Men in Female-Dominated Nursing Specialties.

While numbers of men in the nursing profession have slowly increased, men in female-dominated specialty areas have not changed. Male nurses and nursing students encounter gender bias and discrimination in certain specialty nursing environments. This has implications for the quality of care provided, parental engagement, and job satisfaction.

A Critical Minority: The Marginalization of Male Faculty in Nursing Academia.

Aim: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between gender and marginalization in nursing academia.

Background: Men continue to be significantly underrepresented in nursing academia because they experience numerous barriers to their integration and success in the profession.

Method: A descriptive cross-sectional design was implemented in this pilot study to investigate differences in perceived marginalization between male versus female faculty teaching in Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education-accredited colleges.

Self-Compassion and Resilience in a National Sample of Nursing Students Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Nationwide, nursing students experienced multiple interruptions in learning because of the pandemic. Little is known about the impact of COVID-19 on resilience and self-compassion. A descriptive cross-sectional design was used to examine pandemic-related factors, resilience, and self-compassion using the Brief Resilience and Self-Compassion scales.

The Impact of Increasing Sun Protection Counseling and Skin Cancer Screening.

Background: Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States. Skin cancer is a broad term that includes squamous cell carcinoma, basal cell carcinoma, and melanoma. Melanoma is the most concerning of the three types of skin cancer and is the focus of this project.

Learning While Biking for Nursing Students: The Impact of the Built Environment on Health.

The impact of the built environment on health prompted nurse faculty to implement a new physically engaging educational offering. A 10-mile bicycle ride was piloted with two senior-level baccalaureate community clinical nursing students (n = 17). Facilitated discussions with an interdisciplinary panel took place at 10 scheduled stops along the ride, highlighting health, terminology, environmental legislation, and community advocacy.

Exploring telehealth in the graduate curriculum.

Background: With an increase in patient demand and a decrease in healthcare professionals, telehealth is able to provide needed services to patients, but appropriate training in telehealth is crucial for providers to deliver excellent patient care.

Method: Nurse researchers developed a quality improvement project targeting telehealth in the graduate nursing curriculum. A two-part evidence-based curriculum was developed for graduate family nurse practitioner (FNP) students.

Increasing Patient Safety in Hemodialysis Units by Improving Handoff Communication.

This quality improvement project aimed to increase patient safety by preventing errors through improving staff handoff communication in an outpatient hemodialysis unit. Lewin's theory of planned change was applied. Staff familiarity with the situation-background-assessment-recommendation (SBAR) communication format was assessed.

Beyond Discussion: Implementing Multimodal Learning in a Nurse Practitioner Program.

End-of-program feedback from students reflected a decreased level of active engagement and retention in learning at a public university in the upper Midwest of the United States. Results prompted educators to explore integration of multimodal instruction within the postlicensure family nurse practitioner program. A graduate program faculty work group was created to review and revise the curriculum.

Development and Validation of a Marginality Index for Nursing Students.

Aim: The purpose of this study was to develop a marginality tool that speaks specifically to the domain of nursing education.

Background: Minority nursing students in the United States have consistently reported feelings associated with the process of marginalization. Given the dearth of instruments that measure marginality directly, the concept has not been sufficiently investigated in nursing students METHOD: The Englund Marginality Index (EMI) was administered to 323 nursing students currently enrolled in a baccalaureate nursing program in Wisconsin.

Reality Check: Preparing Nursing Students to Respond to Ebola and Other Infectious Diseases.

Escalating uncertainty regarding the international impact of Ebola virus disease and other infectious diseases prompted educators to develop interactive, multidisciplinary training for senior-level baccalaureate nursing students. A three-hour clinical learning session was scheduled within the curriculum. Nurse faculty utilized 11 activities to increase students' awareness and understanding of the potential and actual impact of Ebola virus disease and other infectious diseases.

Attitudes of nurses towards care of the dying patient in India.

Background: Worldwide, end-of-life care is coming under increasing scrutiny as nurses struggle to balance cultural norms and legal requirements with the desires of patients and families. The purpose of this descriptive pilot study was to examine and describe nurses' attitudes when caring for dying patients in India, and whether participation in an educational conference, which included two scenario-based, low-fidelity simulations increased knowledge of end-of-life care.

Method: Participants' attitudes were measured with the 30-item Frommelt Attitudes Toward Care of the Dying (FATCOD-B) scale.

Teaching Culturally Competent Veteran Nursing Care in Prelicensure Programs.

With the publication of Healthy People 2020, health disparities have been redefined to expand concepts beyond traditional racial and ethnic minorities and include a broader range of populations. Veterans, with their unique experiences and values, comprise a distinct culture with health risks and potential disparities. Although accrediting agencies require programs of nursing to teach culturally competent care, it is unknown whether nurse faculty recognize veterans as having a culture distinct from the rest of the population.

Becoming Inclusive: A Code of Conduct for Inclusion and Diversity.

There are increasing concerns about exclusionary behaviors and lack of diversity in the nursing profession. Exclusionary behaviors, which may include incivility, bullying, and workplace violence, discriminate and isolate individuals and groups who are different, whereas inclusive behaviors encourage diversity. To address inclusion and diversity in nursing, this article offers a code of conduct.

Supporting Nurses and Nursing Students with Disabilities.

Federal agencies and nursing organizations say it's high time to put aside preconceptions.

Overcoming Barriers.

Dr. Neal-Boylan's program of scholarship has always focused on nurse workforce issues. She recently published two books related to how nurses work.

Advancing diversity through inclusive excellence in nursing education.

Nurse leaders call for a more diverse nursing workforce, but too few address the concept of inclusion as a recruitment and retention strategy or as part of improving the academic learning milieu. This article addresses organizational considerations of diversity and inclusion as part of the agenda established by the Association of American Colleges and Universities for inclusive excellence, building on the idea that academic environments only become excellent when an inclusive climate is reached. Six organizational strategies to inclusion are presented from the authors' experiences, some structural and others behavioral: admissions processes, invisibility, absence of community, promotion and tenure, exclusion, and tokenism.

Evaluating an accelerated nursing program: a dashboard for diversity.

Diversity is a topic of increasing attention in higher education and the nursing workforce. Experts have called for a nursing workforce that mirrors the population it serves. Students in nursing programs in the United States do not reflect our country's diverse population; therefore, much work is needed before that goal can be reached.

Sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values: diagnosing purple mange.

Purpose: To shed light on several epidemiological terms for better understanding of diagnostic testing measures by using a mythical condition, "purple mange."

Data Sources: Scientific literature related to epidemiology and statistical tests.

Conclusions: Nurse practitioners (NPs) use the concepts of sensitivity (SEN), specificity (SPEC), positive predictive value (PPV), and negative predictive value (NPV) daily in primary care and specialty areas.

A qualitative descriptive exploratory study of feeling confined using Parse's humanbecoming school of thought.

Feeling confined is a universal lived experience of health and quality of life. The purposes of this research study were to uncover the meaning of feeling confined as a lived experience, advance nursing science by utilizing Parse's humanbecoming school of thought, provide knowledge about the phenomenon of feeling confined as a guide for nurses, and create interest in feeling confined as significant for future research. The humanbecoming school of thought was chosen as the theoretical perspective for the qualitative descriptive exploratory method study with 13 volunteer adult men, who were incarcerated in the same mental health unit of a Midwest medium security prison.