Impact of a Novel Virtual Rounding Queue Software on Nurse and Family Presence for Rounds in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Pilot Study.

Objective: Coordination to get everyone in the room at the same time for family-centered rounds (FCR) is challenging. The objective of this study was to determine if using a virtual queue that notifies nurses and families in real time when to expect the rounding team could impact their presence on rounds.

Methods: We observed rounds on two neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) teams for 6 weeks before and after implementation of a novel rounding software, Q-rounds, that shares real-time updates on when the team will arrive and allows families to répondez s'il vous plaît (RSVP) to join remotely when they cannot be there in person.

"What's My Line?": Pseudo-Improvised Teaching When the Clinical Teaching Script Is Blank.

Commitment to clinical education often requires significant forethought and attention to provide a comprehensive learning experience for trainees. In these settings, teaching is typically time-limited, prompted by a clinical scenario, and requires preparation. However, it is not uncommon for teachers to have insufficient time to prepare or to encounter a clinical scenario in which they have not yet developed a teaching script.

Weight Status and Weight Perception in Relation to Mental Distress and Psychosocial Protective Factors Among Adolescents.

Objective: To measure how weight status and weight perception relate to mental distress and psychosocial protective factors in adolescents.

Methods: Adolescents in 8th, 9th, and 11th grade participating in the 2013 Minnesota Student Survey (N = 122,180) were classified on the basis of weight perception (overweight or not overweight) and weight status (not overweight, overweight, obese). Bivariate tests were used to assess the relationship of weight status and weight perception with internal mental distress, and generalized linear models were used to measure the association between weight status and weight perception with psychosocial protective factors including parent, school, and friend connectedness, social competency, and positive identity.

Skin dendritic cells induce follicular helper T cells and protective humoral immune responses.

Background: The contribution of individual subsets of dendritic cells (DCs) to generation of adaptive immunity is central to understanding immune homeostasis and protective immune responses.

Objective: We sought to define functions for steady-state skin DCs.

Methods: We present an approach in which we restrict antigen presentation to individual DC subsets in the skin and monitor the effects on endogenous antigen-specific CD4(+) T- and B-cell responses.