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.

Ethics: Crisis Standards of Care Simulation.

Ethical dilemmas exist with decision-making regarding resource allocations, such as critical care, ventilators and other critical equipment, and pharmaceuticals during pandemics. Triage artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms based on prognostication tools exist to guide these decisions; however, implicit bias may affect the decision-making process leading to deviation from the algorithm recommendations. Conflict within the ethical domain may be affected as well.

A Critical Discourse Analysis of AACN's Tool Kit of Resources for Cultural Competent Education for Baccalaureate Nurses.

American institutions of nursing education have integrated cultural competence as a pillar approach to addressing health disparities. The theoretical frameworks, priorities, and solutions that national organizations pursue and endorse have far-reaching implications. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) is one such organization.

Desired and received support as experienced by faculty of color in nursing academia: A qualitative study.

Background: Faculty of color are crucial to the development of a diverse nursing workforce but remain underrepresented in nursing academia.

Purpose: The purpose of this current study is to identify elements of support received and desired by nursing faculty of color for retention and promotion in academia.

Methods: A semi-structured interview was used to collect data from 16 faculty of color from nursing schools across the United States.

Exploring alternative forms of scholarship for nurse educators' success.

Background: Teaching-intensive universities require faculty to have increased teaching workloads. Nursing faculty have additional burdens that faculty members in other disciplines and departments do not experience, making it difficult to produce scholarship as it has been traditionally defined in research-intensive universities. Teaching-intensive universities should begin to rethink nursing faculty expectations for meeting their universities' missions of scholarship, especially those required for tenure.

Application of the Toxic Stress Schema: An Exemplar for School Nurses.

For many children of color, the cumulative impact of pre-existing stressors, disparities, and pandemic-related losses has contributed to a toxic level of stress. Toxic stress can disrupt healthy brain development making children vulnerable to physical and mental health problems. School nurses are the primary health professionals who interact with children daily during the academic year, which positions them to identify risk factors within the social determinants of health that contribute to the development of toxic stress.

A Rapid Transition to Virtual Simulation: The Creation of Virtual Simulation Doulas.

Following COVID-19-related closures of clinical and simulation learning sites, a Jesuit college of nursing made a two-week pivot from in-person to virtual clinical learning. In response, the simulation team reinvented their role to provide extensive support in the Jesuit pedagogical tradition. These self-titled "simulation doulas" removed all nonteaching tasks from faculty, remained available for questions and concerns, and became experts on the simulation platforms.

Factors Influencing Smoking Decisions Among Older Korean American Men: A Qualitative Study.

Cigarette smoking is highly prevalent among Korean American men. Although the nationwide anti-smoking efforts and American individualism-oriented cultural system seem to help some Korean American men stop smoking, many of them still smoke. Thus, it is necessary to understand factors influencing decisions to continue smoking or stop smoking among older Korean American men.

Mentoring and Support for Underrepresented Nursing Faculty: An Integrative Research Review.

Background: Nursing faculty members may need several mentors to succeed in scholarly productivity, career development, work-life balance, and socialization in the academy. Underrepresented (UR) faculty report additional challenges to success.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to search the literature for best practices in mentoring UR faculty.

Comparison of hepatitis C treatment outcomes between primary care and specialty care.

Background: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections have increased significantly in the United States recently, having tripled by 2014. Seventy-five percent of those with HCV are aging baby boomers, which places increased pressure on the medical system to provide treatment. There are not enough specialists available to treat everyone infected with HCV.

Perceptions of support by nursing faculty of color.

Background: Racial and ethnic minority faculty members within nursing academia are critical to the recruitment and training of a diverse health care workforce. Effective strategies and opportunities for the success of minorities within nursing faculty must be identified and explored.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify strategies for support being utilized by nursing faculty of color, and support systems that practicing faculty of color believe would aid their success in academia.

Program evaluation of a recuperative care pilot project.

