{"title":"Heart Preparation for Short-Term Missions.","authors":"Shauna L Meilner","doi":"10.1097/CNJ.0000000000001216","DOIUrl":"10.1097/CNJ.0000000000001216","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Abstract: </strong>Involvement in short-term missions experiences can be most beneficial when intentional personal and group preparation takes place. Learning about the people and history of the destination, identifying one's purpose in making the trip, asking God for direction and affirmation, meditation on Scripture, and prayer for oneself and for those who will be on the receiving end of care or ministry are wise. Willingness to take a servant's mindset and to give time and goods from a biblical perspective shows respect for those to be served.</p>","PeriodicalId":44165,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Christian Nursing","volume":" ","pages":"154-159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141898539","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":"Closing the Gap on Faith Community Nurse Self-Care: A Qualitative Study.","authors":"Linda Bradley","doi":"10.1097/CNJ.0000000000001285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/CNJ.0000000000001285","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Abstract: </strong>Self-care is critical to nurses' health and ability to offer high-quality care, yet national surveys and research with several nursing specialties point to a lack of self-care by nurses. Furthermore, although self-care is a phenomenon that holds historical and evolved awareness and meanings, a common conceptualization of nurses' perspectives of self-care is lacking. This phenomenological study investigated the lived experience of self-care in a previously unexplored nursing specialty-faith community nursing. Interviews with 13 faith community nurses (FCNs) from across the United States contribute to an emic view of FCN self-care as well as a deeper understanding and description of faith community nursing practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":44165,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Christian Nursing","volume":"42 3","pages":"178-185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144250139","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":"PulseBeats.","authors":"","doi":"10.1097/CNJ.0000000000001301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/CNJ.0000000000001301","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44165,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Christian Nursing","volume":"42 3","pages":"191"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144250165","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":"What Makes a Good Leader Follower?","authors":"Angela C Wolff","doi":"10.1097/CNJ.0000000000001293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/CNJ.0000000000001293","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44165,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Christian Nursing","volume":"42 3","pages":"140-141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144250170","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":"Unearthing Culture to Support Health Promotion: Learning from Rural Guatemalan Women.","authors":"Linda S Johanson, Carol Claypool","doi":"10.1097/CNJ.0000000000001251","DOIUrl":"10.1097/CNJ.0000000000001251","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Abstract: </strong>This ethnographical qualitative study focused on health perceptions and practices of rural Guatemalan women. Researchers gathered data through interviews and observations in health, school, and village settings. Three themes emerged in data analysis: health practices are related to the situation of poverty; knowledge gaps exist related to healthcare; and natural remedies are a prevalent practice in rural communities. The findings can help structure sustainable health programs not only for rural Guatemalan communities but where poverty and/or lack of knowledge influence health, as well as point to the importance of nurses practicing cultural humility and providing collaborative care.</p>","PeriodicalId":44165,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Christian Nursing","volume":" ","pages":"160-167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142669628","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":"Life is in the Blood: Experiential Learning in Surgical Missions.","authors":"","doi":"10.1097/CNJ.0000000000001306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/CNJ.0000000000001306","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44165,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Christian Nursing","volume":"42 3","pages":"E51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144250149","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":"Pursuing Reconciliation.","authors":"","doi":"10.1097/CNJ.0000000000001298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/CNJ.0000000000001298","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44165,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Christian Nursing","volume":"42 3","pages":"186"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144250166","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":"Overcoming Reluctance to Nursing Overseas.","authors":"Peggy Curry","doi":"10.1097/CNJ.0000000000001146","DOIUrl":"10.1097/CNJ.0000000000001146","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Abstract: </strong>A North American nurse confronted her ongoing resistance about living in the Middle East and later India. Through studying the Bible and praying, the author overcame her reluctance as she worked as a school nurse on the Arabian Peninsula, faced breast cancer, and later embraced the opportunity to provide nursing care to sex-trafficked women in a brothel. In each setting, she experienced God's supernatural work of changing her attitude and enabling her to express her faith in Christ to those whom she served and lived among.</p>","PeriodicalId":44165,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Christian Nursing","volume":" ","pages":"150-153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138811259","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":"Academic Nurse Educators: A Correlational Study on COVID-19 and Well-Being.","authors":"Rachel A Joseph, Tracey M Turner, Jichan J Kim","doi":"10.1097/CNJ.0000000000001289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/CNJ.0000000000001289","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Abstract: </strong>Academic nurse educators (ANEs) are essential for ensuring that the next generation of nurses is adequately prepared professionally and in sufficient numbers to meet healthcare and workforce needs. Although the pandemic is considered over, there are continued implications on the efficacy of nursing education that is linked to the overlooked significance and well-being of ANEs. This study examined the relationship between the COVID-19 event and stress levels and overall well-being of ANEs.</p>","PeriodicalId":44165,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Christian Nursing","volume":"42 3","pages":"E43-E50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144250137","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}