Closing the Gap: A Regional Partnership Model for Perioperative Nursing.

New Jersey is projected to be one of the top three states to experience a nursing shortage. The current practice of health care organizations providing their own education and training in the perioperative setting leads to variability in the degree of staff readiness and competence to address the complexities encountered in this setting. This may result in increased perioperative nursing orientation costs.

Enhancing Routine HIV Testing in Primary Care With a Continuing Education Intervention.

Since 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended routine HIV screening in primary care settings for people ages 13 to 64, regardless of individual risk factors. However, an extensive body of research has identified several barriers to primary care providers' (PCPs) adherence to the CDC recommendations. Employing a pre-postintervention design, this study provided an assessment of barriers among 11 PCPs and implemented an evidence-based continuing education program adapted to the specific individual barriers they identified.

Epilepsy: Clinical Review and Surgical Options.

Epilepsy is the fourth leading neurologic disorder in the United States and affects the quality of life of approximately 2.9 million Americans. Despite modern progress in medicine and technology, the disease may prove to be drug resistant, a condition that serves as a primary indication to consider invasive treatment modalities.

Special needs populations: perioperative care of the patient with creutzfeldt-jakob disease.

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare but lethal prion disease. The worldwide mortality rate of CJD is 1.67 per one million people, although 90% of cases will lead to death within one year of symptom onset.