School Nurses Dealing With Moral Distress During the COVID-19 Pandemic: What Can We Learn Going Forward?

School nurses experienced increased workloads and changes to practice during the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to emotional stressors. A national survey was distributed through the National Association of School Nurses from December 2021 to February 2022. Participants' ( = 1,479) levels of moral distress were measured and analyzed for possible associations with demographics and moral dilemmas.

Enhancing Emergency Obstetric Care Through Implementation of a Triage Acuity Score: A Quality Improvement Initiative.

Background: Maternal morbidity and mortality in the U.S. remain a significant concern, particularly in obstetric emergency settings where inefficient triage delays care and contributes to adverse outcomes.

Advanced Practice Public Health Nursing (APHN) in the U.S.: Roles and Education.

In early 2023, Association of Community Health Nursing Educators (ACHNE) convened a task force of public health nursing education thought leaders from the United States (US) to revise their position paper on the state of graduate public health nursing education. [Correction added on May 16, 2025. after first online publication: In the preceding sentence, the legal name of the organization (ACHNE) has been corrected in this version.

Nurses' Perceptions of Psychedelics to Address Mental Health Problems in the United States.

Objective: To explore nurses' knowledge, attitudes, and perceived social norms about psychedelic use to address mental health conditions.

Methods: Data were collected through an anonymous e-survey of Minnesota registered nurses, advanced practice registered nurses, and psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioners in Spring 2023; the pool was randomly selected from the Minnesota Board of Nursing registry.

Results: A total of 1133 nurses completed the survey.

Optimizing Adolescent Mental Health Treatment: A Study of the Warm Handoff.

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to describe the warm handoff (WH) and to evaluate its use and impact with adolescents.

Methods: A case study design utilized a parallel convergent mixed-methods approach. Chi Square analysis and logistic regression examined the association between type of referral and attendance at the initial behavioral health appointment among other variables.

A qualitative study of school nurses' moral distress related to COVID-19.

Objective: To understand school nurses' perceptions and experiences of moral distress related to COVID-19 case management in the school systems.

Design: A descriptive qualitative study guided by Braun and Clarke's reflexive thematic analysis.

Sample: Twelve school nurses practicing in Colorado from December 2021 to January 2022.

The S.I.T.E. Framework: A Novel Approach for Sustainably Integrating Trauma-Informed Approaches in Schools.

Students who present as dysregulated due to the impacts of trauma and toxic stress can challenge educators and find themselves improperly or insufficiently supported, punitively consequenced and unable to equitably access education. Trauma-informed approaches based on an understanding of brain development and function have been put forth as best practice for supporting students with trauma histories. The novel Sustainably Integrated Trauma-Informed Education Framework (S.

Systems of communication in school-nurse led care coordination: A concept analysis.

Aim: To analyze the concept of systems of communication in school nurse-led care coordination to develop an operational definition that will inform intervention development.

Background: Communication has been identified as an essential attribute in care coordination. However, previous concept analyses of care coordination did not clearly define systems of communication or consider the context of school-based care coordination.

Program implementation and outcomes from three cohorts of the nurse-family partnership nurse residency program.

Background: The purpose of this paper is to describe a Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) Nurse Residency Program (NRP) and program outcomes.

Methods: Dual methods were used to evaluate the first three cohorts of the NFP NRP. Participants were new NFP nurses, most working in Colorado.

Implementation Factors and Teacher Experience of the Integrated Nutrition Education Program: A Mixed Methods Program Evaluation.

Background: School-based programs are widely implemented to address childhood obesity. Despite the promise of these programs, evidence on their effectiveness is mixed. Adopting a dissemination and implementation (D&I) science focus utilizing mixed methods can provide a broader understanding and more robust details about these programs.

Understanding the experience of the implementer: teachers' perspectives on implementing a classroom-based nutrition education program.

School-based programs are widely implemented to combat childhood obesity, but these programs have mixed results. Dissemination and implementation science approaches to evaluation using qualitative methods can provide more robust details about program functioning that may be able to help explain the variation in the impact of these programs. Fourteen in-depth interviews were conducted with classroom teachers implementing a school-based program, the Integrated Nutrition Education Program (INEP), to explore their experience.

Confidential Screening for Sex Trafficking Among Minors in a Pediatric Emergency Department.

