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Background: Nursing organizations have called for competencies that entry-level nurses must demonstrate for transition to practice, including demonstrating clinical judgment and use of informatics tools like the electronic health record (EHR). More information is needed to understand how the EHR supports clinical judgment in nursing students. Method: This study employed a qualitative descriptive …
The Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing’s Center for Nursing Research has announced its Research Talks for the 2026-27 academic year. This eight-part virtual series is designed to advance nursing research by fostering collaboration between researchers to bridge the gap between research theory and application.

Cal State Fullerton's School of Nursing has been named a National League for Nursing Center of Excellence, the highest honor in academic nursing. The school, which has a vision to "educate nurses to deliver compassionate, evidence-based care in dynamic healthcare environments serving diverse populations through excellence in teaching, scholarship and service," is the first and only school in Cali…

Kazakhstan's nursing education reforms are beginning to strengthen frontline healthcare, with KAZNMU studies showing that advanced nurse training improves clinical practice while compassionate communication dramatically enhances patient satisfaction. The research also identifies workload, resource, and training gaps, offering practical lessons for countries facing aging populations and growing he…
Nurses negotiate constantly, even when no one calls it that: a charge nurse arguing for one more staff member on a short-handed shift, a nurse manager pushing back on a...

In this project, I addressed a persistent practice problem among agency nurses working in an ambulatory surgery center (ASC) in Southern California, who often enter the facility with varying familiarity with its policies and procedures. I designed this staff education, evidence-based practice (EBP), quality-improvement initiative to strengthen nursing knowledge and competency among agency nurses …

This pilot study adds to the understanding of interventions to manage acculturative stress experienced during undergraduate study abroad programs. It was designed to evaluate the impact of cognitive behavioral strategy training combined with intentional practice during mixed reality (MR) simulations on acculturative stress. Participants included a convenience sample of undergraduate nursing stude…
BackgroundClinical nurses are essential to healthcare, but they experience high rates of depression, anxiety, and sleep disturbances. This study examined the relationships among occupational stressors, sleep problems, mindfulness, and psychological well-being in hospital nurses.MethodsIn a cross-sectional study of 416 clinical nurses from a tertiary general hospital in China, we assessed mindfuln…

The Global Health Program in the UT San Antonio School of Nursing is equipping Doctor of Nursing Practice students to become globally minded nurse leaders through an immersive clinical experience. Since 2024, Kenneth P. Miller, PhD, MJ, RN, CFNP, FAAN, FAANP, associate dean for ambulatory services at the School of Nursing, has taken 11 DNP […] The post Global Health program builds future nursing …

Background: In quantitative nursing research, a comprehensive reporting of results is crucial. Researchers should not only include traditional statistical significance with p-values but also effect size, confidence interval, observed statistical power, and clinical relevance to provide a more holistic understanding of their findings. Objective: This article addresses key aspects of results report…
IntroductionIntensive care unit (ICU) nurses are chronically exposed to patient suffering, death, and morally complex decisions, placing them at elevated risk of empathy fatigue. China currently lacks a psychometrically sound instrument developed specifically to capture empathy fatigue within the ICU specialty context.ObjectiveThis study aimed to cross-culturally adapt the Empathy Fatigue Scale f…
BackgroundFacing rising global surgical volumes and healthcare workforce shortages, task shifting in anesthesia care has been widely implemented, including in China where a specialized anesthesia nursing workforce has rapidly expanded to approximately 60,000. However, this workforce confronts unique challenges including historical professional restrictions and the absence of standardized speciali…

The American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology (AANA) will present Janet A. Dewan, PhD, MS, CRNA, with the Agatha Hodgins Award for Outstanding Accomplishment during its 2026 Annual Congress, August 21-25, in Boston.

Background Electrocardiographic telemetry monitors are ubiquitous in hospitals. Dedicated monitor watchers, either on the unit or in a centralized location, are often responsible for observing telemetry monitors and responding to their alarms. The impact of use of monitor watchers is not known. Objectives To evaluate the association of monitor-watcher use with (1) nurses’ knowledge of electrocar…
Amid nurse shortage, a university rolls out the welcome mat for men By Andrea Hsu Tuesday, July 21, 2026 • 6:00 AM EDT Men are largely missing out on one of the hottest professions in the U.S. right now: nursing. For registered nurses alone, the Labor Department projects there will be 189,000 job openings each year for the next decade. But only 1 in 8 nurses are men. There have long been efforts …

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