Nurturing compassion and cultural humility in health professions students through a brief mindfulness practice.

Objective: Given the importance of compassion and cultural humility in healthcare providers, the study aspired to investigate the effects of a brief mindfulness practice on compassion and cultural humility in health professions students.

Methods: A quantitative, one-group pre-test/post-test study was conducted with 58 participants from undergraduate health profession education programs in the United States. Participants completed questionnaires measuring mindfulness, compassion, and cultural humility before and after engaging in an eight-minute loving-kindness meditation exercise three to four times per week for two weeks.

Sleep quality and the intention to modify sleep behaviors among night-shift nurses.

Purpose: To explore the relationship between sleep quality and intent to change sleep behaviors among night-shift nurses.

Methods: Full-time night-shift nurses in a hospital setting completed a cross-sectional online survey including demographics, Snoring, Tiredness during daytime, Observed apnea, and High Blood Pressure (STOP) Questionnaire, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), and the Intention to Change Behavior Scale (ICBS). The relationship between PSQI and ICBS scores was tested using Spearman's rho correlation coefficient.

The Impact of Weighted Blanket Use on Adults with Sensory Sensitivity and Insomnia.

Purpose: This study's purpose was to determine the impact of weighted blanket use on moderate to severe insomnia in adults with sensory sensitivity greater than the average population.

Methods: For this study, a four-week, single-case, multiple-participant ABA study design was used. Through convenience sampling, four participants scoring 15 or greater on the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI), which categorizes them as having moderate to severe insomnia, and much more than most people in sensory sensitivity on the Adolescent/Adult Sensory Profile were recruited.

The Relationships Between Cultural Humility, Therapeutic Communication, and Intercultural Communication in Health Professionals.

Effective healthcare communication involves therapeutic communication and intercultural communication, which may be achieved through the practice of cultural humility. A correlational study with 103 health professionals from a hospital network located in the Midwestern United States was completed. The participants completed Foronda's Cultural Humility Scale, the Global Interprofessional Therapeutic Communication Scale Short Form, and the Intercultural Effectiveness Scale.

Academic Health Centers and the Quintuple Aim of Health Care.

The Quintuple Aim of health care adds health equity to the existing Quadruple Aim of improving the individual experience of care for patients, improving the health of populations, reducing the per capita cost of care, and improving the experience of health care professionals. Health equity has previously been subsumed within the other 4 aims. Elevating health equity to the status of a distinct aim is necessary to address persistent health inequities that disproportionately affect underrepresented and minoritized groups.

Novice Accuracy in Ultrasound and Stethoscope Study (NAUSS).

Introduction: The purpose of this noninferiority study was the accurate determination of valvular heart disease, using bedside echocardiogram as compared to stethoscope, by a novice clinician examiner.

Methods: We conducted a single university, single program study to investigate the use of bedside ultrasound in the hands of a novice clinical user, defined as someone with fewer than 2 years of clinical education. We enrolled 8 examinees with evidence of valvular heart disease to be assessed by 13 subjects.

The Slow Creep Back: Threats and Opportunities for IPE Posed by COVID-19.

Interprofessional education (IPE) prepares current and future health care professionals for interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP). IPCP results in increased quality of care demanded by patients and reimbursed in value-based care models when appropriately operationalized. The COVID-19 pandemic forced rapid and unprecedented changes in higher education and healthcare, although the impact on IPE delivery in the U.

Long-Term Impact of Interprofessional Medical Mission Service Trips in Sierra Leone.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of capacity-building short-term mission service trips to Sierra Leone on local health education and perspectives. This was a prospective, mixed-methods study. During three mission trips between June 2017 and December 2019, health professional students taught multiple locally selected patient care-related topics.

Occupational therapy utilisation of apps in practice in the United States.

Aims: The purpose of this cross-sectional research study was to explore the use of apps by occupational therapy practitioners in the United States to gain a more complete overview of utilisation and perceived effectiveness, and assess trends by population served, practice setting, occupation addressed, and client deficit.

Methods: For this cross-sectional study, 160 self-identified occupational therapy practitioners, 126 occupational therapists and 34 occupational therapy assistants, recruited through snowball sampling on social media participated in this 26-question survey available for two weeks online. Data analysis was conducted through SurveyMonkey and SPSS version 26.

Care recommendations for parturient and postpartum women and newborns during the COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review.

Objective to map the current knowledge on recommendations for labor, childbirth, and newborn (NB) care in the context of the novel coronavirus. Method scoping review of papers identified in databases, repositories, and reference lists of papers included in the study. Two researchers independently read the papers' full texts, extracted and analyzed data, and synthesized content.

COVID-19 and the production of knowledge regarding recommendations during pregnancy: a scoping review.

Objective: to map the production of knowledge regarding recommendations for providing care to pregnant women dealing with the novel coronavirus.

