Clinical Pharmacist Services on Admission to a Large Correctional Center.

The clinical role of pharmacists in a correctional facility has not been fully described. We report the proportion of patients assessed by a pharmacist within 48 hours of admission to a large correctional facility. Of those assessed, the frequency and type of pharmacist interventions were described.

Clinical Pharmacists in Correctional Facilities: A Literature Review and Future Directions.

The role of pharmacists has undergone a significant transformation. Expanding clinical roles in the community and hospital settings have led to opportunity for correctional facility pharmacists to expand their practice. This literature review identifies past and present roles of correctional pharmacists, along with areas for growth.

Twitter, Millennials, and Nursing Education Research.

Aim: This article reports the use of Twitter as an intervention delivery method in a multisite experimental nursing research study.

Background: A form of social networking, Twitter is considered a useful means of communication, particularly with millennials. This method was chosen based on current literature exploring the characteristics of millennial students.

Independent prescribing by hospital pharmacists: Patterns and practices in a Canadian province.

Purpose: Results of a survey to determine the frequency of prescribing by Canadian hospital pharmacists with independent prescribing authority are reported.

Methods: A Web-based questionnaire was used to collect data on the prescribing activities of a designated group of hospital-affiliated pharmacists in the province of Alberta who had been granted "additional prescribing authorization" (APA) through a peer-review process and were providing clinical pharmacy services in inpatient and/or outpatient settings at the time of the survey (January-March 2014). Descriptive statistics and logistic regression analysis were used to determine the median weekly frequency of prescribing, factors associated with increased use of APA, and perceived prescribing barriers and enablers.

Increasing nursing treatment for pediatric procedural pain.

Procedural pain management is an underused practice in children. Despite the availability of efficacious treatments, many nurses do not provide adequate analgesia for painful interventions. Complementary therapies and nonpharmacologic interventions are additionally essential to managing pain.

Childhood sibling and peer relationships of perpetrators of child sexual abuse.

Maltreatment by parents inhibits a child's ability to form relationships with other children. Given that many sex offenders experienced parental abuse, investigation of their relationships with siblings and peers could provide new directions for early childhood interventions. Interview transcripts of 23 community-dwelling perpetrators of sexual abuse against children were examined in this secondary data analysis.

Treatment beliefs, illness perceptions, and non-adherence to antiretroviral therapy in an ethnically diverse patient population.

Background: Ethnic diversity is increasingly encountered in the HIV-infected population in North America, and it is unknown if beliefs surrounding illness and treatment vary among different ethnic groups.

Objective: Our objectives were to determine whether self-reported adherence, illness perceptions and treatment beliefs regarding HIV differ based on ethnicity.

Setting: This study was conducted during outpatient HIV clinic visits between March 1, 2010 and April 30, 2010 at two hospital-based clinics in Edmonton, AB, Canada.

Two suspected cases of immunoglobulin-mediated interference causing falsely low vancomycin concentrations with the Beckman PETINIA method.

Objective: To describe 2 recent cases of suspected immunoglobulin-mediated interference with the Beckman Coulter particle-enhanced turbidimetric inhibition immunoassay (PETINIA) used to measure vancomycin serum or plasma concentrations and to review the existing literature.

Case Summary: A 64-year-old woman with a history of multiple immune-related comorbidities received vancomycin for treatment of a prosthetic joint infection growing coagulase-negative Staphylococcus spp. A 33-year-old man with a history of Felty syndrome received vancomycin for the treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia.

Social context of rural Women with HIV/AIDS.

The South has more AIDS cases than any other region of the US, with most new diagnoses among African American women (56%). In a previous study, a peer counseling intervention for rural women with HIV/AIDS was developed and tested. The purpose of this analysis was to describe, from the peer counselors' perspective, the predominant concerns of the women, contextualized by living in isolated, impoverished circumstances in the rural Deep South.

Prevalence and treatment patterns of lower extremity peripheral arterial disease among patients at risk in ambulatory health settings.

Background: Lower extremity peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is underdiagnosed and undertreated in Canada, although data are limited. We sought to measure PAD prevalence and treatment patterns in ambulatory settings.

Methods: Five trained undergraduate pharmacy students screened subjects > 50 years of age in 10 community pharmacies and 4 physician offices in northern and central Alberta.

Empathic anger in junior nursing students.

The ideal clinical experience fosters development of psychomotor, cognitive, and affective skills while affording initial socialization into the profession. It is expected that during these experiences, nursing students will encounter illustrative exemplars of caring and professional values. The primary stressors during initial clinical experiences arise from issues related to performance and socialization.

Cranial electrotherapy stimulation for the treatment of depression.

More prevalent in women than men, clinical depression affects approximately 15 million American adults in a given year. Psychopharmaceutical therapy accompanied by psychotherapy and wellness interventions (e.g.

Deferred empathy: a construct with implications for the mental health of older adults.

Deferred empathy occurs when an experience provokes a memory that after reflection allows people to say, "Now I understand." Heretofore, the concept was explored only in quantitative research; therefore, the purpose of this phenomenological study was to elicit a more detailed description of the construct of deferred empathy. For most of the participants (n = 20) triggering events involved personal challenges such as loss, loss of control, or interpersonal conflict that reminded them of, and changed, their perception of earlier relationships.

The relationship between leadership styles and empathy among student nurses.

Much of the nursing literature on leadership describes the qualities of existing nursing leaders, while emphasizing the need for leadership development in student nurses for both managerial and clinical practice. However, there is a lack of research literature on the characteristics of current students. Conducted by the University of Tennessee College of Nursing Empathy Research Group, this pilot study explores the relationship between leadership styles and empathy (cognitive and affective) levels.

Nurses' narratives of unforgettable patient care events.

Purpose: To explore the experience of registered nurses (RNs) caring for patients in contemporary hospitals.

Design: The descriptive phenomenological study was based in the philosophical perspectives of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty.

Methods: A purposive sample of 46 RNs employed in acute care hospitals in the southeastern United States (US) were recruited by network sampling.

A discipline-specific determination of high quality nursing care.

Aim: The purpose of this study is to establish a framework for defining quality of care based in nursing's unique body of knowledge through identification of nursing actions associated with high quality care.

Rationale: Nurses are legally liable and morally responsible for the quality of the care they provide to patients. Yet the meaning of 'high quality nursing care' remains ambiguous mainly because models used to define it are borrowed from other disciplines.