Essential guide to epidural analgesia for nurses: Key insights and best practices.

Epidural analgesia is an effective way to manage pain for labor and delivery, surgery, trauma, cancer, and neuropathic pain. It involves the administration of local anesthetics and/or opioids into the epidural space. To ensure its efficacy and safety, nurses must understand the basic anatomy and pharmacology of epidural analgesia, considerations when monitoring patients, and identify its adverse reactions.

A large-scale proteomics resource of circulating extracellular vesicles for biomarker discovery in pancreatic cancer.

Pancreatic cancer has the worst prognosis of all common tumors. Earlier cancer diagnosis could increase survival rates and better assessment of metastatic disease could improve patient care. As such, there is an urgent need to develop biomarkers to diagnose this deadly malignancy.

Simulation Experiences Focusing on Addressing Culturally Based Hidden Bias and RacisM (A-CHARM).

Background: Racism experienced by nursing students contributes to a loss of confidence and anxiety. The Addressing Culturally Based Hidden Bias and RacisM (A-CHARM) nursing project simulation experiences (SEs) provide opportunities to practice addressing racism/inappropriate comments experienced in the clinical setting. The aim is to describe the development of the A-CHARM nursing project SEs.

Relationships between media influence, body image and sociocultural appearance ideals in Latin America: A systematic literature review.

The rapidly growing body of research investigating media influence on body image in Latin America has not been previously comprehensively synthesised. We systematically reviewed studies of the relationships between media use/influence, body image, and sociocultural appearance ideals in Latin America (CRD42021254607). We searched PsycINFO/Medline, Pubmed, Web of Science, ERIC, Scopus, ProQuest Dissertations, SciElo, and LILACS for quantitative and qualitative peer-reviewed articles and doctoral theses in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.