Measuring the Work Environment: The Voice of the Staff Nurse.

Objective: The aims of this study were to obtain direct care hospital nurse input on the relevance of the Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index (PES-NWI) and to determine whether additional items are needed to measure the contemporary nursing work environment (NWE).

Background: Instruments accurately measuring the NWE are essential due to the NWE's association with nurse, patient, and organizational outcomes. However, the most frequently used instrument for measuring the NWE has not been scrutinized by today's practicing direct care nurses to ensure its current relevancy.

Understanding the Cures Act Information Blocking Rule in cancer care: a mixed methods exploration of patient and clinician perspectives and recommendations for policy makers.

Background: The 21 Century Cures Act Interoperability and Information Blocking Rule was created to increase patient access to health information. This federally mandated policy has been met with praise and concern. However, little is known about patient and clinician opinions of this policy within cancer care.

Implementation Science for the Practice-Oriented Nurse Leader.

Senior nurse leaders are accountable for improving patient outcomes efficiently and cost-effectively. Nurse leaders often find heterogeneous patient outcomes across comparable nursing units in the same enterprise, presenting a challenge for nurse leaders tasked with making system-wide quality improvements. Implementation science (IS) offers a promising new approach to guide nurse leaders in understanding why certain implementation efforts meet with success or failure and the barriers faced in making practice changes.

Leadership Science in Nursing: Creating New Solutions for New Challenges.

The Association for Leadership Science in Nursing (ALSN) November 2022 International Conference was held at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western University. ALSN is dedicated to uniting academic and practice leaders to shape leadership science, education in nursing, and the practice of nursing leadership. One hundred fifty-one nurse leaders from the United States, Canada, and Oman gathered to discuss leadership as highlighted in this column.

Polypharmacy Interactions Impacting Methacholine Challenge Testing for Asthma Assessment in Older People.

To investigate potential reasons for unusually high incidence of negative Methacholine Challenge Tests (MCT), following standardized MCT medication-hold protocol, in older people with physician-diagnosed asthma. An analysis of a longitudinal observational parent study of asthma. Community-dwelling participants were evaluated in an outpatient clinic and at home.

Visibility and Accessibility of Hand Hygiene Stations and Fatigue Among Nurses Working in Long-Term Care (LTC) During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Objectives: Evaluate the relationship between nurses' perception of the long-term care (LTC) environment, specifically having visible and accessible hand hygiene stations (HHS), and nurses' fatigue during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: LTC nurses experience not only heavy workloads and fatigue but also a high risk of infection during the COVID-19 pandemic. Few studies have evaluated the relationship between safety measures such as having visible and accessible HHS and nurses' fatigue.

ISBARR Huddle: First-Year Medical Students Managing Critical Hypoglycemia as an Interprofessional Team.

Introduction: Recognizing a patient requiring urgent or emergent care and initiating evaluation and management must include elements that support teams working and thinking together. Although team communication strategies exist, a standardized approach for communicating about patients with urgent or emergent conditions is lacking. This simulation was designed to provide first-semester medical students with the opportunity to deliberately practice the foundational teamwork skills required to think as a team while caring for a patient with critical hypoglycemia.

Combined Exercise and Game-Based Cognitive Training Intervention: Correlative Pilot Study of Neurotrophic and Inflammatory Biomarkers for Women With Breast Cancer.

Background: Interventions that increase neuroprotective factors and/or decrease inflammatory biomarkers may be effective in improving cognitive function for cancer survivors. Concurrent investigation of potential mechanism(s) to fully understand and refine effective interventions is needed.

Objective: This correlative prospective substudy was conducted to investigate biomarkers related to potential mechanism(s) for a combined exercise and game-based brain training intervention designed to improve cognitive function in breast cancer survivors.

Trauma-informed care for perinatal women during the COVID-19 pandemic: A survey of nurses and midwives in Turkey.

Objectives: There is a paucity of evidence on the provision of trauma-informed care among nurses and midwives during the pandemic.Therefore, this online survey of Turkish nurses and midwives aimed to: describe reported maternal concerns and anxieties during the COVID-19 pandemic; and explore aspects of trauma-informed care for perinatal women during the COVID-19 pandemic (i.e.

An evaluation of stakeholder engagement in comparative effectiveness research: lessons learned from SWOG S1415CD.

Stakeholder engagement is central to comparative effectiveness research yet there are gaps in definitions of success. We used a framework developed by Lavallee  defining effective engagement criteria to evaluate stakeholder engagement during a pragmatic cluster-randomized trial. Semi-structured interviews were developed from the framework and completed to learn about members' experiences.

The Clinical Academic Partnership for Excellence: Lessons Learned From a Clinical Faculty Onboarding Program.

Background: The Clinical Academic Partnership for Excellence (CAPE) is an innovative program designed to provide ongoing education, mentorship, and support for novice clinical faculty.

Purpose: The aims of this study were to (1) understand the competency of clinical faculty in their teaching, (2) discover the usefulness of CAPE modules, and (3) explore the benefits of the CAPE program.

