Exploring plagiarism.

Plagiarism is a common issue in academic and professional communities. This article discusses ways to avoid plagiarism by identifying valuable resources, such as appropriate paraphrasing, creative work organizing, and new technology. Understanding copyright law safeguards is critical to avoiding plagiarism.

Stakeholder perceptions of the efficacy, barriers, and facilitators of telemental health clinical experiences during COVID for nurse practitioner students.

Background: Telemental health services grew during the COVID pandemic, resulting in psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner students obtaining clinical hours through this modality. Although patient outcome data demonstrate the efficacy of telemental health services, data on the efficacy of learning through telehealth clinical experiences are lacking.

Purpose: To explore perceptions of learning through telehealth clinical experiences by students, preceptors, and faculty and to identify perceived barriers and facilitators to facilitating telehealth clinical experiences.

Five Steps to Integrating Telehealth Into APRN Curricula.

The COVID-19 pandemic suddenly changed the scene of primary care visits. As clinics abruptly transitioned to telehealth visits, health care providers and students were required to use digital technologies to deliver health care from a distance. This article highlights 5 steps used by faculty to integrate telehealth concepts into the graduate curriculum for all advanced practice registered nurse programs.

An Evaluation of Interprofessional Patient Navigation Services in High Utilizers at a County Tertiary Teaching Health System.

The Affordable Care Act holds health systems accountable for patient outcomes. Patients with low socioeconomic status are at highest risk of lacking a primary care provider, receiving lower quality of care, and being readmitted. These patients also have elevated risks of all-cause readmissions and death after discharge.

Faculty Reflections on International Travel to Reach the Medically Underserved.

One approach to preparing students to engage in culturally diverse health-care settings around the world is to incorporate faculty-led short-term cultural immersion programs in medically underserved nations. This reflective summary analyzes the impact of a faculty-led international health-care trip on students' global health-care experience and needed health-care services in developing countries. A content analysis of the journals of two advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) faculty members was performed to gain perspectives on a trip with undergraduate and graduate nursing students and medical students to a small city in Nicaragua.

Health out of foster care as young adults age out of foster care: A phenomenological exploration of seeking healthcare services after aging out of the US foster care system.

Some adolescents in the United States who have been abused and/or neglected by caregivers and placed in permanent custody of the state leave, or "age out" of foster care at 18 years of age. Poor health outcomes among individuals who age out are notable, yet few studies describe the phenomenon of seeking healthcare services after leaving foster care. The investigators specifically queried the phenomenon of seeking healthcare services after foster care drawing from the Phenomenology of Practice approach.

Spiritual Darkness: Reflections on a Medical Mission.

This is a reflective analysis on the lived experience of a medical mission in a third world country, where young women are abused and trafficked for sex. Practices of Scripture study, Lectio Divina, and contemplative prayer enabled me to deal with the spiritual darkness we encountered. Opening a dialogue with community members to view males and females in a different manner and battling alongside the local mission and ministers against sex trafficking, are not easy tasks.

Effect of pioglitazone on platelet aggregation in a healthy cohort.

Background: Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) agonists can favorably influence atheroma proliferation, lipoprotein metabolism and macrovascular complications. Pioglitazone, one of the thiazolidinedione compounds, is a PPAR ligand activator and a clinically important PPAR agonist. There is controversy in the literature about its potential antiplatelet effects.