Journal articleCreative nursing · November 2025
Millions of Americans are affected by vision loss. Individuals diagnosed with Leber hereditary optic neuropathy face unique challenges due to the sudden and severe nature of vision loss. This genetic condition often results in difficulty obtaining a timely ...
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Journal articleJournal for Nurse Practitioners · May 1, 2025
The purpose of this project was to identify how frequently nurse practitioner (NP) students in primary care clinical experiences performed advanced clinical activities. We conducted a 5-year retrospective analysis of clinical logs from students in 4 popula ...
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Journal articleEnviron Pollut · February 15, 2025
Radon is a naturally occurring radioactive gas derived from the decay of uranium in the Earth's crust. Radon exposure is the leading cause of lung cancer among non-smokers in the US. Radon infiltrates homes through soil and building foundations. This study ...
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Journal articleCulture, health & sexuality · February 2025
This paper uses Ambiguous Loss Theory to explore the anticipatory and ambiguous losses and stressors surrounding the decision to come out as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender or Queer. Purposive sampling was used to administer a survey to 429 individuals ...
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Journal articleJ Palliat Med · February 2025
Myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) are a group of rare chronic progressive blood cancers that vary widely in clinical presentation, yet all patients have a risk of disease progression and thrombotic complications. Diseases include primary myelofibrosis, p ...
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Journal articleJournal of homosexuality · January 2025
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, or Queer (LGBTQ+) individuals may experience judgment, exclusion, and rejection by religious environments. This mixed methods study focused on the impact of religion on sexual orientation disclosure/coming out. Through ...
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Journal articleFrontiers in public health · January 2025
Adolescents in rural communities face persistent mental health disparities due to provider shortages, social isolation, and stigma. Traditional care models remain insufficient. This perspective explores how artificial intelligence (AI) tools combined with ...
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Journal articleCreat Nurs · November 2024
Purpose: This study explored barriers and facilitators to utilizing health-care services for foster youth, from the perspective of foster parents. Background: There are nearly 437,283 youths in the United States foster care system. Youths living in locatio ...
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Journal articleJ Environ Radioact · July 2024
Radon is a naturally occurring radioactive gas that poses significant health risks to humans, including increased risk of lung cancer. This study investigates the association of neighborhood-level socioeconomic variables with radon testing and radon exposu ...
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Journal articleJournal for Nurse Practitioners · May 1, 2024
Topical and oral steroids are commonly prescribed to patients of all ages for inflammatory skin conditions. Cessation of long-term topical steroid use can result in topical steroid withdrawal syndrome (TSWS), also known as red skin syndrome, but TSWS can a ...
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Journal articleJournal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners · January 2024
BackgroundOpioid use disorder (OUD) has been increasing in pregnant patients over the past two decades. Best practice guidelines that are available for these patients, must now be implemented by health care teams. Clinical checklists have been use ...
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Journal articleJournal for Nurse Practitioners · November 1, 2023
This qualitative study sought to understand lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) individuals’ experiences of sexual orientation disclosure in health care settings and ways health care providers (HCPs) can create supportive and inclusive relat ...
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Journal articleJournal of child health care : for professionals working with children in the hospital and community · June 2023
Parents of children born with complex life-threatening chronic conditions (CLTCs) experience an uncertain trajectory that requires critical decision making. Along this trajectory, hope plays an influential but largely unexplored role; therefore, this quali ...
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Journal articleJournal of hospice and palliative nursing : JHPN : the official journal of the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association · February 2023
The purpose of this article is to explore factors that influence pediatric patients and their parents during provider-led goals-of-care conversations. Our framework can help providers enhance holistic communication by approaching difficult topics (ie, qual ...
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Journal articleThe Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC · January 2023
AbstractStigma is a fundamental cause of health inequities. Guided by the Adaptive Leadership Framework for Chronic Illness (ALFCI), this descriptive qualitative study explored the challenges of stigma and disclosure experienced by women with HIV ...
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Journal articleThe Journal of nursing education · November 2022
BackgroundThreading content on the social determinants of health into the nursing curricula is a best practice recommended by certifying bodies; however, introducing content on social determinants of health can overwhelm learners, who may have dif ...
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Journal articleThe Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing · October 2022
Deaths attributed to rising temperatures and heat waves represent a continuing public health concern. Climate change affects social determinants of health and local and global health inequities, especially those negatively impacted by high temperat ...
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Journal articleNursing forum · September 2022
Adultification is the term used to define how Black children are viewed as older than they are. Systemic racism has forced Black children into social, emotional, and physical adult roles before they are adults, contributing to adultification. Pediatric and ...
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Journal articleThe Journal of nursing education · August 2022
BackgroundTransgender individuals continue to face stigma and discrimination within the health care system. Sharing the lived experience of transgender pregnant men can increase awareness, understanding, and empathy for this underrepresented popul ...
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Journal articleHealth promotion practice · July 2022
Systematic racism and structural discrimination in the United States are factors that have negatively affected the health of Black individuals and families. One form of racism that often goes unrecognized and yet has a profound negative impact on the healt ...
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Journal articleBMC women's health · June 2022
BackgroundWomen living with HIV (WLWH) report low engagement in health care, missed office visits, and less engagement in the clinical encounter. Strengthening the clinical encounter for WLWH may improve health outcomes and quality of life. The Ad ...
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Journal articleThe Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC · May 2022
AbstractWomen living with HIV have a higher burden of non-AIDS comorbidities and prevalence of chronic conditions. The Adaptive Leadership Framework for Chronic Illness clarifies living with complex health challenges by delineating the technical w ...
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Journal articleThe Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC · March 2022
AbstractBlack women living with HIV (WLWH) face individual and sociostructural challenges. Despite these challenges, many exemplify remarkable levels of resilience and coping. Yet, research on resilience and coping in this population is limited. T ...
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Journal articleJournal of pediatric nursing · November 2021
PurposeChildren born with Complex Life-Threatening Conditions (CLTCs) often require complex and specialized services. Parents of children with CLTCs balance the role of caregiver with other responsibilities of employment, education, relationships, ...
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Journal articleNurse education in practice · July 2021
ObjectiveIncrease student knowledge and comfort with caring for a transgender individual and confronting colleagues when exhibiting poor cultural intelligence.BackgroundTransgender patients often experience health care inequities, includi ...
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Journal articleAJN, American Journal of Nursing · March 2021
ABSTRACT:This article describes the case of a chronically ill patient whose care was grossly mismanaged as a result of the policies and practices of a dysfunctional health system. This case illustrates the import ...
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Journal articleCreative Nursing · February 2021
Discussing racism is challenging for nurse educators and nursing students, because White privilege and racial inequities are deeply embedded and normalized in our societal structures. Avoiding the topic of racism in nursing education renders White ...
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Journal articleJournal of hospice and palliative nursing : JHPN : the official journal of the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association · December 2020
This article presents the case of a mother of young children who has terminal stage IV cancer with whom providers had not discussed goals of care and prognostication. Communications about prognostication and goals of care are commonly initiated by physicia ...
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Journal articleJournal of hospice and palliative nursing : JHPN : the official journal of the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association · August 2020
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The health care decisions of families of children who have life-limiting genetic diseases are impacted by multiple factors including religious and ethical values, education and knowledge, emotional trauma, availability of support, and accessibility of care ...
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