Outcomes of an Innovative Best Practice Clinical Immersion Framework: A Pilot Study.

Background: Academic nursing has a long history of partnering with practice-based settings to provide clinical learning experiences for nursing students; however, these placements are not easily obtained, especially in pediatrics.

Approach: A freestanding academic pediatric hospital and 3 academic nursing programs collaborated to provide clinical practice to nursing students hired in a practice-based internship program. A second aim was to pilot a best practice clinical immersion framework to provide academic credit to bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) students using a shared clinical syllabus and e-learning platform.

Factors Affecting the Readmission Rates and Health Care Costs of Patients Hospitalized with Schizophrenia: Non-Adherence to Treatment and Increased Relapses.

Non-adherence to medication and outpatient follow-up care are recognizable problems and may be the most challenging aspect of treatment in patients with schizophrenia. Interventions to improve adherence include psychosocial therapy and education, offering and beginning antipsychotic long-acting injections, electronic reminders, service-based interventions, and financial support systems. However, it is difficult to measure the standard of adherence to treatment, as some of the interventions are not applicable to most patients.