A Changing Nursing Landscape.

These are complicated times for the world and for nursing.

Better together: Coalitions committed to advancing health equity.

The Future of Nursing 2020-2030 report identifies coalitions as a driving force for advancing health equity. Five coalitions provided insight into their accomplishments, lessons learned, and role in advancing health equity. The exemplar coalitions included Latinx Advocacy Team and Interdisciplinary Network for COVID-19, Black Coalition Against COVID, Camden Coalition, National Coalition of Ethnic Minority Nurse Associations, and The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action. While all exemplar coalitions, credited relationship building and partnerships to their success, they used unique strategies for striving to meet their populations' needs, whether the needs arose from COVID-19, racial and/or ethnic disparities, socioeconomic disparities, or other barriers to health. Research and policy implications for coalitions are discussed. Nurses play a critical role in every highlighted coalition and in the national effort to make health and health care more equitable.

The Top News Stories of 2021: Nursing: A Profession Reshaped by COVID-19.

The pandemic has brought new public awareness of nursing's role.

Cambio como revolución o evolución en la ciencia de enfermería / Change as revolution or evolution in nursing science / Mudança como revolução ou evolução na ciência de enfermagem

Este documentotiene por objetivo comentarcómo la ciencia en enfermería ha ido evolucionando en el tiempo y cómo ésta refleja con mayor precisión el proceso de cambio científico a través de las conceptualizaciones propuestas por Khun y Laudan. Por último, se concluye que la ciencia en enfermería se encuentra en un constante desarrollo y evolución, además de, requerir de otras disciplinas para aumentar el propio cuerpo de conocimiento.

This document aims to commenton how nursing science has evolved over time and how it more accurately reflects the process of scientific change through the conceptualizations proposed by Khun and Laudan. Finally, it is concluded that nursing science is in constant development and evolution, in addition to requiring other disciplines to increase the body of knowledge itself.

Este documento tem por objetivo comentarcomo a ciência da enfermagem evoluiu ao longo do tempo e como ela reflete com mais precisão o processo de mudança científica através das conceituações propostas por Khun e Laudan. Por fim, conclui-se que a ciência da enfermagem está em constante desenvolvimento e evolução, além de necessitar de outras disciplinas para aumentar o próprio corpo de conhecimento

2020: What a Time to Become a Nurse.

A new nurse learns focus and grace under pressure.

Health problems and violence experiences of nurses working in acute care hospitals, long-term care facilities, and home-based long-term care in Germany: A systematic review.

BACKGROUND: Working in the nursing sector is accompanied by great physical and mental health burdens. Consequently, it is necessary to develop target-oriented, sustainable profession-specific support and health promotion measures for nurses. OBJECTIVES: The present review aims to give an overview of existing major health problems and violence experiences of nurses in different settings (acute care hospitals, long-term care facilities, and home-based long-term care) in Germany. METHODS: A systematic literature search was conducted in PubMed and PubPsych and completed by a manual search upon included studies' references and health insurance reports. Articles were included if they had been published after 2010 and provided data on health problems or violence experiences of nurses in at least one care setting. RESULTS: A total of 29 studies providing data on nurses health problems and/or violence experience were included. Of these, five studies allowed for direct comparison of nurses in the settings. In addition, 14 studies provided data on nursing working in acute care hospitals, ten on nurses working in long-term care facilities, and four studies on home-based long-term care. The studies either conducted a setting-specific approach or provided subgroup data from setting-unspecific studies. The remaining studies did not allow setting-related differentiation of the results. The available results indicate that mental health problems are the highest for nurses in acute care hospitals. Regarding violence experience, nurses working in long-term care facilities appear to be most frequently affected. CONCLUSION: The state of research on setting-specific differences of nurses' health problems and violence experiences is insufficient. Setting-specific data are necessesary to develop target-group specific and feasible interventions to support the nurses' health and prevention of violence, as well as dealing with violence experiences of nurses.

On the Road Again to Nursing's Future.

But how do we get there from here?