Development of a Facility-Level Second Victim Syndrome Peer-Mentor Program: Program Design and Future Directions.

Background: Despite efforts to prevent errors, studies show that iatrogenic, or health care-related, errors continue to occur. Understandably, these errors, which can range in severity from near-misses to serious harm, can be devastating for the health care professionals involved, creating a potential second set of victims, in addition to the patient(s) that were harmed directly. Studies show that individuals struggling with second-victim syndrome (SVS) can be at increased risk for depression, burnout, and poor work performance.

Inspiring and Supporting Nurses' Scholarly Works Through a Special Issue Highlighting Nursing-Sensitive Indicators.

Description Nursing represents the largest discipline in health care, with just over 5 million nurses in the United States, and the discipline is under increasing pressure to make evidence-based decisions in the delivery of patient care. This special issue of the can inspire and support nurses' scholarly work with an eye to dissemination in peer-reviewed medical journals. This issue highlights nursing's contributions to improving patient outcomes through nurse-sensitive indicators, with the hope of elevating the quality of tomorrow's health care.

Nursing Informatics: The Vital Nursing Link Between Technology And Patient Care.

Description Advances in technology offer additional health care tools to improve the health of patients and efficiencies for our clinicians in innovative ways. These technologies cover a huge variety of therapeutics, ranging from wearable devices, such as insulin pumps, to robotic-assisted surgeries. Nursing informatics is firmly embedded in the use of technology to improve nursing care and science.

Using Geometric Morphometric Analysis of Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Assess the Anatomy of the Eustachian Tube in Children with and without Otitis Media.

Otitis media (OM) is among the most common of childhood illnesses. It has long been hypothesized that children under age two are predisposed to OM due to differences in the anatomy of the Eustachian tube (ET), including the angle of the ET. OM in later childhood is less common but does occur, begging the question, are there shape differences in the ET that persist underlying later occurrences of OM? To answer this question, a novel method, which applied geometric and morphometric shape analysis to landmarks obtained from MRI data, was used.

CT Imaging of Eustachian Tube Balloon Dilation: Method Development on Cadaver Heads.

: To develop a methodology for the measurement of balloon dilation (BD) effects on Eustachian Tube (ET) structure using Computerized Tomography (CT) images. : The BD of the ET was performed on three cadaver heads (five ears) through the nasopharyngeal orifice. The axial CT images of the temporal bones were obtained before dilation, while an inflated balloon was in the lumen of ET, and after balloon removal in each ear.