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Measuring and understanding experiences of workplace prejudice faced by underrepresented nurses comprise a first step toward workplace equality and enhanced morale and retention. With no existing instruments to measure prejudice directed toward nurses, the primary goal of the current study was to report the results and validation of the newly developed Workplace Prejudice toward Nurses (WPtN) scale. Participants (1692 nurses, 65% whom identified as an underrepresented racial or ethnic group) completed an online survey assessing WPtN. Participants reported on the types and frequency of WPtN they experienced, who directed the prejudice toward them, and the impact it caused on their job satisfaction and retention. Results supported the fit of a 1-factor model assessing general workplace prejudice, and 4-factor model comprising WPtN directed from different groups (ie, patients, their family members, coworkers, and administrators). More than one-third (34%) of participants reported experiencing WPtN. Those reporting WPtN indicated this prejudice was directed toward them from patients (45%), family members (41%), coworkers (42%), and administrators (14%). Experiencing WPtN negatively impacted job satisfaction and retention. Together, findings indicate that the WPtN scale is a reliable measure of WPtN of underrepresented backgrounds. The development of this tool is an important step to combating prejudiced behavior and attitudes, which can often be covert and difficult to validate.

This grounded theory study explored the processes and actions enacted by oncology nurses to enhance professional quality of life and the related meaning, facilitators, and barriers. Oncology nurses described a process by which they continually Reconcile Incongruencies . This process involves 4 categories: Accepting the Context of Oncology Nursing, Bettering the World, Pursuing a Calling, and Being Valued. External facilitators and barriers, self-driven actions to maintain, and consequences of professional quality of life were also revealed. The findings from this study offer an operational definition, a foundation for instrument development, and the consequences of oncology nurses' professional quality of life.

Rogers' Science of Unitary Human Beings (SUHB) and several theories that emanate from Rogers' work contain foundational concepts that may lend themselves toward nursing actions to address important social justice mandates, to advocate and to act for equity, and to uproot systems of oppression and racism in nursing. However, at the same time, theoretical concepts such as power arising from ascendant theories of SUHB are often used with little to no critical reflection for past and present-day histories of racism and power inequities in nursing and in society writ large. Using concepts related to SUHB such as integrality, turbulence, power, and patterning, we critically explore the potential of developing anti-racism reflections and actions through 3 theories: Barrett's Knowing Participation in Change; Butcher's Kaleidoscoping in Life's Turbulence; and Smith's Turbulence-Ease in the Rhythmic Flow of Patterning. We acknowledge that SUHB was/is largely developed within a framework of whiteness by scholars who were/are working from academic positions and social identities of societal safety and privilege. This requires nurses to reflect on how that history shapes SUHB. We also acknowledge the urgent need for ongoing anti-racism and justice work by nurses. As a call to action, we suggest a start by critically building upon existing theoretical foundations in SUHB to develop a more explicit anti-racist theorizing-praxis in nursing for the wellbecoming of humans and nonhumans alike.

Grounded theory methodology is frequently applied in health research, yet studies contending with contextual constraints may require a more pragmatic approach, including potential methodologic divergence and modifications of method choice and application. Dissemination of a detailed documentation and justification of methodologic choices, and specific method modifications and/or innovations, are uncommon in extant literature; however, a more expansive approach to such reporting has the potential to enhance research practices, increase transparency, and contribute to the ongoing discourse around research approaches and rigor. Here, we articulate our methodologic decision-making and methods, including modifications, as applied to the qualitative strand of an explanatory mixed-methods study. The primary aim of this article is to contribute to the discourse and collective learning around methodology and method choices and modifications by presenting one approach to applying a constructivist-oriented, modified version of grounded theory analytic methods through a worked qualitative study example.

Digital health technology is utilized in contemporary nursing practice and education. This review explored the scope of digital health applications and major trends in nursing research involving digital health in Korea using topic modeling. Our analysis of data using the Latent Dirichlet Allocation model identified four distinct research topics: nursing education using digital technologies (35.17%), hospital-based nursing practice using digital technologies (19.88%), digital technologies for health education (25.75%), and development of digital technologies to support self-management of chronic conditions (19.20%). Our findings reveal trends, current issues, and gaps in digital health nursing research.

This article reviews legislative initiatives that mandate nurses to report patients, families, and clinicians to law enforcement. Most recently, these laws target transgender and gender diverse (TGD) youth and people seeking abortion. In this article, we examine the ethics of such laws through professional ethical codes. Furthermore, through a biopolitical lens, we critically analyze examples of nurses' participation in complying with laws that harm patients. Finally, we discuss the damage these laws have on the nursing profession and assert the necessity of a resituating of professional ethics that considers the complexity of nursing care amidst increasingly blatant state-sanctioned violence.

Health care systems are facing soaring workforce shortages, challenging their ability to secure timely access to good-quality care. In this context, nurses make difficult decisions about which patients to deliver care to, transfer to other providers, or strategically ignore. Yet, we still know little about how nurses engage in situated practices of bedside rationing. Building on the work of Giorgio Agamben and Judith Butler, we have developed a research agenda that homes in on a politics of bedside rationing. We argue that this agenda is essential to better understand the implications of scarcity for nursing and to explore new ways to cope with challenges faced.

There has been an increasing interest in research positioned within critical realism (CR). This analysis aimed to determine how CR has been applied in symptom science through a scoping review of the literature. Fifty-two articles were identified through searches in seven databases and search engines, and grey literature. Quantitative and qualitative analyses were performed using Excel and ATLAS.ti 8.0. Review findings indicate that CR has been used to examine two key aspects of symptoms - symptom experiences and symptom interventions. The details of how CR was operationalized are presented. This first scoping review highlights how a critical realist lens would help examine individual and contextual factors that influence symptom experiences, response to interventions, and outcomes.