Virtual Meetings: Reflecting on Lessons Learned From the Past Year to Create a Systematic Approach to More Effective Meetings.

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) global pandemic caused tremendous disruption to health care operations across the United States in 2020. The enormous number of people living under some form of government restriction or lockdown required organizations to shift processes, and employees had to embrace a culture of working from home. Unsurprisingly, the demand for videoconferencing surged as a result. However, because of the abrupt pivot to facilitating many business processes, such as meetings, remotely, leaders needed to accept virtual conferencing as the "new normal" for the foreseeable future. This article uses the nursing process to assist nurse leaders in planning and implementing virtual meetings and addresses lessons learned during the past year of using videoconferencing. [J Contin Educ Nurs. 2021;52(9):423-428.].

Social justice as an expression of caring through holistic admissions in a nursing program: A proposed conceptual model.

AIM: This paper presents HAR as an expression of caring to create social justice within nursing and achieve a workforce that is representative of those being served. BACKGROUND: The lack of diversity within the health professions has been expressly linked in the literature to health disparities among underrepresented and marginalized groups. RECOMMENDATIONS: Recognizing the value of diversity within healthcare has been the impetus for some health profession programs to use holistic admissions review (HAR) in the assessment and evaluation of applicant suitability. While current HAR recommendations in nursing broaden the lens on which criteria should be used to determine applicant suitability beyond standard academic metrics, existing models do not examine applicants' caring capacity. CONCLUSION: Given caring is the essence of nursing, the authors offer a guiding framework to supplement the American Association of Colleges of Nursing criteria for HAR and a model by which nursing applicants are evaluated on their capacity to care.