‘You will never be a nurse’: from training applicant to cardiomyopathy expert

Jayne Partridge describes her journey from being rejected from a nursing school to becoming a support nurse for the charity Cardiomyopathy UK during a global crisis.

Non-academic factors influencing the development of empathy in undergraduate nursing students: a cross-sectional study

Background Empathy is described as a core competence of nursing. There is abundant research evidence supporting that empathy varies according to personal characteristics and targeted training. The aim of this study was to characterize non-academic factors (personal and environmental) influencing the development of empathy in undergraduate nursing studies who are not receiving a targeted training in empathetic abilities in their nursing schools. Methods A cross-sectional study was performed in the three nursing schools located in Cusco city, Peru (two private and one public). The Jefferson Scales of Empathy, Attitudes toward Physician-Nurse Collaboration, and Lifelong Learning, the Emotional Loneliness Scale for Adults, and the Scale of Life Satisfaction, were applied as the main measures. Also, information regarding gender, nursing school, and age, were collected. After psychometric properties were assessed, all measures were used in the development of a multivariate regression model to characterize factors of influence in empathy. Results In a sample composed by 700 undergraduate nursing students (72 males and 628 females), a multivariate linear regression model was created. This model explained the 53% of variance of empathy and fitted all conditions necessary for inference estimations. Teamwork abilities, loneliness, age, sex, subjective well-being, and nursing school, appeared as factors influencing the development of empathy in patients’ care. Conclusions Findings have indicated that, in absence of a targeted training, individual characteristics and characteristics associated with social and family environments play an important role of influence in the development of empathy in nursing students. These findings are also in consonance with others previously reported in different cultural settings including high-, middle- and low-income countries.

Atuação do enfermeiro brasileiro no ambiente escolar: Revisão narrativa

Introdução: O contexto escolar representa um espaço estratégico para aquisição de conhecimentos, habilidades, mudanças de comportamento e estilos de vidas, por ser um local em que o educando desenvolve vínculos e permanece, geralmente, por um tempo prolongado. Objetivo: Descrever as evidências de estudos sobre a atuação do enfermeiro brasileiro no ambiente escolar. Método: Trata-se de uma revisão narrativa da literatura. As buscas foram desenvolvidas entre os meses de abril e maio de 2020, nas bases de dados: Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde (Lilacs), Scientific Electronic Library Online (Scielo), Banco de Dados em Enfermagem Bibliografia Brasileira (BDEnf) via Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde (BVS) e na literatura cinzenta. Utilizou-se os Descritores de Ciências da Saúde (DeCS) e as palavras-chave relacionadas à temática: Enfermagem escolar, Saúde escolar, Promoção da saúde, School nursing, School health e Health promotion. A análise crítica dos estudos e a síntese dos dados bibliográficos foram realizadas de forma descritiva, agrupados por temas pertinentes ao assunto estudado. Resultados: Os resultados encontrados permitiram apresentar os comentários em três grandes categorias temáticas, sendo essas: A escola como ambiente de intervenção do enfermeiro para formação integral e saudável; A significativa contribuição do enfermeiro no ambiente escolar brasileiro e a Influência da educação e promoção da saúde no ambiente escolar. Considerações finais: Percebeu-se que a atuação do enfermeiro no ambiente escolar é fundamental para o desenvolvimento e crescimento dos alunos e ainda a promoção da saúde de todos os atores envolvidos no ambiente escolar.

Novice Nurses’ Experiences Caring for Acutely Ill Patients during a Pandemic

The Coronavirus pandemic erupted in 2020 and new graduate registered nurses (RNs) found themselves caring for those with devastating illness as they were transitioning into nursing practice. The purpose of this study was to describe the experience of novice nurses working in acute care settings during a pandemic. This qualitative phenomenological study of novice nurses working in facilities providing acute care for COVID-19 patients was conducted in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Purposive sampling identified 13 participants for interviews. Data were analyzed using thematic analysis. Eight themes emerged: Dealing with death, Which personal protective equipment (PPE) will keep us safe?, Caring for high acuity patients with limited training, Difficulties working short-staffed, Everything is not okay, Support from the healthcare team, Nursing school preparation for a pandemic, I would still choose nursing. Novice nurses felt challenged by the experience and were at times overwhelmed and struggling to cope. Support from peers and coping skills learned during nursing school helped them continue to work during a critical time. Data from this study suggest that some participants may have been experiencing symptoms of anxiety, depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder, and findings provide foundational insights for nursing education and psychological interventions to support the nursing workforce.

Persepsi Mahasiswa Keperawatan Tentang Eskalasi Tenaga Perawat

According to the Ministry of Health the number of nurse graduates per year is 46,865 people, the annual national need is 24,825, and the excess production of nurses is 11,067-22,060 per year. The increase in educational institutions has an impact on increasing graduates, nursing students are the generation of nurses, so this situation is very worrying to the nursing profession. The purpose of this study was to study the perceptions of Diploma 3 Nursing students at Bethesda Yakkum Yogyakarta Nursing School about the influence of nurses' workforce escalation. This study uses a Qualitative Design with a Phenomenology approach. The instruments used were human instruments with interview guidelines. The population was 61 Diploma 3 Nursing students in semester VI, samples were taken by purposive sampling of 5 participants. The analysis used is content analysis, and the triangulation technique used is source triangulation. This study shows students know the current condition of nurses, an increase in nurses makes students disappointed with the lecture process that has been undertaken, educational institutions increase so that graduates increase, but absorption is not optimal. This situation will result in unemployed nurses and nurses not working according to the profession. The hope of government students is to open up employment opportunities so nurses can contribute to the country in health development. Although students know about the escalation of nurses, but students are optimistic, confident in their abilities, will be entrepreneurial in health, and knowledge can be beneficial to the surrounding. Keywords: Nursing Students, Nurse Personnel, Nurse Escalation