Barriers and facilitators continue to exist within neonatal end-of-life care. There is significant importance for NICU nurses to recognize and understand the barriers to and facilitators of providing end-of-life care within their specific unit. Further research is warranted regarding implementation of end-of-life care education in the NICU to improve patient care.
Clinical nurses play an important role in the healthcare team. The practice question for this Doctor of Nursing Practice project explored the perceptions of RNs about their clinical leadership knowledge and competencies at a 160-bed rehabilitation hospital in a metropolitan city in the southeast United States. Thirty RNs completed the following three surveys: an 8-question clinical leadership knowledge assessment, a 17-question leadership competency assessment, and a 6-question emotional intelligence self-assessment. Fifty percent or more of clinical nurses believed that they were knowledgeable in identified components of clinical leadership. The leadership competency skills assessment revealed a wide range: from 3–6% of participants who indicated that they were not at all competent to 33–57% of participants who indicated that they felt very competent. Seventy-six percent of the participants felt positive about their emotional intelligence abilities. Recommendations to nursing leadership included workshops for clinical staff RNs on the various components of the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses’ model of clinical leadership: clinical practice, environment practice, emotional intelligence, and leadership competencies.
Religious congregations have a long history of collaborating with agencies and universities to provide services and implement health promotion activities. 1 Yet despite this history, faith-based organizations seldom consider academic research when developing their own programs. For their part, researchers often avoid collaborative studies of religion and health behavior because of the intensely personal and political nature of the topic. Recently, however, a growing number of researchers and congregations are working together to examine the relationship between religion and health behavior. [1][2][3] Based on the experience of one such project-Columbus Congregations for Healthy Youth-this article describes how such collaboration offers a promising approach for conducting rigorous research in a faith-based setting. By focusing on the controversial area of adolescent sexual health, the project helps illustrate both the potential and the limits of collaborative research involving universities and congregations.
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