Best practices in scholarly publishing for promotion or tenure: Avoiding predatory journals.

Background: Predatory publishing has adverse impacts on scientific literature including nursing literature. These publishers have been described as having questionable publication standards. Many faculty have expressed challenges associated with assessing publisher and journal quality.

Mediating Role of Resilience on Nursing Faculty and Student QoL during COVID-19.

COVID-19 greatly impacted nursing education and required nursing faculty and students to quickly adapt to changes caused by disease mitigation. The purpose of this study was to examine the mediating effects of resilience between the influence of demographics and school-related risk factors and nursing faculty and student quality of life (QoL) during the COVID-19 pandemic. A secondary data analysis was conducted using structural equation modeling to examine the mediating role of resilience on latent variables.

Quality of Life, Resilience, and Related Factors of Nursing Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Background: COVID-19 and the associated measures to mitigate the spread of the virus have significantly disrupted nursing education.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between quality of life (QoL), resilience, and associated factors among nursing students during the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent social distancing requirements.

Methods: A cross-sectional study using an anonymous survey with nursing students (n = 152) was conducted at a public university in rural Appalachia in April 2020.

Relationship of Quality of Life, Resilience, and Associated Factors Among Nursing Faculty During COVID-19.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent social distancing guidelines greatly impacted the quality of life (QoL) of nursing faculty.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of QoL, resilience, and associated factors among nursing faculty during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: In April 2020, a cross-sectional, anonymous survey was conducted with nursing faculty in a public university in rural Appalachia (n = 52).

Why laparoscopic adhesiolysis should not be the victim of a single randomized clinical trial.

Randomized controlled trials may provide erroneous conclusions when the null hypothesis is not rejected because of insufficient analysis statistical power. The authors dispute the conclusion of a randomized controlled trial that compared chronic pain relief rates following laparoscopic adhesiolysis and diagnostic laparoscopy and recommended abandoning laparoscopic adhesiolysis. In the trial, the observed difference between pain rates (15%) was inferior to that expected (35%).

Effects of obesity on pregnancy.

Objectives: To examine physiologic and psychological outcomes associated with maternal obesity in pregnancy and patterns of pregnancy weight gain. To identify effective interventions for maternal obesity.

Data Sources And Study Selection: Search of obesity and pregnancy research conducted over the past 10 years using CIHAHL, Medline ERIC, and PyscInfo databases.

Maternal body mass index at delivery and risk of caesarean due to dystocia in low risk pregnancies.

Background: To investigate the association between maternal body mass index (BMI) at delivery and the risk of caesarean section due to dystocia during the first stage of labour in low risk pregnancies.

Methods: Historical cohort study that included 6,949 low risk women who delivered at the Medical University of South Carolina from 1994 to 2004, presenting a singleton birth at term, and a vaginal delivery attempt by spontaneous labour. Women presenting large for gestational age newborns were excluded.

Are ankle and toe brachial indices (ABI-TBI) obtained by a pocket Doppler interchangeable with those obtained by standard laboratory equipment?

Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine if the ankle and toe brachial indices obtained by an experienced registered nurse (RN) using a pocket Doppler were within acceptable levels of agreement with those obtained by a registered vascular technologist (RVT) using standard laboratory equipment.

Design: A within-subjects comparative design was used.

Setting And Subjects: Thirty subjects who were referred to a vascular laboratory for arterial studies were recruited.

Use of a pregnancy support web site by low-income African American women.

Objective: To examine the feasibility and usage pattern of a social support Web site by low-income pregnant African American women.

Design: Descriptive.

Setting: Homes of participants.

The influence of race on fetal outcome.

The purpose of this study was to examine racial differences in fetal death by gestational age among South Carolinians during 1999 to 2000 in an attempt to identify sociodemographic risk factors that may contribute to the refinement of care protocols. This historical cohort design appended the 1999 to 2000 South Carolina Vital Records fetal death file (N = 944) to the birth file (N = 99, 726) to perform secondary data analysis. Inclusion criteria were maternal South Carolina residency, delivery of a singleton in South Carolina, and racial identification as white or black.

Maternal prepregnant body mass index and weight gain related to low birth weight in South Carolina.

Objectives: The primary purpose of this study was to describe the proportion of low birth weight that could be potentially prevented by programs focusing on maternal prepregnant body mass index (BMI) and/or weight gain during pregnancy.

Methods: In this historic cohort design, study data consisted of birth certificates linked to the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System for South Carolina resident women delivering in South Carolina during 1998 and 1999. Statistical analysis was conducted with the use of chi2, population-attributable risk, and logistic regression.