This collection features articles and book reviews written by the Fairfield University Nursing and Health Studies Faculty.
Submissions from 2023
Ramifications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Nursing Students’ Transition to Practice, Kathryn Phillips, Laura Dzurec, Ann Burgess, Audrey M. Beauvais, and Beth McNutt-Clarke
Submissions from 2021
Intrauterine Device Initiation After Gonococcal and Chlamydial Infections: A Practice Workflow Initiative, Christa Esposito
"Alexa, Am I Pregnant?": A Content Analysis of a Virtual Assistant’s Responses to Prenatal Health Questions During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Jennifer M. Schindler-Ruwisch and Christa Esposito
Submissions from 2020
Intrauterine Devices in the Context of Gonococcal Infection, Chlamydial Infection, and Pelvic Inflammatory Disease: Not Mutually Exclusive, Christa Esposito
Maintaining Clinical Continuity Through Virtual Simulation During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Christa Esposito and Kelly Sullivan
Consumption of Different Egg-Based Diets Impacts Body Composition in Young Healthy Adults, Julia Greco, Courtney Campbell, Allison Sloan, Dominka Mis, Christa Esposito, and Catherine J. Andersen
Nurses’ Resilience Levels and the Effects of Workplace Violence on Patient Care, Lauren Hollywood and Kathryn Phillips
Nursing Student Interprofessional Simulation Increases Empathy and Improves Attitudes on Poverty, Kathryn Phillips, Anka Roberto, Sandra Salmon, and Valerie Smalley
Recognizing Victims of a Hidden Crime: Human Trafficking Victims in Your Pediatric Trauma Bay, Linda Roney and Caitlin Villano
The restraint chair: A qualitative study of nurses' experience with the restraint chair versus four point restraint, Nicole Visaggio, Kathryn Phillips, Sharon Milne, Jeanne McElhinney, and Scott C. Young
Submissions from 2019
Perceptions of Campus Climate on Program Satisfaction for Accelerated Nursing Students, Jessica Alicea-Planas and Meredith Wallace Kazer
Egg-induced Changes in Serum Lipids Are Associated with Clinical Immune Cell Counts (OR12-04-19), Catherine J. Andersen, Christa Esposito, Julia Greco, Allison Sloan, and Aaron R. Van Dyke
The Lourdes Pilgrimage: A hidden treasure to incorporate spiritual care into nursing education, Audrey M. Beauvais, Susan Goncalves, Emily Barr, Jaclyn Di Yeso, and Gail T. Berardino
End-of-life psychodrama: Influencing nursing students’ communication skills, attitudes, emotional intelligence and self-reflection, Audrey M. Beauvais, Azize Atli Özbaş, and Kathleen Wheeler
Interprofessional “on-call” e-learning for family nurse practitioner students, Jaclyn Conelius, Sheila Grossman, and Lisa Becht
Beliefs and Use of Intrauterine Devices (IUDs) Among Women’s Health Care Providers, Christa Esposito and Jenna A. LoGiudice
Changes in Serum Lipids from Egg Consumption Are Associated with Clinical Erythrocyte Indices (P08-093-19), Julia Greco, Allison Sloan, Christa Esposito, Aaron R. Van Dyke, and Catherine J. Andersen
The relationship of body mass index (BMI) to job performance, absenteeism and risk of eating disorder among hospital-based nurses, Bertha Ku, Kathryn Phillips, and Joyce J. Fitzpatrick
Individualized Family-Centered Developmental Care: An Essential Model to Address the Unique Needs of Infants With Congenital Heart Disease, Amy Jo Lisanti, Dorothy Vittner, Barbara Medoff-Cooper, Jennifer Fogel, Gil Wernovsky, and Samantha Butler
The PREEMI as a measure of parent engagement in the NICU, Nefeli Makris, Dorothy Vittner, Haifa Samra, and Jacqueline McGrath
What Is the Impact of NICU-Dedicated Lactation Consultants? An Evidence-Based Practice Brief, Kathryn Mercado, Dorothy Vittner, and Jacqueline McGrath
Practices and Attitudes of Nursing Students Toward Patients With Disordered Eating Behaviors, Kathryn Phillips and Jenna A. LoGiudice
