The association between Doctor of Nursing Practice Nurse Practitioner staffing and hospital outcomes.

Background: The National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties advocates for the doctoral level as the entry-to-practice standard for NPs. Understanding the impact of Doctor of Nursing Practice NPs (DNP-NPs) on health care systems is vital for shaping policy, regulations, and practice.

Purpose: This study quantitatively assesses the relationship between DNP-NP staffing levels and hospital quality and cost outcomes using major datasets.

Caregivers' Experiences with Oral Health Care of Foster Children in North Carolina: A Qualitative Study.

To identify the oral health needs of foster children and barriers to dental care perceived by caregivers in North Carolina. Based on a semi-structured questionnaire, interviews were completed via video conferencing platform. Interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed, and descriptive thematic analysis was conducted via MAXQDA software to derive recurring themes from the data.

Fan therapy for breathlessness - how do you do it and why?

Purpose Of The Review: This review summarises high-level evidence for fan therapy and adds a commentary on the relatively-neglected question of how to optimise benefits based on qualitative evidence, clinical experience and broader research and theory.

Recent Findings: Recent high-level evidence suggests the fan reduces time to recovery from episodic breathlessness rather than reduces daily levels over a longer period. Lower grade evidence suggests the fan can also help people increase their physical activity.

The decade-long growth of government-authored news media in China under Xi Jinping.

Autocratic governments around the world use clandestine propaganda campaigns to influence the media. We document a decade-long trend in China toward the planting of government-authored articles in party and commercial newspapers. To examine this phenomenon, we develop an approach to identifying scripted propaganda-the coerced reprinting of lightly adapted government-authored articles in newspapers-that leverages the footprints left by the government when making media interventions.

Relationships between intergroup contact and student nurses' stigma toward people living with mental illness at a mental health clinical placement: A prospective cohort study.

Aim: The aim of the present study was twofold. Firstly, to investigate the impact of social contact quantity and quality on stigmatising attitudes for pre-registration nursing students during a mental health clinical placement. Secondly, to compare these measures between students attending a traditional (i.