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Nurses caring for birth tourism families in neonatal intensive care units: A phenomenological inquiry
Background: Birth tourism families plan their birthing experience that includes purchasing a maternity care package, traveling internationally to a preferred destination, and the delivery of a healthy newborn in an expected ... -
Family dementia caregivers' perceptions of the Virtual Dementia Tour®: A changed reality
Family dementia caregiving involves many challenges that often lead to stress and frustration. A subjective understanding of the daily struggles associated with dementia is not possible unless one has the disease; therefore, ... -
Elderly partners' lived experience of bladder and/or colorectal cancer diagnosis living with a ostomy
Bladder and colorectal cancer (CRC) are two of the most aggressive types of cancer with treatment creating physical and psychosocial comorbidities that affect the quality of life of patients affected by the disease. Numerous ... -
Tuberculosis screening and education in the urban public school district
Tuberculosis (TB) is the world’s deadliest curable communicable infectious disease. The eradication of TB is a significantly important intractable global public health challenge for health agencies at all levels. Global ... -
Dispositional mindfulness in senior-level nursing students: Examining the relationship to situation awareness and clinical outcomes
Experts in the study of ergonomics and human performance factors have described the ‘collective mindfulness’ of nurses as a critical element to the attainment of highly reliable safety within patient care delivery. Little ... -
American Association of Diabetes Educators 7 intervention in managing type 2 diabetes in older home health patients
Management of chronic disease pathologies requires the patient to have the ability to understand and manage their care. This may be especially challenging in the aging population caring for themselves at home. The home ... -
Best teaching practices for providing culturally sensitive and inclusive nursing education: Nurse educators' perspectives
This paper explored problem-based learning and cultural diversity, critical thinking and clinical judgment and cultural diversity, and nurse educators’ perceptions of implementing culturally diverse and inclusive nursing ... -
Nurse family member perceptions of patient death and nursing care after withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment
Purpose/Aims: This pilot study explored nurse family member perceptions of nursing care and patient quality of death and dying during and after withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment within Intensive Care Units ... -
The feasibility of using a theory-based, online delivery microlearning system to educate nurse practitioners about clinical skin examination for melanoma
Background: The incidence of malignant melanoma (MM) has doubled in the United States over the past 20 years. Early diagnosis and favorable prognosis rely on patients’ accessibility to healthcare providers for clinical ... -
The effects of nursing program simulation experience level and type of advanced organizer on clinical judgment performance, satisfaction, self-confidence, and perceived cognitive load of pre-licensure nursing students in simulation based learning
Nursing education programs face many challenges with training students to become professional nurses who will practice safely in an evolving and complex healthcare system. Nurse educators are obliged to prepare students ... -
Associate and baccalaureate degree nursing students' knowledge of the attitudes toward medication errors and reporting medication errors: Implications for curriculum development
This paper evaluates senior nursing students' knowledge and attitudes of medication errors and reporting errors. This study was conducted to evaluate a need for improvements to nursing education on these two concepts. This ... -
Exploring the homeless persons perception of living in a long-term care facility
Objective: The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experiences of homeless persons admitted to a nursing home facility. Originally, the study was to explore their understanding of and their experience with advance ... -
An ethnographic study of pre-graduate precepted nursing student clinical placements in long-term care homes
Long-Term Care (LTC) home recruitment challenges and nursing student disinterest in such clinical placements and careers, underscore this study’s urgent need. This qualitative focused ethnography explored preceptor, faculty ... -
Exploring factors linked to weight status in Salvadoran infants
Background: Obesity rates in the US have risen dramatically, especially among Hispanic adults and children. Because of the high prevalence of overweight and obesity in Latino children by preschool age, it is prudent to ... -
Primary care access and use among homeless persons
On a single night in the United States, more than 550,000 persons are homeless, a number that has increased in recent years. Homeless persons are disproportionately afflicted by acute and chronic communicable and ... -
Factors influencing the recruitment and hiring of early career nurse faculty
The nursing faculty and subsequent nursing shortages have plagued the profession for decades with little progress made in altering the trajectory of the problem (AACN, 2005; IOM, 2010; NLN, 2017). Primary influences on the ... -
Nursing staff approaches to providing oral hygiene in stroke survivors with dysphagia: A grounded theory study
The purpose of this qualitative grounded theory study was to explore how the nursing staff approaches oral hygiene in stroke survivors with dysphagia during the rehabilitation phase of recovery and what guides their ... -
Temperature instability over time and respiratory morbidity in the very premature infant
Very premature infants are at risk for thermal instability due to thermoregulatory immaturity. Thermal instability upon neonatal intensive care unit admission has been associated with mortality and morbidity in these ... -
Managing ambiguity: Nurses caring for the mother of a stillborn baby
Purpose: The aim of this study was to describe and conceptualize the experiences and processes involved when labor and delivery nurses provide care to women experiencing a stillbirth. Background: The care of a woman ... -
The experiences of internationally educated nurses while preparing for the NCLEX-RN
About 5.6% of the U.S. nursing workforce is composed of internationally educated nurses (IEN). Nurses from the Philippines comprise the majority of IEN applying for the National Council Licensure Examination – Registered ...
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