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.

Impact of Reengineered Discharge Toolkit on Patients Undergoing Total Joint Surgeries.

Poorly coordinated care transitions account for nearly one fifth of Medicare hospital readmissions within 30 days postdischarge. The primary aim of this pilot project was to determine the impact of the Reengineered Discharge (RED) Toolkit on patient knowledge for self-management, satisfaction with the discharge process, readiness for discharge, discharge time, and 30-day readmission rate following hip or knee joint replacement or revision surgeries. Staff adherence with the RED Toolkit was also measured.

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).

The creation of a White Coat Ceremony.

Historically, the White Coat Ceremony has had a medical school connotation. While not exclusive to the discipline of medicine, the White Coat Ceremony is a recently adopted ritual embraced by a variety of health care professions. The white coat serves as a symbol of achievement into one's professional program.

An exploratory survey of public health nurses' knowledge, skills, attitudes, and application of the Quad Council Competencies.

Objective: A collaborative research team of community/public health nursing faculty and public health nurses surveyed public health nurses to explore knowledge, skills, attitudes, and application of the Quad Council Competencies for Public Health Nurses (QCC-PHN).

Methods: Evaluate the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and application of the 2011 QCC-PHN by public health nurses.

Design: A descriptive, cross-sectional design was used to answer the hypothesis related to the study objective.

Use of reflective writing within interprofessional education: a mixed-methods analysis.

Nurturing student's development of interprofessional collaboration is fundamental. Assessment-For-Learning can use reflection as one technique to support students' growth. Thus, we investigated using reflective-writing within an interprofessional education (IPE) course using an exploratory mixed-methods design.

Using a quality improvement model to enhance community/public health nursing education.

Background: Population-focused practice is an essential component of baccalaureate nursing education. The specialty of community/public health nursing (C/PHN) emphasizes prevention and focuses on the multiple determinants of health to improve population health outcomes. This project addressed two problems.

Identifying the Preferred Method to Educate Low Income Caregivers About Common Childhood Illnesses: A Step Toward Health Literacy Through a Focus Group Study.

Purpose: The purpose of this focus group was to identify the preferred method of education for low-income caregivers to learn about common childhood illnesses in an effort to meet their health literacy needs.

Methods: Focus group participants were recruited from two sources; caregivers who qualified for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Food and Nutrition Services and those attending a monthly prenatal health education program for low-income pregnant women. Participants were asked to rank in order of preference five educational options.

Nurse Author: Who Me? Yes, You!

Background And Purpose: Potential nurse authors may find writing a challenge, including managing the publication process from getting started through submission to revision of the work and its acceptance. This special article presents strategies to help inexperienced writers develop and hone skills for journal publication.

Potential Publication Strategies: Tips discussed here that may lead to manuscript acceptance include selecting a topic of interest, using motivational self-talk approaches and structuring time to write, choosing coauthors, targeting a journal for submission, writing strong sentences in active voice, developing a structured abstract, using correct citation and reference formats, understanding reviews and resubmitting the manuscript, and keeping momentum to produce continued writing results.

A team-based interprofessional education course for first-year health professions students.

Background And Purpose: Interprofessional education (IPE) is required within pharmacy education, and should include classroom-based education along with experiential interprofessional collaboration. For classroom-based education, small-group learning environments may create a better platform for engaging students in the essential domain of interprofessional collaboration towards meaningful learning within IPE sub-domains (interprofessional communication, teams and teamwork, roles and responsibilities, and values and ethics). Faculty envisioned creating a small-group learning environment that was inviting, interactive, and flexible using situated learning theory.

The comprehensive examination: a viable master's of science in nursing capstone course.

The purpose of this article was to describe the process of how The University of Toledo College of Nursing developed the comprehensive examination as one capstone option to fulfill the requirements of a master's of science in nursing degree. Based on Keating's frame factors model, a review of existing literature, and an informal review of master's programs in nursing in the geographic area, an assessment was made of the viability of offering a comprehensive examination as a capstone experience. Increased student enrollment, need for flexible courses, faculty and student demographics, and institutional and national accreditation requirements were some of the factors that led to the decision to develop a comprehensive examination as a capstone option.

Stroke caregivers share ABCs of caring.

New stroke caregivers (N = 36) participated in a Web-based intervention that provided support and education and included exchanging e-mail messages in a discussion group. A male spousal caregiver posted a poem in his final message at the end of 1 year of participation in this discussion group. He used each letter of the alphabet to choose a word that represented a theme for what he had discovered while caring for his wife.

Alzheimer disease in women: a clinical and genetics perspective.

Upon completion of this activity, the learner will be able to: 1. Identify clinical and genetic characteristics and considerations associated with Alzheimer disease (AD). 2.

Caregivers' experience: bimonthly participation in a year-long research interview process.

New caregivers of stroke survivors participated in a bimonthly research interview process for a year-long intervention study. The purpose of this current project was to describe the telephone interview experience for those in the study's control group. We purposively selected 14 participants to answer a telephone survey.

Two sides to the caregiving story.

Purpose: This descriptive study examined problems and successes that a sample of 73 adult caregivers new to the role expressed in the first year of caring for stroke survivors. Data were collected from May 2002 to December 2005.

Method: Bimonthly, trained telephone interviewers asked the participants open-ended questions to elicit their experience in caregiving.