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Implementation of the RQI System: Baseline Skills and Self-Report Competence and Confidence Data From 12 NLN Inaugural Change Agent Nursing Programs.

Nurs Educ Perspect

December 2024

About the Authors Suzan Kardong-Edgren, PhD, RN, ANEF, FSSH, FAAN, is associate professor, MGH Institute of Health Professions, Boston, Massachusetts. Donna Nikitas, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, CNE, FNAP, FAAN, is dean, Rutgers University School of Nursing-Camden, Camden, New Jersey. Elizabeth Gavin, MSN, RN, is simulation specialist, Barnes Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri. Heiddy DiGregorio, PhD, APRN, PCNS-BC, CHSE, CNE, is director, Simulation and Interprofessional Education, University of Delaware Health Sciences, Newark, Delaware. Dama O'Keefe, DNP, APRN, FNP, is dean, Anderson University in Anderson Indiana. Angela G. Opsahl, DNP, RN, CPHQ, is with Indiana University School of Nursing-Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana. Patricia A. Sharpnack, DNP, RN, CNE, NEA-BC, ANEF, FAAN, is dean and Strawbridge Professor, Breen School of Nursing and Health Professions, Ursuline College, Pepper Pike, Ohio. For more information, contact Dr. Opsahl at

Aim: This article describes the implementation, baseline cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) skills, and competence and confidence in skills of participants in 12 nursing programs piloting the Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI) program. Of 1,847 participants, 175 had not previously completed a CPR course.

Method: Schools could choose the sequence for completing baselines skills and required e-learning modules.

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Nurses Leading Change and the Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Strengthening Nursing Education.

Nurs Educ Perspect

December 2024

About the Author NLN Chair Patricia A. Sharpnack, DNP, RN, CNE, NEA-BC, ANEF, FAAN, is dean and Strawbridge Professor, The Breen School of Nursing and Health Professions, Ursuline College, Pepper Pike, Ohio. Contact her at .

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Beyond the Vote . . . The Need for Professional Citizenship in Nursing.

Nurs Educ Perspect

October 2024

About the Author NLN Chair Patricia A. Sharpnack, DNP, RN, CNE, NEA-BC, ANEF, FAAN, is dean and Strawbridge Professor, The Breen School of Nursing and Health Professions, Ursuline College, Pepper Pike, Ohio. Contact her at

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Mental Health in Nursing Education: Creating a Supportive Environment for Faculty and Students.

Nurs Educ Perspect

August 2024

About the Author NLN Chair Patricia A. Sharpnack, DNP, RN, CNE, NEA-BC, ANEF, FAAN, is dean and Strawbridge Professor, The Breen School of Nursing and Health Professions, Ursuline College, Pepper Pike, Ohio. Contact her at .

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An Innovative Partnership to Address the Challenges of Ethical Decision-Making.

Nurs Educ Perspect

June 2024

About the Author NLN Chair Patricia A. Sharpnack, DNP, RN, CNE, NEA-BC, ANEF, FAAN, is dean and Strawbridge Professor, The Breen School of Nursing and Health Professions, Ursuline College, Pepper Pike, Ohio. Contact her at

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Impacting Nursing Education Globally: An Innovative NLN Initiative With the International Council of Nurses: An Innovative NLN Initiative With the International Council of Nurses.

Nurs Educ Perspect

April 2024

About the AuthorNLN Chair Patricia A. Sharpnack, DNP, RN, CNE, NEA-BC, ANEF, FAAN, is dean and Strawbridge Professor, The Breen School of Nursing and Health Professions, Ursuline College, Pepper Pike, Ohio. Contact her at

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Background: Stemming from poverty and systemic racism, Black youth are disproportionately represented in hospital-based violence intervention programs (HVIPs) due to greater violence exposure. HVIPs are a critical intervention that have been shown to reduce rates of reinjury in urban hospitals and trauma centers across the United States; however, they are plagued by low enrollment and engagement rates. Few studies have examined factors related to engagement, particularly among Black youth.

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Background: There is a dearth of studies evaluating the utility of reporting prognostication among nursing home (NH) residents with cancer.

Objective: To study factors associated with documented less than six-month prognosis, and its relationship with end-of-life (EOL) care quality measures among residents with cancer.

