Exploring Burnout and Leadership Mitigation Plans in Academic Nursing Environments.

Background: Staff burnout in higher education may affect nursing department functionality. There is limited literature regarding staff burnout and its manifestations in nursing colleges and schools.

Purpose: This study evaluated academic nurse leaders' perceptions of burnout and mitigation strategies in colleges and schools of nursing.

Work-life balance and professional quality of life among nurse faculty during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: The rapid transition to online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic created additional stress and workload issues for nurse faculty. Burnout has been reported in nurse faculty who cite workplace factors that influence satisfaction and work-life balance as major contributing factors.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine life balance and professional quality of life among nurse faculty (N = 216) in 2021 during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic and to describe the challenges of delivering virtual learning experiences.

Addressing Nursing Student Understanding of Health Care Transitions Through a Cross-Course Writing Assignment.

Caring for patients with chronic health conditions and providing them appropriate transitional care that provides positive outcomes and decreased rehospitalizations is essential in today's heath care environment. Nursing students must learn to think critically and communicate effectively in order to provide appropriate transitional care. This pedagogical challenge may be met in part by implementing a cross-course writing assignment that combines the concepts of chronic illness and community health as an effective tool to teach students about transitional care, stimulate critical thinking, and improve writing competencies.

Integrating mental health connections in community academic partnerships.

Background: Community academic partnerships (CAPs) connect students to interprofessional collaborations and expand clinical experiences beyond traditional settings. Serious and persistent mental health problems represent an important action area within population health. Mental health disorders across the lifespan are often co-morbid with substance use, poverty, and community violence.

Nurses' pandemic lives: A mixed-methods study of experiences during COVID-19.

Background: The US healthcare settings and staff have been stretched to capacity by the COVID-19 pandemic. While COVID-19 continues to threaten global healthcare delivery systems and populations, its impact on nursing has been profound.

Objectives: This study aimed to document nurses' immediate reactions, major stressors, effective measures to reduce stress, coping strategies, and motivators as they provided care during COVID-19.

A think tank in action: Building new knowledge about professional identity in nursing.

A notable body of research regarding professional identity development and formation in nursing currently exists. Unfortunately, no one definition has guided a plan to build new knowledge within the profession. The think tank methodology used with professional identity in nursing has successfully brought together international leaders in education, regulation, and practice to begin to think, plan, study, and disseminate the findings of the professional identity in nursing initiative.

Life balance and professional quality of life among baccalaureate nurse faculty.

Background: The nurse faculty shortage is a well-documented problem. The future workforce is dependent upon qualified faculty who desire to teach students.

Purpose: The purpose was to explore the relationship between nurse faculty life balance and quality of life.

Embracing evidence-based nursing and informational literacy through an innovative undergraduate collaborative project.

Background Nurse educators are challenged to design courses that maintain rigor, promote student learning, maximize resource utilization, and ultimately prepare graduates for clinical practice. Purpose An innovative teaching strategy was used to educate BSN level students in nursing inquiry with a collaborative project. Methods Course faculty incorporated information literacy (IL) and evidence-based practice (EBP) competencies into an undergraduate research course by taking the traditional practicum research project and redesigning it as a longitudinal scoping review (ScR) collaborative project.

Cultural Competence of Baccalaureate Nurse Faculty: Relationship to Cultural Experiences.

Background: Introducing and fostering cultural competence development in nursing students only may occur with well-qualified, committed nurse faculty who are self-aware of their own cultural values and beliefs, unfortunately, there is limited research on the factors that influence the development of nurse faculty cultural competence.

Purpose And Methods: This descriptive, correlational study examined cultural experiences of 118 full-time nurse faculty in the United States (U.S.

Patient perspectives about bariatric surgery unveil experiences, education, satisfaction, and recommendations for improvement.

Background: Following bariatric surgery, up to 35% of patients struggle with strict regimens and experience weight recidivism within 2 years [1-5]. Accredited weight management centers (WMC) must provide educational programs and support patients in lifestyle changes before and after surgery. Educational programs, however, may not be evidence-based or patient-centered and may vary in curriculum, approach, and educator type [6].

Self-Efficacy and Nutrition Education: A Study of the Effect of an Intervention with Faith Community Nurses.

The faith community provides an important access point for practice focused on population health at a time when health issues such as obesity and overweight are affecting large number of Americans. The purpose of this study was to examine faith community nurses' self-efficacy perceptions following a nutrition educational intervention. A convenience sample of 92 faith community nurses were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups.