Educating APRN Students About Telehealth Credentialing, Licensing, and Billing.

Background: An essential component of advanced practice nursing (APRN) education includes how to facilitate and adopt telehealth into practice, which includes becoming familiar with what is needed to practice telehealth and how to effectively bill for this service. This article describes the integration of telehealth credentialing, licensing, and billing into a preexisting APRN Role Practicum course.

Method: Participants consisted of two cohorts ( = 129) of APRN students enrolled in a role preparation course within a Doctor of Nursing Practice curriculum.

Bezlotoxumab for Prevention of Recurrent Infection With a Focus on Immunocompromised Patients.

Approximately 25% of patients with infection (CDI) will experience recurrence, which is greater in immunocompromised patients. We report experience with an institutional guideline targeting high-risk immunocompromised patients. This was a retrospective cohort of consecutive patients with CDI who met institutional criteria for bezlotoxumab due to high risk for recurrent CDI between June 1, 2017, and November 30, 2018.

Master of Science in Nursing and Doctor of Nursing Practice Clinical Curriculum Map.

Background: The development of a comprehensive and structured clinical curriculum map can outline the specific content covered throughout a nurse practitioner program and provide a method for identifying redundancy and omissions in the didactic clinical content.

Method: A curriculum map outlining the specific clinical content covered in each didactic course in a Master of Science in Nursing and Doctor of Nursing Practice advanced practice program was created. The curriculum map incorporated accreditation standards, certification testing domains, and common primary care diagnoses.

Ketamine Infusions for Outpatient Pain Management: A Policy Development Project.

Current literature supports using ketamine for both acute and chronic pain management. It is imperative that the development of evidence-based protocols and policies keep pace with health care delivery to ensure patient safety. This project's objective was to formulate an outpatient ketamine infusion policy that promotes consistent and evidence-based care within a specified hospital system.

Advocating for Childcare Employee Single-Dose Tdap Vaccination to Combat Infant Pertussis.

Incidence rates of pertussis have been higher over the past 5 years than at any time since the first pertussis vaccine became widely available, with infants younger than 12 months old being particularly vulnerable. Once infected, infants may experience severe respiratory symptoms and incur high rates of hospitalization, and they account for the vast majority of pertussis-related deaths each year. With the diminished effectiveness of herd immunity, experts increasingly rely on cocooning to protect at-risk populations against infectious diseases such as pertussis.

Evaluating a college student's urethritis.

Gonorrhea is the second most common sexually transmitted infection (STI) after chlamydia. After a significant decrease from 1975 to 2009, trends reveal that gonorrhea is on the rise. NPs need to review the latest CDC guidelines regarding STIs, as treatment guidelines are regularly changing.