Role out of Network of Black Male Nursing Leaders Mentorship Program.

Despite nursing being the largest segment in all of the healthcare workforce, with over five million practicing registered nurses in the United States, Black males remain significantly underrepresented, comprising merely about 0.67% to 1% of the nursing workforce. This underrepresentation extends into leadership positions, where the number of Black male leaders in nursing is described as unquantifiable.

State of Black men in nursing: An oral history of the challenges and the benefits of five Black male nurse leaders.

The underrepresentation of Black men in nursing continues to pose a significant challenge to diversity and equity in healthcare leadership. While systemic barriers, such as implicit bias, limited access to advanced education, and lack of mentorship, have been well-documented, there is little literature that highlights the specific journeys of Black male nurse leaders and the strategies that facilitated their success. This oral history presents the narratives of five Black male nurse leaders who overcame obstacles and rose to influential positions within nursing.

Health care providers' perspectives on the need for palliative care in Upper Egypt: a descriptive exploratory study including children and adult patients.

Background: Only four centers in Egypt provide Palliative Care (PC) for adult cancer patients and one provides care for pediatric cancer patients. While PC is not widely utilized in Egypt, this study aims to assess patients' need for PC from the providers' perspective. The primary objectives were to assess providers' knowledge about PC, understand patients' needs, and compare children's and adults' needs for PC.

Multilevel Self-Management in Nursing Research: An Approach to Decrease Health Disparities in Chronic Diseases.

Objective: To discuss multilevel self-management intervention research in nursing to decrease health disparities among people living with chronic diseases.

Content Synthesis: Multilevel interventions have become the core of nursing research in the last decade. However, a critical limitation of existing interventions targeting health disparities among those living with chronic diseases is the tendency to address single or individual-level factors solely.

Infertility-related stress, quality of life, and reasons for fertility treatment discontinuation among US women: A secondary analysis of a cross-sectional study.

Objective: Fertility treatments often cause women high levels of stress and low quality of life (QoL). Women discontinue fertility treatments for a variety of reasons, yet little is known about infertility-related stress and QoL among women who discontinue treatments. The purpose of this study was to examine infertility-related stress and QoL among women who discontinued fertility treatments compared to those who continued treatments, and reasons for treatment discontinuation.

WHS guidelines for the treatment of pressure ulcers-2023 update.

The major populations at risk for developing pressure ulcers are older adults who have multiple risk factors that increase their vulnerability, people who are critically ill and those with spinal cord injury/disease. The reported prevalence of pressure ulcers in the United States is 2.5 million.

Developing Nurse Practitioners for Hospitalist Roles: Lessons Learned From an Academic Practice Partnership.

There are numerous benefits to academic practice partnerships. While there is great emphasis on the new graduate nurse transition to practice, there is less intention placed on the new nurse practitioner (NP) role transition. In a rural teaching hospital, leadership perceived a need for more support to successfully transition NPs into hospitalist practice roles.

Nurses' self-care strategies: A mapping review.

Objectives: Nurses have long received recommendations to employ self-care behaviors to ensure their ability to remain in the profession; however, nurses are rarely asked what self-care behaviors are beneficial. This literature review aimed to map studies on nurses' self-care strategies to provide an understanding of how these strategies are addressed in the literature and to identify gaps in need of additional exploration.

Method: Searches were conducted in accordance with published mapping review methodologies across MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, Scopus, PsycINFO, Web of Science, and identified influential nursing journals.

Exploring Clinical Nurse Specialist Impact in Primary Health Care: Exemplars From a Student's Clinical Practice.

Purpose/objectives: Primary healthcare (PHC) is a clinical frontier full of opportunities for clinical nurse specialists (CNSs) to improve population outcomes, facilitate smooth care transitions, and overcome challenges through a unique lens. Clinical nurse specialist practice in primary care is exceedingly rare, and there is a paucity of literature on the topic. This article provides exemplary projects implemented by a CNS student in a primary care clinic.

Data Science Implementation Trends in Nursing Practice: A Review of the 2021 Literature.

Objectives: The goal of this work was to provide a review of the implementation of data science-driven applications focused on structural or outcome-related nurse-sensitive indicators in the literature in 2021. By conducting this review, we aim to inform readers of trends in the nursing indicators being addressed, the patient populations and settings of focus, and lessons and challenges identified during the implementation of these tools.

Methods: We conducted a rigorous descriptive review of the literature to identify relevant research published in 2021.

Comparing infertility-related stress, coping, and quality of life among assisted reproductive technology and non-assisted reproductive technology treatments.

