Social media's influence on adolescents' food choices: A mixed studies systematic literature review.

Over 90% of adolescents have at least one social media account, and their presence on social media continues to grow. Food and beverage brands capitalize on this trend by marketing their products on social media to adolescents. Depending on the nutrition value of the products being marketed, social media advertisements' influence may contribute to the risk of developing unfavorable health outcomes such as obesity, hypertension, and type 2 diabetes.

Informal caregivers of people with heart failure and resilience: A convergent mixed methods study.

Aim: To develop a comprehensive understanding of resilience and its associated factors among informal caregivers of people with heart failure.

Design: Transnational multicentre convergent mixed methods approach.

Methods: This study was conducted in three European countries: Italy, Spain and the Netherlands; during February 2017 and December 2018.

A Quantitative Research Study Protocol to Advance Simulation Science in Nursing Education.

Aim: This article describes a quantitative simulation study protocol and identifies important methodological considerations for future high-level, rigorous quantitative simulation studies.

Background: Quantitative simulation research studies have been found to be lacking in their conceptualization, study design, and measurement of outcomes, with small samples and lack of rigor in overall study methods.

Method: This protocol reflects research priorities of organizations that drive simulation science and nursing education, published standards of simulation best practice, and use of research methodology within and outside the simulation literature, which includes psychometrically sound instruments and outcomes of importance to cognitive and simulation science.

Healthcare inequities among adults with developmental disability: An integrative review with implications for nursing education.

Aim: This integrative review synthesized research on the healthcare inequities experienced by adults with developmental disability in the United States and discussed implications for nursing education.

Background: Individuals with developmental disability are living longer with chronic comorbidities and experience healthcare inequities.

Method: Application of inclusion criteria to database and ancestry searches resulted in 26 articles that were assessed for quality and analyzed thematically.

Traumatic stress, body shame, and internalized weight stigma as mediators of change in disordered eating: a single-arm pilot study of the Body Trust® framework.

To enhance access to evidence-based treatment it is increasingly important to evaluate scalable virtual programs that support the needs of those struggling with disordered eating. This study described a scientifically grounded, trauma-informed framework known as Body Trust,® and aimed to pilot test the preliminary effectiveness and mechanisms of change in a Body Trust® program to improve disordered eating. Using quality outcomes data, we examined 70 mostly white (87%) female-identifying (97%) individuals enrolled in a 6-module online program based in the Body Trust® framework (M = 45.

Standardized Patient Simulation in an Oncology Symptom Management Seminar-Style Course: Prelicensure Nursing Student Outcomes.

A critical role of the professional nurse is to manage symptoms associated with cancer and its treatments. Currently, prelicensure nursing curricula lack adequate oncology content and associated opportunities for clinical application. Thus, many graduate nurses do not possess the requisite knowledge and skills required to effectively manage cancer-related symptoms upon entry to practice.

Learning environment and evidence among professionals and students satisfaction (LEAPS), experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic required schools to transition courses to an online platform. This shift to Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) created gaps in the literature about its impact on students. The purpose of this study was to test the relationship between learner and instructional attributes and learner satisfaction with ERT.

Undergraduate Nursing Students and Management of Interruptions: Preparation of Students for Future Workplace Realities.

Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate interruption management strategies and associative cues used by nursing students when interrupted during simulated medication administration.

Background: Interruptions occur with high frequency in health care settings and are associated with increased medication errors and decreased task efficiency. The Altmann and Trafton memory for goals model, a cognitive-science model, proposes use of associative cues during an interruption to mitigate these negative effects.

A Systematic Review of Neighborhood-Level Influences on HIV Vulnerability.

A better understanding of the social-structural factors that influence HIV vulnerability is crucial to achieve the goal of ending the HIV epidemic by 2030. Given the role of neighborhoods in HIV outcomes, synthesis of findings from such research is key to inform efforts toward HIV eradication. We conducted a systematic review to examine the relationship between neighborhood-level factors (e.

Systematic Review of Disparities in Kidney Transplantation Prior to Implementation of the Kidney Allocation System and Directions for Research.

Major changes were made to the U.S. kidney allocation system (KAS) on December 4, 2014, in the effort to address disparities in kidney transplantation (KT) and achieve equity in organ allocation.

Value of Nurse Practitioner Inpatient Hospital Staffing.

Background: Evidence indicates hospitals with better registered nurse (RN) staffing have better patient outcomes. Whether involving more nurse practitioners (NPs) in inpatient care produces better outcomes is largely unknown.

Objective: The objective of this study was to determine whether the presence of more NPs produces better inpatient outcomes net of RN staffing.

Patient-Centered Goal-Setting in the National Diabetes Prevention Program: A Pilot Study.

Objective: Difficulty achieving preset goals (e.g., ≥5% weight loss, ≥150 min of weekly physical activity) in the yearlong National Diabetes Prevention Program (NDPP) can prompt dropout and diminish benefits.

Factors That Influence Climate Change-Related Mortality in the United States: An Integrative Review.

Global atmospheric warming leads to climate change that results in a cascade of events affecting human mortality directly and indirectly. The factors that influence climate change-related mortality within the peer-reviewed literature were examined using Whittemore and Knafl's framework for an integrative review. Ninety-eight articles were included in the review from three databases-PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus-with literature filtered by date, country, and keywords.

