Nursing Informatics: Competency Challenges for Nursing Faculty.

Nursing is the largest workforce in health care with nurses increasingly required to work with digital health technologies. However, despite the adoption of nursing informatics in Australia in the mid-1980s, nursing graduates are not being adequately equipped to use these technologies in a way that benefits the profession and improves patient care. Using a scoping review approach, this paper presents an analysis of contemporary published literature and describes the barriers to faculty engagement with digital health technologies in undergraduate nursing education.

Representation of Environmental Concepts Associated with Health Impacts in Computer Standardized Clinical Terminologies.

Objective: To evaluate the representation of environmental concepts associated with health impacts in standardized clinical terminologies.

Methods: This study used a descriptive approach with methods informed by a procedural framework for standardized clinical terminology mapping. The United Nations Global Indicator Framework for the Sustainable Development Goals and Targets was used as the source document for concept extraction.

Evaluating the representation of disaster hazards in SNOMED CT: gaps and opportunities.

Objective: Climate change, an underlying risk driver of natural disasters, threatens the environmental sustainability, planetary health, and sustainable development goals. Incorporating disaster-related health impacts into electronic health records helps to comprehend their impact on populations, clinicians, and healthcare systems. This study aims to: (1) map the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and International Science Council (UNDRR-ISC) Hazard Information Profiles to SNOMED CT International, a clinical terminology used by clinicians, to manage patients and provide healthcare services; and (2) to determine the extent of clinical terminologies available to capture disaster-related events.

Challenging the Myth of the Digital Native: A Narrative Review.

Background And Aims: Nurses are increasingly engaging with digital technologies to enhance safe, evidence-based patient care. Digital literacy is now considered a foundational skill and an integral requirement for lifelong learning, and includes the ability to search efficiently, critique information and recognise the inherent risk of bias in information sources. However, at many universities, digital literacy is assumed.

Features of mixed medullary thyroid tumors: An NCDB analysis of clinicopathologic characteristics and survival.

Background: Mixed medullary-papillary thyroid carcinoma (MMPTC) and mixed medullary-follicular thyroid carcinoma (MMFTC) are rare variants with little known regarding behavior and prognosis.

Methods: Using the National Cancer Database (NCDB), demographics, clinicopathologic features, treatment, and overall survival (OS) from patients with MMPTC and MMFTC were compared to more prevalent subtypes.

Results: There were 296,101 patients: 421 MMPTC (0.

Nursing informatics and undergraduate nursing curricula: A scoping review protocol.

Aim: This scoping review aims to review contemporary published literature on Nursing Informatics education in undergraduate nursing education.

Introduction: Nursing is the largest workforce in health care and nurses are increasingly required to work with digital information systems. The need for nurses to understand and embrace information technology is closely linked with the ability to function in the contemporary healthcare workplace.

Assessing the carbon footprint of digital health interventions: a scoping review.

Objective: Integration of environmentally sustainable digital health interventions requires robust evaluation of their carbon emission life-cycle before implementation in healthcare. This scoping review surveys the evidence on available environmental assessment frameworks, methods, and tools to evaluate the carbon footprint of digital health interventions for environmentally sustainable healthcare.

Materials And Methods: Medline (Ovid), Embase (Ovid).

Minimally invasive combined approach robotic thymectomy and transcervical total thyroidectomy.

Myasthenia gravis (MG) is the most common autoimmune disorder affecting the neuromuscular junction in the USA. It is not uncommon for these patients to have concomitant autoimmune diseases including autoimmune thyroid disease. We describe here our method of performing a reproducible robotically assisted one-stage thymectomy and thyroidectomy.

Defining Nursing Informatics: A Narrative Review.

Healthcare has experienced rapid transformation with the development of digital technologies which aim to make healthcare safer and more efficient. In response, health informatics has evolved, including nursing informatics, which integrates nursing, information and communication technologies (ICT) and professional knowledge to improve patient outcomes. New language has developed to describe informatics and its processes; however, this has generally been poorly understood.

Outcomes Associated With Fibrin Sealant Use in Lateral Neck Dissections.

Objective: To determine whether the use of fibrin sealant tissue adhesives during lateral neck dissections is associated with a change in postoperative outcomes.

Study Design: Retrospective cohort.

Setting: Institutionally affiliated tertiary care center.

Early-Stage Ocular Hypertension Alters Retinal Ganglion Cell Synaptic Transmission in the Visual Thalamus.

Axonopathy is a hallmark of many neurodegenerative diseases including glaucoma, where elevated intraocular pressure (ocular hypertension, OHT) stresses retinal ganglion cell (RGC) axons as they exit the eye and form the optic nerve. OHT causes early changes in the optic nerve such as axon atrophy, transport inhibition, and gliosis. Importantly, many of these changes appear to occur prior to irreversible neuronal loss, making them promising points for early diagnosis of glaucoma.

Analysis of HIV testing refusal among patients aged less than 21 years in the Pediatric Emergency Department.

HIV testing in the Pediatric Emergency Department (PED) is a novel concept as adolescents, and young adults, use the PED as point of care or first point of contact with the health care system. Our objective was to study the HIV nontesting data and factors that influenced testing decision among patients receiving care in our PED. We designed a survey that inquired about testing acceptance, reasons for rejection, satisfaction with testing conditions, and understanding of the consequence of HIV test results.

Extrapulmonary small cell: a novel case of small cell carcinoma of the thyroid gland.

Neuroendocrine tumors comprise a large group of malignancies which share unique morphological features and are characterized by the presence of neuroendocrine markers such as synaptophysin, chromogranin-A, and CD56 (N-CAM), ranging from indolent tumors, such as carcinoid tumors, to aggressive tumors, such as small cell carcinoma. The lung is the most common site for primary neuroendocrine tumors. Extrapulmonary primary sites of small cell carcinoma are rare but have been documented arising from various sites including esophagus, stomach, colon and rectum, gallbladder, thymus, salivary gland, ovary, cervix, bladder, prostate, and skin.

Stubs versus swabs? A comparison of gunshot residue collection techniques.

The collection efficiency of two widely used gunshot residue (GSR) collection techniques-carbon-coated adhesive stubs and alcohol swabs-has been compared by counting the number of characteristic GSR particles collected from the firing hand of a shooter after firing one round. Samples were analyzed with both scanning electron microscopy and energy dispersive X-rays by an experienced GSR analyst, and the number of particles on each sample containing Pb, Ba, and Sb counted. The adhesive stubs showed a greater collection efficiency as all 24 samples gave positive results for GSR particles whereas the swabs gave only positive results for half of the 24 samples.

Use of geographic information systems for planning HIV prevention interventions for high-risk youths.

Geographic information system (GIS) analysis is an emerging tool for public health intervention planning. Connect to Protect, a researcher-community collaboration working in 15 cities to reduce HIV infection among youths, developed GIS databases of local health, crime, and demographic data to evaluate the geographic epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections and HIV risk among adolescents. We describe the process and problems of data acquisition, analysis, and mapping in the development of structural interventions, demonstrating how program planners can use this technology to inform and improve planning decisions.