scholarly journals Using Physical Education Courses to Help Increase Well-Being of RN-BSN Nursing Students: An Exploratory Analysis of Outcomes

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
John E. Lothes II ◽  
Debra A. Hrelic ◽  
Amy Olsen
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health And Wellness ◽  
Bachelor Of Science ◽  
Health Patterns ◽  
Bsn Nursing Students ◽  
Reducing Stress ◽  
Bsn Students ◽  
Wellness Inventory

Background: Student health and wellness has been a growing concern over the years. Evidence is showing that behaviors and health patterns developed in college tend to hold through the years after graduation.Aim: To examine the pre-post wellness outcomes of nursing students taking a physical education course in an online accelerated Registered Nurse-Bachelor of Science Nursing (RN-BSN) program at a university in the Southeast region of the United States.Methods: An online course with incorporated physical activities and tutorials was designed based on the Travis Wellness Inventory to teach about 12 different dimensions of wellness. Students completed modules that addressed different aspects of wellness. Wellness was assessed using the Wellness Inventory and pre-post outcomes were examined. Results: The results found statistically significant changes between the pre and post assessments for all dimensions of wellness outcomes. There were also significant changes between the pre and post assessments when investigating differences based on gender with females improving on all 12 dimensions and males on 4.Conclusion: Introductory Physical Education (PED101) courses may be useful in improving wellness and reducing stress and turnover for RN-BSN students.

scholarly journals Benefits and Success of an Interdisciplinary Wellness Interest Group (iWIG) at a Modern Jesuit University

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Susan Bartos ◽  
Mackenzie Gordon ◽  
Catherine J. Andersen ◽  
Kara Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Interest Group ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Wellness Programs ◽  
Health And Wellness ◽  
Campus Community ◽  
Academic Communities ◽  
Health Patterns ◽  
The University ◽  
Wellness Initiatives

Aim: To highlight the early achievements and discuss the benefits of forming an Interdisciplinary Wellness Interest Group (iWIG) on a modern Jesuit University campus.Background: While wellness programs have a place in academic communities, universal perspectives on the best way to lead Wellness initiatives is lacking. An iWIG gives a common platform to share ideas, communicate across audiences, and provide important information to the campus community about health promotion and health patterns of the campus community.Methods: After assembling the iWIG team, on-campus meetings were held with members of the interdisciplinary group. These meetings include faculty, staff, and students from various departments. The iWIG continues to meet regularly to expand and develop wellness initiatives, research opportunities and to ensure a presence on campus.Results: The iWIG has impacted many initiatives on campus, a select few which are profiled in this manuscript. The group is involved in funded research studies, has received a "Healthy Workplace" designation, and continues to expand health and wellness into various departments on campus.Conclusions: The interdisciplinary group has provided those with an interest in health and wellness with a formal platform to express ideas and implement initiatives for all individuals to better the overall well-being of the university community.

Death and Help Expected from Nurses when Dying

2006 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 360-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fu-Jin Shih ◽  
Meei-Ling Gau ◽  
Yaw-Sheng Lin ◽  
Suang-Jing Pong ◽  
Hung-Ru Lin
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Significant Others ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Individual Life ◽  
Bachelor Of Science ◽  
Qualitative Thematic Analysis ◽  
Life Issues ◽  
Bsn Students

This project was undertaken to ascertain the perceptions of a group of Taiwan’s fourth-year bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) students regarding death and help expected from nurses during the dying process. Within the Chinese culture, death is one of the most important life issues. However, in many Chinese societies it is difficult for people to reveal their deepest feelings to their significant others or loved ones. It was in this context that this project was developed because little is known about how Taiwan’s nursing students perceive death and the dying process. Using an open-ended, self-report questionnaire, 110 senior BSN students recorded their thoughts on: (1) their fears before physical death; (2) afterlife destinations; and (3) the help they would expect from nurses when dying. The data were analyzed using a three-layer qualitative thematic analysis. The students’ reported needs during the dying process were directed towards three main goals: (1) help in reaching the ‘triple targets of individual life’; (2) help in facilitating in-depth support so that both the dying person and significant others can experience a blessed farewell; and (3) help in reaching a destination in the afterlife. The results support the belief of dying as a transition occurring when life weans itself from the mortal world and prepares for an afterlife.

scholarly journals Unconscious Weight Bias Among Nursing Students: A Descriptive Study

Healthcare ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 106
Author(s):  
Tracy P. George ◽  
Claire DeCristofaro ◽  
Pamela F. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Quality Care ◽  
The United States ◽  
Weight Bias ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing Students ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Bachelor Of Science ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
Valid Test ◽  
Bsn Students