Practices and Attitudes of Nursing Students Toward Patients With Disordered Eating Behaviors, Kathryn Phillips and Jenna A. LoGiudice
Prepared to Care: An Exploration of Continuing Education Trends of Nurses Caring for Injured Children, Linda Roney and Mary Acri
Pediatric Trauma, Linda Roney and Maria Bautista-Durand
Oxytocin and Early Parent-Infant Interactions: A Systematic Review, Naomi Scatliffe, Sharon Cassavant, Dorothy Vittner, and Xiaomei Cong
Parent Engagement correlates with Parent and Preterm Infant Oxytocin Release during Skin-to-Skin Contact, Dorothy Vittner, Samantha Butler, Kelsey Smith, Nefeli Makris, Elizabeth Brownell, Haifa Samra, and Jacqueline McGrath
The Development of Trauma and Resilience Competencies for Nursing Education, Kathleen Wheeler and Kathryn Phillips
Submissions from 2018
Pregnant Women's Knowledge and Awareness of Nutrition, Jennifer Heller Blondin and Jenna A. LoGiudice
A Breastfeeding journey through the eyes of a midwife mother, Jenna A. LoGiudice
Birth as Restorative, Jenna A. LoGiudice
The impact of complementary therapies on psychosocial factors in women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF): A systematic literature review, Jenna A. LoGiudice and Jenna Massaro
Female nursing students' experience with and exposure to sexual assault, Jenna A. LoGiudice and Kathryn Phillips
Structure of the Eating Disorder Examination-Questionnaire in a Clinical Sample of Adult Women With Anorexia Nervosa, Kathryn Phillips, Karen M. Jennings, and Matthew Gregas
Motivating Smoking Cessation Text Messages: Perspectives from Pregnant Smokers, Jennifer M. Schindler-Ruwisch, Leah E. Leavitt, Laura E. Macharelli, Monique M. Turner, and Lorien C. Abroms
Social Support for Breastfeeding in the Era of mHealth: A Content Analysis, Jennifer M. Schindler-Ruwisch, Amira Roess, Rebecca C. Robert, Melissa A. Napolitano, and Shawn Chiang
Is it safe? The restraint chair compared to traditional methods of restraint: A three hospital study, Nicole Visaggio, Kathryn Phillips, Kristen Kichefski, Jeanne McElhinney, Thomaskutty B. Idiculla, Ellen W. Blair, Richard Johnson, Jamie Santaniello, Luciana RA Pennant, and Scott C. Young
Increase in Oxytocin From Skin-to-Skin Contact Enhances Development of Parent–Infant Relationship, Dorothy Vittner, Jacqueline McGrath, JoAnn Robinson, Gretchen Lawhon, Regina Cusson, Leonard Eisenfeld, Stephen Walsh, Erin Young, and Xiaomei Cong
Submissions from 2017
Shifting Our Focus to Support the Educational Journey of Underrepresented Students, Jessica Alicea-Planas
Preparing the Nurse of the Future, Audrey M. Beauvais and Meredith Wallace Kazer
After the Gap Analysis: Education and Practice Changes to Prepare Nurses of the Future, Audrey M. Beauvais, Meredith Wallace Kazer, Barbara Aronson, Suzanne E. Conlon, Pamela Forte, Kathleen S. Fries, Judith M. Hahn, Russell Hullstrung, Meg Levvis, Paula MaCauley, Patricia Padula Morgan, Linda Perfetto, Lisa M. Rebeschi, Sheila B. Solernou, Patricia Span, and Lisa J. Sundean
The functions and value of reminiscence for older adults in long-term residential care facilities, Linda Henkel, Alison E. Kris, Sarah C. Birney, and Kaitlyn M. Krauss
Eating disorder examination-questionnaire (EDE-Q): Norms for a clinical sample of female adolescents with anorexia nervosa, Karen M. Jennings and Kathryn Phillips
Eating disorder examination-questionnaire (EDE-Q): Norms for a clinical sample of males, Karen Jennings and Kathryn Phillips
Remembering reminiscence, Alison E. Kris and Linda Henkel
Functions and value of reminiscence for nursing home staff, Alison E. Kris, Linda Henkel, Kaitlyn M. Krauss, and Sarah C. Birney
A Systematic Literature Review of the Childbearing Cycle as Experienced by Survivors of Sexual Abuse, Jenna A. LoGiudice
Perinatal Palliative Care: Integration in a United States Nurse Midwifery Education Program, Jenna A. LoGiudice and Eileen R. O'Shea
