"I had become fed up": A qualitative study of Black nurse practitioners' experiences fighting against health inequity, racism, and burnout.

Background: Increasing diversity in the nurse practitioner (NP) workforce is key to improving outcomes among patients who experience health inequities. However, few studies to date have examined the specific mechanisms by which NPs from diverse backgrounds address inequities in care delivery.

Purpose: To explore Black NPs' efforts in addressing inequities, and the facilitators and barriers they face in doing so.

Lessons Ignored: Children and Pandemics.

Children became sick and died during pandemics roughly 100 years apart, but they are rarely the central focus of historical scholarship. Because children were not the largest group of victims in the 1918 pandemic or in the COVID-19 pandemic and because of their lack of political capital, their needs received little attention. Both pandemics exposed the many holes in the nation's health and welfare infrastructure.

Invitational summit: Re-envisioning research focused PHD programs of the future.

Ten years ago, in response to the growing discussions, a seminal report, The Research-Focused Doctoral Program in Nursing -Pathways to Excellence was endorsed by AACN members. A re-envisioning of PhD programs is urgently needed to ensure the advancement of nursing science and to situate research focused nursing PhD graduates for success - in academia and beyond. To address these issues, the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing held a summit in October 2019, Re-envisioning Research Focused PhD Programs of the Future, with stakeholders from 41 educational, governmental, professional and philanthropic institutions.

Reforming nursing registration: Lessons from pandemics.

A nimble and flexible regulatory response regarding the nursing workforce is essential to a fully integrated public health approach to national crises and pandemics. The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn many comparisons to the 1918 Flu Pandemic. Some of them are well-reasoned and grounded in evidence.

Shaping nursing profession regulation through history - a systematic review.

Aim: The aim of this systematic review was to provide a critical synthesis of the factors that historically shaped the advancements of nursing regulators worldwide.

Background: An in-depth examination of the different factors that moulded regulatory changes over time is pivotal to comprehend current issues in nursing.

Introduction: In the light of global health scenarios, the researchers explored the factors that historically influenced the socio-contextual circumstances upon which governments made regulatory changes.

'I Am a Nurse': Oral Histories of African Nurses.

Background: Much of African history has been written by colonial "masters" and is skewed by cultural bias. The voices of indigenous peoples have largely been ignored.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to collect the oral histories of African nursing leaders who studied and practiced nursing from the late colonial era (1950s) through decolonization and independence (1960s-70s), in order to better understand their experiences and perspectives.

Postgraduate nurse practitioner residency programs: supporting transition to practice.

The 2010 Institute of Medicine report The Future of Nursing recommended residency programs for nurses. The number of such postgraduate residencies for nurse practitioners (NPs) is increasing in community settings; still, the Institute of Medicine's recommendation departs from the tradition of direct entry into practice after the completion of a formal nursing program. Research shows that residencies support NPs' transition to practice, but very few data support their impact on patient care.

The role of Catholic nurses in women's health care policy disputes: a historical study.

Background: The Catholic Church oversees the nation's largest group of not-for-profit health care facilities, and in certain areas a Catholic hospital is the only hospital available. Recently, Catholic hospitals' provision of health care services to women in the areas of reproductive procedures has come under scrutiny.

Purpose: This article examines the role of Catholic sister nurses in health policy for women.

"All who nurse for hire": nursing and the mixed legacy of legislative victories.

Sustained support of policy initiatives by nursing has resulted in significant legislative victories. One victory, the passage of the 1938 New York State Todd-Feld Act, which underwent legislative debate at a time when the nurse labor market was in disarray, during an economic depression, and before U.S.