Creative NursingPub Date : 2024-02-01Epub Date: 2024-02-02DOI: 10.1177/10784535241228523
Ernest J Grant
{"title":"Starting a New Revolution in Nursing.","authors":"Ernest J Grant","doi":"10.1177/10784535241228523","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10784535241228523","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The onset of COVID-19 and the murder of George Floyd shed light on social justice inequities, disparities in health care and the continuing rise of racism within society. Studies conducted by the American Nurses Foundation also revealed acts of racism within the nursing profession. The creation of the National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing and the American Nurses Association's issuance of an apology through its Racial Reckoning work have begun a revolution within the nursing profession to address this phenomenon. This commentary will provide a brief overview of collaborative initiatives currently underway and address ways in which nurses can do their part to obliterate racism from the nursing profession.</p>","PeriodicalId":54104,"journal":{"name":"Creative Nursing","volume":" ","pages":"7-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139673654","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 : 2024-02-01Epub Date: 2024-02-02DOI: 10.1177/10784535241229448
James H Johnson, G Rumay Alexander
{"title":"Confronting the Nursing Profession's Workforce Challenges: Embracing Iceberg Demographics.","authors":"James H Johnson, G Rumay Alexander","doi":"10.1177/10784535241229448","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10784535241229448","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>U.S. Supreme Court rulings on reproductive rights and affirmative action inadvertently present the nursing profession with a propitious opportunity to capitalize on the nation's rich mosaic of iceberg demographic identities-inherited and acquired traits that may not be visibly apparent-to address imminent challenges such as worker shortages and other perplexities within the workplace milieu.</p>","PeriodicalId":54104,"journal":{"name":"Creative Nursing","volume":" ","pages":"58-64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139673652","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 : 2024-02-01Epub Date: 2024-02-13DOI: 10.1177/10784535241229146
Cassandre V Horne
{"title":"Acculturation and Mental Health: A Scoping Review.","authors":"Cassandre V Horne","doi":"10.1177/10784535241229146","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10784535241229146","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Background:</b> Acculturative stress theory and the healthy immigrant paradox provide conflicting frameworks from which to study the mental health of immigrant groups. This scoping review aims to provide clarity on the mental health effects of acculturation. <b>Review Question:</b> How are anxiety, depression, and stress expressed in the adolescent and adult children of immigrants? <b>Method:</b> Considering various generational classifications, 1333 articles were screened and 25 articles were selected. This review highlights the presentation of cultural stress and its mental health effects in the children of immigrants ranging from 13 to 28 years of age. <b>Conclusions:</b> Social support is necessary as these children and young adults work to reconcile different worldviews. There is a need for a multifaceted approach to health care that incorporates the development of culturally appropriate responses to stressors. Collaboration among health practitioners growing in cultural competency can assist this population not only in the development of coping strategies, but also in self-actualization. The conflicting results found in this review suggest a need for more work in the area of acculturation stress, to grow the understanding of health practitioners within various cultural groups in order to transform mental health clinical practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":54104,"journal":{"name":"Creative Nursing","volume":" ","pages":"29-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139731020","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 : 2024-02-01Epub Date: 2024-02-04DOI: 10.1177/10784535241229461
Mona Lee, Kim Cook
{"title":"Career Pathway Strategies That Reduce Barriers for Nontraditional Nursing Students.","authors":"Mona Lee, Kim Cook","doi":"10.1177/10784535241229461","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10784535241229461","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Everyone recognizes the current nursing scarcity, but not everyone recognizes the need for a diverse nursing workforce to adequately serve patients whose social determinants of health include racism, racial bias, and reduced access to care. This article explores how building innovative partnerships between health-care providers and nursing institutions to advance the incumbent workforce can increase capacity and reduce staff burnout. Such partnerships can drive a culture of employee engagement through the development of career pathways while reducing barriers for nontraditional nursing students in advancing their credentials. This article reports on a strategy to address the nursing shortage and to increase the diversity of the nursing workforce through a licensed vocational nurse-to-registered nurse partnership between a school of nursing and a Federally Qualified Health Center.</p>","PeriodicalId":54104,"journal":{"name":"Creative Nursing","volume":" ","pages":"51-57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139681934","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 : 2024-02-01Epub Date: 2024-02-13DOI: 10.1177/10784535241228546
Katie Boston-Leary, Olga Yakusheva
