Blood Lead Testing and Follow-up Testing Among Children Hospitalized for Lead Poisoning.

Background And Objectives: US children experience lead poisoning, which has detrimental health effects and significant individual and societal costs. This study aimed to describe the sociodemographic and hospitalization characteristics of children hospitalized for lead poisoning and assess the proportion of inpatients who received blood lead testing and appropriate follow-up testing before hospitalization.

Methods: 2015-2021 hospital discharge data were linked to lead surveillance data for Pennsylvania children aged 0 to 5 years.

Development of the Simulation-Positive Learning Evaluation (SIM-PLE) rubric for use in medical-surgical nursing high fidelity simulations.

Clinical nurse educators in a BSN program developed the SIM-PLE (Simulation-Positive Learning Evaluation) rubric to evaluate student performance in simulation. A pilot study was conducted over two semesters with junior level medical-surgical classes made up of approximately 110-130 students each semester, and the tool was revised and re-evaluated. Inter-rater reliability testing utilized 69 SIM-PLE rubric student evaluations (N = 69).

Setting Adolescents Up for Success: Promoting a Policy to Delay High School Start Times.

Background: A unique biological shift in sleep cycles occurs during adolescence causing later sleep and wake times. This shift is not matched by a concurrent modification in school start times, resulting in sleep curtailment for a large majority of adolescents. Chronic inadequate sleep is associated with poor academic performance including executive function impairments, mood, and behavioral issues, as well as adverse health outcomes such as an increased risk of obesity, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease.

A theoretical evaluation of a youth mental health court program model.

Mental health courts are a promising new approach to addressing the overrepresentation of mental health needs among offender populations, yet little is known about how they facilitate change, particularly for youth. The current study reports on a process evaluation of a youth mental health court in Toronto, Canada. Drawing upon observations of the court and interviews with key informants, we developed a program model of the court and explored its implementation within the context of empirical evidence for treating justice-involved youth.

Cognitive aspects of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.

Nearly four decades have passed since a link was first established between alcohol consumption during pregnancy and a particular pattern of birth defects. Since then, autopsy, longitudinal, structural imaging, and functional imaging studies have revealed a great deal about the teratogenic effects of alcohol. This paper provides a comprehensive summary of the findings from the neurocognitive and behavioral literature on fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) and outlines the unique profile of cognitive deficits associated with it.