Promoting understanding of medical decision-making coding for nurse practitioner students.

Nurse practitioners (NPs) are often responsible for coding patient encounters for reimbursement. Students should learn the basics of this skill during their educational preparation. On January 1, 2021, the American Medical Association and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services implemented new guidelines to the evaluation and management office appointment documentation and coding.

Innovative Team Approach for Achieving DNP Program Competencies for Distance Learners During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Doctor of nursing practice (DNP)-prepared nurses must be competent in organizational and systems leadership, advanced clinical skills, and initiation of policy and programmatic changes. Students develop competencies in the DNP advanced practice and nurse administrator specialty tracks through online didactic and in-person practicum experiences within various settings. The COVID-19 pandemic created a barrier to in-person practicum experiences and an urgent need for flexible practicum opportunities.

Interprofessional Team Approach Using Standardized Patient Simulation to Facilitate Person-Centered Quality Healthcare in Home Hospice Care Setting.

Hospice care requires person-centered holistic approaches from interprofessional health care teams. Traditional curricular models include teaching hospice care in discipline-specific didactic settings. There are limited opportunities for prelicensure students to engage in real-life and hands-on hospice care.

Cobalt(II) β-ketoaminato complexes as novel inhibitors of neuroinflammation.

Neuroinflammation contributes to the pathogenesis of neurological disorders including stroke, head trauma, multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis as well as age-associated neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Therefore, anti-inflammatory drugs could be used to slow the progression of these diseases. We studied the anti-neuroinflammatory activity of four novel square planar cobalt(II) compounds bearing tetradentate β-ketoaminato ligands with variation in the number of CF(3) ligand substituents, as well as their corresponding unmetallated organic ligands.

Comment on "Retrieval practice produces more learning than elaborative studying with concept mapping".

Karpicke and Blunt (Reports, 11 February 2011, p. 772) reported that retrieval practice produces greater gains in learning than elaborative studying with concept mapping and concluded that this strategy is a powerful way to promote meaningful learning of complex concepts commonly found in science education. We question their findings on methodological and epistemological grounds.