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Source: Nursing Outlook - March 1, 2023 Category: Nursing Source Type: research
Scoping review: Positive and negative impact of technology on clinicians
Nurses use health information technology (HIT) extensively at the point of care. Technology use has had positive and negative consequences on professional practice. Executive leaders and policymakers have encouraged widespread HIT adoption to improve patient safety, quality and reduce costs. Yet, HIT implementation, including electronic health records (EHRs), have resulted in unintended consequences (i.e., clinicians reporting negative effects on work environments). (Source: Nursing Outlook)
Source: Nursing Outlook - February 16, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Susan McBride, Gregory L. Alexander, Marianne Baernholdt, Margaret Vugrin, Beth Epstein Source Type: research
Climate change and the adverse impact on the health and well-being of women and girls from the Women's Health Expert Panel of the American Academy of Nursing
Researchers have demonstrated an inextricable link between human health and planetary health. Population and planetary health are closely intertwined and both are threatened by climate change (Planetary Health Alliance, 2021). Prominent global features of climate change include rising temperatures, sea-level rise, more frequent and severe extreme weather events, and changing weather patterns (IPCC, 2014). Considerable evidence has demonstrated the dramatic impact of climate change on the lives of people around the world (ACOG, 2018). (Source: Nursing Outlook)
Source: Nursing Outlook - February 16, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Michelle Lynn Wright, Diana Drake, Denise G. Link, Judith A. Berg Source Type: research
American Academy of Nursing consensus recommendations to advance system level change for nurse well-being
The workplace demands of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to augment documented factors which increase risks to well-being and contribute to health challenges for nurses and other healthcare professionals. The lack of unified global and national responses to the COVID-19 pandemic exposed skeletal public health structures poorly equipped to detect and manage widespread infectious disease. It has prompted closer examination of stressors that over decades have contributed to widespread burnout, negative health outcomes, including mental health, and the loss of nurses to the profession as a result of such factors (Rosa et al. ...
Source: Nursing Outlook - February 1, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Madeline A. Naegle, Lesly A. Kelly, Jennifer L. Embree, Nancy Valentine, Daryl Sharp, Doris Grinspun, Vicki P. Hines-Martin, Cecelia L. Crawford, William E. Rosa Source Type: research
Characteristics of faculty mentoring in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Future of Nursing Scholars Program
As nurse scientist faculty continue to retire in the U.S. and the nurse faculty shortage persists, there remains a crucial need to fill these positions with new Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) graduates (McSweeney et al., 2020; Redeker, 2021). While the overall number of doctorally prepared nurses continues to rise, this increase is predominantly achieved by graduates from Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) programs. DNP graduations were about nine times higher than that of PhD graduates in 2019 (American A ssociation of Colleges of Nursing, 2021). (Source: Nursing Outlook)
Source: Nursing Outlook - January 21, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Gordon Lee Gillespie, April Hazard Vallerand, Julie Fairman Source Type: research
Promoting health equity with HBCUs: Breaking away from structural racism
Despite efforts to improve the nation's health, not all individuals have access to high-quality health care and major disparities in health outcomes persist. Health care disparities are defined as “racial or ethnic differences in the quality of health care that are not due to access-related factors or clinical needs, preferences, and appropriateness of intervention” (Smedley et al, 2003, pp. 3–4). In 2021, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality highlighted that Black populatio ns experienced the worst quality of care for 43% of quality measures when compared with White groups, and “disparities in all doma...
