Collaboration and intercultural interaction and engagement are relevant to all aspects of higher education including distance/remote/virtual courses. Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) experiences connect students in different countries and provide them with meaningful and significant opportunities for global and intercultural exposure. Such an educational environment enhances students' cultural awareness and knowledge, and guides their personal, relational, and professional actions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 34.8% of adults in the United States experience non-restorative sleep. The restorative theory of sleep is based on sleep as a means for the restoration of cellular function that is needed for activities when awake.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGraduate students in a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner program in the United States and undergraduate students in a first-year English course, Writing and Rhetoric, at a university in Ecuador participated in a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) experience in Fall Semester 2021. The purpose of the COIL experience was to develop global perspectives and cultural competencies regarding diversity and inclusion in mental health. The objectives of the COIL experience were to identify and discuss changes in thinking in four areas: eugenics and cultural bias, cultural bias in research, culture and mental illness, and institutional and care policies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSleep problems are prevalent among youth with mental health disorders. Consistent with national statistics, sleep problems were present in approximately 80% of the patients attending a children's hospital psychiatric partial hospitalization program in the Midwestern United States. The aim of this quality improvement (QI) project was to decrease sleep problems in youth with mental health disorders.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that between 28.5% and 44.1% of adults in the US sleep less than seven hours nightly.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis article is a report of a project to improve the quality and duration of sleep among patients ages 3-17 years in an outpatient mental health clinic. The Pediatric Insomnia Severity Index (PISI) (now the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Clinic Sleep Questionnaire) was administered at baseline. Patients and parents were provided with education about the American Academy of Pediatrics sleep tips.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJudaism, Christianity, and Islam are three world religions that occupy much of the world stage in health care, journalism, and media. Nurses frequently provide care for representatives of these groups. Culturally competent nurses recognize that there are differences and similarities within and between these religions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNurs Clin North Am
December 2019
Management of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders require provider skill, rapport, and referral acumen to treat patients across the life span. Incidence and prevalence have increased in the United States and globally. There are innovative models of evidence-informed screening techniques, treatment strategies to help providers work with patients and their families.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDepression management in primary care settings is the norm, in the United States and globally. As incidence and prevalence of depression continue to mount, there are innovative models of treatment, newer understandings, more open philosophies, and evidence-informed treatments that may address this troubling public health issue. This article attempts to succinctly examine the evidence in identifying and treating this in the United States in an expedient, evidence-informed manner to assist those in need of have care that is patient centered, of high quality, affordable, and readily accessible across the lifespan.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNurses provide care for people of many cultures. Understanding the patient's culture and incorporating cultural beliefs and practices into care are important to the patient's holistic well-being. Cultural and professional awareness creates culturally congruent care.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFwas published by the of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies in 2011. The Missouri Nurses Foundation and Missouri nurses modeled a sustainable project, the Early Career Nurse Innovator Project, exemplifying the intent of that report. The Missouri Nurses Foundation Executive Board comprises experienced nurses, nurse educators, nurses in other leadership roles, retired nurses, public members of the board, and administrative support staff.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDistress remains a pervasive experience of patients with cancer. As a result, a quality improvement project was conducted in the breast cancer clinic of a university cancer center in the midwestern United States. Nurses identified a need to increase identification of distress over a six-month period when they made only eight referrals for distress support during 1,291 patient encounters.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: This 10-year retrospective chart review evaluates the potential impact the most recent U.S. Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) report recommending against annual mammographic screening of women aged 40-49 years.
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January 2013
Background: There are limited data on the effect of an early aggressive risk factor modification program to achieve risk factor targets and its impact on clinical outcomes among patients with symptomatic intracranial stenosis.
Methods: We prospectively identified patients with symptomatic intracranial stenosis of 50% to 99% (using computed tomographic angiography or cerebral angiography) who failed to qualify for or declined to participate in the Stenting and Aggressive Medical Management for Preventing Recurrent stroke in Intracranial Stenosis trial but elected to receive aggressive medical management. Aggressive medical management was defined as aspirin plus clopidogrel therapy for a minimum of 3 months, blood pressure control, statin use with a low-density lipoprotein (LDL) goal of <70 mg/dL, smoking cessation, and body mass index <25 kg/m(2).
Background: Allergic contact dermatitis is often under-recognized in the pediatric population but it may affect greater than 20% of this age group.
Methods: We conducted a retrospective review of the Mayo Rochester, Jacksonville and Arizona patch test database of all children 18 or younger over a 7-year period (January 1, 2000-December 31, 2006).
Results: One-hundred thirty-six children were patch tested from age 3 to 18.