Extending the scope of dietetic practice in a regional setting: Dietitians credentialed to insert and manage nasogastric tubes.

Background & Aims: To describe the process of credentialing and implementing dietitian insertion of nasogastric tubes (NGTs) in a regional setting in Australia, and report on patient outcomes, timeliness and safety of insertion, and staff acceptance.

Methods: An observational, mixed-methods study of service and patient outcomes was undertaken during the 2 years (2018-2020) following the implementation of dietitian credentialling for the insertion and management of NGTs. Data relating to the insertion of NGTs by credentialled dietitians were collected prospectively.

RACE AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTAL RISK: A Case Example from the Detroit Metropolitan Area.

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Targeting the kinase activities of ATR and ATM exhibits antitumoral activity in mouse models of MLL-rearranged AML.

Among the various subtypes of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), those with chromosomal rearrangements of the MLL oncogene (AML-MLL) have a poor prognosis. AML-MLL tumor cells are resistant to current genotoxic therapies because of an attenuated response by p53, a protein that induces cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in response to DNA damage. In addition to chemicals that damage DNA, efforts have focused on targeting DNA repair enzymes as a general chemotherapeutic approach to cancer treatment.

Epimorphic regeneration in mice is p53-independent.

The process of regeneration is most readily studied in species of sponge, hydra, planarian and salamander (i.e., newt and axolotl).

Modeling factors that influence exercise and dietary change among midlife Australian women: results from the Healthy Aging of Women Study.

The objective of this study was to investigate the factors that influence midlife women to make positive exercise and dietary changes. In late 2005 questionnaires were mailed to 866 women aged 51-66 years from rural and urban locations in Queensland, Australia and participating in Stage 2 of the Healthy Aging of Women Study. The questionnaires sought data on socio-demographics, body mass index (BMI), chronic health conditions, self-efficacy, exercise and dietary behavior change since age 40, and health-related quality of life.

The time has come for evidence-based staffing and scheduling.

At last, we will have a published source of articles documenting evidence and best practices in a practical publication available to everyone. We are grateful to the editor and publisher of Nursing Economic$ for their vision and support of this very serious issue in nursing and health care. We look forward to a future where nurses and the entire health care team embed evidence and not opinion into our staffing.

Continuous lateral rotation therapy for acute hypoxemic respiratory failure: the effect of timing.

Previous studies have indicated a positive impact of continuous lateral rotational therapy on nosocomial pneumonia, but have shown mixed results in decreasing length of stay or ventilator days. The objective of the study was to determine if the use of a continuous lateral rotational therapy protocol would decrease mortality and morbidity, mean ventilator days, and/or intensive care unit and hospital length of stay in patients with a pulmonary diagnosis. The study also analyzed the effect of the lag time to the initiation of therapy.

Weight changes in teens on psychotropic medication combinations at Austin State Hospital.

Psychiatrists commonly treat adolescents with multiple psychotropic medications simultaneously. We studied the effects of psychotropic medications on the weight of adolescent patients at Austin State Hospital between June 1997 and December 2001. The medication combinations that caused the largest weight increases were olanzapine with valproic acid, and olanzapine with venlafaxine.

Virtual instrumentation and real-time executive dashboards. Solutions for health care systems.

Successful organizations have the ability to measure and act on key indicators and events in real time. By leveraging the power of virtual instrumentation and open architecture standards, multidimensional executive dashboards can empower health care organizations to make better and faster data-driven decisions. This article will highlight how user-defined virtual instruments and dashboards can connect to hospital information systems (e.