Development and validation of a broadly applicable instrument to measure patients' health promotion and empowerment process in chronic disease.

Objectives: This study aimed to develop and validate a generic, non-disease-specific, self-assessment measure that recognizes patients' health capacities and their empowering process of health promotion in chronic illness by using Bodyknowledging as the theoretical frame.

Methods: Item generation and expert content validity analysis were the first steps in instrument development. Potential items were then validated in focus group interviews with six patients diagnosed with various chronic diseases.

"If we don't speak the language, we aren't offered the same opportunities": Qualitative perspectives of palliative care access for women of color living with advanced breast cancer.

Context: Despite efforts to enhance equity, disparities in early palliative care (PC) access for historically minoritized patients with advanced breast cancer (ABC) persist. Insight into patient and clinician perspectives are needed to inform future models aimed at improving equity in PC access and outcomes.

Objectives: To explore qualitative barriers and facilitators to early PC access in an urban setting with Black and Latina women with ABC.

Disrupted Sensemaking-Understanding Family Experiences of Physical Restraints in ICU: A Phenomenological Approach in the Context of COVID-19.

Background: The emergence of COVID-19 profoundly influenced the dynamics within intensive care units, significantly altering the patient-family experience. As the pandemic unfolded, the longstanding practice of using physical restraints for patient safety persisted, introducing new challenges in healthcare settings. This study explored the ramifications of these enduring safety measures on family members of ICU patients during the pandemic, illuminating their lived experiences and the psychological impact of seeing their loved ones restrained.

Nursing students' and faculty's experiences of first medication administration: A phenomenological inquiry.

Background: Learning medication administration is essential for nursing students, but the first time can be stressful and shape their clinical development. Previous research primarily focused on student knowledge and technical aspects.

Purpose: This phenomenological study helped explore the lived experiences of nursing students and faculty during student's first medication administration in the clinical setting to gain a deeper understanding of their thoughts, feelings, and perspectives.

Nursing Student Perceptions of Incivility in Academia.

Compassion is an essential value held by the nursing profession, but many nurses demonstrate incivility that may originate from their experiences in nursing academia. The Incivility in Nursing Education-Revised tool was used at a community college nursing program to gain student perspectives on incivility. Watson's theory of human caring influenced this study.

Alongside: Exploring the Meaningfulness of Significant Moments in Others' Lives Through Observation and Interview.

How do we explore the meaningfulness of others' experiences? What means do we have to access their experiencing of the world? How do we express our understandings of others' experiences of body and place without reducing them to objectification? In this methodological paper, we reflect on how we can gain valuable insights into the lived experiences of others through research activities that are conducted 'alongside' participants. Phenomenological concepts of intentionality and embodiment are considered as we draw on an empirical example of exploring the experiences of hospitalized patients with neurological diseases through observations and interviews. The aim is to unfold alongside as an epistemological stance to explore the meaning of another's lifeworld.

Benefits of Being Teamed with a Service Dog for Individuals Living with Visible and Invisible Disabilities.

Over 61 million people in the United States are living with disabilities. Less than one percent are teamed with service dogs. A service dog is a type of assistance dog specifically trained to perform a disability-related task(s) to assist the person and support their independence.

Barriers, facilitators, and opportunities for Doctor of Nursing Practice engagement in translational research.

Background: Little is known about how Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) graduates apply translational research competencies in the practice setting.

Purpose: This qualitative descriptive study aimed to explore the barriers, facilitators, and opportunities for engaging in translational research among DNPs in practice.

Methods: We conducted semi-structured interviews with 11 DNPs working within an 8-hospital health system from November 2020 through July 2021.

Racial and ethnic differences in post-traumatic stress trajectories in breast cancer survivors.

Purpose: To describe differences in post-traumatic stress (PTS) symptoms over time among racial and ethnic minoritized breast cancer survivors (BCS) with comorbid diabetes.

Design: In a multisite longitudinal study, post-traumatic stress was evaluated at baseline, 6 and 12 months through self-reported questionnaires (Impact of Events Scale-Revised [IES-R]).

Participants: One hundred and seventy-eight post-treatment BCS with diabetes were recruited from three tertiary medical centers.

Factors Associated with Antimicrobial Use at the End-Of-Life Among Hospitalized Cancer Patients.

Antimicrobials are frequently administered at end-of-life (EOL) and their non-beneficial use may subject patients to unnecessary harms. Studies analyzing factors for antimicrobial prescribing in solid tumor cancer patients at the EOL are lacking. Thus, we aimed to identify factors and patterns associated with antimicrobial use in hospitalized adults with cancer at EOL.

Awareness of Disease Status Among Patients With Cancer: An Integrative Review.

Background: As the quality of cancer care improves, oncology patients face a rapidly increasing number of treatment options. Thus, it is vital that they are full and active partners in the treatment decision-making process. Awareness of disease status has been investigated in the literature; it has been inconsistently conceptualized and operationalized.