The role of nurses in surveillance to enhance global health security: A delphi study.

Background: Internationally, nurses are gaining recognition for their contributions to public health and global health initiatives, however, their contributions to surveillance and the detection of new and emerging infectious disease, which is an important element of global health security, remain largely unknown.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions of nurse experts related to the current and optimal roles of nurses in surveillance of new and emerging infectious diseases. Additionally, this study aimed to identify the skills needed by nurses in all practice settings for optimal performance of surveillance and to identify barriers to achieving optimal performance of surveillance.

Nurses´ and nurse managers´ perceptions of sustainable development in perioperative work: A qualitative study.

Aims And Objectives: To describe how nurses and nurse managers consider sustainable development principles in their daily work, how well they recognise these principles and how these principles are considered in decision-making in perioperative work.

Background: Sustainable development involves interpersonal social and cultural relations and long-term economic and ecological thinking in societal decision-making. These dimensions are well-suited for a foundation of decision-making in acute health care.

Treatment Outcomes and Trajectories of Change in Patients Attributing Their Eating Disorder Onset to Anti-obesity Messaging.

Objective: Given the increased prevalence of eating disorders (EDs) among individuals higher on the weight spectrum, we aimed to 1) report the prevalence of ED patients in higher levels of care (residential, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient) attributing the onset of their ED to anti-obesity messaging, 2) report the most commonly recollected sources of those messages, and 3) determine if those attributing the onset of their ED to anti-obesity messaging a) enter, b) exit, and c) respond to treatment differently from peers who did not.

Methods: This retrospective cohort study used data from 2901 patients receiving ED treatment in higher levels of care at a US-based center between 2015 and 2018. Multilevel models examined differences in ED symptoms and trajectories of change over time.

Access to post-acute care services reduces emergency department utilisation among individuals insured by Medicaid: An observational study.

Aims And Objectives: We examined whether access to post-acute care services differed between individuals insured by Medicaid and commercial insurers and whether those differences explained emergency department utilisation 30 days post-hospitalisation.

Background: Timely follow-up to community-based providers is a strategy to improve post-hospitalisation outcomes. However, little is known regarding the influence of post-acute care services on the likelihood of emergency department use post-hospitalisation for individuals insured by Medicaid.

St. Luke's International University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill collaboration project to develop the first DNP program in Japan.

We report an international collaborative project to develop the first Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program in Japan. We described the development and implementation of the first DNP program at the St. Luke's International University in Tokyo and the collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States.

Healthcare worker resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: An integrative review.

Aim: The purpose of this review was to examine resilience among healthcare workers during the coronavirus-disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented strain on healthcare workers internationally. Rising infection rates, inadequate personal protective equipment, and the lack of availability of hospital beds has resulted in further deterioration of the already-fragile mental health of healthcare workers.

Internal Reliability Estimates of the Lasater Clinical Judgment Rubric Among New-to-Practice Nurses in a Simulated Setting.

Clinical judgment among new-to-practice nurses is critical for safe patient care. The Lasater Clinical Judgment Rubric (LCJR) is a known instrument in undergraduate nursing education research. This study evaluated the internal consistency reliability and changes in the LCJR in a sample of 17 new-to-practice nurses in a simulated setting across four measurements.

Nursing Faculty Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic Response.

Aim: The specific aim of the study was to describe nursing faculty experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: Academic nursing experiences were disrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There is concern that the resulting stress threatens nursing faculty emotional well-being.

Explaining the Variability in School Nurse Workload and Educational Outcomes.

This secondary analysis examined the variability in the effects of school nurse workload on individual student outcomes of 9th grade attendance, being on track to graduate, and high school graduation. A principal axis factor analysis of the variables underlying school nurse workload and a structural equation model of the latent construct school nurse workload in 5th grade and the three outcome variables was tested using data from student records ( = 3,782). Two factors explained 82% of the variability in school nurse workload: acuity and volume factor and social determinants of health factor.

Nurse Faculty Experiences Teaching Chronic Illness Self-Management Concepts: An Exploratory Study.

Aim: The aim of the study was to explore how nurse faculty prepare students to teach chronic disease self-management.

Background: Self-management addresses patient activities in response to a change in baseline health. Evidence suggests nurses may not be educated on how to engage patients in chronic disease self-management.

Efficacy of a Simulation Program to Improve Clinical Judgment and Clinical Competence Among Graduate Nurses.

Aim: This two-group feasibility study tested the efficacy of a four-scenario simulation program to improve clinical judgment and clinical competence among graduate nurses.

Background: Clinical judgment and clinical competence are underdeveloped among new-to-practice nurses.

Method: Clinical judgment was compared between the intervention group (n = 17) and a control group (n = 26) in the practice setting at two time points.

Cancer survivorship and quality of life outcomes of adolescents and young adults with lymphoma: An integrative review.

Purpose: Lymphoma is a common hematologic malignancy of adolescents and young adults. Cancer survivorship and quality of life are two outcomes studied to measure the types and scope of problems cancer patients experience leading to diagnosis, treatment, and long-term survivorship. This integrative literature review aims to review published literature in the adolescent and young adult lymphoma population, emphasizing cancer survivorship and quality of life outcomes.