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NANN Membership Recommendations: Opportunities to Advance Racial Equity Within the Organization.

Adv Neonatal Care

February 2024

Henry Ford Health, Detroit, Michigan (Dr Vance); Marietta Neonatology, Marietta, Georgia (Dr Farmer); The Univeristy of Rhode Island College of Nursing, Kingston, Rhode Island (Dr D'Agata); Univeristy of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing, Omaha, Nebraska (Dr Moore); Alverno College School of Nursing and Health Professions, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Dr Esser); and The Ohio State University College of Nursing, Columbus, Ohio (Dr Fortney).

Background: Neonatal care has advanced significantly in recent years, yet racial health inequities persist in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), with infants from racial and ethnic minority groups less likely to receive recommended treatment. Healthcare providers acknowledge that there are steps that can be taken to increase knowledge and awareness regarding health inequities.

Purpose: To better understand current health equity-related initiatives in the neonatal community and solicit feedback from National Association of Neonatal Nurses (NANN) membership about advancing racial equity within the organization.

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Mental health screening is a pivotal practice for promoting the social-emotional-behavioral (SEB) health and well-being of youth in schools. However, some aspects of traditional mental health screening practices may inadvertently perpetuate structural racism and unintentionally facilitate oppression and SEB disparities. We address this issue constructively by presenting an intentional approach to guide school psychologists and related professionals in implementing more socially just mental health screening in schools.

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A Review of the NANN Research Summit Experience: Continuing to Promote a Platform for Research and Clinical Inquiry.

Adv Neonatal Care

February 2022

Children's Wisconsin, Milwaukee (Dr Esser); JoAnn McGrath School of Nursing and Health Professions, Alverno College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Dr Esser); National Association of Neonatal Nurses (Ms Shelley); and College of Nursing, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska (Dr Moore).

Background: The NANN Research Summit has been providing a platform for neonatal scholarship and clinical inquiry for 15 years. As the discipline of nursing and nursing research continue to evolve, it is important to gain perspective on current trends and needs for areas of strength and growth.

Purpose: To evaluate participant outcomes of the NANN Research Summit and determine opportunities for improvement.

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Introductory biochemistry courses are often challenging for students because they require the integration of chemistry, biology, physics, math, and physiology knowledge and frameworks to understand and apply a large body of knowledge. This can be complicated by students' persistent misconceptions of fundamental concepts and lack of fluency with the extensive visual and symbolic literacy used in biochemistry. Card sorting tasks and game-based activities have been used to reveal insights into how students are assimilating, organizing, and structuring disciplinary knowledge, and how they are progressing along a continuum from disciplinary novice to expert.

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Using Clinical Instructor Perceptions to Improve a Pilot Simulation Course.

Nurs Educ Perspect

November 2019

About the Authors Aimee Woda, PhD, RN BC, is an assistant professor, Marquette University College of Nursing, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Theresa Schnable, MS, RN, ACNS-BC, is simulation coordinator and a clinical instructor, Marquette University College of Nursing. Penny Alt-Gehrman, MSN, RN, an assistant professor at Alverno College School of Nursing, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is a graduate student at Marquette University College of Nursing. The authors acknowledge Sigma Theta Tau International and the National League for Nursing for funding this project. They also wish to thank the nursing instructors who shared their experiences. For more information, contact Dr. Woda at

Little is known about clinical instructors' perceptions of student decision-making in relation to the block sequencing of simulation and traditional clinical experiences. Focus groups were conducted with 12 clinical instructors. Three common threads emerged from the data: right away, anxious but more confident, and scary and unsafe.

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Addressing Autism Spectrum Disorders in China.

New Dir Child Adolesc Dev

January 2019

Alverno College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

English language readers rarely get glimpses of the state of autism research in China. Given the seriousness of autism, the population of China, and the potential for theoretically interesting cross-cultural insights, we provide a broad survey of research carried out in China on childhood autism. Four themes are considered: etiology, diagnosis, treatment, and education.

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Innovation in Clinical Course Delivery and Impact on Students' Clinical Decision-Making and Competence.

