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Nursing faculty experience with current retention strategies and interventions: A qualitative study
Nursing faculty shortage is a growing concern in the nursing profession. The effects of insufficient nursing faculty are the declining numbers of nursing students admitted to nursing schools. Nursing faculty shortage ... -
Exploring evidence-based practice norms among bedside nurses in Magnet-designated hospitals: A Q methodology study
Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a recognized standard of professional nursing due to its positive impact on care quality and patient outcomes. Despite ongoing efforts to maximize EBP at the point of care, current estimates ... -
A descriptive study of the effects of exposure to violence in an inner city community on aspects of adolescent identity development during this critical phase
Inner city youths are at particular risk for violence. The social effects of violence on our adolescents have profound implications on their development, now and as they mature into adulthood. The purpose of this study was ... -
Exploring nurses' perceptions of nursing presence in the mental health setting
Background: Nursing presence is a core relational phenomenon in nursing. It involves devoting attention to being with and connecting with another, which is essential for providing holistic, person-centered care. There is ... -
The process of restoring personal integrity: Mitigating the emotional cost of medical errors
This constructivist grounded-theory study was conducted to explore the emotional response to and recovery process following a medical error causing harm to a patient. The study participants were 37 registered nurses (30 ... -
Improving adjunct nursing instructors' knowledge of student assessment in clinical courses
Utilization of adjunct nursing instructors to teach clinical courses is a common occurrence in nursing programs. Adjunct clinical instructors are often expert clinicians, but they have limited experience in teaching and ... -
South Asian women together in a health initiative (SATHI): A pilot randomized controlled trial
Background. Canadian South Asian women have high rates of cardiovascular disease and low rates of physical activity. The primary objective of this study was to assess feasibility (recruitment, retention, engagement, ... -
The role transition characteristics of new registered nurses: A study of work environment influences and individual traits
The purpose of this qualitative research study was to explore how the environmental influences and individual traits of new registered nurses within the first year of clinical practice create positive and negative performance ... -
Development of a model to guide the implementation of simulation-based education in under-resourced nursing education institutions in Lesotho
Background: The changing landscape of nursing education to competency-based education has strengthened the importance of simulation learning in the process of developing the required graduate competencies. In Lesotho, ... -
Splanchnic oxygenation and feeding intolerance in the very low birthweight infant
Background. Feeding intolerance is common in preterm infants but can be an ominous precursor of necrotizing enterocolitis, a life-threatening gastrointestinal disease. The definition and management of feeding intolerance ... -
Experience of parents caring for a chid with an acquired disability
Background: Parents caring for a child with an acquired disability often report a negative impact on physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual health associated with caregiver burden related to their child’s ... -
Effects of a nurse-led transitional rehabilitation programme (4Cs-TBuRP) for adult burn survivors: A pilot randomised controlled trial
Background: Rehabilitation is a key component of burn care which seeks to improve functional outcomes and optimise the post-burn recovery process. Burns rehabilitation is in a young stage in Mainland China, and it is only ... -
The effects of a same gender and same race coaching intervention on the resilience of Black baccalaureate nursing students
Reports from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and National Academy of Medicine (NAM) state that it is important to increase the number of underrepresented racial minorities in the health professions. ... -
Regert and police reporting among individuals who have experienced sexual assault
Sexual assault (SA) is the most widely underreported violent crime in the United States. Reporting is significant because it is through this process that people access resources that can mitigate psychiatric and other ... -
New graduate nurses' described experiences of coping with stress in the clinical setting
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how new graduate nurses describe their experiences of coping with stress in the clinical setting. The theoretical foundation for this study was the Lazarus ... -
Testing a reflection education intervention on baccalaureate nursing students' level of reflection during online clinical post conference
Background: The majority of faculty–student interactions are at low cognitive levels during nursing clinical post conference (CPC), a time often utilized for reflective thinking. Strategies have been implemented to ... -
Playing God: A phenomenological study of women's decision-making regarding selective reduction of higher order multiple pregnancies
The purpose of this study was to explore women's experiences regarding their decisions to undergo or forgo selective reduction of their higher order multiple pregnancies. The purposive sample consisted of seven women who ... -
A study of baccalaureate nursing students' reflection on their caring practice through creating and sharing story, poetry, and art
Aesthetic approaches to reflective practice are not well understood nor widely used in nursing education. This descriptive, qualitative, multiple-case study investigated three baccalaureate nursing students' experience ... -
Roles and strategies of nurses facilitating diabetes support groups: An exploratory study
Diabetes is a pervasive health problem with potentially devastating but preventable consequences. Although technological advances and new treatments have resulted in great optimism for controlling the disease, research ... -
Influence of stressful life events on the development of type 2 diabetes
This study examined the relationship between distress and the development of Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in the presence of established risk factors. Distress secondary to mental health disparities, stressful life ...