Establishing a Comprehensive Nursing Clinic Using the Case Management Model.

Objective: To explore the practical effect of the case management model in a comprehensive nursing clinic.

Methods: Based on the case management model, the authors constructed a comprehensive nursing clinic providing wound care, ostomy care, peripherally inserted central catheter care, drainage tube care, nursing consultations, and home care. They evaluated the practical effect of the comprehensive nursing clinic according to workload, economic benefits, and satisfaction of the medical staff and patients.

High-Strength, Conductive, Antifouling, and Antibacterial Hydrogels for Wearable Strain Sensors.

Conductive hydrogels have shown great potential in the field of flexible strain sensors. However, their application is greatly limited due to the poor antifouling and low mechanical strength. Unfortunately, it is still a challenge to improve these two distinct properties simultaneously.

Ultrastretchable, Tough, Antifreezing, and Conductive Cellulose Hydrogel for Wearable Strain Sensor.

Conductive hydrogels have shown great potential in the field of flexible strain sensors. However, their application is greatly limited due to the low conductivity and poor mechanical properties at subzero temperatures. Herein, an ultrastretchable, tough, antifreezing, and conductive cellulose hydrogel was fabricated by grafting acrylonitrile and acrylamide copolymers onto the cellulose chains in the presence of zinc chloride using ceric ammonium nitrate as the initiator.

Gold embedded chitosan nanoparticles with cell membrane mimetic polymer coating for pH-sensitive controlled drug release and cellular fluorescence imaging.

In this work, gold embedded chitosan nanoparticles (Au@CS NPs) were fabricated by a one-pot method. The benzaldehyde-terminated poly[(2-methacryloyloxy) ethyl phosphorylcholine] (PMPC) was applied to modification of the gold doped chitosan nanoparticles. The obtained Au@CS-PMPC NPs had the diameter of 135 nm with a narrow distribution.