Palliative Care of Stroke Patients.

Critical care clinicians frequently care for patients with acute brain injury, such as stroke. Regardless of the severity of the neurologic insult, these patients have life-altering deficits that threaten their personal identity and quality of life. The sudden nature of the injury often means that there has been little discussion between patients and their families about life-sustaining treatments, and most patients are unable to speak for themselves because of impaired cognition and communication.

The power of the past: A roadmap for integrating nursing history into the curriculum.

The inclusion of nursing history within the undergraduate and graduate nursing curricula has waxed and waned over the years. The 2021 publication by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, "The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Education," includes the expectation that nursing education curricula will include history content. This article aims to provide guidance to the nurse educator using a nursing history framework and a 5-step approach to integrate history into an already saturated curriculum.

Oral Rabies Vaccine Strain SPBN GASGAS: Genetic Stability after Serial In Vitro and In Vivo Passaging.

Oral vaccination of wildlife has shown to be a very effective management tool in rabies control. Evaluation of the genetic stability of vaccine viruses before distributing vaccine baits in the environment is essential because all available oral rabies vaccines, including the genetically engineered rabies virus vaccine strain SPBN GASGAS (Rabitec), are based on replication-competent viruses. To evaluate the genetic stability of this vaccine strain, five serial passages of the Master Seed Virus (MSV) in the production cell line BHK21 Cl13 were performed.

Research Priority Setting: The Current Landscape of Neuroscience Nursing Research.

BACKGROUND: The American Association of Neuroscience Nurses established a 6-member Research Agenda Task Force in 2019 to identify neuroscience nursing research priorities to lead the field for the next 3 to 5 years. An early step in the process was a literature search to gain an understanding of the current landscape of neuroscience nursing research. METHODS: A search strategy was developed to locate relevant neuroscience nursing research.