Publications by authors named "J N Roitman"
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- Rural hospitals in the US, particularly in Tennessee, are closing at alarming rates, resulting in reduced healthcare access for rural populations.
- Interviews with stakeholders from five diverse rural communities in Tennessee revealed key strategies that have helped some hospitals survive despite these closures.
- The analysis identified six main themes related to preventing closures, including government policies, commercial factors, internal business strategies, community engagement, ongoing challenges, and the impact of behavioral health and substance abuse issues.
Simulation-enhanced interprofessional education is widely viewed as an effective teaching pedagogy to foster effective communication and teamwork for healthcare students. Pharmacists and registered nurses must learn to work collaboratively during their educational programs in order to be prepared for the complexities of modern healthcare. This study evaluated prelicensure pharmacy and prelicensure nursing students' perceptions of professional collaboration before and after caring for a standardized patient exhibiting opioid dependence secondary to inappropriate use of an opioid analgesic.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: The annual teaching oral-systemic health (TOSH) virtual clinical simulation and case study activity exposes interprofessional teams of nurse practitioner, nurse midwifery, dental, medical, and pharmacy students to a virtual clinical simulation experience that uses oral-systemic health as a clinical exemplar for promoting interprofessional core competencies. The present study examines changes in participating students' self-reported interprofessional competencies following participation in virtual TOSH from 2020 to 2022. These findings are also compared to those from in-person TOSH (2019) to examine the equivalence of student outcomes of both the in-person and virtual programs.
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- * This study specifically examined how acute and chronic thirst impacted motivation and reward sensitivity using the intracranial self-stimulation (ICSS) technique on Long Evans rats.
- * Results showed that while acute water deprivation didn't affect reward sensitivity, chronic water restriction led to a decrease in the sensitivity to reward, suggesting that prolonged physiological needs can alter how reward systems operate, potentially leading to unhealthy behaviors.
Background: Interprofessional education (IPE) is a curricular requirement for all healthcare professional education standards. To foster learning about, from and with each other, consistent with the Interprofessional Education Consortium's Core Competencies, many graduate schools are integrating interprofessional (IP) simulation experiences throughout their educational curricula, providing multiple opportunities for health professional students to collaborate and practice together. High-fidelity, real-time simulations help students from diverse professional backgrounds to apply their classroom learning in realistic clinical situations, utilize mobile technology to access clinical decision support (CDS) software, and receive feedback in a safe setting, ensuring they are practice-ready upon graduation.
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