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Using a review of literature consisting of peer-reviewed articles and grey literature, this paper presents a narrative and graphic representation of the key concepts underpinning the benefits nurses perceived deriving from caring for patients during the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Our review indicates that benefits were seldom the focus of the literature and were mostly integrated within documents pertaining to the negative aspects of caring for these patients. In such a context, this research identified self-enhancement benefits in three domains (work benefits, work attributes, and work ethos), and self-actualization benefits in three domains (relationships, transformation, and humanity). During the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers are once again enticed to write scientific literature about the impact of caring in a "war zone". Using the underpinning concepts identified through the benefit- finding research in the context of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, researchers could identify the many perceived benefits nurses derive from caring for infected patients during this pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Nursing faculty may be reluctant to fail students for a variety of reasons. Faculty may fear being viewed as discriminatory when failing nursing students with disabilities. Problem: Schools of nursing may still be using technical standards that are outdated and noncompliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to determine eligibility for admission and may confuse essential functions with academic expectations. Lack of faculty awareness of the ADA may make faculty reluctant to fail nursing students with disabilities. Approach: All nursing students should be assessed based on whether--not how--they meet academic and clinical standards safely. Disability accommodations should not affect the standards that must be met. Conclusions: Faculty should base decisions on whether to assign failing grades to students on factors unrelated to a disability. Technical standards, when written correctly, should clarify whether inability or disability contributed to failure. Policies regarding failing should be clear, equitable, and accessible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Homelessness among American adolescents is not a new phenomenon. The United States has a long history of youth who are runaways and/or homeless. The majority of adolescents who are homeless believe that they have no acceptable housing placement options. The foster care system often fails to help youth deal with problems. The impact of homelessness on youth s social functioning and health status should be raised at the community level, particularly by community nurses and other health professions who interact with adolescents who are homeless. By using Kingdon's multiple streams model, nurses can advocate for homeless youth by accurately defining and reframing adolescent homelessness for policy makers and including provision of shelter as a policy priority. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]