Navigating the path of academic progression: A qualitative descriptive study of associate degree nursing faculty, public health nurses, and school nurses

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-51
Author(s):  
Jill N. Peltzer ◽  
Cynthia S. Teel ◽  
Jessica Cline ◽  
Gracielle Cromwell
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Nursing Faculty ◽  
Associate Degree Nursing ◽  
Associate Degree ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
School Nurses ◽  
Public Health Nurses ◽  
Academic Progression ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive

scholarly journals Child-rearing Support Provided by Public Health Nurses to People with Mental Illness: Qualitative Descriptive Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 162-170
Author(s):  
Masako Kageyama ◽  
Keiko Yokoyama
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Personality Disorders ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Public Health Nurses ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Parents With Mental Illness

Background: The growing rates of deinstitutionalization in Japan have resulted in an increase in the number of children being raised by parents with mental illness. Given this situation, public health nurses working for local governments play an important role. Objective: The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to describe the child-rearing support provided by public health nurses to parents with mental illness. Methods: Seven nurses identified 28 cases of parents with mental illness. Descriptions of the goals and details of the appropriate nursing support were extracted from transcripts, coded, and categorized. Results: Parents with mental illness diagnosed with addiction and personality disorders were more difficult to support than those diagnosed with mood disorders or schizophrenia. Public health nurses supported parents with mental illness with the aim of achieving goals such as “building continuous consultative relationships,” “ensuring living conditions had a minimum level of safety and comfort,” “parents playing their roles,” “parents and children living together in the community,” and “fostering children’s growth.” While they provided support by “assessing their relationships with parents,” “building consultative relationships with parents,” “assessing parents’ illnesses/disorders and supporting,” “assessing child-rearing abilities and supporting,” and “cooperating with related agencies,” they tended to focus on the growth of the children rather than the recovery of parents. Conclusion: Consultative relationships were the beginning of support, as well as the most important and difficult skill. Public health nurses need to provide support for the recovery of parents with mental illness and learn about personality disorders and addiction.

Public health nurses' experiences of supporting women to breastfeed in community settings in Ireland

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 240-246
Author(s):  
Sinead Dunne ◽  
Anne Fallon
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Public Health Nurses ◽  
Community Settings ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
External Sources ◽  
Sources Of Support ◽  
Duration Of Breastfeeding

Support is identified as a key factor in the promotion and duration of breastfeeding. This descriptive qualitative study sought to explore public health nurses' experiences of supporting women to breastfeed in Irish community settings. Semi-structured interviews were conducted using a qualitative descriptive methodology. Braun and Clarke's six-phase thematic analysis was used to analyse the data. Following data analysis, three major themes emerged, which included: ‘To give them the best support’; ‘We need the help and support as well’; and ‘We've only a certain amount of time’. The findings reveal that public health nurses seek to provide the best support to breastfeeding women within the constraints of clinical practice. Although public health nurses perceive that they have internal and external sources of support, more is needed to enable them provide the best care for breastfeeding women in Ireland.

scholarly journals Protective reactions of ICU nurses providing care for patients with COVID-19: a qualitative study

BMC Nursing ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaser Moradi ◽  
Rahim Baghaei ◽  
keyvan Hosseingholipour ◽  
Farzin Mollazadeh
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Nursing Managers ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Stressful Experience

Abstract Background The exponential spread of COVID-19 has caused a huge threat to public health worldwide. Providing care for patients with COVID-19 is a stressful experience for ICU nurses, which can affect their protective reactions. The present study was conducted to explore the protective reactions of ICU nurses providing care for patients with COVID-19. Methods This qualitative descriptive study was conducted to discover the protective reactions of nurses providing care for patients with COVID-19. A total of 14 ICU nurses were selected by purposive sampling. Data were collected using individual semi-structured face-to-face interviews. All interviews were recorded, and then codes and themes were extracted using content analysis method. Finding Seventeen subcategories, six categories and two themes were extracted from the analysis of data. These themes include “Unbalanced self-protective reactions” and “Responsible self-protective reactions”. Conclusion During the COVID-19 epidemic and crisis, ICU nurses exhibit different self-protective reactions when providing care for patients with COVID-19, which include unbalanced and responsible reactions. Nursing managers can mitigate these unbalanced reactions by identifying them and their roots. Identifying the protective reactions of ICU nurses in providing care for patients with COVID-19 could assist in developing the necessary interventions to promote positive reactions and reduce unbalanced reactions by finding their root causes.

