Creating a Public Service Announcement as a Teaching Strategy to Advocate for Populations at Risk due to Climate Change.

The 2022 National League for Nursing Vision Statement, Climate Change and Health, identified gaps in nursing education regarding the issue of climate change and its impact on at-risk populations. Our innovative teaching strategy requires nursing students to use clinical judgment to synthesize ideas and communicate the health risks of climate change for population at risk in a brief video or public service announcement. This teaching strategy can prepare nursing students to advocate for population health.

Newly graduated and nurse resident competencies: Perceptions of nurse faculty and acute care hospital leaders in the state of Maryland.

Background: The many educational pathways to obtain a professional nursing degree create confusion among healthcare leaders about new graduate nurses' (NGNs) competency expectations when entering practice.

Purpose: This research sought to identify, among Maryland nursing academic and practice leaders, a standard set of NGN competencies after completing their prelicensure program and nurse residency program (NRP) at 12 months.

Method: A mixed-method approach was used, including a survey of 109 outcome statements and faculty and practice leader focus groups.

Metered-Dose Inhaler Versus Nebulizer Treatment for Acute Asthma Exacerbation: A Process Evaluation.

The prevalence of childhood asthma in the United States is 6.5%. During the COVID-19 pandemic, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) implemented metered-dose inhalers (MDIs) with spacers instead of nebulized albuterol to reduce aerosolization of pathogens and reduce costs.

Leadership Behaviors That Impact Nurse Faculty Job Satisfaction: A Qualitative Descriptive Study.

Aim: The aim of the study was to identify specific actionable behaviors academic nurse leaders can implement to improve nurse faculty job satisfaction.

Background: The nurse faculty shortage is a persistent and worsening problem, with job dissatisfaction a significant contributor in the United States. However, little is known about actionable behaviors academic nurse leaders can do to improve nurse faculty job satisfaction.

Path Analysis: Interrelationships Between Nurse Manager Competencies, Practice Environment Perceptions, and Frontline Nurses' Intent to Stay.

Objective: To examine the correlation between nurse manager (NM) competencies, work environment (Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index [PES-NWI]), and frontline nurses' intent to stay; the direct effect of NM competency on frontline nurses' intent to stay; and the indirect effect of NM competency on frontline nurses' intent to stay, mediated by PES-NWI.

Background: PES-NWI and NMs' competency can impact frontline nurses' intent to stay.

Methods: Cross-sectional study with secondary analysis of NM Competency and NDNQI ® (National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators ® ) RN Survey data with path analysis for effects of the model's variables.

Validity and Reliability of a Newly Developed Instrument to Measure Nursing Workarounds During Medication Administration.

According to patient safety literature, workarounds are used when processes are not clear and may not match the intended workflows. There is no available quantitative instrument to measure the type and frequency of workarounds when nurses administer medications. The purpose of this study was to assess the psychometric properties of a newly developed instrument that measured the type and frequency of workarounds when nurses administer medications to patients.

Impact of Antecedent and Organizational Differences on Nurse-Social Worker Collaboration in a Retirement and Assisted Living Community with Skilled Nursing Care.

Nurse-social worker collaborative interactions in long-term care settings have received limited attention. This qualitative thematic study of 23 participants (11 social workers and 12 nurses) at an urban retirement and assisted living community explores experiences of collaborative work. Two themes of contrasts in responding to resident complexity and contrasts in peer-to-peer work highlight four subthemes reflecting: (a) social workers' orientation toward resident self-determination, requisite care, and advocacy; (b) nurses' orientation toward resident safety, tasks, and clinical outcomes; (c) social workers' devalued professional identity; and (d) nurses' attribution of collaborative challenges to individuals.

Factors affecting advance care planning in older adults with cancer.

Introduction: Advance care planning (ACP) has been widely endorsed and recommended for its many potential benefits, including improved end-of-life (EOL) care, enhanced satisfaction with care, and reduced anxiety and depression. However, little is known about the ACP completion rates and factors affecting ACP among older adults with cancer. This study's purpose was to examine biological, psychological, and social factors affecting ACP in this population.

The Role of the Human Microbiome in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer.

Ovarian cancer is the fifth-leading cause of cancer deaths among women due to the absence of available screening methods to identify early disease. Thus, prevention and early disease detection investigations are of high priority, surrounding a critical window of opportunity to better understand important pathogenic mechanisms of disease progression. Microorganisms modulate molecular interactions in humans that can influence states of health and disease, including ovarian cancer.

