A Healthcare-Academic Practice Partnership Program to Promote Student Nurse Readiness for Work.

Highly skilled new graduate nurses must be better prepared to face the clinical and professional challenges in today's healthcare environment. Compounding these challenges are the growing resignations of clinical faculty and experienced clinical nurses. Innovative programs are needed to bridge the knowledge-practice gap with opportunities to create pipelines to aid the future nursing workforce.

The Beat Goes On: Emergency Nurses' Song of Resilience.

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, emergency nurses have been on the frontlines. Not only were emergency nurses caring for patients with physical symptoms, they were also confronted by anxiety, depression, stress, and uncertainty in patients, peers, and themselves. Even as nurses cared for patients seeking their help, they were dealing with their own struggles as members of the larger community and the organization.

How to Create a Telephone Follow-Up Program to Improve Glycemic Control in Uncontrolled Type 2 Diabetic African-American Women.

Type 2 diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States and this disease disproportionately affects African-Americans and other minorities. Diabetes self-management education has been shown through research to help patients achieve at-goal HgbA1c levels leading to a decrease in complications; however, patients do not attend these classes as much as they should. The creation of a telephone follow-up plan can be an option to improve glycemic control for the primary care clinician caring for uncontrolled Type 2 diabetic African-American females.