scholarly journals Relationship-Building Skills of Child-Rearing Mothers in Japanese Communities

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hikaru Honda ◽  
Nobuko Matsuda ◽  
Michiyo Hirano ◽  
Kazuko Saeki
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Interpersonal Relationship ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Survey Period ◽  
Childcare Centers ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive

This study elucidated the skills of mothers who used to build positive interpersonal relationships with people they met through child-rearing. The research method was qualitative descriptive study. The participants were 24 mothers who had children between ages of one and four years. These participants were recruited at child-rearing salons and childcare centers located in various municipalities in Japan. The survey period was from September 2013 to July 2014. The mothers’ interpersonal relationship-building skills were described by six categories: “ability to strive for new encounters,” “ability to try to interact socially with others,” “ability to choose compatible people,” “ability to continuously maintain good relationships,” “ability to take action suitable to a situation,” and “ability to build positive relationships with parents-in-law.” Cognitive aspects of assessing and understanding the interactions that occur during exchanges and behavioral aspects guided by these cognitions were identified within these skills. This study contributed to providing a framework to understand mothers’ interpersonal relationship-building skills for public health nurses involved in child-rearing support.

scholarly journals Qualitative Description of Global Health Nursing Competencies by Nursing Faculty in Africa and the Americas

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynda Wilson ◽  
Laura Moran ◽  
Rosa Zarate ◽  
Nicole Warren ◽  
Carla Aparecida Arena Ventura ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Nursing Faculty ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Nursing Programs ◽  
Qualitative Description ◽  
Nursing Curriculum ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
Nursing Curricula ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Health Nursing

Abstract Objective: to analyze qualitative comments from four surveys asking nursing faculty to rate the importance of 30 global health competencies for undergraduate nursing programs. Method: qualitative descriptive study that included 591 individuals who responded to the survey in English (49 from Africa and 542 from the Americas), 163 who responded to the survey in Spanish (all from Latin America), and 222 Brazilian faculty who responded to the survey in Portuguese. Qualitative comments were recorded at the end of the surveys by 175 respondents to the English survey, 75 to the Spanish survey, and 70 to the Portuguese survey. Qualitative description and a committee approach guided data analysis. Results: ten new categories of global health competencies emerged from the analysis. Faculty also demonstrated concern about how and when these competencies could be integrated into nursing curricula. Conclusion: the additional categories should be considered for addition to the previously identified global health competencies. These, in addition to the guidance about integration into existing curricula, can be used to guide refinement of the original list of global health competencies. Further research is needed to seek consensus about these competencies and to develop recommendations and standards to guide nursing curriculum development.

scholarly journals “AI’s gonna have an impact on everything in society, so it has to have an impact on public health”: a fundamental qualitative descriptive study of the implications of artificial intelligence for public health

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason D. Morgenstern ◽  
Laura C. Rosella ◽  
Mark J. Daley ◽  
Vivek Goel ◽  
Holger J. Schünemann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Disease Surveillance ◽  
Public Health Practice ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Quality Data ◽  
Health Practice ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Research And Education

Abstract Background Our objective was to determine the impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) on public health practice. Methods We used a fundamental qualitative descriptive study design, enrolling 15 experts in public health and AI from June 2018 until July 2019 who worked in North America and Asia. We conducted in-depth semi-structured interviews, iteratively coded the resulting transcripts, and analyzed the results thematically. Results We developed 137 codes, from which nine themes emerged. The themes included opportunities such as leveraging big data and improving interventions; barriers to adoption such as confusion regarding AI’s applicability, limited capacity, and poor data quality; and risks such as propagation of bias, exacerbation of inequity, hype, and poor regulation. Conclusions Experts are cautiously optimistic about AI’s impacts on public health practice, particularly for improving disease surveillance. However, they perceived substantial barriers, such as a lack of available expertise, and risks, including inadequate regulation. Therefore, investment and research into AI for public health practice would likely be beneficial. However, increased access to high-quality data, research and education regarding the limitations of AI, and development of rigorous regulation are necessary to realize these benefits.

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