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Many participants persist through the living kidney donation process, although it is challenging, multifaceted, and burdensome, particularly during the predonation evaluation (PDE) phase. This study uses a constructivist grounded theory approach to analyze the experiences of living kidney donors (LKDs) undergoing evaluation who shared their perspectives in blog reflections. One hundred five (105) blog posts met the inclusion criteria. They generated three overarching themes: (1) Facilitators to completing the PDE qualification process, (2) Burdens experienced during the PDE qualification process, and (3) Tools to mitigate burdens or enhance facilitators. Internal facilitators, such as the desire to help and other motivating emotions, emerged as key drivers for LKDs to persist through the donation process. Religious belief or faith, an external facilitator, is also crucial in motivating donors. Conversely, internal burdens, such as doubts, fears, financial concerns, and health risks, posed challenges to the donation process. External burdens also included recipient relationship management, delays and setbacks, poor communication, qualification testing, lack of support, and being denied as a donor. This study's findings shed light on the complex interplay between burdens, facilitators, and tools in shaping the experiences of LKDs during the PDE, which enabled their persistence through the process and highlights a potential persistence spectrum. The insights gained from this research can inform interventions to better support living kidney donors throughout their donation journey, enhancing the overall donor experience and potentially increasing the number of living kidney donations., Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper., (Copyright © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)

In this autoethnographic account of my experiences as a parent who discovers and attempts to respond to the abuse of her child, I highlight the ways trauma can remove access to storytelling as a sensemaking and healing tool in a crisis. I narrate how I experienced secondary trauma as a meaning-making black hole that blocked language's healing capacities, blinded me to important sensemaking turning points, and hampered my and my child's ability to ask for help. These experiences caused me to question many foundational assumptions I made as a health communication scholar and to see an interdisciplinary bias toward narrative resiliency. Narrating the inhibiting effects trauma has on emplotment, help-seeking, and meaning-making points to the uniquely communicative nature of trauma which enables narrative theory and health communication research to make strong theoretical contributions to better understand trauma and support appropriate trauma-informed practices.

Background: A need exists to recruit and retain nursing faculty of differing generations, races/ethnicities, and genders., Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine whether generational cohort, race/ethnicity, and gender predicted job satisfaction, life satisfaction, or work-life balance for full-time faculty teaching in prelicensure, baccalaureate nursing programs., Methods: Faculty (N = 363) from multiple schools of nursing in the United States completed a survey that included demographics, the Job Satisfaction Scale, the Satisfaction with Life Scale, and the Work-Life Balance Self-Assessment., Results: Significant relationships and differences were noted for nursing faculty. Faculty of color reported lower job and life satisfaction than their White counterparts., Conclusions: As calls to increase diversity among nursing faculty increase, continued research should focus on differences in the experience of faculty of color., Competing Interests: The authors declare no conflict of interest., (Copyright © 2022 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.)

Aim: This study explored how full-time, prelicensure baccalaureate nursing faculty members described their experiences with work-life balance., Background: With increasing shortages of nursing faculty and practicing nurses, schools of nursing are developing faculty recruitment and retention efforts. It is imperative to understand the experiences of nursing faculty with regard to balancing their work and personal lives., Method: A web-based survey including two open-ended questions related to work-life balance was disseminated to deans of nursing programs, who disseminated the survey to nursing faculty. Thematic analysis was used to analyze the data., Results: The sample (n = 320) was representative of current nursing faculty demographics. Three themes emerged: Relationship With Administration, Nursing Faculty Workload, and Boundary Setting. Opposing subthemes were noted in each theme., Conclusion: Administrators may use the findings from this study to create administrator and faculty development opportunities and mentorship programs that promote work-life balance of nursing faculty., Competing Interests: The authors have declared no conflict of interest., (Copyright © 2022 National League for Nursing.)

Background: Gender and sexual minorities are more likely to report unfavourable experiences with primary care. Aside from being refused care, additional challenges include stigma, discrimination, social and societal rejection, and violence., Aims: The purpose of this study was to determine which aspects of the client-provider relationship affected perceived satisfaction with the quality of mental healthcare received., Methods: Data was collected via electronic survey, which yielded 177 responses. Univariate and ordinal logistic regression were used to determine if a significant relationship existed between the variables of interest., Results: Results indicate that clients who felt less trust for their providers, reported inadequate time spent in therapeutic encounters, and felt their providers looked down on or judged them were less satisfied with the quality of mental healthcare they received. In addition, LGBTQ+ clients who were less satisfied with the quality of care they received were significantly less confident in their ability to receive adequate future mental healthcare., Conclusions: Results of this study highlight the importance of provider awareness, attitude, and access to information regarding the mental health needs of the LGBTQ+ population because these support culturally competent care, which potentially encourages future care-seeking behaviors.