Designing Evidence-based Simulation Scenarios for Clinical Practice.

Simulation-based education is a widely used teaching technique in healthcare education. Simulation can provide a rich learning environment for caregivers at all levels. Creating simulation-based scenarios is a systematic, evidence-based, learner-centered process that requires skill and expertise.

The associations among nurse work engagement, job satisfaction, quality of care, and intent to leave: A national survey in the United States.

Objectives: Employee work engagement, job satisfaction, quality of care, and intent to leave are critical indicators for healthcare organizational performance. This study aimed to analyze the current state of nurses' work engagement and its factors to examine the associations among nurses' work engagement, job satisfaction, quality of care, and intent to leave in the United States (US).

Methods: This is a quantitative descriptive cross-section design.

The influence of heart failure high-fidelity simulation education based on NLN Jeffries simulation framework in the prelicensure nursing program: A quasi-experimental study.

Objectives: To examine the influence of heart failure high-fidelity simulation education based on the National League for Nursing (NLN) Jeffries Simulation Framework in prelicensure nursing education.

Methods: A heart failure high-fidelity simulation (HFHFS) education pilot project was carried out at Carrington College Sacramento. Twenty-three students participated in the study.

Gag order laws threaten nursing education and health equity.

Since 2021, some state legislators have passed laws that limit what public institutions can teach about discrimination. The number of these laws, also called gag orders, is increasing despite a national outcry against racism, homophobia and transphobia, and other forms of discrimination. Many nursing and other professional healthcare organizations have recognized and published statements decrying racism in healthcare and calling for an increased focus on health disparities and advancing health equity.

Organizational culture and roles in promoting nurse specialty certifications: A qualitative study in the United States.

Objectives: Nursing specialty certification validates nurses' mastery of specialty knowledge in disease management, education, or leadership above entry-level education and licensing. Research suggests direct relationships between nursing certifications and patient care quality. However, nurses' specialty certification rates are still low.

Nurses' second victim experience, job insecurity, and turnover intention: A latent profile analysis.

Nurses are greatly affected by patient safety incidents, but little is known about the classifications of nurses' second victim experiences and their effects on job insecurity and turnover intention. This study aimed to identify the profiles of nurses' second victim experiences, including perceived support and distress, and explore the effects of the different experiences on nurses' job insecurity and turnover intention. A convenience sample of 2000 nurses, who were directly involved in patient safety incidents within a year at 25 hospitals in 13 provinces in China, was invited to participate.

The State of the Science of Nurses' Implicit Bias: A Call to Go Beyond the Face of the Other and Revisit the Ethics of Belonging and Power.

This article summarizes the current state of nurses' implicit bias and discusses the phenomenon from Levinas' face of the Other and ethics of belonging, Watson's human caring and unitary caring science, and Chinn's peace and power theory. Nurses' implicit bias is a global issue; the primary sources of nurses' implicit bias include race/ethnicity, sexuality, health conditions, age, mental health status, and substance use disorders. The current research stays at the descriptive level and addresses implicit bias at the individual level.

Patient Experience Coordinator: An Innovative Role to Improve Patients' Hospital Experience.

Objective: The aim of this study was to test the impact of an innovative nonclinical support role to improve patient experiences while supporting nurse work on inpatient units.

Background: On the basis of the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Health Care Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey, patients' experience declined nationally during the COVID-19 pandemic. A nonclinical support role, titled an Experience Coordinator, was created as a test of change to collaborate with care teams and respond to patients' and families' nonclinical needs.

Construction of a nurses' interpersonal communication knowledge system: A Delphi study.

Background: Effective communication is essential for nursing students to provide safe patient care. Many communication consensuses focus on physician-associated communication rather than nurses' interpersonal communication. However, studies on developing a systematic and comprehensive communication knowledge system for nursing students are scarce.

Impact of Infection Control Education on Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Procedural Staff.

To date, minimal research has been conducted on proper use of personal protective equipment and hand hygiene within endoscopy. The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy has developed guidelines for infection control within the endoscopy suite. A practice change based upon these guidelines was implemented.

Milk Consumption and Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review.

Prostate cancer is the third most common cancer in men globally, and the most common cancer among men in the United States. Dietary choices may play an important role in developing prostate cancer; in particular, a higher dairy product intake has been associated with an increased risk of developing prostate cancer. The overall positive association between milk consumption and the risk of prostate cancer development and prostate cancer mortality has been well documented in multiple epidemiological studies.

Development of guidelines for improving oral health in individuals with Parkinson's disease.

Objective: The purpose of this project was to develop evidence-based clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for the management of oral health (OH) for patients with Parkinson's disease (PD).

