Analysis of congruence between nursing metaparadigm concepts and American Academy Nursing policy 2010 to 2024.

Background: Nursology (aka nursing) is the study and practice of discipline specific knowledge. The most abstract component of nursology is its metaparadigm, which is foundational to all other nursology knowledge.

Purpose: The purpose of this literature review was to identify the extent to which the metaparadigm concepts are evident in American Academy of Nursing approved journal and website articles about health policy published between 2010 and 2024.

Diversifying the Workforce Through Focused Support of Nursing Students With Socioeconomic Challenges.

Background: Diversifying the nursing workforce entails concerted efforts to recruit and retain students from under-represented racial and socioeconomic groups who are especially vulnerable to barriers hindering academic success. This article describes faculty strategies for retaining and supporting students toward program completion and first-time National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEXRN) passage at a mission-driven school in rural Appalachia where most of the students have socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds.

Method: Independent samples t tests were used to compare academic variables between students who passed the NCLEX-RN on their first attempt and students who did not.

Mental Health Rather than Mental Disorders as a Predictor of Immediate Postoperative Recovery After Elective Lumbar Fusion: Using the PROMIS-10 Global Mental Health T Score.

Study Design: Retrospective comparative cohort.

Objective: Investigate how a patient's mental health, as measured using the PROMIS-10 Global Mental Health T score (MHT), influences their in-hospital recovery after elective 1- to 2-level lumbar fusion.

Summary Of Background Data: The intersection of mental and physical health among candidates for lumbar fusion has increased.

Racism and Nursing Leadership in Massachusetts: A Mixed-Methods Study.

Background: Nursing in the United States has evolved within the same historical context that has reproduced and spread racism worldwide. Nurse administrators are integral to the quality of nurses' practice and play a key role in eliminating racial injustice in places of work.

Purpose: Using a feminist and critical race feminist framework, this study examined Massachusetts nurses' experiences of racism in their places of work, focusing on nurse administrators' influence on the nonadministrator (staff nurse) experience of racism experiences before and after George Floyd's death.

Toward A Fuller Definition for the Science of Nursing Education Through Hermeneutical Analysis.

Background: Authors writing about the science of nursing education have tended to focus extensionally, describing and analyzing the significance and benefits of nurse educators' unique, individual teaching endeavors, rather than clarifying their perceptions of the intensional core essence of the science itself. As a result, communal thinking about the science of nursing education and its implications for student learning are constrained. Methods: Hermeneutical analysis of published reports and narratives supported identification of a provisional, intensionally oriented definition of the science guiding nurse educators' disciplinary practice.

Ramifications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Nursing Students' Transition to Practice.

As the COVID-19 pandemic altered the course of nursing education worldwide, it disrupted efforts to transition nursing students to professional practice. The investigators examined clinical nursing faculty members' assessment of senior students' practice strengths and challenges compared to graduates of prior years. Findings demonstrated COVID-19's wide-ranging impacts on nursing students' transition to practice and offered suggestions about the implications for nursing professional development practitioners.

COVID-19-Mediated Strengths and Challenges for 2021 Nursing Graduates: Implications for Nurse Leaders and Educators.

The purpose of this hospital-based quality improvement project was to ascertain 18 clinical instructors' perceptions regarding senior nursing students' strengths and challenges in the time of COVID-19. Constant comparative method yielded 4 themes suggesting 2021 diversity in senior nursing students' clinical strengths and challenges, as well COVID-19's implications for students' professional identity development and transition to professional practice. Findings also suggested significant implications for nurses in professional development roles.

Storytelling and Workplace Bullying as Deterrents to Evidence-Based Innovation in Teaching: Nurse Educators' Lived Experiences.

Aim: The aim of this study was to examine the impact of academic context characteristics, especially bullying, on innovation in nursing education.

Background: Rapid and extensive changes in health care have prompted recognition of a need for concomitant changes in nurse educators' teaching practices. Nurse educator successes in meeting the demands of change, however, are challenged by constraints characterizing their academic practice settings.

African American Nurses' Perspectives on a Leadership Development Program.

United States demographics are changing, but that change is yet to be recognized in the makeup of the nursing workforce. The underrepresentation of minorities in nursing is a longstanding problem, resulting in missed opportunities for culturally sensitive care that can foster optimal patient care outcomes. This report describes qualitative analysis of leadership opportunities emerging from a collaborative leadership development program between an urban baccalaureate nursing program and a large healthcare system in the northeast United States.

