Creative NursingPub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1177/10784535231195515
Rebecca Smith
{"title":"<i>On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World</i>, by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg.","authors":"Rebecca Smith","doi":"10.1177/10784535231195515","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10784535231195515","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg's 2022 book, <i>On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World</i>, questions the conventional wisdom that being quick to forgive is a virtue. Unless the person who has caused harm has acknowledged the harm, started to change, made restitution, apologized, and is now making different choices, forgiveness is not just unwarranted, it is potentially harmful to individuals and societies.</p>","PeriodicalId":54104,"journal":{"name":"Creative Nursing","volume":"29 2","pages":"238-240"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92157288","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}
Creative NursingPub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1177/10784535231195425
Staci S Reynolds, Valerie K Sabol
{"title":"The Role of Doctor of Nursing Practice-Prepared Nurses to Improve Quality of Patient Care.","authors":"Staci S Reynolds, Valerie K Sabol","doi":"10.1177/10784535231195425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10784535231195425","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Translating evidence-based practices (EBPs) and quality improvement (QI) initiatives to the bedside is a significant need among hospitals and outpatient settings to improve the provision of quality nursing care. However, health-care systems continue to struggle with implementing and sustaining EBPs. To improve the application of EBPs and QI initiatives, hospitals should consider using Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)-prepared nurses in Quality Improvement roles, as DNP graduates have acquired unique expertise in these topics. However, health-care settings do not routinely maximize the use of DNP-prepared nurses in these roles. This article provides an overview of the challenges to understanding the value and impact of DNP-prepared nurses, along with recommendations and opportunities for future practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":54104,"journal":{"name":"Creative Nursing","volume":"29 2","pages":"172-176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41167920","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":"Effectiveness of a Supportive Program on Caregiver Burden of Families Caring for Patients on Invasive Mechanical Ventilation at Home: An Experimental Study.","authors":"Maryam Esmaeili, Nahid Dehghan Nayeri, Fatemeh Bahramnezhad, Samrand Fattah Ghazi, Parvaneh Asgari","doi":"10.1177/10784535231195507","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10784535231195507","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The prevalence of patients on mechanical ventilation who are being supported at home is increasing. Due to these patients' complex and chronic conditions, the subjective burden on their family caregivers increases after discharge. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a supportive home care program on the caregiver burden of families caring for patients on invasive mechanical ventilation at home. Sixty patients hospitalized in three university-affiliated hospitals in Tehran, Iran between 7/2020 and 8/2021 were randomly assigned to one of two groups: A supportive home care program, and routine hospital education. The supportive home care program included six educational sessions delivered in the hospital before discharge, and home visits and continued education after discharge. Caregiver burden was measured using the Zarit Burden Interview. Results showed that caregiver burden increased significantly (<i>p</i> ≥ .001) after discharge without the supportive home care program intervention. Follow-up by nurses after discharge is essential to reduce the psychological burden of caring for patients on invasive mechanical ventilation at home.</p>","PeriodicalId":54104,"journal":{"name":"Creative Nursing","volume":"29 2","pages":"229-237"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41174785","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}
Creative NursingPub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1177/107845352202900111
Lynn Stover Nichols, Michael T Hyde, Michael Mosley, Melanie Gibbons Hallman
{"title":"Connecting Contemporary Trauma Care to Florence Nightingale's Visionary Work.","authors":"Lynn Stover Nichols, Michael T Hyde, Michael Mosley, Melanie Gibbons Hallman","doi":"10.1177/107845352202900111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/107845352202900111","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The impact of Florence Nightingale's visionary work continues to influence the delivery of nursing care in the contemporary emergency department (ED). Her foundational work in the Crimean War resulted in data-based recommendations for using the environment to promote healing and wellness among sick and wounded British soldiers. She advocated for attention to environmental details, including ventilation, air, warmth, drainage, cleanliness, natural light, and low noise levels. These important environmental concepts play a significant role in the nursing management of trauma patients in today's ED. This article features an application of Nightingale's environmental concepts to a trauma patient case exemplar and demonstrates the enduring impact of her work for trauma patients who receive care in the ED.</p>","PeriodicalId":54104,"journal":{"name":"Creative Nursing","volume":"29 1","pages":"147-156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9959357","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}
Creative NursingPub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1177/107845352202900105
Erica Hooper, Sara Horton-Deutsch
{"title":"Integrating Compassion and Theoretical Premises of Caring Science into Undergraduate Health Professions Education.","authors":"Erica Hooper, Sara Horton-Deutsch","doi":"10.1177/107845352202900105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/107845352202900105","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Compassion and caring are critical foundational concepts for the education of health professions students. Yet many curricula emphasize skill-based learning and test-taking preparation, which often limits the opportunities for students to practice compassionately caring for themselves and others. In 2019, an elective wellness course was introduced into a School of Nursing and Health Professions curriculum to provide students with the knowledge, understanding, and practice of self-compassion and caring as the foundation for holistically caring for others. The goal of the course is to use ethics, values, and ontological competencies of self-compassion and Caritas literacy to awaken students to their being, not just doing, and how it evolves throughout their professional careers. Narrative feedback from students demonstrated a deeper understanding of the necessity for compassion and caring for self to provide compassionate care to others.</p>","PeriodicalId":54104,"journal":{"name":"Creative Nursing","volume":"29 1","pages":"53-64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10331249","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}
Creative NursingPub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1177/107845352202900108
Susan Hayes Lane
