Self-debriefing in healthcare simulation: An integrative literature review.

Objectives: Debriefing is an essential component of simulation-based education. In-person, facilitator-led debriefing may not always be practical for newer forms of simulation, such as individual virtual simulations. Self-debriefing addresses the issue of practicality, but evidence of implementation and design are unknown.

How Do Youth with Cystic Fibrosis Perceive Their Readiness to Transition to Adult Healthcare Compared to Their Caregivers' Views?

Purpose: To describe how perceived stages of change for self-care management skills varies by age in youth with cystic fibrosis in preparation for transition to adult healthcare, to compare caregiver perception of youth readiness for self-care, and age/frequency of transition discussion with provider.

Design And Methods: The Transition Readiness Assessment Questionnaire and a modified version (TRAQ-C) for caregivers were used for data collection. Descriptive statistics, simple linear regression, and t-tests were employed.

Early and Intermediate Hospital-to-Home Transition Outcomes of Older Adults Diagnosed With Diabetes.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify factors affecting early and intermediate hospital-to home transition outcomes of older adults with preexisting diabetes mellitus.

Methods: A mixed-methods design was used. A sample of 96 hospitalized older adults with a prior diagnosis of diabetes were recruited within 4 hours of discharge.

Decisions and caregiving: end of life among blacks from the perspective of informal caregivers and decision makers.

This focus group study describes end-of-life caregiving and decision making among blacks from the perspective of the informal caregivers and decision makers. The Behavioral Model of Health Services Use framed the study. Five focus groups with a total of 53 informal caregivers/decision makers were conducted.

A quantitative approach to evaluating caring in nursing simulation.

Aim: This study was designed to test a quantitative method of measuring caring in the simulated environment.

Background: Since competency in caring is central to nursing practice, ways of including caring concepts in designing scenarios and in evaluation of performance need to be developed. Coates' Caring Efficacy scales were adapted for simulation and named the Caring Efficacy Scale-Simulation Student Version (CES-SSV) and Caring Efficacy Scale-Simulation Faculty Version (CES-SFV).

Duplicated laboratory tests: evaluation of a computerized alert intervention abstract.

Redundant testing contributes to reductions in healthcare system efficiency. The purpose of this study was to: (1) determine if the use of a computerized alert would reduce the number and cost of duplicated Acute Hepatitis Profile (AHP) laboratory tests and (2) assess what patient, test, and system factors were associated with duplication. This study used a quasi-experimental pre- and post-test design to determine the proportion of duplication of the AHP test before and after implementation of a computerized alert intervention.

Sustaining health in faith community nursing practice: emerging processes that support the development of a middle-range theory.

This article reveals processes that support theoretical development for holistic nursing in the context of a faith community. The emerging processes enhance the articulation of the holistically focused practice, add clarity to faith community nursing activities and outcomes, and contribute to theoretical clarification and development. Theoretical clarity is essential to guide faith community nursing practice, research, and education because there is tremendous potential for the specialty practice to contribute to the health of a community across the continuum of caring and because to date there has been no unifying model for this practice proposed.

Online health information seeking by people with physical disabilities due to neurological conditions.

Objective: This study investigates how neurologically disabled people's intention to continue seeking and actual use of online health information are related to various factors.

Design: A cross-sectional survey was conducted to collect data from people who have neurological disabilities.

Measurements: An online questionnaire was used to measure demographic, physical, cognitive, and behavioral factors based on subjects' self-reported data.

State of research for Faith Community Nursing 2009.

The aim of this paper is to report the current state of research for Faith community Nursing (FCN), reviewing the related research literature dating back to 1993. Over 20 years old, the practice of FCN is a maturing specialty practice that links religious communities and health through professional nursing, but no review of research literature is published. The review of the literature was done utilizing the Cumulated Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) and PubMed.

The practice doctorate: innovation or disruption?

Advanced practice nurses, particularly nurse practitioners, have been described as a disruptive innovation. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) has proposed that by 2015 all advanced practice nurses be prepared with a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP). This article uses critical reflection on published literature to examine the potential difficulties that mandating such a change may present to potential students, practicing advanced practice nurses, colleges of nursing, and doctoral education in general.

Postmenopausal hormone replacement and cardiovascular disease: incorporating research into practice.

The long-standing practice of prescribing hormones to postmenopausal women was based in part on the observation that following menopause, women's incidence of cardiovascular diseases such as atherosclerosis, myocardial infarction, and cerebral vascular accident increased. Recent large-scale research has shown an increase in cardiovascular events for postmenopausal women receiving estrogen replacement in oral form. This article examines research on positive effects of hormone replacement therapy, discusses what is known about the development of cardiovascular disease in women, and evaluates recent research that has shown increased cardiovascular risk in women receiving hormone replacement.

Lifestyle change in type 2 diabetes a process model.

Background: Integration is an emerging concept in the study of self-management and chronic illness, yet this process and how it occurs is not well understood.

Objectives: This investigation, part of a triangulated study, focused on the experience of integrating type 2 diabetes treatment recommendations into an existing lifestyle while participating in a nurse-coaching intervention.

Method: An interpretive method elicited data from nurse-coaching sessions (4), field notes, and an interview in 9 women with type 2 diabetes.