J Pediatr Health Care
November 2024
Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) represents nearly 40% of all cancers affecting the adolescent and young adult (AYA) population. Although overall survival has improved, cure rates for AYAs lag behind younger leukemia patients. The primary care provider (PCP), including the college health provider, is a crucial member of the medical team for children and AYA cancer survivors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOverweight and obesity are common in school-age children. Policy, system, and environmental (PSE) approaches-which entail making upstream changes to a school's context-can be leveraged to reduce childhood obesity. Nurses can advance PSE approaches in schools to promote healthy living habits.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Prim Care Community Health
August 2024
The PRIME-NP (Professional-Reporter-Interpreter-Manager-Educator/Evaluation-Nurse Practitioner) Model is adapted from the RIME (Reporter-Interpreter-Manager-Educator) model used in medical education to guide medical student and resident education. The Delphi technique was used to validate the PRIME-NP Model. After two rounds of review by a group of experts in NP curriculum, the model was determined to be valid based on expert consensus.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Screening for intimate partner violence in the home is often challenging due to the lack of privacy. The aim of this study was to compare two different screening methods (paper-pencil vs. tablet) for identifying intimate partner violence during perinatal home visits.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Psychosoc Nurs Ment Health Serv
June 2024
Rates of depression among the college-aged population are alarming, particularly in light of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. It is important for providers who care for this population to have proper screening and referral processes to meet growing student needs. The purpose of this literature review was to examine current best practices for depression screening among college students.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this proof-of-concept pilot study, we aimed to increase nurse practitioner (NP) student knowledge of ophthalmology to prepare NPs for encounters in primary care settings. The Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology (AUPO) and the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) endorse core knowledge that medical students should achieve. We assess the effectiveness of an innovative ophthalmologist-led curriculum based on these competencies tailored to issues NPs encounter in primary care.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Although there is a substantial body of evidence regarding full practice authority's (FPA) effects on health care access and quality, very little research has examined how nurse practitioner (NP) licensure laws affect the status of NPs as clinicians, employees, and leaders in health care organizations.
Purpose: This study examined whether states' implementation of FPA leads to higher pay, business ownership, assigned patient panel, and billing transparency for NPs' and whether NPs' gains from FPA increase over time in states where FPA has been in effect longer.
Methodology: Data from a nationwide survey of licensed NPs ( N = 5,770) were used to compare NPs' employment conditions between FPA and non-FPA states.
Aims: Chlamydia disproportionately affects individuals aged 15-24 years. A lack of chlamydia knowledge in this high-risk group likely contributes to decreased testing, but interventions to increase chlamydia knowledge in this population are not well-described in the literature. The purpose of this pilot project was to increase chlamydia knowledge in a sample of university students using nurse-developed web-based education.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAdvanced practice registered nurse (APRN) programs are challenged to provide clinical learning experiences that prepare graduates with the full continuum of expected competencies. Preparing the APRN in academia, in terms of didactic and clinical application for novice entry, is often a vexing balance between board certification preparedness and the actualities of clinical practice. This article presents an innovative strategy to examine the perplexing reflective question often asked by educators: Does the current approach for simulation development prepare our APRN students sufficiently for entry into practice, and is it current to what is occurring in practice?
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To identify and summarize existing literature on the burden of HIV, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and viral hepatitis (VH) in indigenous peoples and Afro-descendants in Latin America to provide a broad panorama of the quantitative data available and highlight problematic data gaps.
Methods: Published and grey literature were systematically reviewed to identify documents published in English, Spanish, or Portuguese with data collected between January 2000 and April 2016 on HIV, STI, and VH disease burden among indigenous peoples and Afro-descendants in 17 Latin American countries.
Results: Sixty-two documents from 12 countries were found.
J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract
April 2019
Background: Mast cell diseases such as mastocytosis and mast cell activation syndrome involve abnormal proliferation and/or activation of these cells, leading to many clinically relevant symptoms.