{"title":"<i>Taking Charge of Your Health & Wellbeing</i>: An Interactive Resource from the Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing at the University of Minnesota.","authors":"Susan Hayes Lane","doi":"10.1177/107845352202900108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/107845352202900108","url":null,"abstract":"Taking Charge of Your Health & Wellbeing (The University of Minnesota, 2016) is an online interactive community resource with a focus on health and wellbeing. This resource was created by The University of Minnesota's Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing (https://www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu/). The website provides a comprehensive tool for one to assess their own health, discover more about different health conditions, consider a variety of holistic practices, and set healthrelated goals through developing holistic approaches and skills. This media review will present an overview of the tools and resources provided by the site, explore the value of the resource, suggest implications for use, describe the strengths, evaluate the understandability and actionability using PEMAT-A/V, and recommend areas of improvement.","PeriodicalId":54104,"journal":{"name":"Creative Nursing","volume":"29 1","pages":"157-164"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10331254","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}
Creative NursingPub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1177/107845352202900112
Megan E Voss, Laura Sandquist, Kate Otremba, Mary Jo Kreitzer
{"title":"Integrative Nursing: A Framework for Whole-Person Mental Health Care.","authors":"Megan E Voss, Laura Sandquist, Kate Otremba, Mary Jo Kreitzer","doi":"10.1177/107845352202900112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/107845352202900112","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The incidence of mental illness continues to increase since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic (Mental Health America, 2022). Demand for mental health services has grown, and providers report being \"unable to meet the demand\" or having an increase in wait times for access to care (American Psychological Association, 2022, para. 1). Due to this increase in demand, more patients are seeking mental health care from their primary care providers. Over the past decade, integrative models of care have been expanding into mental health care (Lake, 2017). Integrative Nursing is a strategy for improving the quality of care provided to patients seeking care for mental health diagnoses, as well as those with a goal of increasing mental health and wellbeing. This article proposes that Integrative Nursing can serve as a framework for providing whole-person mental health care.</p>","PeriodicalId":54104,"journal":{"name":"Creative Nursing","volume":"29 1","pages":"23-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10316298","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}
Creative NursingPub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1177/107845352202900106
Susan L Huehn, MaryBeth Kuehn, Jenny A Ortiz, Rafa T Al-Helal
{"title":"Implementation of a Student Success Seminar and its Correlation with Resilience in Nursing Students: A Mixed-Methods Study.","authors":"Susan L Huehn, MaryBeth Kuehn, Jenny A Ortiz, Rafa T Al-Helal","doi":"10.1177/107845352202900106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/107845352202900106","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aim: </strong>To identify sustainable curricular practices that promote student resilience.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Sophomore students in a four-year baccalaureate nursing program attended a positive psychology seminar and a formal mentoring program led by senior- and junior-level nursing students. Sophomore students 'resilience was measured pre- and post-intervention using the Predictive 6-Factor Resilience Scale (PR6). Additional rich descriptions from the experience of the mentoring program were obtained in surveys from the study participants and mentors at the completion of the program.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>Quantitative and qualitative results supported a strong increase in resilience.</p><p><strong>Conclusion and implications for practice: </strong>Nursing schools can provide students with sustainable support that promotes resilience.</p>","PeriodicalId":54104,"journal":{"name":"Creative Nursing","volume":"29 1","pages":"125-140"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10331251","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":"Career Intentions and the Determining Factors among Health Science Students: A Systematic Review.","authors":"Njaka Stanley, Raishan Shafini Binti Bakar, Kueh Yee Cheng, Aaron Beryl Nwedu, Intan Idiana Binti Hassan","doi":"10.1177/107845352202900113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/107845352202900113","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Health systemsneed adequate personnelin order to function; improvements in health-care services delivery, and coverage and the enjoyment of standard healthcare as a right, depend on the availability, mixture, quality, and accessibility of the health-care workforce.</p><p><strong>Purpose: </strong>This review aimed to synthesize reliable evidence ondetermining factors among health science students' career choices to enhance policy advocacy for better health-care delivery.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>We sourced empirical studies from Scopus, PubMed, ScienceDirect and Google Scholar. From a total of 9,056 researcharticlesfrom 2010 to 2022, 27 studies with a total of 45,832 respondents met the inclusion criteria.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The majority of the studies were of medical students; internal medicine was the commonest choice (64.3%), with psychiatry and public health receiving lesser attention. In the four available studies of nursing students, midwifery was not chosen at all. There is a paucity of studies on this all-important concept for nursing students. The determining factors of choice of specialty were in four themes: personal, socioeconomic, professional, and educational/policy. Among the barriers to choosing particular specialties were low prestige among colleagues, stigma, long working hours, and poor public recognition.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The career choices of health science students do not reflect an adequate mix of health-care team members to meet the health-care needs of the world. Reforms of policy and educational training are needed.</p>","PeriodicalId":54104,"journal":{"name":"Creative Nursing","volume":"29 1","pages":"65-97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10331253","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}
Creative NursingPub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1177/107845352202900109
Marty Lewis-Hunstiger
{"title":"<i>Creative Nursing</i> Vol. 29 #1 (2023): Inspiring, Recruiting, and Retaining the Health-Care Workforce : Launch event celebrating the publication of this issue, hosted by the Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing at the University of Minnesota, is Wednesday, March 1, 2023, 10am-noon CST. Register at https://umn-private.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Ol-D_zQ7T6yMAwUV6z5cCQ.","authors":"Marty Lewis-Hunstiger","doi":"10.1177/107845352202900109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/107845352202900109","url":null,"abstract":"pharmacologic management. The article presents an Integrative Mental Health Clinical Pathway, based on an Integrative Nursing Principle that recommends using the full range of evidence-based interventions, beginning with the least intensive whenever possible. The Clinical Pathway begins with a comprehensive assessment based on Kreitzer’s Wellness Model , leading to suggested interventions on four levels of increasing intensity. A clinical vignette demonstrates the assessment process and interventions in action.","PeriodicalId":54104,"journal":{"name":"Creative Nursing","volume":"29 1","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9951643","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}