Feasibility, acceptability, and usability of implementing a medical device-related pressure injury algorithm for critically ill patients using non-invasive ventilation.

Objectives: Describe the feasibility, acceptability, and usability of implementing a nurse-led intervention to prevent medical device-related pressure injury in critical care patients using non-invasive ventilation during hospitalization.

Study Design: A quality improvement project, using a descriptive single-arm study design with convenience sampling.

Setting And Participants: This study was conducted at a Midwestern medical center with 640 beds (two hospital campuses).

Acceptability of mHealth Technology for Self-Monitoring Eating and Activity among Rural Men.

Objective: To examine rural men's use and perceptions of mobile and wireless devices to self-monitor eating and physical activity (mHealth).

Design And Sample: Men in this 3-week pilot study used FitBit One to log daily food intake and monitor activity. A companion application (app) allowed activity monitoring of fellow participants.

Student-Perceived Influences on Performance During Simulation.

Background: Understanding the effect of the context of simulation to learning and performance is critical to ensure not only optimal learning but to provide a valid and reliable means to evaluate performance. The purpose of this study is to identify influences on performance from the student perspective and understand the contextual barriers inherent in simulation before using simulation for high-stakes testing.

Method: This study used a qualitative descriptive design.

Sexual counselling for individuals with cardiovascular disease and their partners: a consensus document from the American Heart Association and the ESC Council on Cardiovascular Nursing and Allied Professions (CCNAP).

After a cardiovascular event, patients and their families often cope with numerous changes in their lives, including dealing with consequences of the disease or its treatment on their daily lives and functioning. Coping poorly with both physical and psychological challenges may lead to impaired quality of life. Sexuality is one aspect of quality of life that is important for many patients and partners that may be adversely affected by a cardiac event.

Illness perceptions, coping strategies, and symptoms contribute to psychological distress in patients with recurrent symptomatic atrial fibrillation.

Background: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a prevalent, life-complicating illness associated with psychological distress. Interventions to manage the psychological challenges of living with AF are needed. Evidence suggests that illness perceptions, coping strategies, and symptoms that contribute to psychological distress may be modified by psychoeducational interventions to reduce psychological distress.

Illness beliefs in patients with recurrent symptomatic atrial fibrillation.

Background: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a prevalent condition associated with adverse outcomes that need to be addressed by clinicians. Functional limitations and psychological distress occur in association with AF and may be influenced by patients' illness beliefs. Current knowledge of illness beliefs of AF patients is insufficient to guide interventions to improve clinical outcomes.

Living with atrial fibrillation: a qualitative study.

Background And Research Objective: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a public health burden associated with stroke, cardiomyopathy, and diminished quality of life (QOL). Although surveys suggest that AF impairs physical functioning and mental health, little is known about patients' experiences contributing to those findings. Understanding patients' experiences of living with AF may provide a foundation for interventions to improve QOL.

Development and content validity testing of the Cardiac Symptom Survey in patients after coronary artery bypass grafting.

Background: Patients who have undergone coronary artery bypass grafting often experience numerous symptoms after surgery. There is a need for a symptom tool for this population that is disease-specific, comprehensive, and responsive to change.

Aims: The aims of this study were to describe the development and preliminary content validity testing of the Cardiac Symptom Survey (CSS), assess further content validity of the CSS through an expert panel, and assess responsiveness of the CSS to change.

Longitudinal field comparison of the RT3 and an activity diary with cardiac patients.

This study investigated reliability and validity of two methods of measuring patients' physical activity following coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. Sixty-five patients wore an RT3 accelerometer and recorded activity in a diary at 3 weeks, 6 weeks, and 3 months postsurgery. Generalizability coefficients greater than .

Patterns of recovery following percutaneous coronary intervention: a pilot study.

Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is the most common type of cardiac revascularization performed. However, there has been limited research examining the recovery of PCI patients after their hospital discharge. This descriptive, longitudinal study examined patterns of recovery (cardiac symptoms experienced, impact of cardiac symptoms on physical functioning and enjoyment of life, postprocedure problems experienced, and functioning) of 37 PCI patients at 2, 4, and 6 weeks following PCI.