Objectives: Child sex trafficking is a global health problem, with a prevalence of 4% to 11% among high-risk adolescents. The objective of this study was to confidentially administer a validated screening tool in a pediatric emergency department by using an electronic tablet to identify minors at risk for sex trafficking. Our hypothesis was that this modality of administration would adequately identify high-risk patients.

Perspectives of parents of working adolescents in Ontario, Canada.

Background: More than half of adolescents have jobs in summer or sometime during the year. While employers are ultimately responsible for their safety, parents are often important in helping their children navigate the work environment. Our study examines the attitudes, beliefs and types of involvement parents have in their children's work.

How hospital practitioners can support sofa surfing adolescents to access community mental health services: An English perspective.

Informal homelessness or, as Centrepoint describe, 'the hidden homeless' includes young people who may sleep on their friends' or extended family's couches or floor. They estimate that 103,000 people aged 16-24 in the United Kingdom presented to their Local Authority in 2017-2018 as being or at risk of being homeless. A proportion of young people who experience homelessness rely on their own resources rather than approaching their Local Authority for support.

Predictors of Physical Activity in a Predominantly Hispanic Sample of Adolescents.

In the United States, the vast majority of Hispanic high school students do not meet physical activity recommendations. This prospective, observational study tested the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to predict physical activity in a convenience sample of 232 high school students from a predominantly Hispanic, rural-fringe, lower-income community in Southwestern United States. Mindfulness was tested as a moderator of the intention-physical activity relationship.

Adolescent Marijuana Use and Perceived Ease of Access Before and After Recreational Marijuana Implementation in Colorado.

Background: As of January 1, 2017, eight states have approved laws for recreational marijuana use. While the social impacts of these changes remain under debate, the influence on adolescent marijuana use is a key policy and health issue across the U.S.

The DNP/MPH Dual Degree: An Innovative Graduate Education Program for Advanced Public Health Nursing.

Strong professional priorities, evolving Affordable Care Act requirements, and a significantly limited public health nursing workforce prompted the University of Colorado College of Nursing to collaborate with the School of Public Health to implement one of the first Doctor of Nursing Practice/Master of Public Health dual degree programs in the nation. Federal grant funding supported the development, implementation, and evaluation of this unique post-baccalaureate dual degree program, for which there were no roadmaps, models, or best practices to follow. Several key issues emerged that serve as lessons learned in creating a new, novel higher education pathway for Advanced Public Health Nursing.

Mobile Phone and Social Media Use of Homeless Youth in Denver, Colorado.

The purpose of this study was to investigate homeless youth mobile phone and social media use, to plan health promotion efforts. Nearly half (46.7%) of runaway/homeless youth in this sample (n = 181) owned a mobile phone and a majority of those devices were smart phones.

Decreasing Psychiatric Admission Wait Time in the Emergency Department by Facilitating Psychiatric Discharges.

Limited capacity in a psychiatric unit contributes to long emergency department (ED) admission wait times. Regulatory and accrediting agencies urge hospitals nationally to improve patient flow for better access to care for all types of patients. The purpose of the current study was to decrease psychiatric admission wait time from 10.

Improving a Urine Culture Callback Follow-up System in a Pediatric Emergency Department.

Introduction: Delays in appropriate treatment and unnecessary antibiotic use for urinary tract infections (UTIs) increase the risk for serious adverse events and the potential for antibiotic resistance. The purposes of this quality improvement project were to decrease emergency department laboratory result follow-up time and increase the number of patients who are notified to stop taking an empiric antibiotic.

Method: Nine months of Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles were implemented in a pediatric emergency department and network of care sites.

Assessing exploitation experiences of girls and boys seen at a Child Advocacy Center.

The primary aim of this study was to describe the abuse experiences of sexually exploited runaway adolescents seen at a Child Advocacy Center (N=62). We also sought to identify risk behaviors, attributes of resiliency, laboratory results for sexually transmitted infection (STI) screens, and genital injuries from colposcopic exams. We used retrospective mixed-methods with in-depth forensic interviews, together with self-report survey responses, physical exams and chart data.

Adolescent Mobile Phone Use and Mobile Phone-Based Health Promotion.

The past 20 years of mobile technology has shifted the ways in which young people communicate and network with one another. Mobile phone use is prevalent among adolescents and therefore is an ideal form of communication for tailored health care. This is especially so given the dramatic uptake in use of mobile technologies in this age group.