Methods: The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results linked with Medicare, and the Minimum Data Set databases was used to identify 20,397 NH residents in the United States with breast, colorectal, lung, pancreatic, or prostate cancer who died between July 2016 and December 2018.

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This retrospective cohort study examined prosocial skills development in child welfare-involved children, how intimate partner violence (IPV) exposure explained heterogeneity in children's trajectories of prosocial skill development, and the degree to which protective factors across children's ecologies promoted prosocial skill development. Data were from 1,678 children from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-being I, collected between 1999 and 2007. Cohort-sequential growth mixture models were estimated to identify patterns of prosocial skill development between the ages of 3 to 10 years.

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Made Better by Chat GPT: Cultivating a Culture of Innovation in Nursing Education: Cultivating a Culture of Innovation in Nursing Education.

Nurs Educ Perspect

February 2024

About the Author NLN Chair Patricia A. Sharpnack, DNP, RN, CNE, NEA-BC, ANEF, FAAN, is dean and Strawbridge Professor, The Breen School of Nursing and Health Professions, Ursuline College, Pepper Pike, Ohio. Contact her at

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The journey to value relies heavily on a strong foundation in population health and on supporting systems of care. However, as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and commercial insurers rethink reimbursements to achieve cost savings, both patients and payments to health care organizations are at risk. The case for value-based care is ever stronger yet health systems will have to mature their culture, population health infrastructure, technologies and analytics capabilities, and leadership and management systems.

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Value-based care arrangements have been the cornerstone of accountable care for decades. Risk arrangements with government and commercial insurance plans are ubiquitous, with most contracts focusing on upside risk only, meaning payers reward providers for good performance without punishing them for poor performance on quality and cost. However, payers are increasingly moving into downside risk arrangements, bringing to mind global capitation in the 1990s wherein several health systems failed.

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Dreaming to Achieve Let Us Begin Our Competency-Based Education Journey.

Nurs Educ Perspect

December 2023

About the Author NLN Chair Patricia A. Sharpnack, DNP, RN, CNE, NEA-BC, ANEF, FAAN, is dean and Strawbridge Professor, The Breen School of Nursing and Health Professions, Ursuline College, Pepper Pike, Ohio. Contact her at

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Contributors to Second-Degree Accelerated Student Success During the COVID-19 Pandemic as Perceived by Administrators, Directors, and Faculty: A Qualitative Descriptive Study.

Nurs Educ Perspect

February 2024

About the Author Bonnie J. Fellows, EdD, RN, CNE, is a faculty person and coordinator of the second-degree accelerated program at Ursuline College, Pepper Pike, Ohio. This research was conducted during her doctoral education at the University of West Georgia. For more information, contact Dr. Fellows at .

Aim: This qualitative descriptive study explored the contributors to second-degree accelerated program (SDAP) student success during COVID-19 as described by SDAP administrators, directors, and faculty.

Background: SDAPs are fast, rigorous, and stressful. Understanding how SDAP students remain successful, despite their challenges and stressors, during the disorder of a global pandemic could provide insight for administrators, directors, and faculty on how to facilitate success in SDAP students in the future.

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Reimagining Nursing Education: The Power of a Shared Vision!

Nurs Educ Perspect

November 2023

About the Author NLN Chair Patricia A. Sharpnack, DNP, RN, CNE, NEA-BC, ANEF, FAAN, is dean and Strawbridge Professor, The Breen School of Nursing and Health Professions, Ursuline College, Pepper Pike, Ohio. Contact her at

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Purpose: This study evaluated effectiveness of the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT) with adoptive families who received post adoption services in Tennessee.

Methods: Researchers obtained a sample of 552 families who received post adoption services in the U.S.

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Innovative Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Instruction: One School of Nursing's Experience Piloting the NLN, Laerdal, and American Heart Association Resuscitation Quality Improvement Program.

Nurs Educ Perspect

July 2023

About the Authors Patricia A. Sharpnack, DNP, RN, CNE, NEA-BC, ANEF, FAAN, chair-elect of the National League for Nursing, is dean of the Breen School of Nursing and Health Professions and Strawbridge Professor, Ursuline College, Pepper Pike, Ohio. Kimberly Dillon-Bleich, PhD, RN, CNE, is associate dean, Undergraduate Nursing Programs, Breen School of Nursing and Health Professions, Ursuline College. Caitlin Yeager, PhD, RNC-NIC, CHSE, is assistant professor, Director of the Health Professions Resource and Simulation Center, and advisor for student nurses of Ursuline College. For more information, contact Patricia A. Sharpnack at

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Background: Spiritual uncertainty is a new construct for end-of-life care that focuses on the questions, worries and doubts people have with end-of-life spirituality. Spiritual uncertainty can contribute to spiritual distress for patients and families dealing with the end of life, as well as lead healthcare providers to avoid spiritual care methods.

