Use of Course-Specific Open Educational Resources in a Graduate Nursing Course.

Background: This article evaluates a single-institution educational innovation using course-specific open educational resources (OER).

Method: This educational innovation uses a course-specific library resource guide of OERs and evaluates students' perspectives on the quality, integration, and experience with the resources. At the completion of a nursing graduate course, the OER Satisfaction Scale was administered to the course participants.

Central venous catheter bundle adherence: Kamishibai card (K-card) rounding for central-line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) prevention.

Objective: To institute facility-wide Kamishibai card (K-card) rounding for central venous catheter (CVC) maintenance bundle education and adherence and to evaluate its impact on bundle reliability and central-line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) rates.

Design: Quality improvement project.

Setting: Inpatient units at a large, academic freestanding children's hospital.

Still More Thoughts About Conceptual Models and Literature Reviews: Focus on Health Policy.

This essay is the second of two essays about the use of a conceptual model to guide scoping reviews of literature. The first essay, published in the previous issue of Nursing Science Quarterly, provided examples of the use of the conceptual model of nursing and population health as a starting point for the construction of conceptual-theoretical-empirical structures for scoping reviews. In this essay, the examples are of the use of the conceptual model of nursing and health policy.

A systematic evaluation of advance care planning patient educational resources.

Background: Advance care planning (ACP) conversations help individuals exercise autonomy and make informed decisions about their care. There are many ACP resources available to support the process of advance care planning, yet available resources not universally accepted and under-utilized in clinical practice.

Objective: This study aims to systematically evaluate commonly available general ACP patient educational resources using a comprehensive approach to assess elements ranging from resource inclusion to health literacy.

Exemplars of Innovation in Practice: Implications of the AONE-CIT and CMS Innovation Advisors Projects Within the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Innovation in health care requires leaders to influence the development of positive environments that accelerate innovation and produce better outcomes for patients, the workforce, and organizations. Given the multifaceted changes in today's health care system, nursing leaders must utilize opportunities for innovation to focus on enhancing practice environments. In this article, nursing leaders who oversee personnel on direct care delivery units report on how they worked within existing organizational structures to influence improvement in practice environments while accelerating innovation.

NRG1 / ERBB3 signaling in melanocyte development and melanoma: inhibition of differentiation and promotion of proliferation.

Neuregulin (NRG) signaling through the receptor tyrosine kinase, ERBB3, is required for embryonic development, and dysregulated signaling has been associated with cancer progression. Here, we show that NRG1/ERBB3 signaling inhibits melanocyte (MC) maturation and promotes undifferentiated, migratory and proliferative cellular characteristics. Embryonic analyses demonstrated that initial MC specification and distribution were not dependent on ERBB3 signaling.