The Critical Research Evaluation Tool (CRET): Teaching and Learning to evaluate research for cultural competence, Katie L. Love
Surviving the NCLEX Dip, Diana Mager, Audrey M. Beauvais, and Meredith Wallace Kazer
Immigrant Latino Couples and Postpartum Contraception: Attitudes, Perceptions, and Sexual Decision-Making, Yui Matsuda, Saba Masho, Dorothy Vittner, and Emmanuela Nneamaka Ojukwu
Building Nursing Capacity for Palliative Care at a Jesuit Catholic University: A Model Program, Eileen R. O'Shea, Robin Bennett Kanarek, Meredith Wallace Kazer, Patrick W. Kelley, and Tomi Thomas
A Survey of Skin-to-Skin Contact with Perinatal Nurses, Dorothy Vittner, Xiaomei Cong, Susan M. Ludington-Hoe, and Jacqueline M. McGrath
Neurobiological Consequences of Early Painful Experience: Basic Science Findings and Implications for Evidence-Based Practice, Erin E. Young, Amy D'Agata, Dorothy Vittner, and Kyle M. Baumbauer
Submissions from 2016
Listening to the narratives of our patients as part of holistic nursing care, Jessica Alicea-Planas
Career paths of recipients of a master's degree in health communication: understanding employment opportunities, responsibilities, and choices, Timothy Edgar, Kami J. Silk, Lorien C. Abroms, Tess Boley Cruz, W. Douglas Evans, Susan Scavo Gallagher, Gregory A. Miller, Alice Hoffman, Jennifer M. Schindler-Ruwisch, and Sarah E. Scheff
Revising a Doctor of Nursing Practice Program in Response to Student Focus Group Feedback, Sheila Grossman, Meredith Wallace Kazer, Nancy Moriber, and Patricia E. Calderwood
Smoking cessation support for pregnant women: role of mobile technology, Christina L. Heminger, Jennifer M. Schindler-Ruwisch, and Lorien C. Abroms
Are We Preparing Gerontological Nurses of the Future?, Meredith Wallace Kazer
Recruiting pregnant smokers from Text4baby for a randomized controlled trial of Quit4baby, Leah Leavitt, Lorien Abroms, Pamela Johnson, Jennifer M. Schindler-Ruwisch, Jessica Bushar, Indira Singh, Sean D. Cleary, Whitney McInvale, and Monique Turner
Incorporation of sexual violence in nursing curricula using trauma-informed care: A case study, Jenna A. LoGiudice and Sherifa Douglas
Black feminism: An integrated review of literature, Katie L. Love
The Elder Project: Evaluating End-of-Life Knowledge Among Health Care Providers, Diana Mager
Hypertension and related lifestyle factors among persons living in rural Nicaragua, Jessica Planas, Lydia Greiner, and Philip Greiner
A content analysis of electronic health record (EHR) functionality to support tobacco treatment, Jennifer M. Schindler-Ruwisch, Lorien C. Abroms, Steven L. Bernstein, and Christina L. Heminger
Community based health education to decrease pediatric obesity, Kelly Sullivan and Jessica Alicea-Planas
Treatment complexity: a description of chemotherapy and supportive care treatment visits in patients with advanced-stage cancer diagnoses, Catherine Sumpio, M. Tish Knobf, and Sangchoon Jeon
Submissions from 2015
Quit4baby: results from a pilot test of a mobile smoking cessation program for pregnant women, Lorien C. Abroms, Pamela R. Johnson, Christina L. Heminger, Judith M. Van Alstyne, Leah E. Leavitt, Jennifer M. Schindler-Ruwisch, and Jessica A. Bushar
Developing and pretesting a text messaging program for health behavior change: recommended steps, Lorien C. Abroms, Robyn Whittaker, Caroline Free, Judith Mendel Van Alstyne, and Jennifer M. Schindler-Ruwisch
Barriers to Providing Health Education During Primary Care Visits at Community Health Centers: Clinical Staff Insights, Jessica Alicea-Planas, Alix Pose, and Linda Smith
Service learning with a geriatric population: changing attitudes and improving knowledge, Audrey M. Beauvais, Kim Foito, Nina Pearlin, and Eileen Yost
A mixed‐methods study of secondary traumatic stress in certified nurse‐midwives: shaken belief in the birth process, Cheryl Tatano Beck, Jenna A. LoGiudice, and Robert K. Gable