{"title":"It's Time! The Path for Nursing Reimbursement Reform.","authors":"Katie Boston-Leary, Olga Yakusheva","doi":"10.1177/10784535241228546","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10784535241228546","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Since the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses and nurse leaders are increasingly vocal about chronic understaffing and the impact the staffing crisis continues to have on nurses' well-being and patient outcomes. The American Nurses Association's Nurse Staffing Task Force addressed the importance of staffing standards as a critically needed step toward improving patient and population health outcomes. Against the backdrop of ongoing nursing shortages, hospital leaders have been hesitant to embrace staffing ratios, expressing concerns about their ability to hire and retain sufficient nursing staff, as operational revenue margins remain thin and nursing labor is costly. This article explicates structural issues within the current nursing reimbursement model that harms hospitals' business case for investments in nurse staffing and work environments. We argue that nurses must advocate for nursing reimbursement reform to increase the nursing workforce and improve nurse staffing and work environments. Such reform is necessary to support sustained hospital investments, financial philosophies, and approaches to meaningfully address and improve nurse staffing.</p>","PeriodicalId":54104,"journal":{"name":"Creative Nursing","volume":" ","pages":"37-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139731021","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 : 2024-02-01Epub Date: 2023-11-19DOI: 10.1177/10784535231213843
Shahzad Inayat, Graham McCaffrey
{"title":"Dialectical Pluralism for Nursing Knowledge Development.","authors":"Shahzad Inayat, Graham McCaffrey","doi":"10.1177/10784535231213843","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10784535231213843","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of this paper is to explore the potential of dialectical pluralism (DP) for nursing knowledge development. Nursing scholars have discussed ways of developing nursing knowledge, exploring the fit and relevance of various worldviews for knowledge development and examining the dynamic and perpetual processes of knowledge development. Scholars have argued that knowledge development occurs under a certain worldview to which the researcher adheres. Many nurses employ various worldviews, which can give rise to ontological and epistemological conflicts. DP can help nurses appreciate the diversity of worldviews and recognize the importance of implicit worldviews to generate more practical nursing knowledge. DP as a philosophical approach can enable nurses to communicate between diverse worldviews, become tolerant of conflicting differences, and develop an array of nursing knowledge.</p>","PeriodicalId":54104,"journal":{"name":"Creative Nursing","volume":" ","pages":"12-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138048762","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 : 2023-12-07DOI: 10.1177/10784535231217612
Marty Lewis-Hunstiger
{"title":"Life on the Margins","authors":"Marty Lewis-Hunstiger","doi":"10.1177/10784535231217612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10784535231217612","url":null,"abstract":"This editorial reviews the events of Creative Nursing's 2023 publication year, importantly our transition to Sage Publishing, and the expanded opportunities this new relationship provides in 2024 and beyond. The 11 articles in this theme issue about marginalization are summarized and connected.","PeriodicalId":54104,"journal":{"name":"Creative Nursing","volume":"53 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138593710","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 : 2023-12-07DOI: 10.1177/10784535231212477
Catherine Holton, Sri Banerjee, Phyllis Morgan, Nina M McCune, Amber Cook, Jeani Thomas, Alyssa Vesey
{"title":"Centering Health Equity Through the Social Determinants of Health, Interprofessional Education, and Sustainable Partnerships With Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Envisioning Upstream and Downstream Impacts","authors":"Catherine Holton, Sri Banerjee, Phyllis Morgan, Nina M McCune, Amber Cook, Jeani Thomas, Alyssa Vesey","doi":"10.1177/10784535231212477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/10784535231212477","url":null,"abstract":"The social determinants of health (SDOH) framework identifies barriers to health care, education, financial stability, and other conditions that exist across socially determined parameters, often to the detriment of Communities of Color. Postsecondary healthcare students must be aware of these disparities. In order to address upstream and downstream healthcare equity, the SDOH framework must be leveraged as a cross-disciplinary curricular innovation to support interprofessional education. Historically Black Colleges and Universities have unrealized potential to develop extraordinary healthcare leaders; partnerships integrating SDOH can be a powerful force to advance health equity in the United States.","PeriodicalId":54104,"journal":{"name":"Creative Nursing","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138590306","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 : 2023-11-01Epub Date: 2023-11-05DOI: 10.1177/10784535231212474
Kellie Bryant, Allison Lee
{"title":"Creating a Pathway to Health-Care Professions for Historically Marginalized Students.","authors":"Kellie Bryant, Allison Lee","doi":"10.1177/10784535231212474","DOIUrl":"10.1177/10784535231212474","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Developing a diverse talent pool starting at the high-school level, while students are making future education and career decisions, should be a national priority, given the need to build a diverse health-care workforce. This article describes a 6-week immersive simulation-based summer program to introduce 20 junior high-school students (13-15 years old) to the range of health professions. Because precollege students typically receive limited exposure to clinical settings, high-fidelity simulation is an excellent surrogate for providing realistic experiences in health care. Students heard lectures on health careers, earned basic life support certification, learned to perform basic vital signs measurement, practiced the management of acute asthma, and received an introduction to the daily activities in the life of a nurse and an anesthesiologist. They researched, developed, and presented public service announcement videos about a health-care issue affecting their community. Participants reported being excited about health careers. Future programs will focus on longitudinal support and mentoring, essential for mitigating the higher rates of attrition from health professions among minoritized individuals.</p>","PeriodicalId":54104,"journal":{"name":"Creative Nursing","volume":" ","pages":"389-394"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71488887","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}