Music in Care (MIC) by Nurses: Initial Validation of a Questionnaire to Characterize Nurses' Attitudes and Feasibility of Implementation on the Use of Music in Patient Care.

The purpose of this study was to characterize nurses' attitudes toward music and implementation of music into patient care and to characterize barriers and facilitators toward the implementation of music into patient care. A cross-sectional, quantitative, web-based questionnaire with minor qualitative elements. The questionnaire contained both open- and closed-ended questions.

Elucidating supercritical fluid extraction of fucoxanthin from algae to enable the integrated biorefinery.

The emerging nutraceutical, fucoxanthin, shows promise as a high-value product to enable the integrated biorefinery. Fucoxanthin can be extracted from algae through supercritical fluid extraction (SFE), but literature does not agree on optimal extraction conditions. Here, a statistical analysis of literature identifies supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO) density, ethanol cosolvent amount, and polarity as significant predictors of fucoxanthin yield.

A pilot study to develop assessment tools for Group A Streptococcus surveillance studies.

Introduction: Group A (GAS) causes pharyngitis (sore throat) and impetigo (skin sores) GAS pharyngitis triggers rheumatic fever (RF) with epidemiological evidence supporting that GAS impetigo may also trigger RF in Australian Aboriginal children. Understanding the concurrent burden of these superficial GAS infections is critical to RF prevention. This pilot study aimed to trial tools for concurrent surveillance of sore throats and skins sore for contemporary studies of RF pathogenesis including development of a sore throat checklist for Aboriginal families and pharynx photography.

What to Expect When Expecting in Lab: A Review of Unique Risks and Resources for Pregnant Researchers in the Chemical Laboratory.

Pregnancy presents a unique risk to chemical researchers due to their occupational exposures to chemical, equipment, and physical hazards in chemical research laboratories across science, engineering, and technology disciplines. Understanding "risk" as a function of hazard, exposure, and vulnerability, this review aims to critically examine the state of the science for the risks and associated recommendations (or lack thereof) for pregnant researchers in chemical laboratories (labs). Commonly encountered hazards for pregnant lab workers include chemical hazards (organic solvents, heavy metals, engineered nanomaterials, and endocrine disruptors), radiation hazards (ionizing radiation producing equipment and materials and nonionizing radiation producing equipment), and other hazards related to the lab environment (excessive noise, excessive heat, psychosocial stress, strenuous physical work, and/or abnormal working hours).

Myocardial deformation assessed by CMR in children after multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C).

Background: Short-term sequelae of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), recently published by our institution, showed rapid improvement of the cardiac abnormalities within a few weeks after the onset of the disease. However, subtle residual abnormalities, affecting mainly the myocardial interstitium, were shown in some of the patients. The current study aimed to assess myocardial deformation with CMR shortly after MIS-C.

Conducting decolonizing research and practice with Australian First Nations to close the health gap.

The purpose of this paper is to highlight a perspective for decolonizing research with Australian First Nations and provide a framework for successful and sustained knowledge translation by drawing on the recent work conducted by a research group, in five remote communities in North-Western Australia. The perspective is discussed in light of national and international calls for meaningful and dedicated engagement with First Nations people in research, policy and practice, to help close the health gap between First Nations and other Australians.

Toward Informed Design of Nanomaterials: A Mechanistic Analysis of Structure-Property-Function Relationships for Faceted Nanoscale Metal Oxides.

Nanoscale metal oxides (NMOs) have found wide-scale applicability in a variety of environmental fields, particularly catalysis, gas sensing, and sorption. Facet engineering, or controlled exposure of a particular crystal plane, has been established as an advantageous approach to enabling enhanced functionality of NMOs. However, the underlying mechanisms that give rise to this improved performance are often not systematically examined, leading to an insufficient understanding of NMO facet reactivity.

Transcatheter Closure of Patent Ductus Arteriosus in Infants With Weight Under 1,500 Grams.

Persistent patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) is very common in preterm infants, especially in extremely preterm infants. Despite significant advances in management of these vulnerable infants, there has been no consensus on management of PDA-when should we treat, who should we treat, how should we treat and in fact there is no agreement on how we should define a hemodynamically significant PDA. Medical management with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) remains the first line of therapy with moderate success rate in closing the PDA.

Recognition and Management of Protracted Bacterial Bronchitis in Australian Aboriginal Children: A Knowledge Translation Approach.

Background: Chronic wet cough in children is the hallmark symptom of protracted bacterial bronchitis (PBB) and if left untreated can lead to bronchiectasis, which is prevalent in Indigenous populations. Underrecognition of chronic wet cough by parents and clinicians and underdiagnosis of PBB by clinicians are known.

Research Question: We aimed to improve recognition and management of chronic wet cough in Aboriginal children using knowledge translation (KT), a methodologic approach that can be adapted for use in Indigenous contexts to facilitate effective and sustained translation of research into practice.

On-Campus Clinical: Preparing Prelicensure Nursing Students for a Safe Clinical Practice.

Background: Ensuring students are both confident and competent for clinical practice will lead to improved patient outcomes. Early exposure to delivering safe and effective care using knowledge, skills, and abilities that are consonant with professional practice is essential.

