Optimizing the Equitable Deployment of Virtual Care for Women: Protocol for a Qualitative Evidence Synthesis Examining Patient and Provider Perspectives Supplemented with Primary Qualitative Data.

Introduction: Women experience numerous barriers to patient-centered health care (e.g., lack of continuity).

Life after loss: Parent bereavement and coping experiences after infant death in the neonatal intensive care unit.

The death of an infant in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is a profound and unexpected loss for parents that results in a complex process of coping with bereavement. A descriptive qualitative approach was used to explore parent bereavement and coping experiences after infant death in the NICU. The dual process model of coping with bereavement was used as a conceptual framework to help understand how parents cope with grief after infant death.

Parent Perspectives of Neonatal Intensive Care at the End-of-Life.

This descriptive qualitative study explored parent experiences related to their infant's neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) hospitalization, end-of-life care, and palliative care consultation. "Life and death in the NICU environment" emerged as the primary theme with the following categories: ups and downs of parenting in the NICU, decision-making challenges in the NICU, and parent support. Parents encountered challenges with areas for improvement for end-of-life and palliative care in the NICU.

Mentoring and Self-Efficacy: Implications for the Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Workforce.

Background: Mentoring facilitates positive self-efficacy. Individuals with high self-efficacy emulate professional resiliency and possess a strong sense of optimism in their ability to adapt, overcome, and persevere in the professional arena.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify characteristics that encourage mentoring relationships between neonatal nurse practitioner (NNP) students and preceptors, as well as student perceptions of mentoring relationships.

Problem behaviors of children adopted from the former soviet union.

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to report the results of behavioral assessments collected at three time points of a cohort of children adopted from the former Soviet Union with particular emphasis on the impact of the adoptive family on problem behaviors.

Problem: Families adopting from the former USSR are concerned about the influence of pre-adoptive circumstances on their child's future health.

Methods: The study utilized data gathered in 1998 when the children's mean age was close to 8 years, in 2001 when the children were entering early adolescence, and in 2006 when the average age of the children was just over 15 years.

Update on international adoption: focus on Russia.

American families will continue to adopt children from foreign countries; the desire to have a child transcends national boundaries. Sadly, not all adoptions have happy outcomes. A recent and well-reported incident involved an American mother, who, exasperated with her adopted son's severe behavioral problems, returned him to Russia, alone, on an aircraft.

Advocacy: it is what we do.

Our nation is on the verge of change in the healthcare system. Although we do not yet know how this change will affect our patients, our practice, or us, we do know that with change comes opportunity. We have the opportunity to become more involved in health policy and advocacy than ever before.

South Africa: Court orders government to provide antiretrovirals to prisoners.

On 28 August 2006, the High Court of South Africa denied the government's attempt to suspend an earlier Court order to provide antiretroviral (ARV) treatment to eligible HIV-positive prisoners in Westville Correctional Centre (WCC). In reaching its decision, the Court considered, among other factors, the irreparable harm and neglect that would be suffered by the prisoners should the access to ARV treatment be delayed. The judgment is the latest development in an eleven-month struggle by WCC prisoners living with HIV, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and the AIDS Law Project (ALP) to compel the government to provide ARVs to WCC prisoners.

U.S. Government Accountability Office criticizes the PEPFAR.

On April 4th 2006, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report criticizing the administration of HIV/AIDS prevention funds from the President's Emergency Plans for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

Protective influences of families for children adopted from the former Soviet Union.

Purpose: To (a) characterize the total competence of 9- to 12-year old children adopted from the former Soviet Union who have resided in the United States at least 5 years, and (b) evaluate risks and protective influences of adoptive families and their relationships to competence.

Design: Longitudinal, descriptive study.

Methods: In the previously reported phase, the families of 105 internationally adopted children and their families from 23 U.

Structural features of the acyl chain determine self-phospholipid antigen recognition by a CD1d-restricted invariant NKT (iNKT) cell.

Little is known about the antigen specificity of CD1d-restricted T cells, except that they frequently recognize CD1d-expressing antigen-presenting cells in the absence of exogenous antigen. We previously demonstrated that the 24.8.