Nursing Highlights:

“Information literacy (IL) is crucial for nursing education because it enables nursing students to effectively access, evaluate, and apply research and evidence-based practice (EBP). This includes critically assessing the quality and relevance of information sources, understanding howto effectively search for and retrieve information, and applying research and EBP to clinical decision-making.”

“Nurses who value information and scholarly inquiry will be more likely to analyze and evaluate information, identify gaps in current knowledge, and prioritize research needs to
develop EBP guidelines for safe patient care.12 By participating in EBP activities, nurses can learn how to understand and communicate research findings, which could enhance the
quality of patient care.”

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Emory Healthcare: Occupational and Community Risk Factors forSARS-CoV-2 Seropositivity Among Health Care Workers


“Health care workers (HCWs) are presumed to be athigh risk for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)through occupational exposure to infected patients orcoworkers. Studies have reported a wide range of sero-prevalence of severe acute respiratory syndrome corona-virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes COVID-19,among HCWs. This variation has in part been attributedto differential risk for exposure in the community. Indeed, recent studies have shown that a substantialnumber of infections among HCWs could not be tracedto occupational exposures and that community expo-sures were as or more strongly associated with infection.”

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Journal of Nursing Research Highlights:

Perceptions of clinical research delivery and the Clinical Research Nurse

“The Clinical Research Nurse (CRN) role makes an important contribution to realising the aims of the wider health agenda. Despite its continuing evolution and longevity, the CRN role appears to be one of the least understood outwith the field of clinical research delivery in healthcare settings. The lack of understanding presents additional challenges to those in the role, despite numerous attempts to articulate the core elements of the work through
various publications.”

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JONA Highlights: No more unimplementable nurse workforce planning.

“Mathematical Programming (optimisation) (MP)-based nursing research has been published for nearly thirty years almost exclusively in industrial engineering or health business administration journals, demonstrating a widening gap between nursing research and practice. Nurse scientists’ knowledge and skill of MP is insufficient, as are their interdisciplinary collaborations, setting back the advancement of nursing science. Above all, nurse scientists skilled in decision science are desperately needed for that analytic intellection which is rooted in the intrinsic nature and value of nursing care. It is imperative that nurse scientists be well-prepared for the new age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution through both an education in MP and interdisciplinary collaboration with decision science experts in order to prevent potential stereotyped MP-based algorithm-driven destructive influences.
The current global nursing shortage makes optimal nursing workforce staffing and scheduling more important. MP helps nurse executives and leaders to ensure the most efficient number of nurses with the most effective composition of nurse staffing at the right time for a reasonable cost. Nurse scientists urgently need to produce a new nursing knowledge base that is directly implementable in nursing practice.” (Park)

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Emory Authors: Reimagining the Preceptor Role.

“Preceptors are responsible for departmental specific orientation and shaping the development of the new graduate in the early weeks and months of their nursing career. Turnover of direct care nurses has increased at an alarming rate since the start of the pandemic and new graduate nurses continue to be in high demand, but the diminishing number of qualified preceptors presents a challenge. Innovative approaches are needed to make way for increasing the pace of hiring and onboarding new graduates. A group orientation approach was identified as an opportunity to re-design orientation for newly licensed registered nurses in an employer-based transition to practice nurse residency programs. Findings from the first cohort suggest that leaders, preceptors, direct care nurses, and new graduate orientees were satisfied with a group orientation model. Preparing novice nurses to enter practice requires organizational commitment and resources. Group orientation may be a useful approach to foster new graduate nurses’ transition to practice and advance the preceptor role.” (McDermott)

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Music therapy for pain and anxiety

“There is little research on the use of music therapy with pediatric chronic pain conditions such as amplified pain syndromes. The purpose of the current study was to examine the effects of 3 specific music therapy interventions (active music engagement, live patient-selected music, and music-assisted relaxation) on anxiety and relaxation levels in youth
(ages 10–18) participating in a 40 hr per week hospital-based intensive interdisciplinary pain treatment program.”
“Results show that when utilized within an interdisciplinary treatment environment, specific music therapy interventions elicited positive changes in relaxation and current somatic and cognitive anxiety levels in youth with amplified pain syndromes. Replication of this project with a larger sample size and a control group would lead to more confidence in these preliminary findings”

Comparing Three Music Therapy Interventions for Anxiety and Relaxation in Youth With Amplified Pain.(includes abstract) Scheufler, Ashley; Wallace, Dustin P; Fox, Emily Journal of Music Therapy, Summer2021; 58(2): 177-200. 24p

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Virtual or Telehealth Nursing

“As new nursing care models emerge, care delivery must become more flexible. With the increasing demand for advanced technology when caring for patients, it’s more important than ever to integrate creative solutions that reflect scope of practice, clinical competency, critical thinking, and excellent communication skills to enhance the patient’s experience or quality of care.” (Russell)

Russell
A hybrid virtual nurse model.(includes abstract) Russell, Mary Beth Nursing Management, Feb2023; 54(2): 42-49. 8p. (Article – pictorial, research, systematic review, tables/charts) ISSN: 0744-6314
A telehealth nursing intervention to improve the transition from the neonatal intensive care unit to home for infants & caregivers: Preliminary evaluation.(includes abstract) Sarik, Danielle et al Journal of Pediatric Nursing, Nov2022; 67 139-147. 9p. (Article – research) ISSN: 0882-5963

A virtual nurse practitioner led clinic during COVID-19.(includes abstract) Slotnes-O’Brien, Toni Australian Nursing & Midwifery Journal, Jul-Sep2020; 26(11): 8-9. 2p. (Article – pictorial) ISSN: 2202-7114

Applying Person-Centered Principles to the Design and Implementation of a Virtual Nurse Managed Clinic.(includes abstract) McNeal, Gloria J. ABNF Journal, Summer2019; 30(3): 81-89. 9p. (Article – research, tables/charts) ISSN: 1046-7041

Tele-U to Tele-ICU: Telehealth Nursing Education.(includes abstract) Gibson, Nicole Ann; Arends, Robin; Hendrickx, Lori Critical Care Nurse, Oct2021; 41(5): 34-39. 6p. (Article) ISSN: 0279-5442