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{"title":"Effects of Coloring on Nurse Stress in an Academic Medical Center","authors":"Roberta Kaplow PhD, APRN-CCNS, NPD-BC, AOCNS, CCRN, FCCM, FAAN ,&nbsp;Polly Willis MSN, RN-BC, PCCN ,&nbsp;Melinda Higgins PhD ,&nbsp;Sergio Mota DNP, RN, CCRN-CSC, NE-BC","doi":"10.1016/j.jradnu.2025.02.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jradnu.2025.02.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Stress is an internationally well-known consequence of nurse work. This can impact delivery of optimal patient outcomes. Mindfulness-based interventions are suggested as effective strategies to cope with occupational stress and burnout among nurses.</div></div><div><h3>Purpose</h3><div>To determine the effects of coloring on stress levels in an academic medical center.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>This study used a preintervention/postintervention design. The Perceived Stress Scale-10 (PSS-10) was used.</div></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><div>Participants who started with higher PSS-10 or higher color stress prescores had more decreases in their pre-to-post change scores. Older participants (baby boomers) had the lowest postcoloring stress scores.</div></div><div><h3>Discussion</h3><div>The results of this study corroborate previous literature findings. Following coloring activities, stress scores decreased to 2.4 ± from 4.2 ± 2.1 before coloring. Data from our study supported that participants with higher levels of stress precoloring reported the most significant stress improvement postcoloring.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":39798,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radiology Nursing","volume":"44 3","pages":"Pages 306-313"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145050387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Call for Papers Emergencies in Radiology","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.jradnu.2025.08.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jradnu.2025.08.005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39798,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radiology Nursing","volume":"44 3","pages":"Page 253"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145044393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Metal, and Clothing, and Fashion Trends, Oh My! Keeping Patients Safe in Magnetic Resonance Imaging","authors":"Katherine Gruzalski MSN, RN, CRN, LNCC, CPHRM","doi":"10.1016/j.jradnu.2025.05.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jradnu.2025.05.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39798,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radiology Nursing","volume":"44 3","pages":"Pages 257-258"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145046729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bringing New Life Into Retired Lead: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Using Lead Aprons as Weighted Blankets to Reduce State Anxiety for Patients in Interventional Radiology","authors":"Chandra Grim MS, BSN, RN, CRN, MEDSURG-BC","doi":"10.1016/j.jradnu.2025.03.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jradnu.2025.03.009","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Heightened levels of anxiety are often found in patients awaiting procedures. Increased levels of anxiety can result in longer procedural times, lengthened recovery, and decreased patient satisfaction. Scant research has been performed in the use of weighted blankets or alternative forms of weighted blankets for adults in a hospital setting.</div></div><div><h3>Purpose</h3><div><span>This research study explored the efficacy of using of a lead apron repurposed into a weighted blanket as a nonpharmacological tool to reduce anxiety in outpatients awaiting procedures in an </span>interventional radiology department.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>This research study used a mixed methods design to gather quantitative and qualitative data. A convenience sample of 60 patients was recruited from an outpatient ambulatory unit. Participants were then randomly assigned 30 participants randomized to a control (standard hospital blanket) and an intervention group (15 lb. lead apron).</div></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><div><span>Participants who received the retired lead apron simulating a weighted blanket demonstrated a lower STAI-6 inventory score (p &lt; .001) along with improvements in </span>systolic blood pressure, heart rate, and respiratory rate (p &lt; .001) compared to the control group who received a standard hospital blanket.</div></div><div><h3>Discussion</h3><div>Based on the STAI-6 inventory scores, anxiety levels were significantly reduced after using a 15-pound lead apron to simulate a weighted blanket. The results of this study indicated that repurposing retired lead aprons into weighted blankets is a viable option to use as a nonpharmacological adjunct tool to reduce state anxiety in a preprocedural patient.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":39798,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radiology Nursing","volume":"44 3","pages":"Pages 292-299"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145050385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Representation in Stories for Children Impacted by Addiction","authors":"Emily Foster DNP, MSN-Ed, APRN, PMHNP-BC, CNE","doi":"10.1016/j.jradnu.2025.03.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jradnu.2025.03.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39798,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radiology Nursing","volume":"44 3","pages":"Pages 329-330"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145044391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Nurses Guide to Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound","authors":"Parker Bauman BS ,&nbsp;Jordan B. Strom MD, MSc ,&nbsp;Richard G. Barr MD, PhD","doi":"10.1016/j.jradnu.2025.05.