National partnerships address critical needs in infection prevention and control.

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted gaps in infection control knowledge and practice across health settings nationwide. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with funding through the American Rescue Plan, developed Project Firstline. Project Firstline is a national collaborative aiming to reach all aspects of the health care frontline.

Novel indigenous low cost (NICA) model for hands on training of surgical interns in incision and drainage procedure for superficial skin abscess.

Background: Surgical education necessitates hands-on training, which poses ethical challenges when practicing on real patients. Simulation training emerges as a pivotal solution, offering a safe and effective environment for skill acquisition. However, existing simulation models often overlook common surgical conditions like superficial skin abscesses.

Exploration of the Current State of Peripheral Intravenous Catheter Complications and Documentation: A Point Prevalence Study.

Peripheral intravenous catheters (PIVCs) are the most commonly used invasive devices in acute care hospitals, with nurses being primarily responsible for the insertion and care of these devices. This point prevalence study aimed to describe current PIVC status and nursing documentation in a large, regional health care system and to explore variables associated with PIVC complications. The study was conducted with adult inpatients.

Probing Structural Defects in MOFs Using Water Stability.

Defects in the crystal structures of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), whether present intrinsically or introduced via so-called defect engineering, can play strong roles in the properties of MOFs for various applications. Unfortunately, direct experimental detection and characterization of defects in MOFs are very challenging. We show that in many cases, the differences between experimentally observed and computationally predicted water stabilities of MOFs can be used to deduce information on the presence of point defects in real materials.

Structural and Adsorption Properties of ZIF-8-7 Hybrid Materials Synthesized by Acid Gas-Assisted and Routes.

The tuning of micropore environments in zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) by mixed-linker synthesis has the potential for enabling new molecular separation properties. However, synthesis of mixed-linker (hybrid) ZIFs is often challenging due to the disparate chemical properties of the different linkers. Here, we elucidate the structure and properties of an unconventional ZIF-8-7 hybrid material synthesized via a controlled-acid-gas-assisted degradation and reconstruction (solvent-assisted crystal redemption, SACRed) strategy.