Feeling Valued as a Mid-Career Nurse: A Scoping Review.

Retaining mid-career nurses is a priority to address the nursing shortage exacerbated by COVID-19. Nurses are more likely to stay if they feel valued. This scoping review revealed a variety of intrapersonal, interpersonal, and external factors that influence how mid-career nurses feel valued.

Nurse Disrespect and Abuse Toward Laboring and Child-Birthing Women.

Background: Disrespect and abuse of laboring and child-birthing women in healthcare is a global problem that violates a woman's right to respectful care. The abuse can be life-threatening and jeopardizes their rights to health, bodily integrity, and freedom from discrimination. This study aimed to understand the factors influencing nurse and midwife disrespect and abuse of child-birthing women in healthcare settings.

Patient Abuse in Healthcare: A Theoretical Synthesis.

Patient abuse in healthcare is an emerging phenomenon in need of explanation and further analysis. Preventing abusive incidents in healthcare requires identifying structural imbalances that make mistreatment of vulnerable individuals possible. A theory synthesis of the vicious violence triangle and the socioecological model provides a framework to investigate factors that influence nurses' abusive behavior toward patients in hospitals.

Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of primary healthcare providers with assessing and supporting older informal caregivers.

A time burden, financial strain, and prioritizing care recipient needs over their own are key barriers preventing informal caregivers from engaging in health-promoting self-care. Primary healthcare providers are well positioned to assess and support informal caregivers. A cross sectional descriptive, correlational study was used to examine the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of healthcare providers regarding assessment and support of older informal caregivers.

A theoretical framework to promote minority PhD and DNP student success in nursing education.

Background: Nursing PhD and DNP programs lack diversity and cultural responsiveness and, as a result, minority students are underrepresented in these programs. Stressors specific to being a member of a minority population, defined as minority stress, contribute to a range of barriers for ethnic/racial minority, male and LGBTQ PhD and DNP students. There is an urgent need for faculty and administrators to support minority doctoral student success by taking proactive steps to identify and begin to deconstruct these barriers.

A Transformative Learning Experience for Senior Nursing Students.

Background: Research suggests that clinical practicums in hospital-based settings are important, even if condensed, to provide students with the opportunity for real-world learning experiences. Rational dialogue makes learning meaningful and empowers students to learn by reflecting on experiences.

Problem: The COVID-19 pandemic minimized availability of traditional one-to-one mentorship practicums.

Exploring the Charge Nurse Role Transition: A Qualitative Study of the Novice's Perspective.

The novice charge nurse role transition is not well understood. This article reports on a qualitative descriptive study of the novice charge nurse role transition. Rubin and Rubin's responsive interviewing was used.

Nursing Science, Mental Illness, and the Family: A Conceptual Framework to Break the Cycle of Suffering.

Mental illness is an epidemic in the United States, and there is a gap in care due to minimal integrated programs and transitional community resources. This paper reports the development of a conceptual framework to identify challenges facing families living with mental illness and the integral role nursing plays to positively impact health. An inductive, bottom-up approach was used to develop the Nursing Science, Mental Illness and Family model.

Developing nurse leaders: Toward a theory of authentic leadership empowerment.

Aim: The aim of this article is to present a theoretical synthesis of the theory of authentic leadership and the theory of structural empowerment. The new middle-range theory, Theory of Authentic Leadership Empowerment (TALE), is meant to be used as a guide for the professional development of nurses into leadership roles.

Background: The Institute of Medicine's Future of Nursing Report calls for nurses across all levels and settings, to develop leadership skills to address the ever-growing complexities in health care.

Multilevel Influences on New Graduate Nurse Transition: A Literature Review.

New graduate nurses continue to experience difficulty in transitioning into practice. A literature review was conducted to identify factors that influence new graduate nurse transition. Data from 42 articles were extracted, and significant variables were synthesized from a social ecological perspective.

Preparing students for the emotional challenges of nursing: an integrative review.

A gap exists between how nurse educators teach nursing students to identify and manage the emotional challenges of nursing and nurses' experiences after they enter practice. An integrative review was conducted to synthesize the literature on how nurse educators prepare students for the emotional challenges of practice. The literature (n = 14) revealed that the concept "emotional challenges of nursing" lacks a clear definition and conceptual clarity.

Making meaning in qualitative research with conversational partnerships: a methodological discussion.

Rubin and Rubin's responsive interviewing method is based on the conversational partnership formed between researcher and participant. This method allows the researcher to understand experiences through the participant's words and stories to create meaning. In this article, the reader is guided through a 3-part interview series with a person living with traumatic spinal cord injury.

Effective pedagogies for teaching math to nursing students: a literature review.

Improving mathematical competency and problem-solving skills in undergraduate nursing students has been an enduring challenge for nurse educators. A number of teaching strategies have been used to address this problem with varying degrees of success. This paper discusses a literature review which examined undergraduate nursing student challenges to learning math, methods used to teach math and problem-solving skills, and the use of innovative pedagogies for teaching.

Concept maps and nursing theory: a pedagogical approach.

Faculty seek to teach nursing students how to link clinical and theoretical knowledge with the intent of improving patient outcomes. The author discusses an innovative 9-week concept mapping activity as a pedagogical approach to teach nursing theory in a graduate theory course. Weekly concept map building increased student engagement and fostered theoretical thinking.

Evaluating the effectiveness of personal response system technology on millennial student learning.

As nurse educators, we must explore new technologies that capitalize on the characteristics of millennial learners. One such technology, the personal response system (PRS), is an effective way to promote active learning and increase comprehension. Few nursing studies have examined the benefits of PRS technology on student outcomes.

Symptom clusters in traumatic spinal cord injury: an exploratory literature review.

Chronic pain, spasticity, and depression are three common secondary health problems experienced by persons living with traumatic spinal cord injury. Limited research exists related to the interaction of these symptoms and their cumulative effect on patient outcomes and quality of life. This article is a report of an exploratory literature review that uses the conceptual approach of symptom clustering to classify secondary health problems in spinal cord injury.

Postflood disaster management and the home health nurse: using theory to guide practice.

Few frameworks exist to guide home health nurses during the response and recovery phases of disasters such as flooding. The Double ABCX Model of Family Adaptation is offered as an example of a guiding framework for nurses in postflood management. Phases of the model are linked to the nursing process, and management strategies are applied to individuals and families living in the community.

Engaging millennial learners: Effectiveness of personal response system technology with nursing students in small and large classrooms.

Nurse educators must explore innovative technologies that make the most of the characteristics and learning styles of millennial learners. These students are comfortable with technology and prefer interactive classrooms with individual feedback and peer collaboration. This study evaluated the perceived effectiveness of personal response system (PRS) technology in enhancing student learning in small and large classrooms.

Knowledge for the good of the individual and society: linking philosophy, disciplinary goals, theory, and practice.

Nursing as a profession has a social mandate to contribute to the good of society through knowledge-based practice. Knowledge is built upon theories, and theories, together with their philosophical bases and disciplinary goals, are the guiding frameworks for practice. This article explores a philosophical perspective of nursing's social mandate, the disciplinary goals for the good of the individual and society, and one approach for translating knowledge into practice through the use of a middle-range theory.