Erika Metzler Sawin

• PhD, FNP-BC
• Professor at James Madison University

Background The aim of this study was to identify the women’s experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV) after breast cancer. Method This is a qualitative descriptive study. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with 11 women with breast cancer, all participants referred to the outpatient Oncology Clinic in IRAN. Data were analyzed using...

America is facing a primary care provider shortage. Enhanced primary care RNs (EPC‐RNs), registered nurses working at the top of their practice scope, can be an important part of community‐based primary care provision. Typically, community health nursing education has not included primary care‐based clinical experiences, and there is a clinical sit...

There is evidence that nursing students do not perceive themselves to be engaged in learner-centric environments. High-impact educational practices are effective pedagogies that are embraced in nursing education. This paper describes the implementation of one high impact education practice, curriculum-based learning communities, within a cohort of...

Background/Objective: Interprofessional collaboration is an essential skill for high-quality healthcare delivery, particularly for serving members of vulnerable populations who are managing stigmatized conditions, such as mental health disorders. As part of a primary care-focused nursing education grant, faculty created the Interprofessional Counse...

Dementia is on the rise globally and includes complex cognitive and neuropsychiatric manifestations. Prioritizing neuropsychiatric symptom management in persons living with dementia (PLWD) can reduce rates of adverse events and reduce caregiver burden. Therefore, health care providers and caregivers should explore all available therapeutic modaliti...

Objective: The present study was conducted to determine the blaming experiences of women with breast cancer subjected to intimate partner violence (IPV). Methods: This hermeneutic phenomenological study explored blaming experiences of women with breast cancer subjected to IPV. Nine women with a mean age of 47.5 years referred to oncology hospita...

Aim The current study aimed to systematically review the data obtained from studies on women with breast and gynaecologic cancers subjected to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). Design Systematic review without meta‐analysis. Data sources PubMed, ProQuest, Google Scholar, Scopus, Web of Science; databases were searched without time limit. Review m...

Rural Health Clinics (RHCs) were created in 1977 to address the high health care needs, limited provider access, and poor health outcomes of rural Americans. Although innovative at their inception, the provider-centric model of RHC cost-based reimbursement structures has not evolved, leaving limited opportunities for change; many have failed. Compr...

Aim: This study aimed to analyse risk and protective factors for teen suicide and bullying. Background: Research shows that high percentages of bully-victims report suicidal thinking or suicide attempts. Design: This was an international integrative review. Data sources: Five databases including CINAHL, Scopus, PubMed, Google Scholar and Cuiden wer...

Background The United States population is becoming increasingly diverse. Despite this trend, diversity in the nursing profession lags. In order to provide patient-centered care, students must learn the nuances of providing culturally competent care. There are many ways to assess the impact of culture on healthcare behaviors and norms, and can incl...

The increasing prevalence of mental illness in the United States presents significant challenges for primary care providers particularly in low-income settings. Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH) programs have resulted in improved general health for low-income participants; however, managing appointment adherence, in which the patient attends appoi...

This integrative review uses an ecological framework to examine research describing multilevel contributors to health inequities among Latina childbearing women in rural U.S. communities. Rurality exacerbates existing structural issues and makes the accumulation of both social capital and cultural competence in accessing and utilizing the health ca...

Background: With disasters occurring often, nurses must understand and ethically implement disaster management and patient care coordination. Yet these topics are often not discussed in nursing education curricula. Simulations are a potential solution to this ethical educational deficit, allowing students to act as professional nurses in a realisti...

Introduction Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a global public health and criminal justice concern with significant impacts; especially high rates are seen among rural Hispanic American (HA) communities, the fastest growing population in the United States. They experience additional barriers to care including extreme poverty, lesser education, gen...

Many older adults age at home, cared for by family caregivers. Nurse educators need effective educational strategies to teach students family caregiving issues. This article examines how the Life of a Caregiver (LOC) simulation influences students' understanding and knowledge of aging, family caregiving issues, and related community services. A des...

To explore nursing care actions that lead to culturally competent care for Hispanic patients. Nurses report apprehension when delivering nursing care because of language barriers and a lack of Hispanic cultural understanding. Research is needed to inform culturally aware nursing practice actions for Hispanic patients. The study used a qualitative,...

BACKGROUND/ SIGNIFICANCE: Intimate partner violence (IPV) among Latino immigrants is common, equaling that of non-immigrant women at 19.5% lifetime prevalence, but is often hidden. Similarly, IPV among all rural-dwellers and rural Latino immigrants in particular is not well documented or understood. The Latino population in the United States is gro...

Student evaluations of teaching (SET) are common and controversial, yet there is limited understanding of student perceptions of these evaluation tools. The authors examined an evidence-based SET tool for content validity using BSN, RN-to-BSN, and MSN student focus groups to explore individual question items and identify themes. Through communicati...

Although accurate statistics have been difficult to ascertain, current estimates indicate there are between one and four million same-sex couples raising children in the United States. Many same-sex couples face significant systemic barriers such as laws and policies that may complicate and prolong the process of becoming parents. Even when they ar...

Student evaluations of teaching often play an important role in the promotion and tenure of faculty. Many of the instruments in use within the university setting are self-developed and have not undergone psychometric testing. More specifically, nursing education has many unique challenges, yet the effectiveness of student evaluations of teaching in...

The number of older adults with caregiving needs is rapidly escalating, and the majority of these adults are cared for at home by unpaid family members. Nurse educators must better prepare nurse graduates to meet the needs of this population, as well as to include family caregivers as part of the health care team. This article describes the design,...

Many women identify their intimate partner as important source of support during cancer diagnosis and recovery, but little is known about how women deal with breast cancer while in a relationship self-described as difficult. The purpose of this article is to describe the aging-related experiences of older women who were diagnosed with breast cancer...

The objective of this study was to describe the experiences of older women diagnosed with breast cancer while experiencing intimate partner abuse (IPA), determined by scores on the Women's Experience With Battering (WEB) Scale. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with a convenience sample of 11 women ages 51 to 84 (mean age = 64.8...

The objective of this study was to describe the experiences of older women diagnosed with breast cancer while experiencing intimate partner abuse (IPA), determined by scores on the Women’s Experience With Battering (WEB) Scale. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with a convenience sample of 11 women ages 51 to 84 (mean age = 64.8...

This article describes the experiences of older rural women diagnosed with breast cancer while in a non-supportive, and sometimes abusive, intimate relationship. Breast cancer is primarily a disease of older women, and in the USA, a higher percentage of rural women are more than 65 years of age compared with other geographical areas. Many women ide...

To describe the experiences of women who were diagnosed with breast cancer while also encountering intimate partner violence (IPV). IPV was determined by scores on the Women's Experience With Battering Scale and the Abuse Assessment Screen. Qualitative interviews were conducted with a convenience sample of seven women. Data were analyzed with a her...

The purpose of this article is to describe the experiences of adult women who, when they were children, experienced the homicide of their mother by their father. Two qualitative interviews were conducted with a convenience sample of 31 women survivors of uxoricide to create a qualitative description of the phenomenon. A number of themes have emerge...