Advocating for People With Disabilities Through Inclusion in Nursing Education.

Providing staff with nursing education that reflects care of people with disabilities is vital to promote equitable care. Professional development specialists can design educational tools that address diversity, equity, and inclusion objectives that include care of this minority. Nursing staff who are educated to apply these concepts can improve health outcomes for this patient population.

Using a Simulation to Increase Awareness of the Impact of Poverty on Health Care.

A poverty simulation can increase participants' knowledge of the impact of poverty on patients' health care choices. Professional development specialists can develop poverty simulations for their health care organizations. Planning and delivering a successful simulation requires preparation beforehand to logistically implement a simulation that has a positive, meaningful impact.

Standardizing Nurse Leader Safety Rounds to Promote Highly Reliable Care.

Background: Despite decades of intensive resource allocation to eliminate preventable harm and increase high reliability in the hospital, the prevalence of serious harm remains consistent.

Local Problem: A hospital reduced targeted preventable harms using audit and feedback (A&F) but failed to globally reduce harm or increase proactive awareness. Nurse leaders lacked a defined process for identifying errors, mitigating risk, and teaching systems thinking to influence resiliency among teams.

Effect of Midazolam in Addition to Propofol and Opiate Sedation on the Quality of Recovery After Colonoscopy: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Background: There is a concern that midazolam, when used as a component of sedation for colonoscopy, may impair cognition and prolong recovery. We aimed to identify whether midazolam produced short- and longer-term effects on multiple dimensions of recovery including cognition.

Methods: A 2-center double-blinded, placebo-controlled, parallel-group, randomized, phase IV study with a 1:1 allocation ratio was conducted in adults ≥18 years of age undergoing elective outpatient colonoscopy, with sufficient English language proficiency to complete the Postoperative Quality of Recovery Scale (PostopQRS).

Roadmap to Wellness: Exploring Live Customized Music at the Bedside for Hospitalized Children.

Background: Randomized trials on clinical outcomes of music are conflicting, with few performed in the postoperative pediatric population. We aimed to determine if there was a benefit of a live, customized bedside music delivery program (MyMusicRx) for children hospitalized after pediatric surgery. We present our perspective on the utility of music medicine, review others' work in this area, and discuss future directions.

En bloc resection of a C-1 lateral mass osteosarcoma: technical note.

Osteosarcoma is an aggressive primary bone tumor. It is currently treated with multimodality therapy including en bloc resection, which has been demonstrated to confer a survival benefit over intralesional resection. The authors present the case of an 8-year-old girl with a C-1 lateral mass osteosarcoma, which was treated with a 4-stage en bloc resection and spinal reconstruction.