Role of Stigma for Health Care Professionals With Nonmedical Substance Use.

Background: Stigma toward those with non-medical substance use may present as anticipated, perceived, enacted, or internalized stigma.

Objective: The purpose of the study was to describe the role of stigma on health care professionals with non-medical substance use, from the perspective of treatment providers. Soliciting information about stigma from treatment providers is a unique perspective lacking in current literature.

Medical Care of Adults With Down Syndrome: A Clinical Guideline.

Importance: Down syndrome is the most common chromosomal condition, and average life expectancy has increased substantially, from 25 years in 1983 to 60 years in 2020. Despite the unique clinical comorbidities among adults with Down syndrome, there are no clinical guidelines for the care of these patients.

Objective: To develop an evidence-based clinical practice guideline for adults with Down syndrome.

Co-occurring medical conditions in adults with Down syndrome: A systematic review toward the development of health care guidelines. Part II.

Adults with Down syndrome (DS) represent a unique population who are in need of clinical guidelines to address their medical care. Many of these conditions are of public health importance with the potential to develop screening recommendations to improve clinical care for this population. Our workgroup previously identified and prioritized co-occurring medical conditions in adults with DS.

Training students to detect delirium: An interprofessional pilot study.

Aim: The purpose of this paper is to report nursing student knowledge acquisition and attitude after completing and interprofessional simulation with medical students.

Introduction: The IOM has challenged healthcare educators to teach teamwork and communication skills in interprofessional settings. Interprofessional simulation provides a higher fidelity experience than simulation in silos.

Co-occurring medical conditions in adults with Down syndrome: A systematic review toward the development of health care guidelines.

Adults with Down syndrome (DS) represent a unique population who are in need of clinical guidelines to address their medical care. The United States Preventive Service Task Force (USPSTF) has developed criteria for prioritizing conditions of public health importance with the potential for providing screening recommendations to improve clinical care. The quality of existing evidence needed to inform clinical guidelines has not been previously reviewed.

A proposal for a code of ethics for nurse practitioners.

Purpose: To review established codes for health care professionals and standards of practice for the nurse practitioner (NP) and to utilize these codes and standards, general ethical themes, and a new ethical triangle to propose an ethical code for NPs.

Data Sources: Reviews of three generally accepted ethical themes (deontological, teleological, and areteological), the ethical triangle by Potter, the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) standards of practice for NPs, and codes of ethics from the American Nurses Association (ANA) and the American Medical Association (AMA).

Conclusions: A proposal for a code of ethics for NPs is presented.