Objective: To determine the characteristics and experiences of people known or suspected to have a mast cell disorder, The Mastocytosis Society, a US-based patient advocacy, research, and education organization, conducted a survey of patients.
Methods: This Web-based survey was publicized through specialty clinics and the society's newsletter, Web site, and online blogs.
J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract
April 2014
Background: Mast cell diseases include mastocytosis and mast cell activation syndromes, some of which have been shown to involve clonal defects in mast cells that result in abnormal cellular proliferation or activation. Numerous clinical studies of mastocytosis have been published, but no population-based comprehensive surveys of patients in the United States have been identified. Few mast cell disease specialty centers exist in the United States, and awareness of these mast cell disorders is limited among nonspecialists.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn the medial preoptic area (MPO) and medial amygdala (MEA), estradiol (E(2)) aromatized from testosterone (T) may act via either estrogen receptor (ER) α or ERβ to mediate mating in male rats. We tested the hypothesis that, in the MPO, ERα exclusively mediates sexual responses to E(2) by monitoring mating in four groups of castrated male rats administered dihydrotestosterone (DHT) subcutaneously and MPO implants delivering either: cholesterol, E(2), propyl pyrazole triol (PPT, ERα-agonist) or diarylpropionitrile (DPN, ER β-agonist); a fifth group of intact males served as DPN toxicity control, receiving DPN MPO implants. In a follow-up study, either 1-methyl-4-phenyl pyridinium (MPP, ERα-antagonist) or blank MPO cannulae were implanted in castrated male rats receiving T subcutaneously, whereas intact MPP toxicity controls received MPP MEA implants.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe care of patients with cancer not only involves dealing with its symptoms but also with complicated information and uncertainty; isolation; and fear of disease progression, disease recurrence, and death. Patients whose treatments require them to go without human contact can find a lack of touch to be an especially distressing factor. Massage therapy is often used to address these patients' need for human contact, and findings support the positive value of massage in cancer care.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAdequate amounts of nutrients such as folate, vitamin A, iron, selenium and calcium are essential for general health including prevention of cancer. Yet, excess amounts of vitamin A, folate, and iron may also promote cancer. This study sought to determine whether adults who had completed initial treatments for B-cell lymphoma from 1 to 3 years earlier were consuming recommended amounts of these key nutrients and their interests in nutritional education.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo estimate the current prevalence of overweight and any associations with self-reported changes in dietary patterns, we surveyed 141 patients who had completed treatments for lymphoma at The M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWhen herbal or other biologic therapies are used with conventional treatments, adverse drug-herb interactions can occur. Of course, benefits can also be derived that decrease the side effects of conventional medicine and/or support general recovery, a sense of well-being, and health. Even though people with cancer typically use complementary medicines along with conventional treatment, many of them do so without informing anyone on their health care team.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMany cancer patients use homeopathic approaches to increase their body's ability to fight cancer, improve their physical and emotional well-being, and alleviate their pain resulting from the disease or conventional treatments. Homeopathy is highly controversial as there is no plausible mode of action for these highly diluted remedies. The aim of this systematic review is to summarize and critically evaluate the efficacy of homeopathic remedies used as a sole or additional therapy in cancer care.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe purpose of the present study was to investigate the influence of attention on the magnitude and reliability of laterality effects in dichotic target detection. Twenty-five participants completed a dichotic target detection task requiring them to identify the ear to which a target word was presented. Correct left and right responses (LL and RR outcomes, respectively) produced a large and reliable right ear advantage (REA).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLarge and reliable laterality effects have been found using a dichotic target detection task in a recent experiment using word stimuli pronounced with an emotional component. The present study tested the hypothesis that the magnitude and reliability of the laterality effects would increase with the removal of the emotional component and variations in word frequency. Thirty-two participants completed both a dichotic syllable detection task and a dichotic word detection task.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe majority of cancer patients wish to die at home. Improved understanding of place of death and its relevant demographic predictors is important for the planning of palliative cancer care programs. The purpose of this study was to determine the place and predictors of site of death in cancer patients in a major U.
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