Just Care: Learning From and With Graduate Students in a Doctor of Nursing Practice Program, Elizabeth H. Boquet, Meredith Wallace Kazer, Nancy Manister, Owen Lucas, Michael Shaw, Valerie Madaffari, and Cynthia Gannett
Common Questions About Pacemakers and Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators, Jaclyn Conelius
Simulation Pedagogy With Nurse Practitioner Students: Impact of Receiving Immediate Individualized Faculty Feedback, Sheila Grossman and Jaclyn Conelius
Use of phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors in assistive living and home care settings, Rose Iannino-Renz and Diana Mager
If They Were Real: Lessons Learned from Literary Characters With Dementia, Meredith Wallace Kazer and Karen Osborn
Prenatal screening for intimate partner violence: a qualitative meta-synthesis, Jenna A. LoGiudice
The Lived Experience of Childbearing From Survivors of Sexual Abuse: “It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times”, Jenna A. LoGiudice and Cheryl T. Beck
Medication Side Effects in Home Care How Much Do Patients Really Want to Know?, Diana Mager
Methotrexate, Diana Mager
Polymylagia Rheumatica: Common Disease, Elusive Diagnosis, Diana Mager
Addressing changing sexual health needs through the lifespan, Eileen R. O'Shea, Gerard S. O'Toole, and Meredith Wallace Kazer
Validating the Health Communication Assessment Tool©(HCAT), Michael Pagano, Eileen R. O'Shea, Suzanne H. Campbell, Leanne M. Currie, Elizabeth Chamberlin, and Christopher A. Pates
Binge eating behavior in college students: What is a binge?, Kathryn Phillips, Susan Kelly-Weeder, and Katherine Farrell
Pain management at the end of life: A comparative study of cancer, dementia, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients, Anat Romem, Sarah E. Tom, Michelle Beauchene, Lynn M. Babington, Steven M. Scharf, and Ayal Romem
BMI and Smoking: Interrelated Factors among Cessation Website Users, Jennifer M. Schindler-Ruwisch, Erik Auguston, Krystal Lynch, and Heather Patrick
The incidence of pedestrian distraction at urban intersections after implementation of a Streets Smarts campaign, Pina Violano, Linda Roney, and Kirsten Bechtel
A Meta-ethnography: Skin-to-Skin Holding From the Caregiver's Perspective, Dorothy Vittner, Sharon Casavant, and Jacqueline M. McGrath
Submissions from 2014
Perceived social support, self esteem, and pregnancy status among Dominican adolescents, Lynn M. Babington, Linda Malone, and Barbara R. Kelley
Psychosocial trajectories of men monitoring prostate-specific antigen levels following surgery for prostate cancer, Donald E. Bailey, Meredith Wallace Kazer, Thomas J. Polascik, and Cary Robertson
Reducing the fear of falling through a community evidence-based intervention, Audrey M. Beauvais and John E. Beauvais
Saving our backs: safe patient handling and mobility for home care, Audrey M. Beauvais and Lenore Frost
Emotional intelligence and spiritual well-being: implications for spiritual care, Audrey M. Beauvais, Julie G. Stewart, and Susan DeNisco
Pioneering a primary care adult nurse practitioner interprofessional fellowship, Rebecca Brienza, Jaclyn Conelius, Jill Edwards, Emily Meyer, and Susan A. Zapatka
Electroconvulsive Therapy: Thoughts for Nursing, Allana Brown and Meredith Wallace Kazer
Left Ventricular Non-Compaction: A Rare Anomaly Presenting in Primary Care, Jaclyn Conelius
Past, present, and future trends of master's education in nursing, Sally O. Gerard, Meredith Wallace Kazer, Lynn M. Babington, and Theresa T. Quell
Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Increasing Nurse Practitioner Students’ Observational and Mindfulness Skills, Sheila Grossman, Jill J. Deupi, and Kathleen Leitao
Veterans receive high-fidelity simulation education preoperatively, Bonnie A. Haupt and Audrey M. Beauvais