Aims: This article reports on the item construction of a new survey design to measure the spiritual uncertainty of healthcare providers.

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The purpose of this study was to examine associations among emotional intelligence, quality of patient-provider interaction, and hypertension (HTN) self-management behaviors. A convenience sample of 90 adults (predominately African American women) with primary HTN were recruited from an urban ambulatory internal medicine clinic. Multivariate linear regression models were used to determine the predictive associations among the study variables.

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Neonatal mortality is a significant contributor to child mortality, and there is increasing interest in low resource settings to implement neonatal intensive care practices to lower neonatal mortality. In Guyana, South America neonatal mortality remains relatively high. At Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), the only tertiary referral hospital in Guyana, a Level III NICU was developed starting in January, 2012 with full implementation in September, 2015.

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Background: Advance care planning was designed for the purpose of ensuring that patients receive care at end of life (EOL) that is congruent with their wishes, goals, and values. Despite the evidence of the negative impact of not having advance directives (ADs), only one-third of adults in the United States have written ADs. Determining the patient's goals of care in the setting of metastatic cancer is vital to the delivery of high-quality healthcare.

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A Scoping Review of Nurse Educator Competencies: Mind the Gap.

Nurse Educ

November 2023

Clinical Associate Professor (Dr Wells-Beede) and Clinical Assistant Professor (Ms Gruben), Texas A&M University, School of Nursing, Round Rock; Dean and Professor (Dr Sharpnack), Associate Professor (Dr Goliat), and Instructor (Dr Yeager), Ursuline College, The Breen School of Nursing and Health Professions, Pepper Pike, Ohio; and Clinical Assistant Professor (Dr Klenke-Borgmann), The University of Kansas, School of Nursing, Kansas City.

Background: Unclear guidance continues faculty role preparation for promoting students' successful transition to practice.

Objectives: To examine nurse educator competencies and their role in students' transition to practice.

Design: This study utilized Arksey and O'Malley's methodological framework for conducting a scoping review.

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Safety Competency: Exploring the Impact of Environmental and Personal Factors on the Nurse's Ability to Deliver Safe Care.

J Nurs Care Qual

November 2022

Breen School of Nursing and Health Professions, Ursuline College, Pepper Pike, Ohio (Dr Dillon-Bleich); QSEN Institute (Dr Dolansky), Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing (Drs Burant and Madigan), and Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences (Dr Dolansky), School of Medicine (Dr Singh), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; VA Quality Scholars Program, Cleveland, Ohio (Dr Dolansky); Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, Louis Stokes VAMC, Cleveland, Ohio (Dr Burant); and VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System, Cleveland (Dr Singh).

Background: Patient safety is a priority in health care systems. Nurses' safety competence along with environmental and personal factors plays a role in patient safety.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships among safety competency, structural empowerment, systems thinking, level of education, and certification.

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And Then I Remember.

Am J Nurs

September 2022

Morgan Wiggins is an instructor and coordinator of the PMHNP track, Breen School of Nursing and Health Professions, Ursuline College, Pepper Pike, OH. Contact author: . Reflections is coordinated by Madeleine Mysko, MA, RN: . Illustration by Janet Hamlin. A podcast of this essay is available at www.ajnonline.com .

A psych nurse worries about the limits of virtual rapport with patients.

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The tocopherol transfer protein mediates vitamin E trafficking between cerebellar astrocytes and neurons.

J Biol Chem

March 2022

Departments of Nutrition and Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA; Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Electronic address:

Alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E) is an essential nutrient that functions as a major lipid-soluble antioxidant in humans. The alpha-tocopherol transfer protein (TTP) binds α-tocopherol with high affinity and selectivity and regulates whole-body distribution of the vitamin. Heritable mutations in the TTPA gene result in familial vitamin E deficiency, elevated indices of oxidative stress, and progressive neurodegeneration that manifest primarily in spinocerebellar ataxia.

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