Objective: A program evaluation to demonstrate the feasibility of a recuperative care pilot project to address the needs of unhoused individuals.

Design: The study is a descriptive postprogram evaluation.

Sample: A total of 73 referrals were made to the project with 23 admissions.

Use of Electronic Health Records at Federally Qualified Health Centers: a Potent Tool to Increase Viral Hepatitis Screening and Address the Climbing Incidence of Liver Cancer.

Viral hepatitis B and C are among the leading causes of acute and chronic liver disease in the USA. The nature of chronic liver disease is often asymptomatic. This is problematic because the majority of individuals living with chronic hepatitis B and chronic hepatitis C do not know that they are infected and can communicate the disease to others.

Baseline Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Skill Performance of Nursing Students Is Improved After One Resuscitation Quality Improvement Skill Refresher.

This article reports the results of baseline cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) skills performance measurements from 467 nursing students. All participants had completed a CPR course. Baseline measurements were compared to performance after one 10-minute refresher training session on the Resuscitation Quality Improvement system.

Enabling Success in Nursing School: Description of an Innovative Student-Led Program.

Nursing student attrition rates are high in BSN programs. Peer support programs can address challenges associated with attrition. This article describes a student-led program created to address the needs of first- and second-year nursing students.

Breastfeeding Support Guided by Swanson's Theory of Caring.

Purpose: Many women struggle with initiation of breastfeeding. The purpose of this study was to explore mothers' perceptions of care and support received from clinicians during breastfeeding initiation and the utility of Swanson's (1991) Theory of Caring to provide person-centered care to breastfeeding mothers and infants.

Study Design And Methods: Directed content of secondary analysis of data obtained from 11 women via in-person interviews at three time points: before birth, a week after giving birth, and 6 to 8 weeks after giving birth.

Microaggression in Academia: Consequences and Considerations.

Microaggression as a concept has received significant attention in the popular media as well as in literature. The concept has yet to be addressed, however, in the context of health care education or academia. In this article, current thoughts on racial microaggressions are reviewed with a focus on implications for nursing faculty and academia.

The Birth Satisfaction Scale - Revised (BSS-R): should the subscale scores or the total score be used?

Objective And Background: The 10-item Birth Satisfaction Scale - Revised (BSS-R) is increasingly being used internationally as the instrument of choice for the assessment of birth satisfaction. There remains conjecture over the most appropriate way to score the instrument; subscale scores overall total score, or both approaches. The current study sought to clarify this issue by examining the measurement characteristics of the United States version of the BSS-R from a large data set.

Documentary analysis as an assessment tool.

Background: Documentary analysis of existing information, such as newspaper articles, is an identified method for use in an assessment to provide a descriptive explanation of existing problems or assets. The intention of this case study is to explore the effectiveness of documentary analysis of newspaper articles as a tool to inform an assessment of factors influencing the implementation of a medical respite for the homeless. Two questions framed the assessment; (a) What was occurring or might occur that will affect the development of a medical respite; and (b) What opportunities or threats are generated as a result?

Methods: Articles from two local newspapers identified themes related to the three external forces of change that impact medical respites; (a) funding; (b) community resistance; and (c) the health care system.

Teaching evidence based practice to undergraduate nursing students.

Considering the heightened importance of evidence-based practice in healthcare settings, incorporating evidence-based practice into the nursing curriculum, especially in baccalaureate programs is essential because this is a first step to prepare students for their professional role as an RN, and the undergraduate nursing students are the ones who will spend the most time with patients at their bedside providing direct care. Teaching evidence-based practice at the undergraduate level, however, can be challenging. Creative and enjoyable teaching strategies are instrumental in order to promote students' engagement and learning about evidence-based practice.

Lung cancer disparities and African-Americans.

African-Americans, as historically disadvantaged minorities, have more advanced stages of cancer when diagnosed, lower survival rates, and lower rates of accessing timely care than do Caucasians. Lung cancer incidence and mortality, in particular, are high among African-Americans. The U.