In this episode, Ian responds to a few polite criticisms of his previous episode on DNP versus PhD-level research, and then describes a useful and important 2020 editorial review in Nurse Leader, describing challenges faced by newly graduated DNP-prepared nurses in acute care workforce settings.

In this episode, Ian thinks through the question of how to differentiate the role of the DNP as compared with the PhD in Nursing, from an academic research perspective. Although these are just thoughts and contemplation, there is something here for both DNPs and PhDs in nursing science and the hope is that it merely spurs something of an interesting dialogue about the overly simplistic heuristics about DNPs as translators and PhDs as originators of 'knowledge' in the field.

In this episode, Ian reviews a seminar New England Journal paper by Herridge et al. (2011) discussing functional disability longitudinally post-ARDS treatment across four MICU and SICUs in Canada. The paper details the functional, psychosocial, and medical impairments that have appeared to linger in this sample across five years of follow-up data collection. This paper is considered one of the top 100 critical care studies ever published.

In this episode, Ian reviews a 2016 paper in Stroke by Condon et al. describing a prospective RN/NP-led transitional stroke care program including follow-up calls and clinic visits after patients were discharged to home from a single-center hospital system. This program intended to review two phases of the TSC program to assess any potentially significant improvements across the phases of implementation from phase 1 to phase 2 in terms of reducing 30- or 90-day readmission rates.

In this Ask-Me-Anything episode, Ian answers three listener questions. Question one asks about Odds Ratios. Question two asks whether nursing and medicine are more Art or more Science. And question three asks what the main difference is between what broadly constitutes medicine and what constitutes nursing. Enjoy!

In this episode, Ian reviews a recent Nursing Outlook paper on Workforce Outcomes in nurse practitioners as a result of changes in full practice authority legislation during the period of 2010-2018. This study was designed to assess whether instituting full practice authority legislation in states that previously did not have it might improve workforce outcomes in NPs which might thereafter have important downstream effects on health professional shortage areas (HPSA) and other important health services indicators.

In this episode, Ian describes how implementation is the key missing link in what might bring together academic-based nursing research and clinical nursing practice, and discusses how the DNP model of terminal training in nursing practice may be the proper conduit for this level of translational and implementation science and policy development.

In this colloquial episode, Ian first answers two listener questions and then dives into how he thinks about doing a "quick read" through scientific articles, and paraphrases a new paper he's not yet read before live for the audience. The point of this is different from his usual deep dives into the literature; it's to give his audience a sense of what sorts of questions they might ask themselves and what pieces to look out for as they walk through an article, from the standpoint of a clinician trying to stay up to date, but still doing a critical appraisal of the research.

In this episode, Ian gives an argument for why integrating others' values into our interpretations of data (whether in dialogue with another person through conversation or with respect to our scientific inquiry in health care research) is an imperative way to model reality more accurately, and discusses the fact-value overlap in statistical inquiry in scientific research.