Climate Change, Climate Justice, and Environmental Health: Implications for the Nursing Profession
ConclusionsNursing organizations have adopted resolutions and engaged in leadership roles to address climate change at the local, regional, national, and global level. It is essential that nurses embrace concepts related to social justice and engage in the policy debate regarding the deleterious effects on human health related to global warming and climate change. Nursing's commitment to social justice offers an opportunity to offer significant global leadership in addressing the health implications related to climate change.
Clinical RelevanceRecognizing the negative impacts of climate change on well‐being and the under...
Source: Journal of Nursing Scholarship - July 1, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Patrice K. Nicholas, Suellen Breakey Tags: ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT Source Type: research
From Where I Sit
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Source: Journal of Nursing Scholarship - July 1, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Susan Gennaro Tags: EDITORIAL Source Type: research
Benefits of Attending a Weekend Childhood Cancer Survivor Family Retreat
ConclusionsRetreats offer families of cancer survivors opportunities to reconnect with others and their own family members in a therapeutic environment. These reconnections in a therapeutic environment enriched the families’ positive outlooks on life and changed their perspectives.
Clinical RelevanceFamilies of childhood cancer survivors report a lack of support following the completion of therapy. Retreats in a nonclinical therapeutic setting optimize family‐perceived support, relationship building, and reconnecting survivor families. (Source: Journal of Nursing Scholarship)
Source: Journal of Nursing Scholarship - July 1, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Lisa Bashore, Joyce Bender Tags: ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT Source Type: research
New Graduate Nurses ’ Professional Commitment: Antecedents and Outcomes
ConclusionProfessional commitment explains why good work characteristics and the provision of organizational resources related to patient care reduce nurses’ anxiety and physical symptoms, and increase their professional turnover intentions. Pre‐entry professional perceptions moderate the effects of work characteristics on professional commitment such that when participants hold positive pre‐entry perceptions about the profession, the propensity to develop professional commitment is higher.
Clinical RelevanceThere is a worldwide shortage of nurses. From a nurse training perspective, it is important to create realisti...
Source: Journal of Nursing Scholarship - July 1, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Sylvie Guerrero, Denis Ch ênevert, Steven Kilroy Tags: ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT Source Type: research
Nonlinear Analysis to Detect if Excellent Nursing Work Environments Have Highest Well ‐Being
ConclusionsAbsence of evidence for diminishing returns of improving work environments suggests that continuous improvement and achieving excellence in nurse work environments pays off strongly in terms of lower nurse‐reported burnout rates. Nurse staffing policy would benefit from a larger number of studies that identify specific minimum as well as maximum thresholds at which inputs affect nurse and patient outcomes.
Clinical RelevanceNurse burnout is omnipresent and has previously been shown to be related to worse patient outcomes. Additional increments in characteristics of excellent work environments, up to the highes...
Source: Journal of Nursing Scholarship - July 1, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Giuseppe Casalicchio, Emmanuel Lesaffre, Helmut K üchenhoff, Luk Bruyneel Tags: ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT Source Type: research
