Positioning a 5-State Nursing Workforce to Flourish by Advancing Baccalaureate Nursing Education.

This article summarizes experience and outcomes for a large, faith-based health system on a journey to ensure that its nearly 29 000-person nurse workforce has the foundational academic preparation to deliver superior, compassionate, and future-focused nursing care. The health system's bachelor of science in nursing completion strategy is summarized, including (a) programmatic structure, (b) curriculum themes, (c) participant experience, and (d) outcomes. Executive leadership's commitment and engagement are highlighted.

Monitoring and documentation of side effects from depot antipsychotic medication: an interdisciplinary audit of practice in a regional mental health service.

This audit reviewed current practice within a rural mental health service area on the monitoring and documentation of side effects of antipsychotic depot medication. A sample of 60 case files, care plans and prescriptions were audited, which is 31% of the total number of service users receiving depot injections in the mental health service region (n= 181). The sample audited had a range of diagnoses, including: schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar affective disorder, depression, alcoholic hallucinosis and autism.

Comparison of methods to facilitate postoperative bowel function.

Improving postoperative return of bowel function after abdominal surgery is an important nursing and medical goal. One promising intervention to achieve this goal is to have patients chew gum several times per day in the early postoperative period to stimulate the cephalic-vagal reflex and bowel peristalsis. A study to determine if return of gastrointestinal function after abdominal surgery could be hastened by the simple intervention of chewing gum or sucking on hard candy three times per day is described.

Accuracy of different devices to measure temperature.

Although erroneous temperature measurement can lead to unneeded patient treatment, nursing staff typically use devices interchangeably without knowledge of any difference in results. A study comparing different methods of temperature measurement in postoperative patients is described.

How many pigs? Statistical power considerations in swine nutrition experiments.

Replication refers to the assignment of more than one experimental unit to the same treatment. Each replication of a treatment is an independent observation; thus, each replication involves a different experimental unit. In swine nutrition research, the experimental unit may be an individual animal, as in sow reproduction experiments, or a group of animals, as in growing-finishing pig experiments.

Effect of chlortetracycline on the spread of R-100 plasmid-containing Escherichia coli BEL15R from experimentally infected pigs to uninfected pigs and chicks.

Swine from two herds with different histories of antibiotic exposure were fed diets containing 0 or 55 mg of chlortetracycline (CTC)/kg. One of five pigs in each herd-diet treatment group was infected orally with Escherichia coli strain BEL15R that was resistant to nalidixic acid (NA), chloramphenicol (C), streptomycin (S), sulfamethizole (TH) and tetracycline (TE). Effects of CTC on the quantity and duration of fecal shedding of E.

Interactive effects of dietary calcium, phosphorus and copper on performance and liver stores of pigs.

Three experiments involving 304 pigs were conducted to determine the related effects of copper (Cu), calcium (Ca) and phosphorus (P) on the performance and liver Cu stores of growing-finishing pigs. Rate and efficiency of gain were improved by the addition of 250 ppm of Cu to the diets. Improvements in rate of gain averaged 6.

Antibiotic resistance of fecal coliforms after long-term withdrawal of therapeutic and subtherapeutic antibiotic use in a swine herd.

Tetracycline resistance of fecal coliforms isolated from swine decreased from 82 to 42%, a decrease of less than 50%, after the use of all forms of antimicrobial agents were discontinued in the herd for 126 months.

Effect of feeding chlortetracycline or virginiamycin on shedding of salmonellae from experimentally-infected swine.

Swine from a herd routinely fed subtherapeutic levels of chlortetracycline (CTC) were fed a diet containing 55 mg of CTC/kg, a diet containing 55 mg of virginiamycin/kg, or a control diet. All animals were inoculated with Salmonella typhimurium that was susceptible to tetracycline. The quantity, duration and prevalence of shedding of S.