Stressors and bathroom behaviors associated with urinary incontinence in nurses working during the COVID-19 pandemic: A mixed-methods study.

An inability to take breaks contributed to premature and delayed voiding with a high prevalence of stress and urge incontinence. Nurse leaders can implement policies to promote healthy toileting behaviors.

The Relationship Between Pedagogy and Changes in Students' Learning Styles in Physician Assistant Education.

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between instructional pedagogy and changes in physician assistant (PA) students' learning styles during a 2-year master's program.

Methods: Two parallel curricular tracks were established in the didactic year, one using problem-based learning (PBL) and the other lecture-based learning (LBL) for 6 years. Kolb's Learning Style Inventory (LSI) was administered to both groups at matriculation and at the end of the first and second years.

Using buprenorphine to treat patients with opioid use disorder.

The US opioid epidemic is a complex problem that has resulted in legislative actions to make treatment more accessible to patients. Physician assistants (PAs) have taken an active role in expanding their scope of practice to keep up with treatment needs. This article describes opioid use disorder in the United States, treatment gaps, safe treatment with buprenorphine, and PA prescriptive authority.

Cancer Screening Reminders: Addressing the Spectrum of Patient Preferences.

Context: Health care systems continue to seek evidence about how to optimize the efficiency and effectiveness of cancer screening reminders. Annual reminders to receive preventive services can be an efficient strategy.

Objective: To understand patient motivators and barriers to cancer screening and preferences about reminder strategies.

Evaluation of perceived and actual competency in a family medicine objective structured clinical examination.

Objective: To examine the relationship between objective assessment of performance and self-rated competence immediately before and after participation in a required summative family medicine clerkship objective structured clinical examination (OSCE).

Design: Learners rated their competence (on a 7-point Likert scale) before and after an OSCE along 3 dimensions: general, specific, and professional competencies relevant to family medicine.

Setting: McGill University in Montreal, Que.

Cultivating future nurse leaders with student nurses associations.

Student nurses associations (SNAs) assist in developing tomorrow's nurse leaders. In this article, executive board members of an SNA in a traditional baccalaureate nursing program at a public regional university recounted common themes in their participation in an SNA. These broad themes included leadership, mentorship and communication, all which foster professional development through the acquisition of specific knowledge, skills and experiences.

Factors associated with labor support behaviors of nurses.

Labor support is known to support progress of normal labor. Nurses are encouraged to provide labor support yet may encounter barriers to the practice of labor support. The purpose of this secondary data analysis was to examine individual and institutional factors associated with labor support behaviors.

Subcutaneous tissue thickness alters the effect of NMES.

Context: No direct research has been conducted on the relationship between subcutaneous tissue thickness and neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES).

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of subcutaneous tissue thickness on NMES amplitude and NMES force production of the quadriceps.

Design: Simple fixed design, testing the independent variable of subcutaneous thickness (skinfold) groups with the dependent variables of NMES amplitude and force production.

Exploring Women's Preferences for Labor Epidural Analgesia.

The purpose of this study was to explore demographic factors related to women's prenatal preferences for using an epidural during labor. Women recruited from prenatal classes provided data for this descriptive correlational study. Women with the most education, income, and parity indicated greatest preference for epidural analgesia.

Needle phobia during pregnancy.

The objective of this study was to understand the experience of a pregnant woman with needle phobia and examine its impact on her antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum experience. A case study format was employed. A 21-year-old primiparous woman with diagnosed needle phobia was interviewed, and her prenatal and delivery records were reviewed.