Male High School Students' Perceptions of Nursing as a Professional Career Choice: Nursing Pathway Project.

Aim: The aim of this study was to understand male high school students' perceptions of nursing as a professional career choice.

Background: Nursing is predominantly female, with male nurses accounting for less than 10 percent of the nursing workforce.

Method: A 32-item descriptive survey that contained demography items and constructs of the theory of planned behavior was administered to 820 high school students from a large Pacific Northwest school district.

Standing up against workplace bullying behavior: Recommendations from newly licensed nurses.

Objective: Workplace bullying exists in today's healthcare system and often targets newly licensed nurses. Experiences of workplace bullying behavior may negatively affect the nurses' physical and psychological health and impact job satisfaction and staff turnover rates at an organizational level. The purpose of this study was to explore strategies suggested by newly licensed nurses to prevent and intervene during incidents of workplace bullying behavior.

Enabling Success in Nursing School: Description of an Innovative Student-Led Program.

Nursing student attrition rates are high in BSN programs. Peer support programs can address challenges associated with attrition. This article describes a student-led program created to address the needs of first- and second-year nursing students.

Diversity dynamics: The experience of male Robert Wood Johnson Foundation nurse faculty scholars.

Background: Managing diversity dynamics in academic or clinical settings for men in nursing has unique challenges resulting from their minority status within the profession.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to share challenges and lessons learned identified by male scholars in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars program and suggest strategies for creating positive organizations promoting inclusive excellence.

Methods: Multiple strategies including informal mentored discussions and peer-to-peer dialogue throughout the program, formal online surveys of scholars and National Advisory Committee members, and review of scholar progress reports were analyzed as part of the comprehensive evaluation plan of the program.

Continuous Student Feedback: Your Voice Counts.

We created a method to collect continuous course feedback called Your Voice Counts. We sought to create a highly flexible and highly responsive learning environment that had as one of its unique properties the ability to meet the different needs of successive student cohorts. Student feedback has created opportunities for us to address issues in a timely and responsive manner.

High School CPR/AED Training in Washington State.

Objective: Describe the rates of CPR/AED training in high schools in the state of Washington after passage of legislation mandating CPR/AED training.

Design And Sample: A web-based survey was sent to administrators at 660 public and private high schools in the state of Washington.

Results And Conclusions: The survey was completed by 148 schools (22%); 64% reported providing CPR training and 54% provided AED training.

Proteomic profiling of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid in critically ill patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia.

Rationale: Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a common complication in patients with acute lung injury (ALI) and can lead to increased morbidity and mortality. Identifying protein profiles specific to VAP in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) may aid in earlier diagnosis, elucidate mechanisms of disease, and identify putative targets for therapeutic intervention.

Methods: BALF was obtained from 5 normal subjects and 30 ALI patients: 14 with VAP (VAP(+)) and 16 without VAP (VAP(-)).

Soluble triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells-1 (sTREM-1) as a diagnostic marker of ventilator-associated pneumonia.

Objective: To determine the utility of soluble triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells-1 (sTREM-1) levels in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) and exhaled breath condensate (EBC) samples from patients who underwent bronchoscopy for a clinical suspicion of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), to categorize patients as VAP positive and VAP negative, when compared to quantitative culture results of BALF.

Methods: Observational study conducted on admitted patients in the trauma-surgical, medical-cardiac, burn, and neurosurgical ICUs of Harborview Medical Center between March 2009 and May 2010. BALF and EBC samples were obtained from 45 patients with clinically suspected VAP.

Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells type 1 as a potential therapeutic target in sepsis.

Excessive and unregulated inflammation contributes to multiorgan failure and death in sepsis. Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells type 1(TREM-1) is expressed on neutrophils and monocytes and is upregulated in the presence of bacterial pathogens. Engagement of TREM-1 results in increased expression of proinflammatory chemokines and cytokines and amplifies the inflammatory response.

Biomarkers for ventilator-associated pneumonia: review of the literature.

Objective: Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) contributes significantly to morbidity and mortality in critically ill patients, but it can be difficult to diagnose. Clinical criteria, Clinical Pulmonary Infection Score, and quantitative culture of bronchoalveolar lavage have been used to distinguish between patients who are likely positive (sensitivity) and patients who are likely negative (specificity). Despite these test methods, patients continue to be misclassified.