Specific Medication Literacy in Older Adults with Asthma.

Purpose: To explore specific medication literacy (SML) of older adults and associations of SML strength.

Methods: This was an observational study. Participants were at least 60 years old, with an asthma diagnosis and in good health.

Improving attitudes toward trauma-informed care in the neonatal intensive care unit through comprehensive multi-disciplinary education.

Objective: This study measured staff understanding and integration of trauma-informed care following comprehensive education.

Study Design: This mixed method design used the validated Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care (ARTIC) scale and open-ended survey questions via REDCap optional surveys. Trauma-informed care education was made available to staff members in a level IV NICU.

A framework for transforming the professional identity and brand image of All Nurses as Leaders.

Background: The professional identity and brand image of nurses as leaders have not kept pace with the roles and scope of contemporary nursing practice.

Purpose: To provide a framework to transform the professional identity and brand image of nursing from a caring discipline to one of leaders.

Methods: A Consensus Development Workgroup (CDW) design was used between the International Society for Professional Identity in Nursing (ISPIN) and the Institute for Brand Image of Nursing (IBIN) to advance the concept of All Nurses as Leaders across all settings and the public domain.

Outpatient Oncology Fall Risk: A Quality Improvement Project.

Introduction: Patients receiving cancer treatment are at high risk for falls. No current guidelines or standards of care exist for assessment and prevention of outpatient oncology falls. This quality improvement project's purpose was to 1) describe and evaluate outpatient oncology falls data to determine root cause(s), and develop, implement, and evaluate intervention strategies for future policy refinement, and 2) compare fall rates pre/post implementation of a system-wide Ambulatory Fall Risk Bundle.

Roadmap to engagement: Bringing patient partners into cancer research and beyond.

The University of Kansas Cancer Center (KU Cancer Center) initiated an engagement program to leverage the lived experience of individuals and families with cancer. KU Cancer Center faculty, staff, and patient partners built an infrastructure to achieve a patient-designed, patient-led, and research-informed engagement program called Patient and Investigator Voices Organizing Together (PIVOT). This special communication offers an engagement roadmap that can be replicated, scaled, and adopted at other cancer centers and academic health systems.

Reflections from the frontline of nursing on acute patient deterioration.

Aims: To describe medical-surgical nurses' reflections on their experiences with patient deterioration.

Background: An extensive body of knowledge exists regarding optimal responses to acute patient deterioration within a hospital environment. Much less attention has focused on the profound psychological and emotional impact these experiences of unexpected deterioration can have on nurses who provided the supportive or rescue care.

A concept analysis of routines for improving health behaviors.

Objective: Chronic disease patients often have unhealthy routines, especially when away from health care professionals. These patients need clear guidance about establishing and maintaining routines. This study aimed to synthesize a definition of the concept of routines for improving health behaviors based on its uses in the literature.

A community engagement training program for basic and translational cancer researchers.

Purpose: There is an increasing awareness of the importance of patient engagement in cancer research, but many basic and translational researchers have never been trained to do so. To address this unmet need, a 1-year patient engagement training program for researchers was developed.

Methods: Eleven researchers and eleven paired research advocates participated.

PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF THE NURSE MANAGER COMPETENCY INSTRUMENT FOR RESEARCH.

Competent nurse managers (NM) are essential to create safe and healthy work environments and support frontline nurses. Measuring NM competence with a valid and reliable instrument is critical in research. We assessed the psychometric properties of the Nurse Manager Competency Instrument for Research (NMCIR).

Impacts, Learner Diversity, and Curricular Framework of a Virtual Global Health Elective Catalyzed by the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Background: Place-based international electives that build global health competencies have existed for decades. However, these electives require travel and are infeasible for many trainees around the world, particularly those with insufficient financial resources, logistical complexities, or visa limitations. The emergence of virtual approaches to global health electives, catalyzed by the travel pause related to the COVID-19 pandemic, necessitates the exploration of learner impacts, participant diversity, and curricular frameworks.

The Association of Food Insecurity With Asthma Control in Adults During COVID-19.

Background: Food insecurity has been associated with poorer asthma control in children, but research lacks in adults.

Objective: To assess the frequency of food insecurity and its association with asthma control in adults during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.

Methods: An online cross-sectional survey study was conducted in US adults with asthma.