Socialization of Master's-Prepared Novice Nurse Faculty: Their Lived Experiences.

Aim: The aim of this study was to explore the lived experience of novice nurse faculty's socialization to academia.

Background: Socialization is a process that enables individuals to acquire the inherent roles, standards, rules, and values inherent of a group. Given the complexity of the faculty role, socialization is essential for novice nurse educators.

A glimmer of hope: My reflections on global health efforts in Haiti.

Many factors impact access to care and global health equity, which can be transformed by nursing. When healthcare infrastructure is suboptimal, nursing's role expands exponentially. In this reflection, I share my experiences accessing healthcare as a child in a low-resource community and highlight nursing activities to improve global health equity.

Palliative and end-of-life care needs, experiences, and preferences of LGBTQ+ individuals with serious illness: A systematic mixed-methods review.

Background: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ+) individuals experience discrimination throughout the care continuum, including during serious illness and at end of life. High-quality palliative care requires that health professionals deliver individualized services that reflect the needs, experiences, and preferences of LGBTQ+ persons.

Aim: To identify and appraise existing evidence related to the needs, experiences, and preferences for palliative and end of life care among LGBTQ+ individuals with serious illness.

Older adults' experiences using Alexa.

The number of adults in the United States age 65 and older is expected to increase to 81 million in 2040 and 95 million in 2060. Voice-activated personal assistants (VAPAs), such as Amazon's Alexa, have the potential to ensure that older adults can successfully age in place using smart home technology to support health, wellness, social engagement, and daily functioning at home. To further explore this potential, twelve home-dwelling older adults aged 65 and older who had used the Amazon Alexa VAPA device for over six months were interviewed to learn about their perceptions and experiences with the use of the device and to gain insights into how this technology has shaped their aging experience.

Health Care Professionals' Experiences of Facilitating Patient Activation and Empowerment in Chronic Illness using a Person-Centered and Strengths-Based Self-Management Program.

Objective: Patients with chronic illness who are empowered and activated are more likely to engage in self-management in order to stabilise their condition and enhance their quality of life. This study aimed to explore Health Care Professional's (HCP) assessment of a person-centered intervention called 'The Bodyknowledging Program' (BKP) for the facilitation of empowerment and patient activation in the context of chronic illness.

Methods: This study employed a qualitative process evaluation after programme completion.

Aesthetics sets patients 'free' to recover during hospitalization with a neurological disease. A qualitative study.

Background: Patients with neurological symptoms are particularly sensitive to the quality of the sensory impressions to which they are exposed to during hospitalization.

Aim: To understand the meaning of aesthetic experiences to patients afflicted with neurological diseases during hospitalization on a neurological unit.

Method: Fifteen patients were invited to "walk and talk" supplemented by semi-structured interviews conducted in newly established aesthetic tableaus within the neurology unit.

Willing But Not Quite Ready: Nurses' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Research in an Academic Healthcare System.

Objective: To describe nurses' research knowledge, attitudes, and practices within an academic hospital system.

Background: Hospitals are investing in research resources to meet Magnet® goals and advance the science of nursing, but nurses' specific needs for support are not well characterized and may vary by setting.

Methods: We conducted an anonymous online survey of RNs at an academic hospital system in 2019-2020 using the validated Nurses' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Research Survey.

The lived experience of workplace reciprocity of emergency nurses in the mid-Atlantic region of the U.S.: A descriptive phenomenological study.

Introduction: Emergency nurses work under sometimes uncertain conditions to provide care to patients with all kinds of illnesses and afflictions from all segments of the population. Despite implications that they must work together to provide efficient and effective patient care, few studies explore reciprocal workplace relationships of emergency nurses.

Aim: This research sought to illuminate the lived experience of workplace reciprocity of emergency nurses.

The role of philosophy in the development and practice of nursing: Past, present and future.

This article summarizes a virtual live-streamed panel event that occurred in August 2020 and was cosponsored by the International Philosophy of Nursing Society (IPONS) and the University of California, Irvine's Center for Nursing Philosophy. The event consisted of a series of three self-contained panel discussions focusing on the past, present and future of IPONS and was moderated by the current Chair of IPONS, Catherine Green. The first panel discussion explored the history of IPONS and the journal Nursing Philosophy.

Enhancing the undergraduate nursing education experience with clinical elective courses.

The nursing faculty, in concert with the University's vision of personalized learning for undergraduate students, sought creative opportunities for nursing students to explore distinctive career specialty paths. The development, implementation, and evaluation of three undergraduate clinical electives developed by a School of Nursing (SON) is described here, in collaboration with three clinical practice partners. These nursing elective courses were designed to meet student requests for additional content in specialty nursing practice areas, enhance new nurse career readiness, and meet practice partner staffing needs for nurses with additional knowledge and skills in specific identified specialties.