Source: Nursing Outlook - January 21, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Roberta Waite, Jessica Varghese, Yolanda VanRiel, Theresa Smith, Gil Singletary, Oren Shtayermman, Brian L. Ragsdale, Nina M. McCune, Catherine Holton, Patricia E. Ferguson, Gina S. Brown, Janice Brewington, Katie Boston-Leary, Kenya Beard Source Type: research
Passing the Torch
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some humor, and some style. —Maya Angelou (Source: Nursing Outlook)
Source: Nursing Outlook - January 20, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Marion Broome Tags: Editorial Source Type: research
Does the standard medical procedure consent process meet the criteria required for informed consent? - A concept analysis
Every year millions of United States citizens undergo surgical procedures. According to Hall et al. (2017), approximately 48.3 million surgical procedures were performed in the United States in 2010. A review of the data from January 1, 2019 –January 31, 2022, showed that the number of surgical procedures was still significant (13.1 million) despite a worldwide pandemic (Mattingly et al., 2021). These figures not only represent the number of times individuals underwent a surgical procedure, but also the number of times an informed co nsent discussion should have occurred (Childers et al., 2009). (Source: Nursing Outlook)
Source: Nursing Outlook - January 20, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Kristal M. Hock, Tracey K. Dick, Lori A. Loan, Patricia A. Patrician Source Type: research
A four-year analysis of US and Canadian academic nurse administrators ’ job satisfaction and intent to stay
Nursing faculty vacancies in the US were reported as 7.2% and 6.5% in 2019 and 2020 respectively. However, the pandemic created much stress for nursing faculty resulting in many leaving their positions and adding to the vacancy rates (Grainger, 2021). In a recent update by AACN the nursing faculty vacancy rate jumped to 8% in 2021 (AACN, 2022). Canadian nursing has similar concerns in preparing the next generation of nurses as chronic staffing shortages have starved educational clinical placements. (Source: Nursing Outlook)
Source: Nursing Outlook - January 19, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Jan Emory, Thomas Kippenbrock Source Type: research
Courage and conviction: The academy's next 50 years
Courage is one of the core values of the American Academy of Nursing —and it is as vital and essential in 2023, when we celebrate the Academy's 50th Anniversary, as it was when a group of dedicated nurse leaders visualized and established the organization in 1973 as part of the American Nurses Association (ANA). Courage also fueled the redefinition of our relations hip with ANA in 1999, when the Academy secured its own organizational status while staying in partnership with ANA. (Source: Nursing Outlook)
Source: Nursing Outlook - January 18, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Kenneth R. White Source Type: research
The Robert Wood Johnson foundation future of nursing scholars program: The scholar experience
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Future of Nursing Scholars program (FNS program) was launched in 2013 to create a diverse cadre of PhD prepared nurses who are committed to a long-term leadership career; advancing science and discovery through research; strengthening nursing education; and furthering transformational change in nursing and health care. The development of the program was in direct response to a 2011 report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM), now the National Academy of Medicine, titled, “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.” The report highlighted the importance of and reco...
Source: Nursing Outlook - January 13, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Heather J. Kelley, Nicholas Giordano, McKenzie Boschitsch, Amanda Bastelica, Maryjoan Ladden, Maxine Wicks, Madison McCarthy, Julie Fairman Source Type: research
An overview and policy implications of national nurse identifier systems: A call for unity and integration
During the past two years, unprecedented demand has been placed on the nursing workforce due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. The focus on healthcare workers during the pandemic made the role of nurses more visible to the public. Yet the increased attention also highlighted the absence of robust data to track the nurse workforce. The absence of nurse data has hindered the ability to understand the factors driving high turnover and professional attrition. This gap has made it impossible to study the outcomes of nursing education in the manner similar to how other health professions have been examined. (Source: Nursing Outlook)
Source: Nursing Outlook - January 12, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Garrett K. Chan, Mollie R. Cummins, Cheryl S. Taylor, Betty Rambur, David I. Auerbach, Mikki Meadows-Oliver, Cindy Cooke, Emily A. Turek, Patricia (Polly) Pittman Source Type: research
Letter to the Editor
We are writing this letter in reference to the recent article by Dr. Muirhead and colleagues (Muirhead et al., 2022) in the September/October issue entitled “Diversity in nursing and challenges with the NCLEX-RN.”We applaud the authors for the many important issues they raised that need to be addressed in order to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion within the nursing profession in relationship to standardized testing. What we see as missing fr om this important discussion is a lack of challenge to the paradigm that delineates first time NCLEX pass rates as the metric of a quality academic program. (Source: Nursing Outlook)
Source: Nursing Outlook - January 11, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Joanne Noone, Teri A. Murray Source Type: research
Where are nurse-scientists? academic nursing research at critical crossroads
Academic nursing is at critical crossroads as we bear witness to the havoc brought on by the global COVID-19 pandemic and society's awareness of racism that permeates much of American society (Bridges, 2019; Jeffries, 2020; Yoshinaga et al., 2022). Pausing and pivoting, strategies are also needed as senior nursing faculty have retired in larger than ever numbers (Matthews et al., 2021). Investing in the current and the next generation of nurse-scientists is one of the pressing problems facing our discipline if we are going to solve problems plaguing nursing and the health concerns addressed by nurses. (Source: Nursing Outlook)
Source: Nursing Outlook - January 9, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Joan R. Bloch, Mary Ellen Smith Glasgow Source Type: research
Nursing pre-licensure and graduate education for LGBTQ health: A systematic review
Nurses may struggle to provide competent nursing care to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer plus (LGBTQ) individuals without foundational training guided by best practices. Seminal work underscores the urgency for nursing programs to codify the integration of LGTBQ+ content throughout undergraduate and graduate curricula. Such curricular work would ensure that students are: (a) competently prepared to provide care for these populations in alignment with best practices, and (b) able to challenge negative perspectives, stigma, and discrimination of LGBTQ individuals seeking health care (De Guzman et al., 2018; ...
Source: Nursing Outlook - January 7, 2023 Category: Nursing Authors: Athena D.F. Sherman, Sheila K. Smith, Scott Emory Moore, Christopher Lance Coleman, Tonda L. Hughes, Caroline Dorsen, Monique S. Balthazar, Meredith Klepper, Ronica Mukerjee, Kelly M. Bower Source Type: research
