Job-Related Stress in Forensic Interviewers of Children with Use of Therapy Dogs Compared with Facility Dogs or No Dogs.

Sexually abused children providing essential testimony regarding crimes in forensic interviews now sometimes are provided facility dogs or therapy dogs for comfort. Facility dogs are extensively trained to work with forensic interviewers; when using therapy dogs in interviews, volunteers are the dog handlers. Interviews can impact child welfare workers' mental health causing secondary traumatic stress (STS).

Study Looking at End Expiratory Pressure for Altitude Illness Decrease (SLEEP-AID).

Lipman, Grant S., Nicholas C. Kanaan, Caleb Phillips, Dave Pomeranz, Patrick Cain, Kristin Fontes, Becky Higbee, Carolyn Meyer, Michael Shaheen, Sean Wentworth, and Diane Walsh.

Defining clinical research nursing practice: results of a role delineation study.

Clinical research nursing is a specialty nursing practice focused on the care of research subjects and implementation of clinical research. A five-dimensional model (Clinical Practice [CP], Study Management, Care Coordination and Continuity, Contributing to the Science [CS], Human Subjects Protection) has been validated nationally to represent the domain of clinical research nursing practice. The purpose of this study was to describe the frequency and importance of activities within each dimension as performed by nurses in clinical research and to describe differences between roles.

Validating the clinical research nursing domain of practice.

Purpose/objectives: To develop and validate a taxonomy for the domain of clinical research nursing.

Design: Survey.

Setting: Clinical research settings in the United States.

Plasma-modified ACT can be used to monitor bivalirudin (Angiomax) anticoagulation for on-pump cardiopulmonary bypass surgery in a patient with heparin-induced thrombocytopenia.

Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is a problem of growing significance and concern, affecting an estimated 1-3% of patients among those receiving an estimated 10 million heparin exposures annually in the United States. The prevalence of heparin antibodies has been reported as at least 12.7% in the general cardiac surgery population before surgery and 42% following surgery.