Published in Nursing outlook
With the rapid growth in online education programs in nursing, quality of education through this modality is becoming of greater importance. This paper aims to explore current recommendations and standards for quality in online nursing education offered by nursing regulatory, accrediting, and licensing organizations. Individual interviews were cond...
Published in Nursing outlook
Published in Nursing outlook
The terrorist attacks in Paris and in Saint-Denis in November 2015 were unprecedented events involving various human and material resources. These events question the role of nurse students in prehospital teams. To investigate nursing students' preference about whether they wished to participate in the prehospital care during a terrorist attack. Th...
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The purpose of the study was to assess Italian nurse academics' scientific activity by exploring their publications in international journals. The scientific production of a discipline's academics is a requisite for the university accreditation process and for employment in academic positions. It can also be used as an indicator of the maturity and...
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Disclosure of prognosis-related information is an essential aspect of communication with pediatric patients with cancer and their families. The nurse is believed to play an important role in this process, but nurse perceptions and experiences have not been well-described. Provide an exploration of pediatric oncology nurses' experiences with prognos...
Published in Nursing outlook
Published in Nursing outlook
Published in Nursing outlook
Changing health care needs are driving new models of care that emphasize care coordination, health promotion, and disease management by registered nurses (RNs). A skill-mix favoring professional (baccalaureate or above) over technical (less than baccalaureate) education is promoted by national initiatives. To examine the academic preparation and pr...
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The role of the Doctor of Nursing Practice-prepared nurse (DNP) outside of academic settings has not been clearly articulated or widely explored, and therefore the value DNP-prepared nurses bring to their practice settings is largely unknown. This study: (1) surveyed existing DNP programs to identify the nonacademic settings in which their DNP grad...
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Sexual and gender minorities (SGMs) experience substantial health disparities. Evidence suggests nurses may be unprepared to work with these populations. A previous literature review of top-ranked nursing journals found that 0.16% of published articles addressed SGM health. To evaluate changes in coverage of SGM health in the top-ranked nursing jou...