Background: Individuals with PD have significantly poorer OH than the general population. Poor OH is a risk factor for systemic diseases, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and respiratory infections.

Perceptions of an Obstetric Clinical Rotation by Nursing Students Who Are Men.

Background: Maternity nursing is perceived as an unwelcoming specialty to many nursing students who are men. The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe the experiences of nursing students who are men at a Southeastern university before, during, and after their obstetric clinical rotations.

Methods: Students were interviewed individually.

Student and Preceptor Advancement in a Dedicated Education Site: Innovation in Clinical Education for Advanced Practice Nurses.

In the 1990s, dedicated education units transformed undergraduate preceptorships, but graduate preceptorships remain static. The dyadic nurse practitioner preceptorship model supports an environment where faculty, students, and preceptors may overlook nuances that affect the teaching-learning process. This article describes an innovative clinical education model, Student and Preceptor Advancement in a Dedicated Education Site, designed to improve preceptorships for advanced practice nurses.

Comparative descriptors of applicants and graduates of online and face-to-face master of science in nursing programs.

Aim: Proper advisement of students about their programs of study requires knowledge of the applicants and confidence that the recommended curricula will lead to success via graduation and certification.

Background: Two important strategies to deliver master of science in nursing (MSN) curricula include online and face-to-face (F2F) formats.

Method: A nonexperimental, descriptive study of archival data was used to examine and compare the characteristics of F2F and online MSN applicants, admitted students, and graduates as well as family nurse practitioner (FNP) certification pass rates at one eastern Tennessee college of nursing.

Women's preventive screening in rural health clinics.

Context: Despite the strong interest in health care quality, little is known about the quality of preventive care among women in rural primary care settings.

Purpose: We sought to assess the quality of screening practices in Rural Health Clinics (RHCs) as measured by the rates at which female patients received screening within national guidelines.

Methods: A cross-sectional, retrospective chart review of 480 charts of female patients in 12 randomly selected RHCs was conducted.

Correlation of ankle-brachial index values with carotid disease, coronary disease, and cardiovascular risk factors in women.

Background: Recent studies indicate that the use of ankle-brachial index (ABI) measurements helps identify patients with peripheral arterial disease. Previous research also reveals a relationship between peripheral arterial disease and higher incidence of cardiac mortality and morbidity.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the correlation of a low ABI (<0.

Health-related quality of life issues in women with polycystic ovary syndrome.

Objective: To evaluate the influence of obesity, fertility status, and androgenism scores on health-related quality of life in women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).

Design: Cross-sectional, correlational.

Setting: Private reproductive endocrinology practice in two southeast U.

The transtheoretical model of behavior change and smokers in southern Appalachia.

Background: The southern Appalachian states show a high prevalence of smoking, with associated high rates of both heart disease and cancer, yet cultural differences raise questions concerning the applicability of the most frequently used model for smoking cessation, the transtheoretical model, for smokers from this region of the country.

Objective: To identify, by examining the applicability of the transtheoretical model for southern Appalachian smokers, the percentage of individuals in each of the five stages of change, the use of the processes of change from the trans-theoretical model, and the scores on recognized predictors of smoking cessation including the temptation to smoke, the perceived barriers to cessation, the pros and cons of smoking, and nicotine dependence.

Methods: This population-based, descriptive, cross-sectional study used a random sample of 3,800 telephone numbers, which were called up to eight times.

Nurse-managed primary care: outcomes of a faculty practice network.

Purpose: To describe selected outcomes of nurse-managed primary care in a large faculty practice network (FPN) and to use guidelines proposed by the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) to evaluate those outcomes.

Data Sources: Mission and goals, nursing control, fiscal stability, health care outcomes, and faculty role integration were examined.

Conclusions: Outcomes show that the FPN directly supports the mission and goals of the East Tennessee State University College of Nursing and is managed by nurse faculty members.

Transition to community-based nursing curriculum: processes and outcomes.

As the health care delivery system evolves, nurse educators must prepare graduates who can meet the comprehensive health needs of communities in a variety of settings. This article describes one college's process of curricular change from a traditional to community-based format. The concepts that guided curriculum development and implementation are presented, along with the outcomes that have resulted from this change.

Homeless patients' experience of satisfaction with care.

This article explores homeless individuals' experiences of satisfaction with health care, and explores the interrelationship among experiences of being homeless, health perceptions of participants, and experiences of satisfaction with health care. It presents the findings of a phenomenological study that was conducted using participants selected from five sites in one southeastern state. Participant interviews were conducted at a nurse-managed primary health care clinic for homeless, at a night time soup-kitchen, and at three private, not-for-profit, homeless shelters in two different towns.