Ready or not…here we grow! Evaluating the competency of nursing faculty in supporting nursing student mental health: A quantitative investigation.

Background: College students are amid a mental health crisis with campuses seeing the highest rates of mental health disorders in over a decade. College nursing students stand out as particularly affected, experiencing elevated levels of anxiety, stress, and depression compared to the general student population. At the forefront of addressing this issue are college faculty, especially nursing faculty, who play a unique role in identifying and referring students with mental health needs due to their close interactions in smaller teaching-learning settings such as clinicals, simulations, and one-on-one validations.

Implementation of an "opt-out" tobacco treatment program in six hospitals in South Carolina.

Objective: Describe the screening, referral, and treatment delivery associated with an opt-out tobacco treatment program (TTP) implemented in six hospitals varying in size, rurality and patient populations.

Methods: Between March 6, 2021 and December 17, 2021, adult patients (≥ 18 years) admitted to six hospitals affiliated with the Medical University of South Carolina were screened for smoking status. The hospitals ranged in size from 82 to 715 beds.

The Impact of COVID-19, Mental Health Distress, and School-Based Sociocultural Protective Factors among Elementary-Aged Children and their Caregivers.

Given the individual and systemic stress endured by children and families during the COVID-19 pandemic, research examining culturally responsive school experiences and supports to enhance resilience is critical. This study examined the relationship between caregivers' perceptions of COVID-19 impact, mental health distress among children and caregivers, and school-based sociocultural protective factors, including culturally responsive practices in schools and the relationships between teachers and caregivers, concurrently and longitudinally. Data were collected from caregivers of elementary-aged children at two-time points from March to April 2020 ( = 174) and one year later in 2021 ( = 114).

Implementation, enrollment, and engagement in an opt-out telehealth pharmacist-assisted tobacco treatment program for patients seen in oncology outpatient clinics.

Objective: To describe the workflow, reach, cost, and self-reported quit rates for an opt-out tobacco treatment program (TTP) for patients seen in 43 oncology outpatient clinics.

Methods: Between May 25, 2021, and December 31, 2022, adult patients (≥18 years) visiting clinics affiliated with the Medical University of South Carolina Hollings Cancer Center were screened for smoking status. Those currently smoking were referred to a telehealth pharmacy-assisted TTP.

Implementation of an "Opt-Out" Tobacco Treatment Program in Six Hospitals in South Carolina.

Objective: To describe the implementation an opt-out tobacco treatment program (TTP) in 6 diverse hospitals located in different regions of South Carolina.

Methods: Between March 8, 2021 and December 17, 2021, adult patients (≥ 18 years) admitted to 6 hospitals affiliated with the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) were screened for their cigarette status. Patients who smoked cigarettes were referred to an TTP offering a brief bedside consult and automated post-discharge follow-up calls with an opportunity to receive a referral to the South Carolina Quitline (SCQL).

Interface of Clinical Nurse Specialist Practice and Healthcare Technology.

Purpose: This article demonstrates the leadership role of the clinical nurse specialist in developing and implementing healthcare technology across the continuum of care.

Description: Three virtual nursing practices-facilitated self-care, remote patient monitoring, and virtual acute care nursing-illustrate how the clinical nurse specialist is well suited to transform traditional practice models to ones that use healthcare technology effectively. These 3 practices use interactive healthcare technology to gather patient data and allow communication and coordination with the healthcare team to meet patient-specific needs.

Illusion of filtration: Evidence from tobacco industry documents.

Introduction: We compared the design features of popular filtered and non-filtered cigarettes sold in the United States between 1960 and 1990, to assess the relationship between cigarette filter and tobacco weight.

Methods: We analyzed data on the design features of six popular filtered and three non-filtered cigarette brands sold in the US including the weight of tobacco used provided in the Cigarette Information Reports produced by Philip Morris Tobacco Company between 1960 and 1990. We also collected information on other design features such as stick length and circumference, the percentage of reconstituted tobacco in the blend, among other product parameters.

Initiating Virtual Nursing in General Inpatient Care.

With increased demands for inpatient care and limited nursing resources, bedside RNs at one health care system were challenged to find experienced nurse colleagues to provide mentorship when they needed assistance in executing best practices. A virtual RN (ViRN) role was created to support bedside RNs and patients on designated general care inpatient units. The ViRN provided real-time virtual clinical guidance to bedside RNs and actively surveilled patients.

Psychopathy in Correctional Settings: Considerations for Developing and Implementing a Treatment Program.

Psychopathy is associated with higher levels of violence as well as general and violent recidivism after release from prison. A disorder with a long and rich clinical and research history, psychopathy has gained an undeserved reputation as a syndrome that is unresponsive to treatment. This article presents information that undermines long-standing problematic assumptions regarding the treatability of individuals with psychopathic traits and posits that implementing treatment programs in correctional settings is critical to decrease recidivism and violence.

Polyanion order controls liquid-to-solid phase transition in peptide/nucleic acid co-assembly.

The Central Dogma highlights the mutualistic functions of protein and nucleic acid biopolymers, and this synergy appears prominently in the membraneless organelles widely distributed throughout prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms alike. Ribonucleoprotein granules (RNPs), which are complex coacervates of RNA with proteins, are a prime example of these membranelles organelles and underly multiple essential cellular functions. Inspired by the highly dynamic character of these organelles and the recent studies that ATP both inhibits and templates phase separation of the fused in sarcoma (FUS) protein implicated in several neurodegenerative diseases, we explored the RNA templated ordering of a single motif of the Aβ peptide of Alzheimer's disease.

