Understanding Healhcare worker experiences and personal protective equipment (PPE)-reltaed skin reactions/injuries during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed methods approach

The purpose of this dissertation study is to examine PPE-related facial skin reactions/injuries and the contextual factors which may contribute to the development of these injuries

Reducing Caregiver Accommodations in Pediatric Eating Disorders Through Psychoeducation

Childhood eating disorders (ED) are complex conditions, involving both medical and psychological factors. Caregivers, including parents, grandparents, and legal guardians, play crucial roles in managing ED behaviors beyond the clinical setting. The psychological effects of caring for a person with an ED have been shown to be more significant than caregivers of patients with schizophrenia and depression (Martin et al., 2015). Negative emotions often lead to caregivers providing accommodations for their child’s eating disorder. Accommodations are behaviors or decisions meant to reduce stress or conflict but ultimately promote ED behaviors or dysfunction. Caregiver accommodations have been identified as a barriers to treatment. To promote ED recovery in child and adolescent patients, it is important that caregivers understand how these accommodations may negatively impact their child’s treatment

Clinical Practice in a Digital Health Environment

The purpose of this BPG is to foster nurses’ ability to maintain, advance, and strengthen professional practice in the context of a digital health environment. Broadly, this guideline includes information related to: the skills and competencies required by clinical nurses to ensure safe, quality, person-centred and compassionate clinical care through therapeutic relationships in a digital health environment; the skills and competencies required by nurses to engage in the design, development and evaluation of digital health environments; the skills and competencies required by nurse leaders and other leaders in all domains of clinical care, administration, education, research, and policy to support the intersection between nursing practice and technology; and the organizational policies and procedures required to support and enable nurses within health systems to effectively influence, implement and utilize digital health technologies

Impact of Unmet Needs the Health Outcomes of Cancer Patients and their Family Caregivers (FCs) in Uganda

The study aimed to identify the unmet needs that impact the health outcomes of cancer patients and their FCs in Uganda as an initial step in developing a nurse-led supportive care intervention program

Emotional Intelligence Development in Baccalaureate Nursing Students

This cross-sectional comparison aimed to examine the emotional intelligence scores of junior and senior baccalaureate nursing students using the Emotional Intelligence framework (Salovey & Mayer, 1990). The specific aim was to answer the question: Are there differences in emotional intelligence scores between junior and senior nursing students

Does lifetime stress influence chemotherapy symptoms in women from different racial and ethnic groups?

We hypothesize women with cancer who identify as a racial and/or ethnic minority will endorse a multitude of lifetime stressors contributing to high symptom(s) severity and burden. This study will be among the first studies to comprehensively describe cumulative life stressors, and its potential influence on cancer symptom burden among racial and/or ethnic minority women with cancer who are receiving chemotherapy. Our study will provide further evidence of the importance of screening for life stressor events that may impact chemotherapy symptom experience

Exploring Analgesic Admixtures in a Bier Block Technique

This case posed the question, “In patients undergoing non-vascular procedures of the upper extremity, with an expected duration of less than two hours, do local anesthetics with adjuncts provide superior intraoperative and postoperative analgesia when used in a Bier block compared to the use of local anesthetics alone?

The Use of Dexmedetomidine for Emergence Agitation in Adult Patients

Emergence agitation (EA) is a common adverse effect of general anesthesia. Dexmedetomidine is an intravenous (IV) anesthetic agent that provides sedation without respiratory depression. Common risk factors for EA include obesity, male gender, elderly patients, use of inhaled anesthetics, use of an endotracheal tube (ETT), placement of a foley catheter, preoperative anxiety, presence of pain, type of surgery [ear, nose, and throat (ENT), orthopedic, abdominal], and premedication with benzodiazepines

Earthing Practice for Mental Health Among Adults in the United States: A Phenomenological Inquiry

This study aimed to explore the lived experience of adults in the United States who practice earthing for mental health

Growing Dreams: Enabling Rural High School Students\u27 Healthcare Career Futures via a Summer Camp

Rural health systems and hospitals are foundational to the health and economy of rural communities. Although rural healthcare organizations face multiple challenges, one of the most significant is recruitment and retention of the workforce. According to the American Hospital Association (2022), rural areas account for nearly 70% of Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs). In addition, recruitment to a rural community can be difficult and retainment is even more challenging (Cosgrave et al., 2019). With these challenges in mind, an interdisciplinary and multi-institutional team collaborated to initiate a rural healthcare summer camp for rural high school students from the region at Sul Ross State University in rural West Texas, a frontier HPSA. The team established a free, multidisciplinary three-day camp to highlight the wide range of healthcare careers for 19 rural high school students. These students were selected because students from rural communities are 2.4 times more likely to practice in rural areas upon completion of healthcare training programs (Barreto et al., 2020). Students were housed on campus and given ample opportunities to learn about the diverse career opportunities in healthcare ranging from associate to terminal degrees. Camp counselors representing diverse professions were also incorporated. Presentations from multiple disciplines offered hands-on activities for students. This was essential as many rural students have not been exposed to the different healthcare disciplines as well as the latest healthcare technologies and equipment (Bodell et al., 2023). Moreover, active learning keeps students engaged (Coffman et al., 2023). The response from camp goers was overwhelmingly positive. While each discipline had an opportunity to highlight their profession, students were able to see the collaboration that must exist among various disciplines to provide high quality care all while gaining interest in healthcare careers