Problem: Caring for an increasingly complex patient population is challenging.

We won't find what we don't look for: Identifying barriers and enablers of chronic wet cough in Aboriginal children.

Background And Objective: Chronic lung disease is prevalent among Australian Aboriginal children. Chronic wet cough is an early marker of disease but often goes undetected. Currently, no studies have examined health practitioner knowledge of chronic wet cough.

Chronic wet cough in Aboriginal children: It's not just a cough.

Aim: Chronic respiratory disease is common among Aboriginal Australians. Chronic wet cough is an early marker of chronic disease in children but often goes undetected due, in part, to delayed health seeking by families. Currently, no studies have examined the reasons for delayed health seeking for children's chronic cough.

Mitigating Latent Threats Identified through an Embedded Simulation Program and Their Comparison to Patient Safety Incidents: A Retrospective Review.

Objective: To assess the impact of service improvements implemented because of latent threats (LTs) detected during simulation.

Design: Retrospective review from April 2008 to April 2015.

Setting: Paediatric Intensive Care Unit in a specialist tertiary hospital.

Reliability of team-based self-monitoring in critical events: a pilot study.

Background: Teamwork is a critical component during critical events. Assessment is mandatory for remediation and to target training programmes for observed performance gaps.

Methods: The primary purpose was to test the feasibility of team-based self-monitoring of crisis resource management with a validated teamwork assessment tool.

Impact of an open-chest extracorporeal membrane oxygenation model for in situ simulated team training: a pilot study.

Objectives: To develop an affordable realistic open-chest extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) model for embedded in situ interprofessional crisis resource management training in emergency management of a post-cardiac surgery child.

Methods: An innovative attachment to a high-fidelity mannequin (Laerdal Simbaby) was used to enable a cardiac tamponade/ECMO standstill scenario. Two saline bags with blood dye were placed over the mannequin's chest.

A comparison of three methods that assess tracheal tube leakage: leak conductance, fractional volume loss, and audible assessment.

Background: When intubating a child's trachea with an uncuffed tracheal tube (TT), it is current practice in anesthesia and intensive care to use the leak test to assess TT fit. The aim of this study is to compare three measures of assessing leak around uncuffed tracheal tubes in the PICU.

Methods: We obtained institutional ethical permission and written informed consent, prior to any clinical investigation, from the parents of 135 children who had surgery for cardiac defects.

G2 acquisition by transcription-independent mechanism at the zebrafish midblastula transition.

Following fertilization of many animal embryos, rapid synchronous cleavage divisions give way to longer, asynchronous cell cycles at the midblastula transition (MBT). The cell cycle changes at the MBT, including the addition of gap phases and checkpoint controls, are accompanied by activation of the zygotic genome and the onset of cell motility. Whereas the biochemical changes accompanying the MBT in the vertebrate embryo have been extensively documented, the cellular events are not well understood.

Ross operation: 16-year experience.

Objective: We performed a review of a consecutive series of 487 patients undergoing the Ross operation to identify surgical techniques and clinical parameters that affect outcome.

Methods: We performed a prospective review of consecutive patients from August 1986 through June 2002 and follow-up through August 2004. Patient age was 2 days to 62 years (median, 24 years), and 197 patients were less than 18 years of age.

Spirit-body healing II: a nursing intervention model for spiritual/creative healing.

This article describes an advanced intervention for spiritual healing that evolved from spirit-body healing, a hermeneutic phenomenological research study. The research study examined the lived experience of art and healing with cancer patients in the Arts in Medicine program at Shands Hospital, University of Florida. Max Van Manen's method of researching the lived experience was used in 63 patients over a 4-year period.

Regulation and function of foxe3 during early zebrafish development.

In this article, we investigate the expression, regulation, and function of the zebrafish forkhead gene foxe3. In wild type embryos, foxe3 is first expressed in a crescent-shaped area at the anterior end of the prechordal plate, corresponding to the polster. At later stages, the hatching gland, the lens, and the anterior pituitary express this gene.

The high-affinity phosphate transporter Pst is a virulence factor for Proteus mirabilis during complicated urinary tract infection.

Proteus mirabilis is a ubiquitous bacterium associated with complicated urinary tract infection (UTI). Mutagenesis studies of the wild-type strain HI4320 in the CBA mouse model of ascending UTIs have identified attenuated mutants with transposon insertions in genes encoding the high-affinity phosphate transporter Pst (pstS, pstA). The transcription of the pst operon (pstSCAB-phoU) and other members of the phosphate regulon of Escherichia coli, including alkaline phosphatase (AP), are regulated by the two-component regulatory system PhoBR and are repressed until times of phosphate starvation.

Zebrafish cdc25a is expressed during early development and limiting for post-blastoderm cell cycle progression.

Cdc25 phosphatases are required for eukaryotic cell cycle progression. To investigate mechanisms governing spatiotemporal dynamics of cell cycle progression during vertebrate development, we isolated two cdc25 genes from the zebrafish, Danio rerio, cdc25a, and cdc25d. We propose that Zebrafish cdc25a is the zebrafish orthologue of the tetrapod Cdc25A genes, while cdc25d is of indeterminate origin.