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Letha Joseph

Consulting Associate in the School of Nursing
School of Nursing

Selected Publications


Veterans’ Health: Insights for Nurse Practitioner Practice

Journal Article Journal for Nurse Practitioners · February 1, 2025 Military veterans have a high prevalence of psychosocial concerns and multimorbidity at an early age, creating unique health care challenges. Military culture can create barriers to seeking health care. The United States Department of Veterans Affairs has ... Full text Cite

Ethical challenges in the care of aging population: Experience from the United States of America

Chapter · October 23, 2024 Ethical principles form the foundation of healthcare practice in all settings. Autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice are the major ethical principles that govern healthcare practice. These ethical principles apply to the health care of aging ... Full text Cite

Health Care Team Interventions to Reduce Distress Behaviors in Older Adults: A Systematic Review.

Journal Article Clin Gerontol · 2024 OBJECTIVES: This review examines health care team-focused interventions on managing persistent or recurrent distress behaviors among older adults in long-term residential or inpatient health care settings. METHODS: We searched interventions addressing heal ... Full text Link to item Cite

"Just-in-Time" COVID-19 Education: The Story of a Nursing Professional Development Unit.

Journal Article Journal for nurses in professional development · November 2023 The pandemic jolted our healthcare professionals like none other in modern history. Though it was a crisis of unparalleled proportion, it brought out the best in the nursing professional development unit of a minority nurses association. In this article, t ... Full text Cite

Medical Misinformation and Healthy Information Environment: A Call to Action

Journal Article Journal for Nurse Practitioners · April 1, 2023 Medical misinformation existed even before the digital era. However, with the surge in Internet use, misinformation spreads faster to a broader audience. Easy access to misinformation and the lack of trustworthy resources increase people's vulnerability to ... Full text Cite

Aging in Place: Interprofessional Approaches to Empower Informal Caregivers

Journal Article Journal for Nurse Practitioners · January 1, 2023 “Aging in place” allows people to continue living in the familiar places where they spent their young adult life. Aging individuals choose to age in place with support from their families and the community. Informal caregivers play a significant role in ag ... Full text Cite

Impact of COVID-19 on mental health and emotional well-being of older adults

Journal Article World Journal of Virology · May 25, 2022 Full text Cite

Alpha-Gal: A Delayed Onset of Anaphylaxis and Uncovering the Cause.

Journal Article Journal of emergency nursing · September 2019 Full text Cite

Implementing and feasibility testing depression screening using the electronic medical record for patients with type 2 diabetes admitted to the hospital.

Journal Article Nursing open · January 2019 AimIs it feasible to implement a programme to screen for depression in patients admitted to the hospital for diabetes complications and use the electronic medical record to notify providers of their patient's depression score and give suggestions ... Full text Open Access Cite

Management of type 2 diabetes in Asian Indians: a review of the literature.

Journal Article Clinical nursing research · April 2015 Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is increasing in Asian Indians globally. In this article, we review published studies of interventions designed to prevent T2DM or improve self-management in South Asian Indians. A PubMed, CINAHL, Medline, EMBASE, Psycinfo, ... Full text Cite