There has been both an increase in obesity and anti-obesity bias in the United States. The Harvard Weight Implicit Association Test (IAT) is a reliable, valid test that can measure unconscious weight bias. First semester Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) students were surveyed anonymously mid-semester and at the end of the semester after completing the Harvard Weight IAT. Sixty-nine out of 77 students completed pre- and post-surveys. Weight preference towards others was not shown to be related to the respondent’s own self-reported body mass index (BMI). The majority of respondents exhibited more weight-related bias on the IAT than they realized. The three qualitative themes that emerged included Awareness of Personal Beliefs and Stereotypes, Reminder to be Impartial, and Skepticism about the IAT. It is important for undergraduate nursing students to be aware of possible unconscious weight bias in order to provide high-quality care to patients.

Hoping to Pass: Randomized Trial of a One-Time Hope Intervention on Standardized Exam Passing Rates in BSN Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-21
Author(s):  
Monika L. Wedgeworth ◽  
Joshua C. Eyer ◽  
Alice L. March ◽  
David B. Feldman
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Educational Interventions ◽  
Progressive Muscle Relaxation ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Grade Point ◽  
Passing Rates ◽  
Bsn Nursing Students ◽  
Hope Intervention ◽  
Bsn Students

BACKGROUND: National standardized nursing exams serve as critical measures of student readiness for practice and carry significant consequences for students and academic institutions. Educational interventions that can enhance a student’s performance increase the probability of academic success. Previous studies link hope to grade point average in college students and on standardized exam (SE) scores in nursing students, yet it is not clear if hope can be increased utilizing a one-time intervention in ways that produce lasting benefits for passing SEs. AIMS: Aim 1 tested the efficacy of a one-time hope intervention on increasing SE passing rates among BSN nursing students. Aim 2 examined the role of the interventions, selected state-mechanism variables, and trait characteristics in predicting SE passing. METHOD: This comparative-effectiveness trial utilized a randomized, controlled, multiple-cohort experimental design to compare a one-time 90-minute hope intervention to an attention-matched progressive muscle relaxation intervention on SE passing scores among BSN nursing students. RESULTS: Levels of hope briefly increased following the hope intervention. Both interventions demonstrated short-term improvement in state-level psychosocial indicators but did not affect SE scores. Among trait and mechanism factors, only academic self-efficacy was linked with passing SEs. CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrated that a single-session hope intervention can increase short-term hope. In this sample of 292 BSN students, there was no statistically significant long-term effect on passing SEs; however, this study may lay the groundwork for future interventions investigating booster sessions, or how to modify the intervention for struggling students.

scholarly journals Incorporating Concepts of Population Health within the Nursing Curriculum

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Health And Wellness

The goal of Population Health is to improve health and wellness in patient populations. Disparities can negatively impact individual/family or community subsets that have experienced access, resource or socioeconomic obstacles to health and wellness. As such, it is important to understand the determinants that impact health outcomes at the population level. Family centric nursing in both the educational and practice arena can broaden its impact through incorporating concepts from population health to enhance the well-being of persons across the lifespan in local community and broader global settings. The Department of Nursing at one state college has made an effort to incorporate Population Health and its tenets into the curriculum. Grant funding has supported strategies utilized in the transition. The strategies include, but are not limited to; educating faculty, students, and affiliated clinical settings and their providers about issues involved in determining population health; utilizing existing research evidence or best practice interventions in the planning and delivery of care; increasing inter professional collaboration; mobilizing existing community resources to achieve better health outcomes; and the use of informatics and technology. Lessons learned in developing knowledge, establishing learning objects, and offering clinical experiences that promote competencies in population-based health care will be shared. Highlights will include a discussion of learning experiences of nursing students involved in an academic-practice partnership within an underserved urban area and a global health medical mission with a NGO to address population health disparities in a resource poor environment.

scholarly journals Teaching Evidence-Based Practice To Undergraduate Nursing Students: Overcoming Obstacles

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon D. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Teaching Strategies ◽  
Evidence Based Practice ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing Students ◽  
Catholic College ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
Bsn Nursing Students ◽  
Bsn Students

Evidence-based practice is highly valued in health care literature at this time. But research suggests that U.S. RNs face many obstacles when implementing evidence-based practice including a lack of value for research in practice (Pravikoff et al, 2005). Additional obstacles may exist for traditional U.S. BSN nursing students who may not value the importance of learning about evidence-based practice principles or of implementing evidence-based practice in the clinical setting. If we are to improve the use of evidence-based practice among U.S. RNs, learning and valuing the process must begin during the basic nursing educational program. This presentation outlines classroom research designed to uncover the specific obstacles to learning and implementing evidence-based practice described by traditional BSN students at a small, private, Catholic college just before they complete the final clinical internship before graduation. Several teaching strategies were designed to address the obstacles students described. A post-internship survey of the same students determined the effectiveness of the various teaching strategies. Recommendations for future research and for teaching strategies to enhance the learning and valuing of evidence-based practice among traditional U.S. BSN students are offered.