Method: scoping review, using a broadened strategy to search databases and repositories, as well as the reference lists in the sources used. Data were collected and analyzed by two independent reviewers.

Physician Support for Non-Physician Advanced Practice Providers for Persons With Cardiopulmonary Disease.

Background: The use of non-physician advanced practice providers (NPAPP) has increased in the United States to offset shortages in the physician workforce. Yet there are still gaps in some locations where there is little to no access to quality health care. This study sought to identify whether physicians perceived a workforce gap and their level of interest in hiring an NPAPP with cardiopulmonary expertise to fill the perceived gap.

Heterotopic pregnancy: Simultaneous viable and nonviable pregnancies.

Heterotopic pregnancy occurs when a patient has simultaneous intrauterine and ectopic pregnancies. Rates of heterotopic pregnancy have been rising with increased availability and access to in vitro fertilization and other advanced fertility technologies. Symptoms of heterotopic pregnancy are nonspecific, such as vague abdominal pain, so transvaginal ultrasound is a crucial part of the diagnostic process.

Evaluating Cultural Competence in an Occupational Therapy Pediatric Course.

This study examined the impact on student cultural competence of using specific guided activities in a pediatric occupational therapy course. A combined two-group pre-posttest design was used with a convenience sample of 41 entry-level occupational therapy doctoral students. Using a measure of cultural competence change, results indicated significant increase in scores from pre to post course testing suggesting cultural competence structured activities in course work were associated with an increase in student cultural competence.

Daily and Weekly Rehabilitation Delivery for Young Children With Gross Motor Delay: A Randomized Clinical Trial Protocol (the DRIVE Study).

Purpose: The proposed project tests the principle that frequency of rehabilitation is an important regulator of therapeutic response in infants.

Methods: We will randomize 75 infants with cerebral palsy, 6 to 24 months of age and/or Gross Motor Function Classification System levels III to V (higher severity), to determine the short-term and long-term effects of 3 dosing protocols consisting of an identical number of 2-hour sessions of the same motor learning-based therapy applied over a different total number of calendar weeks.

Results And Conclusions: The results will inform clinicians, families, and scientists about dosing and will provide needed recommendations for frequency of rehabilitation to optimize motor function and development of young children with cerebral palsy.

Quality and Importance of Health Policy, Reform, and Public Health Topics: A Study in Physician Assistant Education.

Purpose: As key players in a changing US health care system, physician assistants (PAs) must be prepared to act with a clear understanding of health policy as reform changes are enacted. The purpose of this study was to assess the perceptions of graduating PA students about the importance of health policy, reform, and public health and their perception of their preparedness in these areas. The research question was: Do PA students identify these topic areas as important, and, for each topic area, do they feel adequately prepared with sufficient knowledge for clinical practice?

Methods: Participants in the study included 352 PA students from 14 PA programs randomly selected from 4 geographic regions of the continental United States.

Career Cartography: From Stories to Science and Scholarship.

Purpose: To present four case scenarios reflecting the process of research career development using career cartography.

Organizing Constructs: Career cartography is a novel approach that enables nurses, from all clinical and academic settings, to actively engage in a process that maximizes their clinical, teaching, research, and policy contributions that can improve patient outcomes and the health of the public.

Methods: Four early-career nurse researchers applied the career cartography framework to describe their iterative process of research career development.

Employment Maintenance and Intimate Partner Violence.

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a major public health problem in the United States. Negative outcomes of IPV affect women's attainment and maintenance of employment. The purpose of this study was to develop a theoretical framework that described and explained the process by which women who have experienced IPV attain and maintain employment.

Nurses' Perceptions of Implementing Fall Prevention Interventions to Mitigate Patient-Specific Fall Risk Factors.

Evidence-based (EB) fall prevention interventions to mitigate patient-specific fall risk factors are readily available but not routinely used in practice. Few studies have examined nurses' perceptions about both the use of these EB interventions and implementation strategies designed to promote their adoption. This article reports qualitative findings of nurses' perceptions about use of EB fall prevention interventions to mitigate patient-specific fall risks, and implementation strategies to promote use of these interventions.

Planning for partnerships: Maximizing surge capacity resources through service learning.

Infectious disease outbreaks and natural or human-caused disasters can strain the community's surge capacity through sudden demand on healthcare activities. Collaborative partnerships between communities and schools of nursing have the potential to maximize resource availability to meet community needs following a disaster. This article explores how communities can work with schools of nursing to enhance surge capacity through systems thinking, integrated planning, and cooperative efforts.

Establishing a framework for a physician assistant/bioethics dual degree program.

: Numerous medical schools currently offer a master of arts (MA) in bioethics dual degree for physicians. A degree in bioethics enhances the care physicians provide to patients and prepares physicians to serve on ethics committees and consult services. Additionally, they may work on institutional and public policy issues related to ethics.