Examining 'sticky' storytelling and moral claims as the essence of workplace bullying.

Background: Fisher (1985) argued that "there is no genre…that is not an episode in the story of life" (p. 347). As they incorporate moral claims, stories become 'sticky,' even when they are not accurate of fact, shifting listener beliefs, values, and sense of self.

Assessing Family-Like Dynamics in the Workplace as Possible Precursors of Workplace Bullying: Psychometric Analysis of a Modified Instrument.

Background And Purpose: Family-like dynamics in workplaces may serve as antecedents to workplace bullying. This study addressed the psychometric properties of an instrument modified to assess family-like dynamics in the workplace.

Design: The investigators used categorical principal components analysis (CATPCA) to investigate the psychometric properties of an instrument modified to measure coworker perceptions of family-like dynamics in the workplace.

Nurse Author: Who Me? Yes, You!

Background And Purpose: Potential nurse authors may find writing a challenge, including managing the publication process from getting started through submission to revision of the work and its acceptance. This special article presents strategies to help inexperienced writers develop and hone skills for journal publication.

Potential Publication Strategies: Tips discussed here that may lead to manuscript acceptance include selecting a topic of interest, using motivational self-talk approaches and structuring time to write, choosing coauthors, targeting a journal for submission, writing strong sentences in active voice, developing a structured abstract, using correct citation and reference formats, understanding reviews and resubmitting the manuscript, and keeping momentum to produce continued writing results.

The incongruity of workplace bullying victimization and inclusive excellence.

Purpose: Bullying occurs frequently-and with significant negative outcomes-in workplace settings. Once established, bullying endures in the workplace, requiring the interaction of a bully perpetrator and an intended target who takes on the role of victim. Not every target becomes a victim, however.

Unacknowledged threats proffered "in a manner of speaking": recognizing workplace bullying as shaming.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine workplace bullying victims' perceptions of what they heard their bully counterparts say through their use of prosody.

Design: From a sampling frame of 89 manuscripts referenced in the authors' previous studies, we identified a subset (n = 10) that included quotes regarding bullying victims' perceptions of communication experiences with their bully perpetrators.

Methods: We used hermeneutics and a recursive metasynthesis to interpret quotes embedded in the manuscripts chosen for this study.

Status limbo: analysis of nurse faculty member reports of administrator response to workplace bullying complaints.

Increasing concern about bullying among adults in workplaces is notable internationally. Unlike blatant physical bullying, workplace bullying often involves bullies' dismissive, demeaning, and typically surreptitious, one-on-one communications with their intended victims. These communications challenge recognition when they are examined beyond the interpersonal margins of the bully-victim dyad.

Examining the factor structure of the Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS) as a measure of victim response to the psychological pain of subtle workplace bullying.

Background And Purpose: Literature addressing victim-bully dynamics suggests that subtle bullying is prevalent in health care, both in practice and educational settings. The complex dynamics of workplace bullying complicate its assessment. The purpose was to investigate the factor structure of the Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS) for modeling victim responses to subtle workplace bullying.

An overview of the DSM-5: changes, controversy, and implications for psychiatric nursing.

Scheduled for publication in May 2013, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition (DSM-5), will guide clinical diagnoses, treatment plans, medication choices and protocols, insurance reimbursements, and research agendas throughout the United States. It will also serve as a reference manual for clinicians around the world. This primary diagnostic source used by psychiatric and mental health providers is undergoing significant change in organization and content relative to the previous edition.

Speaking of workplace bullying.

Despite the increasing frequency of its reported incidence, especially in health care practice and education settings, workplace bullying seems to defy victims' clear understanding of its effects on them personally and to challenge their ability to provide cogent explanations about those effects to others. Especially, when it is subtle, as is the case in much of workplace bullying, the experience is emotionally confusing to its victims, and its inherent behaviors often seem absurd to those who have not lived through them firsthand. Moreover, the outwardly innocuous behaviors of subtle workplace bullying can yield long-term disorder for victims' coworkers and for employing organizations.

Worth 1,000 words: concept mapping for tenure and promotion.

Organizing tenure/promotion dossiers can be a daunting task for junior faculty. As an adjunct to a strong program of scholarship, concept mapping can help as a concise and effective tool when applying for tenure and promotion. Concept mapping is explained here as a value-added, graphic method for junior faculty to use in presenting their scholarship accomplishments in the tenure and promotion dossier in a single overview beyond the written narrative.