What It's Like to be Poor: Teaching RN-to-BSN StudentsAbout Poverty

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-200
Author(s):  
Jacqueline DeBrew ◽  
Sandra Blaha ◽  
Crystal Lamb
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Research University ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Safe Place ◽  
Bachelor Of Science ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Rn To Bsn ◽  
Returning To School ◽  
Bsn Students

Because simulation in nursing school is used to allow nursing students a safe place to practice skills, it may not be widely used with RN-to-BSN students who are already registered nurses but are returning to school to earn their Bachelor of Science in Nursing degrees. But what if the simulation was presented differently, and the students were not the practitioners, but the recipients of services? RN-to-BSN students in a combined face-to-face and online program at a public research university in the Southeastern United States participated in a Community Action Poverty Simulation to better understand what people in poverty go through on a daily basis, hopefully helping these practicing nurses see beyond the bedside when providing patient care. This article describes the use of simulation with RN-to-BSN students to experientially introduce them to the concepts of poverty, social determinants of health, and vulnerable populations.

scholarly journals Teaching Nursing Students How to Mitigate Stress

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Nursing Student ◽  
Clinical Skills ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Practical Skills ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Student Stress ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Reducing Stress

Background: For student’s stress and burnout has significantly increased in the following manners: (a) poorer health at graduation and 1 year post graduation, (b) lower mastery of nurse-specific tasks, (c) and lower use of evidence-based practice. Stress of the nursing student closely mirrors that of other students, with added components such as (a) workload, (b) clinical placement, (c) development of clinical skills, and (d) perceived lack of practical skills. Many studies have addressed student stress but haven’t focused on measures to deter stress. Method: A convenience sample of 35 junior-level nursing students in a generic baccalaureate theoretical framework’ and a pre/post survey was administered. Results: Mindfulness and self-care modules were beneficial in increasing self-care efforts and decreasing stress from 5 to 30% points, in a short period of time. Conclusion: The project was designed and succeeded in reducing stress in nursing students by directing and energizing them to keep their well-being a priority.

A Study of the Relationships between Nursing Students’ Meanings of Life, Positive Beliefs, and Well-Being

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fu-Ju Tsai ◽  
Cheng-Yu Chen ◽  
Gwo-Liang Yeh ◽  
Yih-Jin Hu ◽  
Chie-Chien Tseng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Analysis Of Variance ◽  
Rank Correlation ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Health ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Nursing Educators ◽  
Spearman’S Rank Correlation

Background: Nursing educators should train nursing students to pursue physical, psychological, spiritual, and social health promotion. The purpose of this study was to explore relationships between nursing students’ meaning of life, positive beliefs, and well-being. Methods: A cross-sectional correlational study with a quantitative approach was adopted. Purposive sampling was used. A total of 170 nursing students voluntarily participated in this study. A 56-item questionnaire was used to examine nursing students’ meaning of life (1-25 items), positive beliefs (1-11 items), and well-being (1-20 items). The content validity index (CVI) of the study questionnaire was established as 0.95 by seven expert scholars. The reliability values for the three parts of the measure were as follows: meaning of life, Cronbach’s α 0.96; positive beliefs, Cronbach’s α 0.93; and well-being, Cronbach’s α 0.95. Percentages, frequencies, means, SDs, Kruskal-Wallis one-way analysis of variance by rank, Spearman’s rank correlation, one-way analysis of variance, Spearman’s rho correlation, and regression analysis were used for the data analysis. Results: Nursing students had the following mean scores: meaning of life with 4.02 (SD 0.56); positive beliefs with 3.92 (SD 0.62); and well-being with 3.95 (SD 0.57). The results indicate that for all nursing students, meaning of life was positively correlated with positive beliefs, r=0.83 (P<.01); similarly, all nursing students had positive beliefs that were positively correlated with meaning of life, r=0.83 (P<.01). In the results of the study, the nursing students’ background, meaning of life and positive beliefs explained 63% of the variance in well-being (Adjusted R2 squared =0.63, F=33.41, P<.001). Conclusions: Nursing students’ sense of meaning of life and positive beliefs may impact their well-being. Therefore, nursing educators can promote meaning of life and positive beliefs to nursing students as a way to increase their well-being for physical, psychological, spiritual, and social health promotion.

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