Showing papers in "Nursing Outlook in 2021"

TL;DR: The impact of burnout on organizational turnover was significant, with a 12% increase in a nurse leaving for each unit increase on the emotional exhaustion scale, though it was not a factor in position turnover.

TL;DR: The study showed that the overall mental health of frontline nurses was generally poor during COVID-19 outbreak, and several impact factors associated with nurses’ psychological health were identified.

TL;DR: To investigate COVID-19 patients’ risk perception, knowledge of the disease, information sources, and emotional states in the epicenter, Wuhan, during the CO VID-19 outbreak in China, a self-administered electronic questionnaire was developed with reference to previous relevant studies and publications by the World Health Organization.

TL;DR: In this article, a cross-sectional online survey of nursing faculty and student nurses at a university affiliated with an academic medical center was conducted, and the authors found that most full-time faculty intended to receive the vaccine; but only 45% of adjunct faculty and students reported intending to get vaccinated.

TL;DR: This article explored nursing students' perspectives about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on their education and intention to join the nursing workforce and highlighted the need to develop emergency education preparedness plans that address student wellbeing and novel collaborative partnerships between schools and clinical partners.

TL;DR: Frontline nurses had a significantly higher professional identity than non-frontline nurses and the most frequently mentioned tags were Hope, Frontline, Protection, Outbreak, Work, Situation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the lived experience of nurses in combatting COVID-19 in Belitung, Indonesia using online interviews and chatting with 17 clinical nurses who were purposively selected from March to June 2020.

TL;DR: The important role of school nursing professionals in minimising the community-wide risk posed by pandemics and the need to integrate them into planning and implementation of school health policies and guidelines in the primary health care system are revealed.

TL;DR: Understanding the effects of the pandemic on the personal, work and academic experiences of nursing students will assist academia and healthcare in adapting existing policies to meet student needs in the various regions of the United States.

TL;DR: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) practice is not well known as discussed by the authors, and the impact of state practice barriers on APRN practice is discussed in a 20-item web-based survey open from June 1 through September 23, 2020.

TL;DR: Examples of nurses stewarding the discipline when pioneering research, critiquing traditional approaches to inquiry or trends in nursing practice, and developing policy are highlighted along with examples of how PhD nursing students begin to steward the discipline.

TL;DR: The authors identified and synthesized the existing literature on factors contributing to nurse faculty shortage in Canada and implications on nursing practice, and provided insights into how Canada's schools of nursing could engage in grounded efforts to lessen nursing faculty shortage.

TL;DR: This paper seeks to open a dialogue concerning the current trend in hiring non-nurse faculty to tenure track positions in schools/colleges of nursing by suggesting a manner of proceeding and raising questions for furthering dialogue.

TL;DR: Nurses in this study were better able to discern the credibility of health-related information about COVID-19 than laypersons, yet they rarely used scientific criteria in evaluating conflicting information.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored and compared intent to leave and turnover experiences of acute care nurse managers, directors, and executives, and found that over 50% of respondents intend to leave their current positions within the next 5 years with reasons for leaving differing by type of nurse leader.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarized the existing evidence on the benefits of permanently removing state-level scope of practice barriers and outlined recommendations for policy, practice, and research to support policy makers' efforts to grant full practice authority to nurse practitioners beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.

TL;DR: In this article, focus groups were conducted with fifteen nurses who were at three different stages of transition and participating in a 12-month Graduate Nurse Residency Program, and seven themes emerged: 1) being new is overwhelming, even more so during COVID-19, 2) need to be flexible, 3) pandemic knowledge and practice disconnect, 4) communication barriers worsened with masks, 5) being a “COVID nurse, 6) no self-care, and 7) gratitude: still glad to be a nurse.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the perceptions and attitudes of nurses working at critical care units and emergency services in Spain concerning the spiritual care providing to patients and families during the COVID-19 pandemic.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors aim to shed light on why timely solutions are needed to mitigate gender inequalities and health disparities women face amid COVID-19 promptly, and underscore the imperative for cost-effective interventions that could shedlight on the current health crisis and future pandemics.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the completion and attrition of students in nursing PhD programs and found that female students, part-time students, students of post-baccalaureate programs, students who were not faculty or held a parttime faculty position, and students in PhD programs with 25% or more of the courses taught online were more likely to experience attrition.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report the methods of the largest survey of primary care nurse practitioners to date, where they fielded a cross-sectional, mixedmode (mail/online) survey of NPs in six states to collect data directly from NPs on their clinical roles and practice environments.

TL;DR: In this article, a longitudinal mixed methods study was conducted to verify whether a proactive organizational approach can limit nurses' work-related stress and help preserve their job satisfaction and quality of life during a health emergency.

TL;DR: The 2019-2020 American Academy of Nursing (Academy, 2019) policy priorities document states that nurses have a clear and distinct focus on social determinants of health and uses this lens to advance policies and solutions within each of the three overarching priorities.

TL;DR: In this article, an Internet-based Mantram Repetition Program (MRP) for nurses caring for hospitalized Veterans was evaluated and nurses perceived increased mindfulness, compassion satisfaction, spiritual well-being, and nursing presence.

TL;DR: Veterans do not have higher odds of food insecurity than non-veterans, but they are more likely to have the more severe very low food security thanNon-veters, who are often associated with hunger.

TL;DR: In this article, the bibliometric patterns of meta-approaches use in nursing research literature were analyzed using the Web of Science Core Collection (WOC) and found that the trend in the literature production is positive.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a technique called natural language processing (NLP) to automatically identify documentation of seven common symptoms (anxiety, cognitive disturbance, depressed mood, fatigue, sleep disturbance, pain, and well-being) in homecare narrative nursing notes, and examined the association between symptoms and emergency department visits or hospital admissions from homecare.

TL;DR: Opportunities should be expanded for nurses to attain education for leadership roles focused on the health of whole populations, marginalized communities, and the systems and policies that promote their health through increased investments in the Doctor of Nursing Practice model.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the personal and contextual factors associated with the psychological functioning of nurses responding to COVID in the New York City area and found that the more that nurses cared for COVID patients as well as experienced home-work conflict and work-home conflict the higher the nurses' depression and anxiety.