Learning to Fly in the Time of COVID-19: Nurse Resident Experiences During the First Surge.

This qualitative study, designed by nursing professional development specialists, explored novice nurses' experiences working during the first COVID-19 surge of 2020. Semistructured focus group interviews were conducted in June-December 2020 with 23 novice nurses who cared for patients with COVID-19 in March-April 2020. Sixteen themes were identified under three broad categories (viz.

Supporting Novice Nurses During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

The future of the profession is being forged under challenging circumstances.

Leading Our Frontline HEROES Through Times of Crisis With a Sense of Hope, Efficacy, Resilience, and Optimism.

The coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has changed the trajectory of health care delivery in the United States and the whole world. Frontline nurses-essential warriors in this fight-complete exhausting shifts and experience the moral distress that comes with making difficult ethical decisions. This deeply human crisis requires a deeply human response.

Altitude exposures during commercial flight: a reappraisal.

Background: Hypobaric hypoxia during commercial air travel has the potential to cause or worsen hypoxemia in individuals with pre-existing cardiopulmonary compromise. Knowledge of cabin altitude pressures aboard contemporary flights is essential to counseling patients accurately about flying safety. The objective of the study was to measure peak cabin altitudes during U.

Environment or host?: A case-control study of risk factors for Mycobacterium avium complex lung disease.

Rationale: Mycobacterium avium complex lung disease is an increasingly common and chronically debilitating problem. Several host traits have been suggested or confirmed as risk factors. Potential environmental and behavioral risk factors have also been proposed.

Using the human patient simulator to foster critical thinking in critical situations.

New registered nurses are expected to utilize critical thinking when providing care to their patients, especially in critical situations. Using mini-scenarios on the human patient simulator, faculty members can foster critical thinking and expose students to critical situations in a nonthreatening environment. An example of one such scenario, using an oncology patient with hypercalcemia and ventricular tachycardia, is outlined in the article.

Management of pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial disease.

Nontuberculous mycobacteria are increasingly recognized as causes of chronic pulmonary disease. Treatment decisions are guided by the clinical presentation, microbial isolate, and condition of the patient. Management may include antibiotic therapy, surgical resection, or observation.

Use of PCR-based Mycobacterium tuberculosis genotyping to prioritize tuberculosis outbreak control activities.

Genotypic analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates is increasingly applied in direct support of tuberculosis outbreak control activities. This is facilitated by PCR-based strain typing methods that enable the genotypic characterization of samples containing small numbers of M. tuberculosis cells.

Isolation of the genome sequence strain Mycobacterium avium 104 from multiple patients over a 17-year period.

The genome sequence strain 104 of the opportunistic pathogen Mycobacterium avium was isolated from an adult AIDS patient in Southern California in 1983. Isolates of non-paratuberculosis M. avium from 207 other patients in Southern California and elsewhere were examined for genotypic identity to strain 104.

Use of rapid genomic deletion typing to monitor a tuberculosis outbreak within an urban homeless population.

Beginning in mid-2002, a large tuberculosis outbreak occurred among homeless persons in King County, Washington. In order to further monitor the outbreak following its peak in 2003, Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from all new King County tuberculosis (TB) patients in 2004 and the first half of 2005 (n = 220) were genotyped by using a rapid comparative genomics-based (genomic deletion-typing) approach, with confirmation by mycobacterial interspersed repetitive units and repetitive-sequence-based PCR (rep-PCR). Results were compared to retrospective genotypic data from 1995 to 2003.