Women who undergo assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatments experience infertility-related stress and have low quality of life (QOL). However, there is limited understanding of infertility-related stress, coping, or QOL among women who undergo non-ART treatments. The purpose of this study was to examine infertility-related stress, coping, and QOL among women who undergo ART and non-ART infertility treatments.

Graduating nursing students' preparedness and comfort level in caring for LGBTQ+ patients.

Background: Nursing students must be prepared to care for diverse patient populations, including sexual and gender minorities.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to conduct a national survey of graduating prelicensure nursing students to assess their perceived preparedness for and comfort level with providing care for LGBTQ+ patients.

Methods: A multisite descriptive correlational design was utilized in conjunction with a modified version of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Medical Education Assessment tool to survey graduating prelicensure nursing students' perceived levels of preparedness and comfort regarding their provision of care to LGBTQ+ individuals.

Pressure Injury Risk Assessment and Prevention in Patients With COVID-19 in the Intensive Care Unit.

Background: Patients critically ill with COVID-19 are at risk for hospital-acquired pressure injury, including device-related pressure injury.

Methods: Braden Scale predictive validity was compared between patients with and without COVID-19, and a logistic regression model was developed to identify risk factors for device-related pressure injury.

Results: A total of 1920 patients were included in the study sample, including 407 with COVID-19.

Effect of Varying Repositioning Frequency on Pressure Injury Prevention in Nursing Home Residents: TEAM-UP Trial Results.

Objective: To investigate the clinical effectiveness of three nursing-home-wide repositioning intervals (2-, 3-, or 4-hour) without compromising pressure injury (PrI) incidence in 4 weeks.

Methods: An embedded pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial was conducted in nine nursing homes (NHs) that were randomly assigned to one of three repositioning intervals. Baseline (12 months) and 4-week intervention data were provided during the TEAM-UP (Turn Everyone And Move for Ulcer Prevention) study.

Infertility-related stress and quality of life in women experiencing concurrent reproductive trauma.

Purpose: To compare differences in infertility-related stress and quality of life (QOL) among women with infertility and concurrent reproductive trauma, defined as pregnancy loss during the infertility experience.

Materials And Methods: We used a descriptive, cross-sectional study design to recruit 205 women who underwent infertility treatments from infertility-related Facebook support groups and pages. Participants completed the Copenhagen Multi-center Psychosocial Infertility Fertility Problem Stress Scale, the Fertility Quality of Life tool, and a supplemental infertility demographic form.

Data Science Methods for Nursing-Relevant Patient Outcomes and Clinical Processes: The 2019 Literature Year in Review.

Data science continues to be recognized and used within healthcare due to the increased availability of large data sets and advanced analytics. It can be challenging for nurse leaders to remain apprised of this rapidly changing landscape. In this article, we describe our findings from a scoping literature review of papers published in 2019 that use data science to explore, explain, and/or predict 15 phenomena of interest to nurses.

Household emergency preparedness: A multidisciplinary concept analysis.

Background: Household emergency preparedness, at the individual and family micro-level, is often identified as below national disaster preparedness standards.

Aims: Conceptual clarity of household emergency preparedness is foundational for disaster preparedness research, theory construction, and instrument use.

Materials & Methods: Adhering to Walker and Avant's (2019) concept analysis method, the purpose of this paper is to outline the concept of household emergency preparedness by identifying the uses of the concept, the defining attributes, antecedents, consequences, and empirical referents.

Teaching Intimate Partner Violence Education: A Quasi-Experimental Study Exploring Gaming and Storytelling.

The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to evaluate best strategies for teaching intimate partner violence (IPV) education in an undergraduate community health nursing course. Results suggest gaming was a more effective strategy than storytelling for knowledge acquisition and storytelling was more effective for knowledge retention. IPV-related nursing interventions can impact client outcomes; therefore, education is needed prior to entering the workforce.

To Turn or Not to Turn: Exploring Nurses' Decision-Making Processes Concerning Regular Turning of Nursing Home Residents.

: Nursing home (NH) residents are at high-risk for pressure injuries (PrIs), and those living with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) are at even greater risk. Understanding how nursing staff approach repositioning remains critical. : As part of an ongoing clinical trial, this mixed-method prospective, exploratory, descriptive study examined repositioning efforts for PrI prevention.

Effectiveness of the Weighted Blanket With Psychiatric Patients in the Emergency Department: A Pilot Study.

Background: Restraint and seclusion continue to be used with patients demonstrating aggressive and violent behaviors while in the emergency department and as inpatients in behavioral health (BH) units. The use of sensory interventions such as the weighted blanket (WB) is garnering interest as alternatives to aid in managing anxiety, anger, and aggressive behaviors. Reports of the effectiveness of the WB have primarily been anecdotal, and results of research with children have been mixed.