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The purpose of this article is to consider the promise and problems of the globalization of research for nurses and other healthcare professionals. Over the past decade, there has been an impressive increase in research activity in many regions of the world, such as in several of the Asian countries. This increasing capacity to conduct research and create innovations has great promise for shared health, prosperity, and well-being, but it also has some significant problems and limitations that are often not reported. One area of research that has drawn considerable international research attention is aging and longevity. In the United States, there is much to learn from the work of international colleagues in terms of clinical application; it is unclear how generalizable the findings are or, in other words, what may be lost in translation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper tells the story of a mother’s loss of her 10-year-old daughter from cancer. It is in part a pain and suffering narrative and a story of remarkable post-loss growth and transformation. It is a story told for busy parents and multitasking nurses, to all of us who need to relearn how to be attentive to others, particularly our children. The woman who tells the story is one of the authors (M.V.-W.); she is a Mexican-American. The paper is based on two interviews of M.V.-W., using questions similar to those used by one of the authors (S.L.B.) with his study of fathers and sibling. Following the interviews is a brief discussion on the loss of a child from a humanbecoming perspective, with a few comments on the immigration of nurses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The civil war in Syria that began in 2011 has displaced millions of Syrians of all ages. While the number that have arrived in the United States is small in comparison to many other countries, it is important that nurses and other healthcare workers here understand that many of them have faced considerable trauma and endured stresses. Most of them are Muslims. Muslims in the United States and elsewhere represent a heterogeneous group of people with a long intellectual and cultural history. Islamic cultural patterns do pose unique barriers to a primarily Anglo-Saxon medical system that medical practitioners need to consider in order to avoid misunderstanding and provide culturally sensitive care. The authors discuss the Syrian refugee crisis and the experience of being a Muslim or Arab American patient in U.S. healthcare settings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this study was to investigate the living experience of suffering. Parse’s research method was used to answer the question: What is the structure of the living experience of suffering? The participants were 10 community-dwelling older adults living in the United States. The central finding of the study is as follows: The living experience of suffering is resolve amid permeating anguish of diverse affiliations with the blissful reprieve of tranquil acquiescence. The living experience of suffering is discussed in relation to the principles of the humanbecoming paradigm and in relation to how it can inform further research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The story of an El Salvadorian women made pregnant by a rape while immigrating to the United States is discussed from a humanbecoming paradigm perspective. Nursing practice from such a paradigm is seen as the opposite of such a violent crime and injustice, because it seeks to tenderly respect and provide for the dignity and freedom of all people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nurses at various times and in various places find their aims as nurses in conflict with their situation, such as having too many patients to do any justice to any of them. Nursing in the military requires prioritizing the mission of the department of defense, that is to say maintain the readiness of the fighting force and to function within a strict hierarchical organization with respect to authority. Within this context, nurses in the United States military today are asked to assist members of the armed forces who are struggling with sacrifices during very confusing and uncertain times. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Deals with the problems associated with excessive or binge drinking. Effort of the U.S. government to reduce drunken automobile-related injuries and death; Responsibility of colleges committed to the success and well-being of their students; Reality of human aggressiveness and misplaced aggressiveness.

The article comments on the changes in the nursing profession in the U.S. It is important to assess carefully and understand that some technologies in the modern society does not always encourage sufficient evaluation to justify healthcare organizational or nursing practice changes. It is also important to know that family researches remain central to nursing.

The author in this article suggests that applying a simple linear concept of time to the phenomenon of aging and development in the United States and around the world is both outdated and problematic, and he explores an alternative view. The author suggests that nursing and other sciences should stop considering age as a non-modifiable risk factor. Various nursing and other theories that support a nonlinear view of time and aging are included, as well as reports from the growing field of geoscience that holds that we can and should target aging and that it can be slowed and, in some cases, reversed. Some implications for nursing and the world are included.

The authors in this article seek to describe the importance of keeping one's beliefs and spiritual practices alive during the COVID-19 pandemic from a Muslim perspective, and it considers this challenge in light of the theory of religious coping and the growing literature on the benefits of mindfulness. It provides nurses and other healthcare providers a view into the beliefs and practices of a Muslim-American family and shows how faith practices can help people not only cope but grow in difficult times. Implications for nursing and healthcare are discussed.

In this paper the authors explore the impact of loss of a parent to suicide on adolescents in military families using Marcia's identity status theory and the Roy adaptation model (RAM). After describing a brief case study of a 13-year-old boy in a military family who lost his father in this manner, these two theories are applied to better understand his struggle to develop and maintain a healthy identity and adapt to numerous relocations, deployments, and then loss. The military family stressors are seen as weakening the resilience of children in such families, making them more vulnerable to the impact of parent loss. Implications for nurses and other healthcare professionals are discussed.

In light of the technological, social, and political changes taking place in the world today, it is important that nurses are not just culturally competent but globally informed and engaged. The goal of this paper is to help nurses help their patients and themselves to benefit from globalization. The use of guided simulation, virtual reality, and augmented reality learning experiences is considered for each of five areas of global nursing; global aesthetics, global intelligence, global ethics, global politics, and global health. This approach invites nurses and student nurses to discern new patterns, take charge of their learning, and build multiple iterations to facilitate the processing of new and different information and "realities."

From a human becoming perspective, hope is considered to be a universal lived experience, which arises and fades in the human-universe process. This article is a comparison of six Parse research method studies on the lived experience of hope from five countries: Japan, Taiwan, Sweden, Finland, and the United States. The goal was to explore the similarities and differences in the findings of a nine-country study on hope. While the structure of the experience of hope was similar, some differences are discussed that enhance nursing practice and guide further study.