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jradnu.2025.05.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The use of contrast enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) is increasing in both cardiac and noncardiac applications. Nurses can play a key role in starting an IV, mixing the agent, administering the agent, and responding in the unlikely occurrence of an adverse reaction. This paper reviews the basics of CEUS and details the critical items for an optimal CEUS study.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":39798,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radiology Nursing","volume":"44 3","pages":"Pages 314-318"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145050388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"When Dentistry Meets Emergency: An Improvised Dental Radiographic Technique for Thoracic Imaging in Foreign Body Detection and Retrieval in Real Time","authors":"Sanjay Chikkarasinakere Jogigowda MDS,&nbsp;Karthikeya Patil MDS,&nbsp;Akash Saha BDS,&nbsp;Varusha Sharon Christopher BDS","doi":"10.1016/j.jradnu.2025.03.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jradnu.2025.03.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39798,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radiology Nursing","volume":"44 3","pages":"Pages 331-334"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145050390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Legislative Update: The Road to Improved Access to Care","authors":"Maureen Chila JD, MPA, BSN","doi":"10.1016/j.jradnu.2025.05.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jradnu.2025.05.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39798,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radiology Nursing","volume":"44 3","pages":"Pages 259-260"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145050226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Erratum to ‘Scatter Chatter MRI Safety - What Nurses Need to Know Part 2’ [Journal of Radiology Nursing 44/1 (2025) 13-14]","authors":"Michelle Dossa PhD, CRA, RT (R)","doi":"10.1016/j.jradnu.2025.06.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jradnu.2025.06.007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39798,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radiology Nursing","volume":"44 3","pages":"Page 337"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145050380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing the Impact of Virtual Reality Training on Radiation Dose Reduction Among Interventional Radiology Nurses: A Multicenter Crossover Study","authors":"Kaber K. Khamis BSc,&nbsp;Amina S. Bello BSc,&nbsp;Muhammad L. Abdullahi BSc","doi":"10.1016/j.jradnu.2025.05.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jradnu.2025.05.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Health-care professionals in interventional radiology<span><span> (IR) environments are regularly exposed to ionizing radiation<span>, posing serious occupational health risks. Despite advancements in protective equipment, improper or inconsistent use persists, partly due to ineffective training. Traditional classroom-based radiation safety instruction often lacks realism and fails to promote long-term behavioral change. </span></span>Immersive virtual reality (VR) training presents a potential solution by enabling realistic, repeatable practice in risk-free environments.</span></div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>The objective was to evaluate the effectiveness of immersive VR-based radiation safety training compared to traditional face-to-face instruction in reducing occupational radiation eye dose among IR nurses.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>This multicenter, prospective, crossover study involved 34 scrub nurses from 8 Nigerian hospitals. Participants were randomized into 2 groups. Group 1 received VR training in phase 1, followed by traditional training in phase 2. Group 2 followed the reverse order. Each phase lasted 6 months and was separated by a 1-year washout period. VR training, developed by Virtual Medical Coaching, included interactive modules on patient positioning, personal protective equipment<span> use, and shielding practices. Radiation eye dose was measured weekly using thermoluminescent dosimeters<span> placed at the forehead. Primary outcome was the percentage change in mean weekly radiation dose from baseline. Statistical analyses included paired and independent t-tests, Levene's test for equality of variance, and Cohen's d for effect size.</span></span></div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Both groups showed equivalent baseline exposure. Following VR training, Group 1 showed a significant 25% reduction in eye dose (p &lt; .001, large effect). Traditional training in Group 2 yielded only a modest reduction (∼7%). After crossover, group 2 also demonstrated a significant post-VR reduction (∼23%, p &lt; .001), while Group 1 experienced a further modest improvement (∼3–6%). The dose reduction trend was consistent across groups, indicating that VR training produced larger, faster, and more sustained improvements than traditional methods.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Immersive VR training significantly and consistently outperforms traditional classroom-based instruction in reducing occupational radiation exposure among IR nurses. These findings support the integration of VR-based training into standard radiation safety education programs to enhance staff safety and promote sustained behavioral change.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":39798,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Radiology Nursing","volume":"44 3","pages":"Pages 300-305"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145050386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}