Factors Associated With Nasogastric Tube Placement-Related Complications in a Single Academic Medical Center.

Objective: At our 710-bed academic medical center, nine (9) patients sustained injuries during nasogastric (NG) tube insertion attempts over a 16-month period (March 2021-July 2022). No injuries were reported during the comparable period before these events. This increase in reported events prompted an in-depth analysis to determine the root causes and implement a process improvement plan.

Promoting Academic Success in Nursing Education Through Academic Coaching: A Scoping Review.

Background: Academic support services can improve undergraduate and graduate nursing program outcomes such as program completion and passing the NCLEX. Academic success coaching complements traditional support strategies by providing study skills and time management tools, promoting goal setting and self-efficacy, and referring students to support resources. This review examined interventions that academic success coaches use to improve student success and retention, licensing examination pass rates, and academic success.

Thermodynamic compensation to temperature extremes in B. subtilis vs T. maritima lysine riboswitches.

T. maritima and B. subtilis are bacteria that inhabit significantly different thermal environments, ∼80 vs.

Age-dependent changes in collagen crosslinks reduce the mechanical toughness of human meniscus.

The mechanical resilience of the knee meniscus is provided by a group of structural proteins in the extracellular matrix. Aging can alter the quantity and molecular structure of these proteins making the meniscus more susceptible to debilitating tears. In this study, we determined the effect of aging on the quantity of structural proteins and collagen crosslinks in human lateral meniscus, and examined whether the quantity of these molecules was predictive of tensile toughness (area under the stress-strain curve).

Improved Viability of Spray-Dried for Phage-Carrier Mediated Control of Fire Blight.

Fire blight, caused by , is a devastating bacterial disease that threatens apple and pear production. It is mainly controlled by using antibiotics, such as streptomycin. Due to development of resistant strains and the excessive agricultural use of antibiotics, there is an increased awareness of the possibility of antibiotic resistance gene transfer to other microbes.