Use of admission MDS data to capture unrecognized cognitive impairment in heart failure: Implications for community care transitions.

Background: Skilled Nursing residents who have cognitive impairment (CI) in heart failure(HF) have a significantly higher mortality rate. These residents' ability to self-manage their complex care upon discharge is critical for positive health outcomes.

Method: We conducted a secondary data analysis of admission MDS records for 79 residents admitted for HF care from 2021 to 2022.

Relationship of the Perioperative Nurse Work Environment With a Culture of Safety and High Reliability.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine dimensions of the perioperative work environment and their associations with the operating room (OR) culture of safety and high-reliability characteristics.

Design: A predictive correlational design using a cross-sectional survey was used.

Methods: A convenience sample of perioperative nurses (N = 96) was used to evaluate strength of associations of their work environment with OR safety culture and high-reliability organizational culture.

Factors in the Perioperative Nurses' Work Environment That Predict Work Engagement.

Perioperative nurse engagement and certification are associated with a culture of safety, which is crucial in perioperative environments. Therefore, examining relationships between engagement, the practice environment, and certification is warranted. The purposes of this study were to examine the relationships between the perioperative practice environment and reported nurse engagement, determine differences in engagement based on certification, and identify facilitators and barriers to attaining and sustaining certification.

Development and Psychometric Evaluation of a Food Resource Acceptability Questionnaire.

The stigma associated with food assistance is a significant barrier to resolution of food insecurity. Interventions and policies aimed at reducing food insecurity would benefit from the inclusion of strategies aimed at minimizing food assistance stigma. We developed the Food Resource Acceptability Questionnaire (FRAQ), a scale that measures the perceptions of stigma associated with food assistance.

Resilience in Nurses: The Reliability and Validity of the Resilience Scale.

The Resilience Scale (RS) RS-25 and shortened RS-14 have measured resilience but not with nurses. Our purpose was to investigate both for nurses. A random sample of 345 registered nurses from the North Carolina Board of Nursing completed an online questionnaire.

The Impact of Primary Care Providers' Bias on Depression Screening for Lesbian Women.

Primary care providers' (PCPs) implicit and explicit bias can adversely affect health outcomes of lesbian women including their mental health. Practice guidelines recommend universal screening for depression in primary care settings, yet the guidelines often are not followed. The intersection of PCPs' implicit and explicit bias toward lesbian women may lead to even lower screening and diagnosis of depression in the lesbian population than in the general population.

To stay or leave: Public health nurse workforce retention in North Carolina.

Unlabelled: States across the country have been experiencing a steady decline in public health nursing workforce, including North Carolina (NC).

Objectives: To better understand retention in the NC Public Health Nurses (PHNs) workforce through an assessment of perceptions of the working environment, stress, intent to stay, and job satisfaction.

Design: A cross-sectional online survey using closed and open-ended questions.

Psychological factors among Appalachian women with abnormal Pap results.

Purpose: Women who receive an abnormal Pap result may experience negative psychological factors. The purpose of this study is to assess the baseline occurrence of negative psychological factors and evaluate the relationships between psychological factors and demographic characteristics among Appalachian women who received abnormal Pap results.

Methods: We conducted a secondary analysis of data collected from Appalachia Kentucky women (N = 521) ages ≥18 enrolled in an intervention.

Pattern Recognition of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States: Implications for Disease Mitigation.

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic presents a severe threat to human health worldwide. The United States (US) has the highest number of reported COVID-19 cases, and over 16 million people were infected up to the 12 December 2020. To better understand and mitigate the spread of the disease, it is necessary to recognize the pattern of the outbreak.

The Adaption of the Work Environment Survey for Public Health Nurses.

The study presents the iterative process of the adaption and psychometric properties evaluation of the Work Environment/Support/Encouragement section of the Revised Casey-Fink Nurse Retention Survey (2009) to measure the work environment of public health nurses (PHNs). This secondary data analysis was based on data collected from a convenience sample of 596 PHNs across North Carolina that were originally used to study PHNs workforce retention. Classical test theory analyses were used to evaluate scale reliability and identify potential problematic items that were further examined from a substantive perspective using content validity survey.

Auditory and speech processing and reading development in Chinese school children: behavioural and ERP evidence.

By measuring behavioural performance and event-related potentials (ERPs) this study investigated the extent to which Chinese school children's reading development is influenced by their skills in auditory, speech, and temporal processing. In Experiment 1, 102 normal school children's performance in pure tone temporal order judgment, tone frequency discrimination, temporal interval discrimination and composite tone pattern discrimination was measured. Results showed that children's auditory processing skills correlated significantly with their reading fluency, phonological awareness, word naming latency, and the number of Chinese characters learned.