Nurs Educ Perspect

September 2019

About the Authors Aimee Woda, PhD, RN, BC, is an assistant professor, Marquette University College of Nursing, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Theresa Schnable, MS, RN, ACNS-BC, is a clinical instructor and simulation coordinator, Marquette University College of Nursing. Penny Alt-Gehrman, MSN, RN, is an assistant professor, Alverno College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Marilyn Meyer Bratt, PhD, RN, is associate professor, and Mauricio Garnier-Villarreal, PhD, is a research assistant professor, Marquette University College of Nursing. The authors acknowledge the Marquette College of Nursing Research Office for funding this study, the Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare Center for Clinical Simulation staff for their assistance, and the students who volunteered their time to participate. For more information, contact Dr. Woda at

The purpose of this study was to explore the differences in clinical decision-making and clinical competence between two different cohorts of graduating baccalaureate nursing students from a traditional prelicensure program in the United States. A quasi-experimental design was used to compare students who had substituted their traditional medical-surgical clinical experiences with simulation (Cohort 1, n = 35) with students who had supplementary simulation in addition to their traditional clinical experiences (Cohort 2, n = 36). The findings demonstrated that when simulation was used as a supplement to traditional clinical experiences, participants performed better patient assessments.

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Nursing Simulation and Transfer of Knowledge in Undergraduate Nursing Programs: A Literature Review.

Nurs Educ Perspect

September 2019

About the Author Penny Alt-Gehrman, PhD(c), RN, is an assistant professor, JoAnne McGrath School of Nursing and Health Professions, Alverno College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. For more information, contact her at

Aim: The purpose of this literature review was to describe what research has been conducted on transfer of knowledge using high-fidelity patient simulation (HFPS) and determine what further research is needed.

Background: The use of HFPS has expanded rapidly in recent years. There is research suggesting that HFPS effectively educates nurses for clinical practice.

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Among lesbians, faith-based beliefs and behaviors may be associated with negative psychological health due to the interplay between religious and sexual identities. The present study examined health outcomes, faith-based beliefs (views of God as loving and controlling), faith-based behaviors (personal spiritual practices, religious activities), and internalized homonegativity in a sample of 225 self-identified lesbians. We hypothesized that internalized homonegativity would moderate the relationship between health outcomes and faith-based beliefs and behaviors among lesbians.

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Endosymbioses between animals and chemoautotrophic bacteria are ubiquitous at hydrothermal vents. These environments are distinguished by high physico-chemical variability, yet we know little about how these symbioses respond to environmental fluctuations. We therefore examined how the γ-proteobacterial symbionts of the vent snail Ifremeria nautilei respond to changes in sulfur geochemistry.

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Iron (Fe) and copper (Cu) are essential cofactors for microbial metalloenzymes, but little is known about the metalloenyzme inventory of anaerobic marine microbial communities despite their importance to the nitrogen cycle. We compared dissolved O2, NO[Formula: see text], NO[Formula: see text], Fe and Cu concentrations with nucleic acid sequences encoding Fe and Cu-binding proteins in 21 metagenomes and 9 metatranscriptomes from Eastern Tropical North and South Pacific oxygen minimum zones and 7 metagenomes from the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Station. Dissolved Fe concentrations increased sharply at upper oxic-anoxic transition zones, with the highest Fe:Cu molar ratio (1.

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The purpose of this ethnographic study was to describe the culture of public health nurses (PHNs) in a large, Midwestern urban health department. Data collection methods, data management, and analyses followed ethnographic procedures and resulted in the development of categories, domains, and cultural themes. The general study participants were PHNs, clients, supervisors, and administrators.

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Literature review of social support and caregiver burden, 1980 to 1995.

Image J Nurs Sch

February 1998

Alverno College, Division of Nursing, Milwaukee, WI 53234-3922, USA.

Purpose: To critique social support and caregiver burden studies for (a) explication of constructs, (b) associations between constructs, (c) statistical conclusion validity, and (d) generalizability. Social support moderates caregiver burden, yet studies using different conceptualizations raise questions about validity. FRAMEWORK AND SCOPE: Cooper's (1984) methodology for an integrated literature review was used to examine 50 studies (1980-1995) involving adult caregivers of older family members.

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