A Healthcare-Academic Practice Partnership Program to Promote Student Nurse Readiness for Work.

Highly skilled new graduate nurses must be better prepared to face the clinical and professional challenges in today's healthcare environment. Compounding these challenges are the growing resignations of clinical faculty and experienced clinical nurses. Innovative programs are needed to bridge the knowledge-practice gap with opportunities to create pipelines to aid the future nursing workforce.

Reducing outpatient costs of nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs at a Department of Veterans Affairs teaching hospital.

Objective: To determine how formulary changes, based on the recommendations of a clinical pharmacy specialist, affected outpatient nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug (NSAID) prescribing patterns and drug costs in a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) teaching hospital.

Design: Cost-benefit analysis.

Setting: VA teaching hospital.

Tarsal tunnel syndrome. A case report and review of the literature.

An illustrative case report and a review of the literature are presented. The tarsal tunnel syndrome is a relatively rare syndrome consisting of pain, paresthesias, and varying degrees of motor and vasomotor changes in any or all three branches of the posterior tibial nerve at the ankle. It represents a pressure neuropathy secondary to intrinsic or extrinsic stenosis of the tarsal tunnel, with a wide variety of underlying causes.