Looking to the VA for a roadmap on how to sustain tele-mental health care.

The COVID-19 pandemic led to a rapid increase in tele-mental health care availability in the United States. Although this change has the potential to help alleviate unmet need for mental health care in underserved areas, there are system and policy challenges to sustain tele-mental health models beyond the pandemic. The United States Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) has long been a national leader in offering tele-mental health care.

Dominance of general versus specific aspects of wellbeing on the Student Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire.

The Student Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire (SSWQ) is a 16-item measure of school-specific subjective wellbeing intended for mental health screening applications. We extended past validation work to scrutinize the SSWQ's previously proposed factor structure (i.e.

Jail-Based Competency Restoration: What's Out There and What's Missing.

Forensic systems have seen an increase in the number of defendants in need of competency restoration services. Traditionally, competency restoration services have occurred at state psychiatric hospitals. Unfortunately, the waitlists for hospital competency restoration are extensive and result in many defendants waiting in jail for more than 4 months for an inpatient bed.

Changes in nursing team composition and risk of device-associated infection in intensive care units.

The relationship between nursing staffing levels and healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) has been explored previously with conflicting results. This study uses daily shift records from 2 intensive care units (ICUs) to evaluate whether nuanced changes in nursing team composition impacts subsequent risk for device associated HAIs. Staffing deficiencies may be associated with periods of risk prior to central line-associated bloodstream infection in the ICU.

Implementing a Watcher Program to Improve Timeliness of Recognition of Deterioration in Hospitalized Children.

Purpose: Early recognition and response to clinical deterioration is critical to patient safety. Failures or delays in recognition and response often manifest as emergency transfers to the intensive care unit (ICU). We describe implementation of a program to improve recognition and response to clinical deterioration within the pediatric inpatient acute care setting (i.

Development of a Quality Indicator to Measure Urgent Requests to the Bedside.

Objective: To develop a quality indicator describing the response time to an urgent request for a physician to the bedside of a pregnant or postpartum woman and to identify opportunities for improvement in care timeliness for women with worsening serious clinical conditions.

Design: Evidence-based quality improvement project using the Iowa Model-Revised framework to develop a maternal care quality indicator.

Setting: Labor and delivery, antepartum, and mother/baby units in a large urban safety-net hospital preparing for a state level of maternal care designation survey.

Social Media Usage Among Nurses: Perceptions and Practices.

Objective: This study aims to examine the existing perceptions and social media practices of nurses in a large academic medical center.

Background: Limited data are available about the perceptions and social media practices among healthcare providers. An understanding of the social networking landscape within the nursing profession is necessary to inform policy and develop effective guidelines.

Peer, social media, and alcohol marketing influences on college student drinking.

Objective: To investigate how alcohol marketing and peers may promote college students' alcohol use through social media.

Participants: College students (N = 682) aged 18 to 22 years from a large Southern university completed paper surveys in April 2014.

Methods: Structural equation modeling was used to investigate relationships among variables as well as moderation by gender and race.

Influence of muscle strength on early mobility in critically ill adult patients: Systematic literature review.

Background: Muscle strength may be one indicator of readiness to mobilize that can be used to guide decisions regarding early mobility efforts and to progressively advance mobilization.

Objectives: To provide a synthesis of current measures of muscle strength in the assessment of early mobilization in critically ill adult patients who are receiving MV therapy.

Methods: Research studies conducted between 2000-2015 were identified using PubMed, CINHAL, MEDLINE, and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews databases using the search terms "muscle strength", "intensive care", "mechanical ventilation" and "muscle weakness".

Interaction Between Progesterone and Interleukin-1β in Modulating Progesterone Receptor Expression and the Inflammatory Phenotype in Human Cervical Fibroblasts.

Progesterone helps maintain cervical structure during pregnancy via the progesterone receptor (PR). Two PR isoforms exist, PR-A and PR-B, which have overlapping as well as isoform-specific target genes. During late gestation, leukocytes infiltrate the cervical stroma accompanied by increased cervical cytokine levels, resembling an inflammatory process.

Cytochrome P450 interactions are common and consequential in Massachusetts hospital discharges.

Despite the recognition that drug-drug interactions contribute substantially to preventable health-care costs, the prevalence of such interactions related to the cytochrome P450 system in clinical practice remains poorly characterized. This study drew retrospective hospital discharge cohorts from a large health claims data set and a large health system data set. For every hospital discharge, frequency of co-occurrence of substrates and inducers or inhibitors at cytochrome P450 2D6, 2C19, 3A4 and 1A2 were determined.

Validation of a risk stratification tool for fall-related injury in a state-wide cohort.

Objective: A major preventable contributor to healthcare costs among older individuals is fall-related injury. We sought to validate a tool to stratify such risk based on readily available clinical data, including projected medication adverse effects, using state-wide medical claims data.

Design: Sociodemographic and clinical features were drawn from health claims paid in the state of Massachusetts for individuals aged 35-65 with a hospital admission for a period spanning January-December 2012.