Methods: An electronic survey using Likert-style and open-ended questions was administered to clinical faculty who participated in CAPE over 2 years.

Staying Strong and Healthy During Androgen Deprivation Therapy.

Background: Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for prostate cancer is associated with cardiovascular comorbidities and numerous adverse effects decreasing health-related quality of life. Both exercise and dietary interventions have shown promise in reducing ADT-related negative sequelae. However, feasibility for personalized combined exercise/nutrition/education interventions is not well established.

A Scoping Review of Digital Health Interventions to Promote Healthy Romantic Relationships in Adolescents.

Despite a robust field of study in healthy romantic relationship education and risk prevention interventions that employ traditional forms of delivery, the field of digital health interventions (DHIs) in healthy relationship programming for adolescents remains undefined. The purpose of this scoping review was to summarize the scope of published research in DHIs that promote healthy romantic relationships in adolescents. We conducted database searches, 2000-2022; hand searches; reference list and literature review searches, and emailed study authors to identify articles.

Loneliness as a risk factor for cancer-related cognitive impairment: a secondary data analysis from the Haze study.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between loneliness and cancer-related cognitive impairment (CRCI) in a cohort of breast cancer survivors.

Methods: Female breast cancer survivors (stage I-III) reporting cognitive impairments 2 months to 5 years after chemotherapy ( = 61) participated in a prospective, nonblinded, waitlist-controlled pilot study. The intervention was a tailored cognitive rehabilitation program.

Advancing Nursing Leadership Science Through an Innovative Research-Practice Partnership.

The Association for Leadership Science in Nursing and American Organization for Nursing Leadership Foundation have formed a new research-practice collaborative. The collaborative allows for a synergistic approach to the advancement of leadership science. This article discusses the impetus for the collaborative, its structure, and how its synergy of research and practice expertise provides immense opportunity for robust, practice-relevant research.

Androgen Deprivation and Sleep Disturbance: A Mixed Methods Pilot Study of Remote Assessment and Intervention.

Background: Men receiving androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for prostate cancer (PC) are at risk for cardiovascular comorbidities and cognitive changes. Interventional research involves in-person assessment of physical fitness/activity and cognitive function, which has been negatively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Androgen deprivation therapy-related hot flashes and nocturia increase risk for insomnia.

The effect of mind-body exercise on cognitive function in cancer survivors: A systematic review.

Objective: Cancer-related cognitive impairments experienced by cancer survivors cause many to seek non-pharmacological intereventions to manage these symptoms. The aim of this systematic review was to evaluate the effects of one such intervention, mindbody exercise (MBE), on cognitive function in cancer survivors.

Design: Searches for relevant studies were conducted in four electronic databases, including PubMed, Embase, Scopus, and Web of Science.

Mealtime nonverbal behaviors in nursing home staff and residents with dementia: Behavioral analyses of videotaped observations.

This study characterized mealtime nonverbal behaviors of nursing home staff and residents with dementia and examined the relationships between individual characteristics and nonverbal behaviors. Videotaped observations (N=110) involving 25 residents and 29 staff (42 unique staff-resident dyads) in 9 nursing homes were coded using the refined Cue Utilization and Engagement in Dementia Mealtime Video-Coding Scheme. Wilcoxon rank-sum test or Kruskal-Wallis test were used for continuous characteristics, and Fisher's exact test for categorical characteristics.

Building the Science to Guide Nursing Administration and Leadership Decision Making.

Objective: The aim of this study was to identify the challenges, barriers, and solutions for conducting nursing administration and leadership science (NALS) research.

Background: Evidence from leadership science should be at the forefront of nurse leaders' decision making. Yet, challenges remain in building the evidence and moving it into nursing administration and leadership practice.

Rural engagement in primary care for optimizing weight reduction (REPOWER): A mixed methods study of patient perceptions.

Objective: To report on patients' satisfaction and experience of care across three different modes of weight loss counseling.

Methods: 1407 patients with obesity in the rural Midwest were enrolled to a 2-year weight management trial through their primary care practice and assigned to one of three treatment conditions: in-clinic individual, in-clinic group, phone group counseling. Patients completed surveys assessing seven domains of satisfaction and experience of care at 6 and 24-months.

Mixed-method analysis of the quad council competencies for public health nurses.

Objective: Evaluate the knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSA) of public health nurses (PHNs) related to the eight Domains of the 2011 Quad Council Competencies for Public Health Nurses (QCC-PHN). This manuscript is Part 2 of an exploratory study published in the Public Health Nursing journal on PHNs' knowledge, skills, attitudes, and application of the Quad Council Competencies (Harmon et al., 2020).

Setting the Research Agenda for Nursing Administration and Leadership Science: A Delphi Study.

Objective: The aim of this study was to identify and prioritize research topics for nursing administration and leadership science.

Background: Nursing administration and leadership research priorities should provide a framework for building the science needed to inform practice.

Methods: The Association for Leadership Science in Nursing (ALSN) and American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) Foundation (AONL-F) for Nursing Leadership and Education collaborated on a Delphi study.