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Increasing folic acid self-efficacy in college-age women of childbearing age
Preventative measures taken by women of childbearing age before and during conception limit the risk of fetal defects or complications. One specific measure that is recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and ... -
Initiating a mobile wayfinding application at a verterans affairs medical center: A current state assessment & needs analysis
Problem: Wayfinding within medical facilities is complex and challenging resulting in missed appointments, late appointment check-ins, and even procedural/surgical delays which further patients’ frustration, stress, ... -
On pills and needles: Students' and clinical nursing faculty's lived experience of a nursing students' first med pass in the clinical setting
Learning and teaching medication administration is a substantial component of prelicensure nursing education. The emphasis of the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses initiative is to prepare nursing students to provide ... -
Impact of BrØset Violence Checklist on safety events in an adult mental health unit
Background: Workplace violence (WPV) is an escalating issue in healthcare that needs to be addressed to improve patient outcomes and staff satisfaction. Inpatient mental health facilities are at higher risk for safety event ... -
Increasing the usage of MyChart bedside by nurses and patients in the acute care setting: An integrative review
Teach-back has been a proven model to teach patients about their disease process, medications, or dressing changes in a simple-to-understand language that often includes a return demonstration. Teach-Back isn’t ... -
Knowing the patient as a person: Social media listening and Gadamerian analysis of nurses' expressions shared during the COVID-19 Global Health Pandemic
Background: COVID-19 has dramatically changed human-to-human interactions from in-person to the nonhuman domain of virtual space. In January 2021, every 28 seconds one person died of COVID-19 in the United States. An ... -
Confidence in crises: School nurses' perceptions of self-efficacy in active shooter emergency preparedness
The incidence and number of mass school shootings have increased since the first reported school shooting in 1840. Since then, extensive research has been conducted to explore school violence’s underlying causes and ... -
Uncovering the lifeworlds of college students who are food insecure: An interpretive phenomenological inquiry
Food insecurity (FI) is a concern for many college students, and contributes to significant physical, mental, and academic stressors. Experts have described the need for qualitative research. A better understanding of the ... -
Disclosure of lesbian, gay, and bisexual identity by adolescents and young adults to health care providers and its relationship to sexual orientation victimization
Purpose. The purpose of this study was to identify the relationships between sexual orientation disclosure by lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) adolescents and young adults to health care providers, gender atypicality of ... -
Understanding social determinants of healthcare access from the perspective of Hispanic Latino immigrants in Louisville, KY
In the last decade, the total foreign-born population in the U.S. has grown exponentially, with the Hispanic Latino immigrants (HLI) experiencing the greatest growth. The literature clearly identifies that HLI experience ... -
Nursing student attitudes toward mental illness: A quantitative quasi-experimental study
Nursing students often harbor negative stereotypes and feel unknowledgeable and unprepared to work with mentally ill people. In addition, nursing students rarely choose the psychiatric specialty as a career option. A ... -
Peer collaborative clinical decision-making in virtual reality nursing simualtion
In nursing education, it is common for students to collaborate and make decisions as a group in simulations. One of the vital nursing competencies is students’ ability to make sound clinical judgments and decision-making ... -
Nursing diversity: The knowledge of cultural diversity and its impact on the interaction level within the nursing workforce
The healthcare industry is increasingly diverse in the workforce and the patient population. Diversity is both an asset and a challenge. Nursing shortages make it imperative that diversity be leveraged to improve the ... -
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, ...