Promoting Mental Health and Well-being Among Undergraduate Nursing Students: A Practice Guideline

Poor mental health and well-being among undergraduate nursing students negatively affects social dynamics, communication, decision making, and stress management, thus compromising the quality of healthcare delivery and patient care outcomes. It is imperative that nursing programs support students to develop positive self-care, resilience, and mental health skills while in school to foster their well-being, enhance their academic success, and to promote high-quality, patient-centered care in their future practice. The purpose of this Doctor of Nurse Practice (DNP) project was to develop a mental health and well-being practice guideline with a comprehensive set of evidence-based interventions for academic nursing programs to use to support the mental health and well-being of undergraduate nursing students. The Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation II (AGREE-II) framework was utilized to develop and appraise the practice guideline, which introduced two evidence-based recommendations: (1) Implementing a peer-mentoring program for nursing students and (2) Embedding mental health and well-being promotion within the nursing curriculum. An expert panel of five evaluators, including three nursing program deans and two mental health professionals, appraised the practice guideline providing qualitative and quantitative feedback. All expert panel members provided positive feedback, highlighting the guideline’s organization, evidence support, consistency, clarity, quality, feasibility, applicability, and suitability for guiding practice to support undergraduate nursing students’ mental health and well-being. All nursing programs who seek to prioritize the mental health and well-being of their nursing students are encouraged to adopt the practice guideline

Promoting Mental Health and Well-being Among Undergraduate Nursing Students: A Practice Guideline

Poor mental health and well-being among undergraduate nursing students negatively affects social dynamics, communication, decision making, and stress management, thus compromising the quality of healthcare delivery and patient care outcomes. It is imperative that nursing programs support students to develop positive self-care, resilience, and mental health skills while in school to foster their well-being, enhance their academic success, and to promote high-quality, patient-centered care in their future practice. The purpose of this Doctor of Nurse Practice (DNP) project was to develop a mental health and well-being practice guideline with a comprehensive set of evidence-based interventions for academic nursing programs to use to support the mental health and well-being of undergraduate nursing students. The Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation II (AGREE-II) framework was utilized to develop and appraise the practice guideline, which introduced two evidence-based recommendations: (1) Implementing a peer-mentoring program for nursing students and (2) Embedding mental health and well-being promotion within the nursing curriculum. An expert panel of five evaluators, including three nursing program deans and two mental health professionals, appraised the practice guideline providing qualitative and quantitative feedback. All expert panel members provided positive feedback, highlighting the guideline’s organization, evidence support, consistency, clarity, quality, feasibility, applicability, and suitability for guiding practice to support undergraduate nursing students’ mental health and well-being. All nursing programs who seek to prioritize the mental health and well-being of their nursing students are encouraged to adopt the practice guideline

What is the best method to calculate the solar wind propagation delay?

We present a statistical study of propagation times of solar wind discontinuities between Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft orbiting the L1 libration point and the Cluster quartet of spacecraft near the Earth's magnetopause. The propagation times for almost 200 events are compared with the predicted times from four different models. The simplest model assumes a constant convective motion of solar wind disturbances along the Sun-Earth line, whereas more sophisticated models take the orientation of the discontinuity as well as the real positions of the solar wind monitor and target into account. The results show that taking orientation and real position of the solar wind monitor and target into account gives a more precise time delay estimation in most cases. In particular, we show that recent modifications to the minimum variance technique can improve the estimation of propagation times of solar wind discontinuities

Changes of gas metabolism, gas homeostasis and tissue respiration in rats during prolonged hypokinesia

The oxygen uptake and tissue gas homeostasis of restrained albinic rats remained relatively constant during a 60 day experiment. The gas metabolism in some tissues changed, and O2 consumption increased in the liver and decreased in the myocardium. Capacity for physical work was reduced by five times. Hypokinesia for 60 days resulted in a delay in the animals growth

To the Definition the Deflections of Flexible Non-centrally Compressed Reinforced Concrete Struts Strengthened in the Transverse Direction with Composite Materials

An analysis of the calculation methods found in the normative literature on strengthening reinforced concrete structures with composite materials arranged in the transverse direction by the method of wrapping structures showed that there is no calculation method for the second group of limit states.The Code of Rules 164.1325800.2014 does not consider options for strengthening flexible compressed reinforced concrete structures, with the arrangement of composite materials in the transverse direction, introducing restrictions to the dimensions of structures. However, our research suggests the opposite. In this paper, experimental values of deflections of reinforced concrete struts in the transverse direction by composite materials, characteristics and testing methods of prototypes are given. The results of the theoretical calculation of deflections are presented and, based on the comparison of experimental and theoretical values of deflections, an algorithm for calculating the second group of limit states was developed

Changes of the body functions during long-term hypokinesia

Prolonged hypokinesis (100-170 days) studied in 2000 rats kept in cages limiting their mobility provoked considerable changes in the gaseous and energetic metabolism: an elevation of the total gaseous metabolism and of the rate of O2 requirement by the muscles (in the late periods of hypokinesis) and a change in the intensity of tissue respiration of the liver and myocardium. There also proved to be a reduction in the level of phosphorylation and separation of oxidative phosphorylation in the myocardium, liver, and partially in the skeletal muscle. Prolonged hypokinesia led to changes in tissue metabolism: a disturbance of development of the animals, a marked delay and an increase in the weight of the organism and the muscular system, and disturbances of the mineral and protein metabolism. Prolonged hypokinesis also lead to exhaustion of the hypothalamus-hypophysis-adrenal cortex system