reviews have been done on nurse staffing in inpatient settings relationship with a variety of organizational, nurse and patient outcomes, however there is no review of outpatient nurse staffing relationship with organizational, nurse and patient outcomes.

Objectives: The purpose of this paper is to present a scoping review that evaluates the state of the literature on relationships among nurse staffing and organizational, nurse and patient outcomes in the outpatient setting.

Second-order problem solving: Nurses' perspectives on learning from near misses.

Objectives: Near misses happen more frequently than actual errors, and highlight system vulnerabilities without causing any harm, thus provide a safe space for organizational learning. Second-order problem solving behavior offers a new perspective to better understand how nurses promote learning from near misses to improve organizational outcomes. This study aimed to explore frontline nurses' perspectives on using second-order problem solving behavior in learning from near misses to improve patient safety.

St. Luke's International University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill collaboration project to develop the first DNP program in Japan.

We report an international collaborative project to develop the first Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program in Japan. We described the development and implementation of the first DNP program at the St. Luke's International University in Tokyo and the collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States.

In Vivo Amyloid, Neurodegeneration, and Verbal Learning in Late Middle-Aged Hispanics.

Background: The National Institute on Aging (NIA)/Alzheimer's Association (AA) 2018 framework conceptualizes Alzheimer's disease (AD) biologically. Evidence of brain amyloid by biomarkers defines AD pathologic change and the Alzheimer's continuum. The presence of tau or neurodegeneration in the absence of amyloid defines non-AD pathologic change.

Comparison of Postoperative Pain Management Outcomes in the United States and China.

To compare pain management outcomes in postoperative patients from an American hospital and a Chinese hospital. A convenience sample of 244 patients in the United States and 268 patients in China with similar surgical sites completed the American Pain Society Patient Outcome Questionnaire-Revised (APS-POQ-R) and the Pain Management Index (PMI) was calculated on their first postoperative day. Patients in the United States reported a higher score on the "perception of pain management" subscale of the APS-POQ-R and a higher proportion of adequate treatment as measured by the PMI (85.

Metabolic syndrome and its components in relation to in vivo brain amyloid and neurodegeneration in late middle age.

Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is associated with dementia, but it is unclear whether MetS is related to Alzheimer's disease (AD). We investigated the association of MetS with brain amyloid, a key AD feature, and neurodegeneration. A community-based sample of 350 middle-aged Hispanics in New York City had cerebral amyloid β (Aβ) burden ascertained with F-Florbetaben positron emission tomography.

Brain Amyloid Burden and Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Late Middle-Aged Hispanics.

Non-linear relations of brain amyloid beta (Aβ) with task- based functional connectivity (tbFC) measured with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have been reported in late middle age. Our objective was to examine the association between brain Aβ and resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) in late middle-aged adults. Global brain Aβ burden was ascertained with F-Florbetaben Positron Emission Tomography (PET); rsFC was ascertained on 3T Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) among 333 late middle-aged Hispanics adults without dementia in four major brain functional connectivity networks: default mode network (DMN), fronto-parietal control network (FPC), salience network (SAL) and dorsal attention network (DAN).

genotype and in vivo amyloid burden in middle-aged Hispanics.

Objective: To examine in vivo amyloid burden in relation to ε4 genotype in middle-aged Hispanics. We hypothesize higher amyloid levels among carriers vs noncarriers.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional study in a community-based sample of 249 middle-aged Hispanics in New York City who underwent a 3T brain MRI and PET with the amyloid radioligand F-florbetaben.

Temporal variability in size and growth of Atlantic herring in the Gulf of Maine.

Variability in life history traits and structural diversity of commercially exploited fishes in response to stress can impact their population dynamics and sustainability. Using data from a fishery dependent sampling program from 1978 to 2011, we evaluated temporal variability of size and growth of adult Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) in the Gulf of Maine. We then developed and tested the hypotheses on the links of such temporal changes to population density and environmental factors and found decreases in size and growth potential.

Pre-Diabetes, but not Type 2 Diabetes, Is Related to Brain Amyloid in Late Middle-Age.

Background: Type 2 diabetes is a dementia risk factor, but its relation to Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common cause of dementia, is unclear.

Objective: Our primary objective was to examine the association of pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes with brain amyloid-β (Aβ), the putative main culprit of AD. Our secondary objective was to examine the association of pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes with neurodegeneration, cerebrovascular disease (CVD), and memory performance.