Addressing Statistical Power and Increasing Diversity in Hospice Research: Electronic Medical Record Participant Identification Compared to Nurse Referral Approaches to Recruitment.

Context: Recruitment of targeted samples into hospice clinical trials is often challenging. While electronic medical records (EMR) are commonly used in hospital-based research, it is uncommon in hospice research. The community setting and the variability in hospices and their medical record creates unique challenges.

The Impact of Transitional Shock on Newer Nurses in a Contemporary Healthcare Environment.

Objective: The aim of this study was to understand newer nurses' perception and expectations of their work environment, professional and institutional satisfaction, and motivating/decision-making factors around nursing and intent to leave their positions.

Background: Studies have shown newly graduated nurses face many challenges transitioning from a student to an independently practicing nurse. The COVID pandemic complicated this transition and created new stressors resulting in discouragement and turnover for newer nurses.

CRNA performance using a handheld, computerized, decision-making aid during critical events in a simulated environment: a methodologic inquiry.

Directives to improve patient outcomes and enhance safety within the healthcare system have led to development of technologies to assist practitioners in a variety of activities. The purpose of this study was to explore and evaluate a method for examining the effect of computer-assisted decision making (CADM) using a handheld device on the accuracy (ie, correct diagnosis and treatment) and speed of problem solving by Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) during simulated critical patient-care events. A randomized crossover design with matched-pair sampling was used.

Parental perspectives of initial end-of-life care communication.

Significance: an important research priority is to explore parents' perspectives of the introduction of end-of-life care (EOL) options for a dying child by their health care provider.

Aims: to examine parents' perspectives of: (1) the timing and method used by health care providers to introduce EOL options for their child and (2) what their preference would have been regarding the selected time and method to introduce EOL options.

Design: retrospective, descriptive study.

Parental holding and positioning to decrease IV distress in young children: a randomized controlled trial.

Young children are generally restrained in supine position for IV starts, a position that creates fear but is presumed necessary. This study randomly assigned children of ages 9 months to 4 years (N = 118) to being held upright by a parent or lying flat on an exam table for their IV procedure. Distress scores as rated by the Procedure Behavior Rating Scale were significantly lower in the upright positioning group (p = .

A pilot study to evaluate the effectiveness of glargine and multiple injections of lispro in patients with type 2 diabetes receiving tube feedings in a cardiovascular intensive care unit.

Background: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of insulin lispro and insulin glargine at controlling blood glucose in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in a cardiovascular intensive care unit (CICU) and receiving enteral tube feedings.

Methods: This was a pilot study with a retrospective control designed to evaluate an insulin protocol in patients admitted to the CICU in a level 3 teaching institution. Patients were 18-99 years of age with type 2 diabetes mellitus, receiving bolus tube feeding.

Hope and spiritual well-being in adolescents with cancer.

This study examines the relationships of hope and spiritual well-being (SWB)--and its dimensions, religious well-being (RWB) and existential well-being (EWB)--to time since diagnosis among adolescents with cancer. A descriptive cross-sectional design was used. The sample of 78 adolescents diagnosed with cancer was recruited from two pediatric oncology clinics.

Predictors of poor coronary heart disease knowledge level in women without prior coronary heart disease.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to measure coronary heart disease (CHD) knowledge levels in women without a history of CHD and to determine predictors of poor CHD knowledge in these women.

Data Sources: The sample included 120 women between the ages of 35 and 60, who had no CHD history. Women were asked to complete self-administered surveys including demographic data, personal CHD risk factors, and a CHD Knowledge Test.

Predictors of health promotion behavior in women without prior history of coronary heart disease.

The purpose of this study was to determine health promotion behavior (HPB) and the best predictors of HPB in women without prior history of coronary heart disease (CHD). The sample included 119 women aged between 35 and 60 years who had no prior CHD history. The women were asked to complete a self-administered survey regarding their demographic data, personal CHD risk factors, HPB, CHD knowledge, and perceived benefits and barriers to CHD risk factor modification.

Relationships of age and gender to hope and spiritual well-being among adolescents with cancer.

The purpose of this study was to examine hope and spiritual well-being, with its 2 dimensions of religious well-being and existential well-being, as they relate to age and gender among adolescents with cancer. A cross-sectional design was guided by the conceptual framework, Adolescent Psychosocial Adaptation to the Cancer Experience. A total of 78 adolescents with a diagnosis of cancer were enrolled from 2 pediatric oncology clinics.

Barriers to coronary heart disease risk modification in women without prior history of coronary heart disease.

Purpose: To explore the extent to which women perceive barriers to coronary heart disease (CHD) risk modification and to determine if access to a nurse practitioner (NP) decreases perceived barriers to CHD risk modification.

Data Sources: Surveys completed by 120 women between the ages of 35 and 60 years, with no known history of CHD. The barriers scale was used to examine women's perceived barriers to CHD risk modification.