Passing the Certified Nurse Educator Exam: Innovative Strategies.

Certification in nursing education demonstrates expertise in teaching. The National League for Nursing Certified Nurse Educator credential is a hallmark of excellence. Six academic nurse educators obtained a 100 percent first-time pass rate as the result of a novel cohort model built upon accountability.

Equipping teachers with globally competent practices: A mixed methods study on integrating global competence and teacher education.

Education leaders recommend that global competence-global citizenship mentality and knowledge development for global participation-be incorporated into school curricula. This mixed methods study examined teacher's perceptions and self-reported practices of globally competent teaching. Data was collected from teachers taking a graduate education course infused with global learning.

Low-dose interleukin-2 reverses behavioral sensitization in multiple mouse models of headache disorders.

Headache disorders are highly prevalent and debilitating, with limited treatment options. Previous studies indicate that many proinflammatory immune cells contribute to headache pathophysiology. Given the well-recognized role of regulatory T (Treg) cells in maintaining immune homeostasis, we hypothesized that enhancing Treg function may be effective to treat multiple headache disorders.

Systematic Review of Expected Weight Changes After Birth for Full-Term, Breastfed Newborns.

Objective: To summarize the findings of recent studies on neonatal weight changes that occur in the early weeks of life among full-term, breastfed newborns.

Data Sources: Using the keywords breastfeeding, newborn, infant, weight, weight loss, and growth, we searched PubMed, Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Cochrane Library, and MEDLINE for primary studies and secondary analyses. We also reviewed the reference lists of retrieved articles.

Deficits in Burrowing Behaviors Are Associated With Mouse Models of Neuropathic but Not Inflammatory Pain or Migraine.

Burrowing, or the removal of material from an enclosed tube, is emerging as a prominent means of testing changes in a voluntary behavior in rodent models of various pain states. Here, we report no significant differences between male and female mice in terms of burrowing performance, in a substantially shorter time frame than previous reports. We found that the color of the burrow tube affects the variability of burrowing performance when tested in a lit room, suggesting that light aversion is at least a partial driver of this behavior.