Optimizing Academic-Practice Partnerships to Promote Transition to Nursing Practice.

BackgroundAn academic-practice partnership was implemented in Northwestern Ontario with the goals of enhancing cross- sector collaboration, co-creating research knowledge related to transition to practice, engaging and recruiting nurses, and mobilizing knowledge to improve the transition experience. There is a growing nursing shortage requiring novel solutions to support retention, particularly for rural and remote populations. Academic-practice partnerships can be leveraged to improve working conditions and consequently job satisfaction (Padilla & Kreider, 2020; Rogers et al.

Embedding a culture of research in Canadian community hospitals: a qualitative study.

Background: In Canada, academic hospitals are the principal drivers of research and medical education, while community hospitals provide patient care to a majority of the population. Benefits of increasing community hospital research include improved patient outcomes and access to research, enhanced staff satisfaction and retention and increased research efficiency and generalizability. While the resources required to build Canadian community hospital research capacity have been identified, strategies for strengthening organizational research culture in these settings are not well defined.

Supporting professional practice transition in undergraduate nursing education: a scoping review protocol.

Objective: This scoping review will describe educational programming that supports undergraduate student nurses' transition to practice and/or enhances practice readiness.

Introduction: The period of transition from nursing student to professional nurse is fraught with challenges stemming from the evolving role and the increasing demands of independent practice. While transition-to-practice programming exists for new graduate nurses, there is less focus on preparing students in their final year of education.

Sailing in the Winds of Change: Navigating the Future of Nursing Education.

Background: This article aims to enlighten a new vision for nurse educators and leaders seeking to navigate the future of nursing education.

Method: An analogy of sailing in a storm is used to create an image of nursing in the wake of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Implications for nursing education are presented and organized around the themes of the crew (nurses), the captains (nurse leaders), the act of sailing (caring), the vessel (the profession), navigational tools (guiding forces), and the winds of change (contextual forces).

The central question and the scope of nursing research.

As nursing continues to develop as a professional discipline, it is important for nurses to have a central question to guide their research. Since the 1800s, nursing practice and research have covered a wide scope in cooperation with other disciplines. This wide area of nursing practice and research has led to the proposal that the central question be: How can the well-being of a person, family, community, or population be improved? The proposed question must remain flexible and open to revision because nurses will continue to adapt to the changing needs of their patients and populations and to their complex and evolving work environments.