Exploring Staff Perspectives and Experiences from a Nurse Practitioner-Led Behavioral Health Integration Project in North Carolina Multi-Site Federally Qualified Health Center: A Qualitative Descriptive Study.

Purpose: As primary care (PC) clinics seek to integrate behavioral health (BH) services into patient care, it is crucial to understand the experiences of the clinic team and the impact on workflow and well-being. This study was designed to identify perspectives and experiences of nurse practitioner-led PC teams as they implemented a behavioral health integration (BHI) model into their Federally Qualified Health Center PC practices.

Methods: We conducted in-depth qualitative interviews with staff members at three clinic sites that implemented BHI.

Implementation of a Quality Improvement Learning Collaborative to Support Implementation of the 2016 CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain: Case Study from Nurse-Led Clinics.

Purpose: The authors describe a case study of a quality improvement initiative to implement the 2016 CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain ("2016 CDC Guideline") into nurse-led primary care practices in central Appalachia.

Design: In this controlled pre-post quality improvement study, a policy change, an electronic health record form, and supporting education were implemented. Knowledge change and quality improvement metrics were measured before and after implementation.

Comprehensive observational study evaluating the enduring effectiveness of 4CMenB, the meningococcal B vaccine against gonococcal infections in the Northern Territory and South Australia, Australia: study protocol.

Introduction: The effectiveness of antibiotics for treating gonococcal infections is compromised due to escalating antibiotic resistance; and the development of an effective gonococcal vaccine has been challenging. Emerging evidence suggests that the licensed meningococcal B (MenB) vaccine, 4CMenB is effective against gonococcal infections due to cross-reacting antibodies and 95% genetic homology between the two bacteria, and that cause the diseases. This project aims to undertake epidemiological and genomic surveillance to evaluate the long-term protection of the 4CMenB vaccine against gonococcal infections in the Northern Territory (NT) and South Australia (SA), and to determine the potential benefit of a booster vaccine doses to provide longer-term protection against gonococcal infections.